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  AN EXPERT SEARCHER
  by C.H. Spurgeon
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Summary: The Lord is a seeking Shepherd who will not lose any of His
flock, and His promise is to seek and save all those given to Him.

Topics: "Assurance of Salvation", "God's Pursuit"
Scripture References: Ezekiel 34:11, Luke 19:10, John 10:14

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C.H. Spurgeon emphasizes the Lord's unwavering commitment to seek and
save His wandering sheep, illustrating how Jesus, as the Great Shepherd,
actively searches for His elect who may stray into sin and despair. He
reassures believers that even when they feel lost, God's grace will
pursue them, ensuring that none of His chosen will perish. Spurgeon
encourages the faithful to hold onto hope for those they pray for, as
the Lord's searching love extends to all, regardless of their
circumstances. The sermon highlights the promise of God's relentless
pursuit and the assurance that He will not lose any of His flock.

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For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my
sheep, and seek them out. (Ezekiel 34:11)

This He does at the first when His elect are like wandering sheep that
know not the Shepherd or the fold. How wonderfully doth the Lord find
out His chosen! Jesus is great as a seeking Shepherd as well as a saving
Shepherd. Though many of those His Father gave Him have gone as near to
hell-gate as they well can, yet the Lord by searching and seeking
discovers them and draws nigh to them in grace. He has sought out us:
let us have good hope for those who are laid upon our hearts in prayer,
for He will find them out also.

The Lord repeats this process when any of His flock stray from the
pastures of truth and holiness.

They may fall into gross error, sad sin, and grievous hardness; but yet
the Lord, who has become a surety for them to His Father, will not
suffer one of them to go so far as to perish. He will by providence and
grace pursue them into foreign lands, into abodes of poverty, into dens
of obscurity, into depths of despair; He will not lose one of all that
the Father has given Him. It is a point of honor with Jesus to seek and
to save all the flock, without a single exception. What a promise to
plead, if at this hour I am compelled to cry, "I have gone astray like a
lost sheep!"

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/ch-spurgeon/an-expert-searcher/
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