The Power Of The Preached Word Of God

               I thought that I would pass this along to you....and it is not the first time something like this has happened. I was spreading some grass seed today and covering it with soil....with my ever-present headphones on listening to a sermon from a preacher from the past....or a preacher today who preaches like a preacher from the past. Today it was Charles Spurgeon....and a sermon preached in 1888.....three years before he went to be with his Lord and Savior and King. You can easily Google it as.....Spurgeon sermon YouTube....The Word, A Sword.
               His message was that we are to rely on God's Word....and not our words....that it is the power to convert....and he said that it will grow in any soil....this exactly as I was spreading soil over seed. Anyway....he told a little story about a man he identified as a Mr. Thorpe of Bristol....this back in the mid-1700s....who was an avowed atheist and detractor of George Whitefield....so much so that he formed a club to ridicule him called....the Hellfire Club....and as a folly he took one of Whitefield's sermons....and read it to his club....Whitefield intonations and all....but lo and behold.....just like so many others who set out to disprove the gospel....they were converted by their research! Mr. Thorpe of Bristol was converted half-way through his reading of George Whitefield's sermon......and the Hellfire Club soon dissolved. Mr. Thorpe of Bristol became a minister and preached the same gospel throughout his life.