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May 23, 1858
Looking Unto Jesus
Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalm 34:5
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From Psalm 34 verse five. They looked unto him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed. From the connection, we are to understand the pronoun him as referring to the word Lord in the preceding verse. They looked unto the Lord Jehovah and were lightened. But no man ever yet looked to Jehovah God as he is in himself and found any comfort in him for our God is a consuming fire.
An absolute God, apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, can afford no comfort whatever to a troubled heart. We may look to him, and we shall be blinded. For the light of godhead is insufferable, and as mortal eye cannot fix its gaze upon the sun, no human intellect could ever look unto God and find light.
Spurgeon preached this in London on May 23, 1858, and Alan Chant read it for LibriVox; his recording is in the public domain. Our pipeline transcribed this clip, the sermon’s first 57 seconds, on September 24, 2026, and the text is exactly what it produced. Nothing in it was clarified, and capitals for the divine name are on, a style each church chooses. Click or tap a sentence to play from it.
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12:11Shadrach, heard as Mecca clarified as Meshach and Abednego heard the king’s herald, and they still knew
which voice was their shepherd’s.
Meshach“Mecca” is also an ordinary word, so it’s never replaced everywhere. It’s clarified only where the sentence shows it’s a name, and left alone and flagged anywhere it can’t be anchored.Anchored at 12:11, and nowhere else
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