The Good News of God

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Charles Kingsley. The Good News of God

SERMON I. THE BEATIFIC VISION

SERMON II. THE GLORY OF THE CROSS

SERMON III. THE LIFE OF GOD

SERMON IV. THE SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN

SERMON V. THE ETERNAL GOODNESS

SERMON VI. WORSHIP

SERMON VII. GOD’S INHERITANCE

SERMON VIII ‘DE PROFUNDIS.’

SERMON IX. THE LOVE OF GOD ITS OWN REWARD

SERMON X. THE RACE OF LIFE

SERMON XI. SELF-RESPECT AND SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

SERMON XII. TRUE REPENTANCE

SERMON XIII. THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT

SERMON XIV. HEROES AND HEROINES

SERMON XV. THE MEASURE OF THE CROSS

SERMON XVI. THE PURE IN HEART

SERMON XVII. MUSIC

SERMON XVIII. THE CHRIST CHILD

SERMON XIX. CHRIST’S BOYHOOD

SERMON XX. THE LOCUST-SWARMS

SERMON XXI. SALVATION

SERMON XXII. THE BEGINNING AND END OF WISDOM

SERMON XXIII. HUMAN NATURE

SERMON XXIV. THE CHARITY OF GOD

SERMON XXV. THE DAYS OF THE WEEK

SERMON XXVI. THE HEAVENLY FATHER

SERMON XXVII. THE GOOD SHEPHERD

SERMON XXVIII. DARK TIMES

SERMON XXIX. GOD’S CREATION

SERMON XXX. TRUE PRUDENCE

SERMON XXXI. THE PENITENT THIEF

SERMON XXXII. THE TEMPER OF CHRIST

SERMON XXXIII. THE FRIEND OF SINNERS

SERMON XXXIV. THE SEA OF GLASS

SERMON XXXV. A GOD IN PAIN

SERMON XXXVI. ON THE FALL

SERMON XXXVII. THE WORTHY COMMUNICANT

SERMON XXXVIII. OUR DESERTS

SERMON XXXIX. THE LOFTINESS OF GOD

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I spoke to you lately of the beatific vision of God.  I will speak of it again to-day; and say this.

If any man wishes to see God, truly and fully, with the eyes of his soul: if any man wishes for that beatific vision of God; that perfect sight of God’s perfect goodness; then must that man go, and sit down at the foot of Christ’s cross, and look steadfastly upon him who hangs thereon.  And there he will see, what the wisest and best among the heathen, among the Mussulmans, among all who are not Christian men, never have seen, and cannot see unto this day, however much they may feel (and some of them, thank God, do feel) that God is the Eternal Goodness, and must be loved accordingly.

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Therefore St. James says, ‘Thou hast faith, and I have works.  Shew me thy faith without thy works,’ (and who can do that?) ‘and I will shew thee my faith by my works.’

And therefore also, my friends, we may be sure that God loves in deed and in truth: because it is written that God is love.

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