{"id":6794,"date":"2015-08-19T23:18:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2015-08-19T23:18:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T23:18:02","slug":"spurgeons-take-on-the-sword-of-the-spirit-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=6794","title":{"rendered":"Spurgeon&#8217;s take on the Sword of the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a sermon entitled &#8220;The Sword of the Spirit&#8221; by Charles H. Spurgeon while writing in the blog\u00a0about God&#8217;s Word.<\/p>\n<p>The language in\u00a0Spurgeon&#8217;s sermon is a little more difficult to read than many of the messages and books written today. Despite that, I am using the link to this sermon for today&#8217;s blog because it is filled with rich wisdom concerning our responsibility as believers to permanently take hold of the raw, unadulterated Word of God.<\/p>\n<p>This sermon is 10 pages printed, and I did not read it in one sitting. If it&#8217;s more of a tough read for you, that&#8217;s OK; it required more thought for me, too, and I am holding on to a printed version to read again, a paragraph or two at a time. I trust that God will bless you as you tackle what Spurgeon, the Prince of Preachers, had to say about the Sword of the Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tony Capoccia of the Bible Bulletin Board, for his generosity in listing and sharing the &#8220;Spurgeon Collection&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblebb.com\/files\/spurgeon\/2201.htm\">http:\/\/www.biblebb.com\/files\/spurgeon\/2201.htm<\/a>\u00a0 &#8220;The Sword of the Spirit&#8221; April 19, 1891, by C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a sermon entitled &#8220;The Sword of the Spirit&#8221; by Charles H. Spurgeon while writing in the blog\u00a0about God&#8217;s Word. The language in\u00a0Spurgeon&#8217;s sermon is a little more difficult to read than many of the messages and books written today. Despite that, I am using the link to this sermon for today&#8217;s blog because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[220,214],"class_list":["post-6794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sword-of-the-spirit","tag-spurgeon-sermon","tag-sword-of-the-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}