C.H. Spurgeon – Words of Warning for Daily Living

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April 21

Those Who Take Not Warning
Now, the sinner will perish — he will perish certainly; but, last of all, he will perish
without excuse — his blood shall be on his own head. When a man is bankrupt, if he
can say: "It is not through reckless trading — it has been entirely through the
dishonesty of one I trusted that I am what I am;" he takes some consolation, and he
says, "I cannot help it." But, O my readers! if you make bankrupts of your own souls,
after you have been warned, then your own eternal bankruptcy shall lie at your own
door. Should never so great a misfortune come upon us, if we can trace it to the
providence of God, we bear it cheerfully; but if we have inflicted it upon ourselves,
then how fearful is it! And let every man remember that, if he perish after having
heard the Gospel, he will be his own murderer. Sinner, you wilt drive the dagger into
your heart yourself. If you despise the Gospel, you are preparing fuel for your own
bed of flames, you are hammering out the chain for your own everlasting binding: and
when damned, your mournful reflection will be this: "I have damned myself, I cast
myself into this pit; for I rejected the Gospel; I despised the message; I trod under
foot the Son of man; I would have none of His rebukes. I despised His Sabbaths; I
would not hearken to His exhortations, and now I perish by mine own hand, the
miserable suicide of my own soul."