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  IN CALM REPOSE
  by C.H. Spurgeon
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the promise of peace and rest that
believers can experience through their relationship with God.

Topics: "Peace", "Rest in God"
Scripture References: Psalm 4:8, Psalm 23:2, Hosea 2:18, Matthew 11:28

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C.H. Spurgeon emphasizes the profound peace that God grants to His
saints, as illustrated in Hosea 2:18, where believers are assured of
safety and rest amidst earthly troubles and spiritual enemies. He
highlights that true peace comes from God, who breaks the instruments of
disquiet, allowing His people to lie down in calm repose. This divine
rest is not just about physical relaxation but a deep spiritual
assurance that believers can find safety in God's presence. Spurgeon
encourages the faithful to trust in God's promise of peace, which
surpasses all worries and fears, leading to a restful state in the love
of Christ.

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I will make them to lie down safely. (Hosea 2:18)

Yes, the saints are to have peace. The passage from which this gracious
word is taken speaks of peace "with the beasts of the field, and with
the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground." This
is peace with earthly enemies, with mysterious evils, and with little
annoyances! Any of these might keep us from lying down, but none of them
shall do so. The Lord will quite destroy those things which threaten His
people: "I will break the bow and the sword, and the battle out of the
earth." Peace will be profound indeed when all the instruments of
disquiet are broken to pieces.

With this pace will come rest, "So he giveth his beloved sleep." Fully
supplied and divinely quieted, believers lie down in calm repose. This
rest will be a safe one. It is one thing to lie down but quite another
"to lie down safely." We are brought to the land of promise, the house
of the Father, the chamber of love, and the bosom of Christ: surely we
may now "lie down safely." It is safer for a believer to lie down in
peace than to sit up and worry.

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures," We never rest till the
Comforter makes us lie down.

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