This is an excerpt from a sermon by Charles Spurgeon on November 26, 1876 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. It blessed my heart and goes along with yesterday’s message.

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel”—Genesis 3:15

THIS IS THE FIRST gospel sermon that was ever delivered upon the surface of this earth. It was memorable discourse indeed, with Jehovah himself for the preacher, and the whole human race and the prince of darkness for the audience. It must be worthy of our heartiest attention.

Is it not remarkable that this great gospel promise should have been delivered so soon after the transgression? As yet no sentence had been pronounced upon either of the two human offenders, but the promise was given under the form of a sentence pronounced upon the serpent Not yet had the woman been condemned to painful travail, or the man to exhausting labour, or even the soil to the curse of thorn and thistle. Truly “mercy rejoiceth against judgment.” Before the Lord had said “dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return,” he was pleased to say that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head. Let us rejoice, then, in the swift mercy of God, which in the early watches of the night of sin came with comfortable words unto us.

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I know, I know, it’s shameful to promote your family, but this is Josiah Huckabee, my two-year-old great-nephew saying the pledge of allegiance.

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My wife and I want to thank all of you for praying for us on our little trip to North Carolina. God graciously protected us and gave us a wonderful time with my extended family. Thanks again to Brother Mark Leatherman for preaching and to the Deacons and others who made this past Lord’s Day a good day.

I saw Randy Ward at Winchester Hospital this morning, and he is doing well. The doctors are treating the pneumonia, and his kidney “numbers” are better than they have been since the beginning of this situation. Continue to pray for him and for Bonnie.

Thanks again and God bless. It sure is good to be back home.

Pastor, Barbara, Nathaniel, Elizabeth

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