Now
a happy Christmas to you all; and it will be a happy Christmas if you
have God with you. I shall say nothing to day against festivities on
this great birthday of Christ. We will to-morrow think of Christ's
birthday; we shall be obliged to do it, I am sure, however sturdily we
may hold to our rough Puritanism. And so, 'let us keep the feast, not
with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but
with the unleavend bread of sincerity and truth.' Do not feast as if you
wished to keep the festival of Bacchus; do not live to-morrow as if you
adored some heathen divinity. Feast, Christians, feast; you have a
right to feast. Go to the house of feasting to-morrow, celebrate your
Saviour's birth; do not be ashamed to be glad; you have a right to be
happy. Solomon says, "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy
wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy
garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment."
"Religion never was designed
To make your pleasures less."
Recollect that your Master ate butter and honey. Go your way, rejoice tomorrow, but in your feasting, think of the Man in Bethlehem; let him have a place in your hearts, give him the glory, think of the virgin who conceived him, but think most of all of the Man born, the Child given. I finish by again saying,
A HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!
CHARLES SPURGEON
THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, NO. 2392
A SERMON INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD’S DAY,
DECEMBER 23, 1891.
DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON,
AT THE NEW PARK STREET CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK,
ON LORD’S-DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1854.
“Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall He eat, that He may know to refuse the evil, and choose the Good.” Isaiah 7:14, 15
"Religion never was designed
To make your pleasures less."
Recollect that your Master ate butter and honey. Go your way, rejoice tomorrow, but in your feasting, think of the Man in Bethlehem; let him have a place in your hearts, give him the glory, think of the virgin who conceived him, but think most of all of the Man born, the Child given. I finish by again saying,
A HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!
CHARLES SPURGEON
THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, NO. 2392
A SERMON INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD’S DAY,
DECEMBER 23, 1891.
DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON,
AT THE NEW PARK STREET CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK,
ON LORD’S-DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1854.
“Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall He eat, that He may know to refuse the evil, and choose the Good.” Isaiah 7:14, 15
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