Church, Worldliness of—Her Curse – Charles Spurgeon

A WORLDLY church chases away the Spirit of God. Wherever there is a people conformed to the maxims and ways of the world, indifferent in prayer and sluggish in effort, there will be the name to live, but there will be death; but where there is a people who with little strength have, nevertheless, kept God’s word, and above all have kept their garments unspotted, there will before long come the making bare of the almighty arm in the eyes of all the people. Wash you, make you clean, put away your secret iniquities, humble yourselves, O professors, before God. May the Lord give you the spirit of repentance, may he pour out his Spirit upon each of us, may we put away the old leaven, and so shall we keep the feast. May we shake ourselves from the dust of every sin, so shall we put on our beautiful garments, and the time of the church’s glory and our triumph shall come.