{"id":3237,"date":"2011-06-04T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2011-06-07T23:17:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T07:17:21","slug":"and-the-shepherds-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2011\/06\/04\/and-the-shepherds-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Shepherds Returned&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <strong>Luke 2:20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What was the subject of their praise? They <em>praised God for what they had heard<\/em>-for the good tidings of great joy that a Saviour was born unto them. Let us copy them; let us also raise a song of thanksgiving that we have heard of Jesus and His salvation.<\/p>\n<p>They also <em>praised God for what they had seen<\/em>. There is the sweetest music-what we have experienced, what we have felt within, what we have made our own-&#8216;the things which we have made touching the King.&#8217; It is not enough to hear about Jesus: mere hearing may tune the harp, but the fingers of living faith must create the music. If you have seen Jesus with the God-giving sight of faith, suffer no cobwebs to linger among the harpstrings, but loud to the praise of sovereign grace, awake your psaltery and harp.<\/p>\n<p>One point for which they praised God was the <em>agreement between what they had heard and what they had seen<\/em>. Observe the last sentence-&#8216;As it was told unto them.&#8217; Have you not found the gospel to be in yourselves just what the Bible said it would be? Jesus said He would give you rest-have you not enjoyed the sweetest peace in Him? He said you should have joy, and comfort, and life through believing in Him-have you not received all these? Are not His ways ways of pleasantness, and His paths paths of peace? Surely you can say with the queen of Sheba, &#8216;The half has not been told me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I have found Christ more sweet than His servants ever said He was. I looked upon His likeness as they painted it, but it was a mere daub compared with Himself; for the King in His beauty outshines all imaginable loveliness. Surely what we have &#8216;<em>seen<\/em>&#8216; keeps pace with, nay, far exceeds, what we have &#8216;<em>heard<\/em>.&#8217; Let us, then, glorify and praise God for a Saviour so precious, and so satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>1.28p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon From Luke 2:20 What was the subject of their praise? They praised God for what they had heard-for the good tidings of great joy that a Saviour was born unto them. Let us copy them; let us also raise a song of thanksgiving that we have heard of Jesus and His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spurgeon-saturday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}