To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of accurately conveying the teachings of the gospel with clarity and emphasis on each truth.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon highlights the responsibility of preaching the gospel, which involves presenting all aspects of God's word thoroughly and ensuring that each doctrine receives the attention it deserves. This underscores the notion that effective preaching requires not only knowledge of scripture but also the ability to communicate its truths clearly and impactfully to the audience.
In practice
During a church service to illustrate the importance of preaching accurately.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.
Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
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