Quote from Forum Archives on June 23, 2000, 12:04 am

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,

Have any of you ever heard of Charles Spurgeon? He is a
well-known pastor and author of many books.
mydevotion.com/logos/morneve/0624AM.htm contains one such
message, which I would like to share with you as we close our
work week. This one uses the 'old' English that some people
still prefer. If you are one of those people, I hope you enjoy
the message!

Did you ever wonder what Jesus' mother, Mary, thought about all
that happened to her oldest Son? There is a Gospel song, "Mary,
Did You Know?" that asks many of those questions.

Charles maintains in this message that Mary did not have any
revelation that is not also available to each one of us. She did
have a strong trust in God - something we may have as well. Ask
God to reveal Himself in your life today - seek, and you shall
find.

Have a great weekend! I hope to be doing some out of doors
activities with my young family this weekend, Lord willing!

Brother Brian

Spurgeon: June AM
* 06/24/AM

"A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said
unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which
thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that
hear the word of God, and keep it." --Luke 11:27, Luke 11:28

It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very
special privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because
they supposed that she had the benefit of looking into His very
heart in a way in which we cannot hope to do. There may be an
appearance of plausibility in the supposition, but not much. We
do not know that Mary knew more than others; what she did know
she did well to lay up in her heart; but she does not appear from
anything we read in the Evangelists to have been a
better-instructed believer than any other of Christ's disciples.
All that she knew we also may discover. Do you wonder that we
should say so? Here is a text to prove it: "The secret of the
Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will show them His
covenant." Remember the Master's words--"Henceforth I call you
not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth:
but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard
of my Father I have made known unto you." So blessedly does this
Divine Revealer of secrets tell us His heart, that He keepeth
back nothing which is profitable to us; His own assurance is, "If
it were not so, I would have told you." Doth He not this day
manifest Himself unto us as He doth not unto the world? It is
even so; and therefore we will not ignorantly cry out, "Blessed
is the womb that bare thee," but we will intelligently bless God
that, having heard the Word and kept it, we have first of all as
true a communion with the Saviour as the Virgin had, and in the
second place as true an acquaintance with the secrets of His
heart as she can be supposed to have obtained. Happy soul to be
thus privileged!

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