The Lord Is My Shepherd,” a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon delivered October 16, 1866. Psalm 23:1 – “The Lord is my …

23 COMMENTS

  1. 1st/2

    I have been persecuted—horribly tortured and exploited–for 20 years from age 14 on account of my faith in Jesus Christ by the greatest persecutors of Christianity—and everything else in modern history, covering all areas, from politics, to science, art, religion, industry—, the Vatican and its Jesuits, through their inseparable, infamous Inquisition. Although Protestantism is a prominent historical religious movement that in its origins did contend with Rome's European supremacy, in part likely due to a combination of social reaction to its unbridled oppression, corruption of biblical truth, economics and politics (consider Anglicanism), yet they did not arrive at an entirely pure Christian doctrine, various protestant branches developed a different body of doctrines; the purging went on for centuries with the earliest protestant movements retaining much of catholic heresy, i.e. Lutheranism, and they may be arguably the first to be brought back to the catholic fold via illuminati/jesuit infiltration. Protestantism may be understood as a spark ignited by Humanism after centuries of terror and psychological manipulation had created a civilization drowning in superstitious fears and helpless ignorance horribly exploited by the greed of the clergy—the vatican left to its means, always creates a dark age of chaos for humanity, look at south America, which has remained in a colonial status; there is in the modern world a dynamic of developing and developed worlds, some are developing that others may be developed, some are rich so that others may be poor, which is a sociopolitical and economic condition born of the previous colonizing/colonized world, these are the unjust and foolish designs of the jesuits, never because it is necessary or inevitable or easier or more logical let alone fairer or more beneficial, it is merely pure stupidity, blindness, obstinate iniquity, that seeks happiness by way of vice, wealth by way of gambling, power by way of murder; a society based on merit can have those who deserve to be rich be rich and those who deserve to be poor be poor, those who deserve to rule through integrity and wisdom in power and those who are weak in the lowest strata and in this way the virtues of the wise benefit all and the defects of the weak hurt only themselves, since the good traits are favored and the bad ones shunned, there is real and the most rapid progress, but now, atrocities impose an unfair and unprofitable social order, truth is suppressed that lies may triumph, talent is exterminated that mediocrity may succeed, the innocent are punished to protect the guilty, because ever since the antichrist came only this inversion can favor his rule, if it were not so, then the world would become a paradise, but now satan has the multitude of fools and cowards trample the few wise and brave, because the principal author of the tragedy is satan, who first of all engineers this pathogenic dynamic on earth because he wishes all humans to suffer and perish like Adam and Eve, why did humanity build its home on the sand? because they did not see their latter end; those are the social conditions that favor most of their exploitation of all humans, government corruption, subservient criminal gangs, ignorant populace, social inequality with many poor and a few rich to function as the empowered docile tools of their malevolent system, but once society descends to those depths, it can hardly redeem itself, and any ray of light that might redeem it will be a challenge to the vatican, for either they choke themselves to death in sheer darkness or they let go and permit the light to shine and in so doing unavoidably carve a way for those who believe to be saved–they may have learned the lessons, and have become less heavy handed than in the Middle Ages, building smarter filters, seeking to concentrate on banning only Christ's truth and permit other aspects to grow, not because they have become more humane but because they seek to fare better, and yet, every patch they fashion carries its own curses, now that knowledge in the absence of justice and morality is worse than ignorance, it is utter deception greatly empowered, they pass from being a fool bound in chains to becoming a calculating villain armed and on the loose, as their iniquity and insolence increases, so does the implacable hand of justice's retribution, perfectly rendering them in due season according to their deeds, since all those who do evil do so because they do not discern their latter end, and anyone who can see the ultimate consequences in the distant future for all actions will realize that one cannot profit by doing evil, that any trivial evildoing is not worthwhile staining oneself with, and that any great ordeal for doing good is not only worthwhile but the best of all possible choices, because the rewards for doing good and the punishments for doing evil increase exponentially based on the magnitude of the good or evil deeds in question—it is foolish to fight against God, the more one obeys, the wiser one is and becomes; they are behind the destruction of the planet in their irresponsible thirst for profits. Why do I ever treat this subject although the prophets foresaw all would refuse to listen and these changes will never take place because no one ever will understand? To show that with minimal knowledge it is easy to deduce that faith in God and the observance of His commandments is not only advantageous in a future distant life after death but that doing justice is the only means of attaining any good now and in the Day of Judgment, in material physical terms, and in spiritual ones, and that besides all this, the vatican is not only my personal enemy or the enemy of saints alone, but the enemy of the entire human race in every possible form, not only in this generation, but ever since, going back over 1500 years, so that when they favor satan's proxy against Christ, or when they fight against us who speak in the name of Christ, they carry out the worst possible decisions, siding with their worst enemies against their best friends, although now their enemies seem to love them and we seem to hate them, because they are doing the works of darkness, but even then we are their friends, because we oppose what harms them rather than encourage it amicably, because the greatest enemies are the sweetest and most flattering when one is erred, while the greatest friends, like the most caring parents, the harshest when one is wrong—hence they have all the proofs and refuse to listen without a cause and will perish, but a few will listen and will see the salvation of God. It is true the ancient proverb that a battle is won or lost before it begins. God graciously warned them many times to turn them from their unprofitable course and they rebelled all their lives, when they reap the fruits of doing evil, they will repent of not having repented and will not be forgiven, God's power is demonstrated in patiently forgiving those who offend Him, in bypassing horrors and atrocities, suffering in silence the trampling of children and women whom He loves, even putting up with those who devour His elect saints, punishing is easy, retaliation is the characteristic answer of desperate weakness when it is wounded******, but if that just penalty is the only proof they will credit, God has reserved punishing for last, for now He who is omnipotent entreats with words mortal sinners to choose heaven rather than hell. God is not pleased with and does not make servants by compulsion, as evildoers necessarily have to recur to making servants by force, either through deception or repression, hence those who are unwilling to repent and serve God are disqualified of His kingdom and will inherit satan's fate. God punishes those who do not serve Him, in truth, their iniquity punishes them automatically. Because good is nothing more than those laws that constitute perfect harmony in the universe, and evil is anything that offsets that balance, anything that harms, hurts, destroys, steals, wrongs, etc. Evildoers do not and cannot create their world without disturbing the world of those who do good, they are of a parasitical nature, they live off those who do good, the nature of evil is parasitical, some have to work and make wealth for the thieves to come and steal it since they themselves do not generate any good thing, thus they have to be eradicated, and if they were not destroyed, they would destroy the creation and themselves, thus God punishes those who disobey Him, those who steal He makes them pay back, and those who destroy He destroys, in this way good prevails, the universe achieves its balance of harmony, all creatures are happy, and the creation endures. God's laws are the most perfect code for the most perfect universe possible, anything less is a regrettable stain for the entire universe. God does not force any to obey Him, to the point that evil exists in creation, or punishes those who drink a glass of hemlock, cut their throats, or shoot themselves in the head with death, simply those are the natural ensuing consequences, the logical and just effect of evil is evil, and the greater the evil causes, the greater the evil effects.

  2. 2nd/2

    Because of the censorship, I am of the opinion that saints came from various backgrounds, some believed in a trinity others were Jews, they were faithful to God but did not know the truth because the vatican made sure they remained ignorant and before they could gain more progress they were locked away tortured and burnt alive—the biting irony is that at some level many saints were heretics in serious ways or at least in subtle ways, but in an atmosphere of indoctrination from infancy, utter terrorism, utter persecution, universal imposed ignorance on the pain of death, with zero opportunity, yet it is still a blasphemy and a lie to describe them as nothing more than heretics, hypocrisy to force them to recant truths only to accept heresies, unjust to punish the least heretical where all are heretics and remain immune. One major heresy most denominations retained was the trinity and one major symbol they continue to use is the cross, which is an ancient symbol related to sun worship, and the cross is the mark of the beast. The True Church is more elusive and has never and will never become the mainstream, it is the door that leads to life that few find, and the hard way that leads to salvation that only a few have taken, it has remained underground under relentless persecution–we are trying to speak out, but always fail to gain any voice; it does not really figure in any historical account, because all history is a catholic narration of what is convenient to Rome, hence the most important events and persons are omitted, since they are also the ones to which the jesuit status quo is most sensitive to, their defeats, their crimes, the reversal of all their claims and boasts, their shame, their weak points—-they continue to insist in those lies not because they believe them but because through them they can manipulate others and stay in power; most of the Church has been made up of dispersed individuals so called 'heretics' that were identified before joining any other Christian by the secret vatican police, which hunted them even in forests, and were martyred one at a time. There were only rare instances of a united body of Christians like the Waldenses in the remote summits of the Alps and the Cathars in Southern France who also had to disguise themselves to survive the catholic persecution but soon the vatican felt a morbid fear of their growing numbers and through various pretexts besides promising spoils to the plunderers as bribes and various forms of retaliation against monarchs nobles etc. by way of intimidation it crushed every instance in every age everywhere to this day, torture was officially introduced with an official inquisition and the Dominican order was created after the pattern of the Cathars so that by mimicking them the vatican might convert with soft power some Cathars or potential Cathars, these orders with various styles and flavors are the basis for the pantheon of religions the jesuits now own with some 40,000 heretical Christian denominations, all current religions worldwide are catholic orders; how close to Christ these victims were can only be assumed and deduced by their fate, as the catholic accounts of their beliefs are spurious. They faced repeated crusades until they disappeared in the 19th century (Waldenses) with much of their literature confiscated by the vatican and some ' surviving examples' considered by most as forgeries prove the jesuits have a lot to hide. The technological developments have made the tortures interrogations manuals persecutions intensify every generation, the increasing immorality and corruption of society have also increased the cruelty and brutality of the inquisition and its sadistic attributes. One way or another, the vatican always manages to persuade society to approve of the public burning of saints, one invariable tool it has used for this purpose is to demonize saints, to malign any good figure of history ever after, predisposing all minds to get to the truth. I have been 'burning alive' in torment for over a decade, the torture never ceases 24/7, the world remains indifferent incredulous blind, generally no government has ever cared, and in cases where they have cared, they have failed to protect their subjects (consider the case of Hus or even Joan of Arc), never discerning how important the cause of Christ is. Finally the vatican does not only persecute saints, it does not only make holocausts of saints, it makes holocausts of all they can make holocausts of, and in fact it has committed genocides against the majority of ethnic religious and cultural groups on earth—the particulars of their individual cases will reveal the actual motive, in some cases it was all for money, in other cases it was all for religious reasons, in most cases there is a combination of many factors. The suppression of truth is a major goal in the vatican/jesuit agenda, it can be scientific, as in the famous Galileo case, or political, or religious, etc—they do not want be debunked and exposed as the impostors they really are in any of these areas, nay, to be unmasked as the antichrists, their power and wealth derive from deceiving the world, being they the snake mouthpiece of satan. The Pharisees persecuted the early Christians for religious reasons, and this is the main reason all Christians in every place and age have been persecuted for—the exploitation employed to finance their persecution and annihilation and the other potential economic political social threats they may pose in an upside-down world are secondary and tangential.Feel free to ask any questions. (The jesuits are blocking all my comments, some paragraphs post, others do not.)

  3. The King of Love my Shepherd is, whose goodness faileth never. I nothing lack if I am His and He is mine forever. From Hymn written by Henry W. Baker in 1868, during the same years this marvelous man preached

  4. Psalm 23 isnt about david. Its about Jesus

    Psalm 23 is about Jesus and not a motivational speech

    John 5:39 (KJV)

    Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

    24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
    25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
    26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
    27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
    28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
    29 ¶ Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
    30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
    31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
    32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
    33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
    34 ¶ For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
    35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
    36 ¶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

    25 ¶ Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
    26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
    27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
    28 ¶ And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
    29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
    30 ¶ And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
    31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
    32 ¶ And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
    33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
    34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
    35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
    Other Appearances
    (John 20:19-23; Acts 1:3-5; 1 Cor. 15:5 )
    36 ¶ And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
    37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
    38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
    39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
    40 ¶ And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
    41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
    42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
    43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
    44 ¶ And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
    45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
    46 ¶ And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:

    What the bible says isnt what you are saying. The Gospel is Jesus

  5. The beauty of God and His Word, is it can be applied to every one at one time or another in person or even to a nation. For example, yesterday when I was listening to my pastor explain how Israel is surrounded by so many hostile nations against her, Psalms 23:5 came to my mind. Psalms 23:5
    You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
    You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.

  6. First time hearing Charles Spurgeon, now I know why I have back pain, (herniated disc) I have wondered off from The Good Shepherd to many times, I now know I must stay closer to him and finally let him lead me. I do love Christ Jesus.

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