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.
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.
Both what you run from-_x000D_ and what you yearn for -_x000D_ are within you.
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.
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