Lawn Mowing Post

                I should call these posts my....Lawn Mowing Posts.....because often it seems that I am mowing the lawn....with my wireless headphones on.....listening to some sermon from a great preacher of the past....or someone today who preaches like the great men of the past....and I take a break to put out a quick post on what I have heard.  Today it was Charles Spurgeon....and the title of his sermon from 1866 I believe....The Voice Of The Cholera. 
               Is there no way in whatever you are doing today that you cannot Google Spurgeon, The Voice Of The Cholera and listen to it in the background? It may change the direction of your life....in fact so many of these older sermons from times past might have the same effect on your life as you view it today.
               In this sermon there has been an outbreak of cholera in London.....and Spurgeon asks his congregation...."Has not God done this?" At times it's as if Spurgeon is speaking to us today....as he advises the people not to be angry with the health profession for the harsh advice that they give to lessen the effect of the cholera. No....he is not speaking about masks or vaccines....but you may as well substitute the words.
               Spurgeon makes it clear that London has brought this upon themselves.....and he uses the rampant drinking at the time....and some other vices that were everywhere.....as to how they had brought out God's ire. Comparing London's grosser sins to ours today.....and you cannot but wonder why God has not brought these judgments upon us sooner.
              You might want to remember that London and all of England.....within only a few decades of Spurgeon's sermon....(and the many sermons of J. C. Ryle that had warned the church of the day every bit as much as did Spurgeon).....had abandoned just about all of the gospel....and....well you know Engalnd's history in the first half of the twentieth century.
              So once again....pleading with you....can you not find time for this Charles Spurgeon sermon....or any of his sermons really.....or any of Bishop Ryle's sermons and lectures? If not....then later this evening....might you not think back....on how you spent your time....and not have at least a pang of guilt over utterly refusing to step out of your 2021 Sunday sermon life and political passions.....to see if just possibly Jeremiah might have been talking to us today when he wrote...."Seek ye the old 'paths?"