While Mr. Spurgeon was living at Nightingale Lane, Clapham, an excursion was one day organized by one of the young men’s classes at the Tabernacle. The break with the excursionists was to call for the President on their way to mid-Surrey.

It was a beautiful early morning, and the men arrived in high spirits, pipes and cigars alight, and looking forward to a day of unrestrained enjoyment. Mr. Spurgeon was ready waiting at the gate. He jumped up to the box-seat reserved for him, and looking round with an expression of astonishment, exclaimed: “What, gentlemen! Are you not ashamed to be smoking so early?”

Here was a damper! Dismay was on every face. Pipes and cigars one by one failed and dropped out of sight.
When all had disappeared, out came the President’s cigar-case. He lit up and smoked away serenely.

The men looked at him astonished. “I thought you said you objected to smoking, Mr. Spurgeon?” one ventured.
“Oh no, I did not say I objected. I asked if they were not ashamed, and it appears they were, for they have all put their pipes away.”
Amid laughter the pipes reappeared, and with puffs of smoke the party went on merrily.

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Every man is tempted by pornography to some degree.

But not every man succumbs to it.

The issue is not the temptation, but the strength of will and steel of spirit to not bow to the spirit of the age.

The power behind that strength is not a vision for your family, but a vision for the Kingdom. A vision that is eternal, that reaches past the temporal temptations of the flesh and screams at the world - I will not be bowed, I can not be brought, I will not compromise.

There will arise a generation of men these days who are resolute of spirit, passionate in prayer and dedicated to a cause beyond themselves.

And when they arise…the last days are upon us. For it is not evil that will herald the coming of our Lord, but a victorious church, led by passionate men.

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A failure is something you do, not someone you are.

You may fail to prepare.

You may fail to gather enough information.

You may fail to understand a situation.

None of these things makes YOU a failure.

A man feels like he is a failure because our self-esteem is so tightly associated to the things we do and our desire to achieve.

Men suffer mid life crisis because they get to a stage in life where they feel they have failed to achieve their goals either financially or in terms of their personal achievements.

Men come under this sense of being a ‘failure’ when they make a bad decision or do not foresee or predict an outcome. We feel like ‘failures’ because we have ‘failed’ to protect those that we love.

Once again all issues are tied to activities, not to character.

The man who never made a mistake, never made anything.

The thing to remember is that God loves YOU, not what you do. God died for you, not what you do. God is able to rescue you FROM what you do.

Friend, my favorite, most often cried prayer is…”Lord, rescue me”.

This is a prayer that is prayed on the basis of relationship, not performance.

I can pray it because He loves me, not because I ‘work’ for Him.

I am not a failure, I am a son.

He rescues me from my shortcoming because He is my Father.

I don’t hide my failings from Him, I run to Him to disclose my failings and seek His mercy and grace. I am loved regardless of what I do, because He first loved me.

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Luke 16:10-12One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

You may have heard Dr. John Binkley say, “Faithfulness is the very character of God.” That means we are also to be faithful. We were created in the image of God; we were created to have the very character of God. If faithfulness is in God’s character, it should be in ours.

Are you faithful in what you give to God? Are you faithful in what God has given you? Are you faithful in the stewardship of your finances? I don’t just mean your tithe and offerings, I mean are you squandering every dollar you earn, or are you faithfully using your finances for the kingdom?

We are to be faithful stewards in the use of every dollar we earn. If we squander one dollar, we’ll squander a million just as fast. If we can’t tithe on ten, we won’t tithe on ten thousand.

Why? Because between one dollar and a million dollars, our attitude hasn’t changed. If we think, “It’s just a dollar,” with a single dollar, and throw it away, we’ll think, “It’s just a million one dollar bills,” and throw that away too.

If we can’t be faithful with little, we won’t be faithful with much

The flip side is, if we are faithful in a little, we will be faithful in much.

Consider this; if you put a dollar into a savings account at a bank, it will gain interest. If you are faithful to leave that interest and that dollar in a place it can grow, it will. Over time, that little that you were faithful to save grows into much.

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Is your life a means to an end, or is it an end in itself? The best life you can have isn’t what you can do for yourself, it’s what you can do for the kingdom. Every house you own, every car you drive, every possession, and every dollar spent to entertain yourself won’t make a single difference when you die. So why do we spend our time and money chasing the things that we think will make US happy? Is that why we were put here on this earth?

The people who are telling you to be all you want to be for your sake have got it all wrong. Your career won’t be among the things God will count as treasure. Your car; junk. Your home; wood, hay, and stubble.

What will be precious to God is what you did with your life for His sake; the lives you touched, the people you healed, and the generations after your own you affected for Christ.

Lay up those treasures in Heaven, because you can’t take your possessions with you, and, when you follow Christ, the best life you can live isn’t now, it’s when you hear the words, “Well done, My good and faithful servant.”

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I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandering….. an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s**t we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.

We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very p***ed off.”

Tyler Durden

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