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

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June 18

The Gospel Feast
As I must stand before my Judge at last, I feel that I shall not make full proof of my
ministry unless I entreat with many tears that you would be saved, that you would
look unto Jesus Christ and receive His glorious salvation. But does not this avail?
Are all our entreaties lost upon you; do you turn a deaf ear? Then again I change my
note. Sinner, I have pleaded with you as a man pleads with his friend, and were it for
my own life I could not speak more earnestly than I do speak concerning yours. And
therefore, if you put away these entreaties I have something else; — I must threaten
you. You shall not always have such warnings as these. A day is coming, when
hushed shall be the voice of every Gospel minister, at least for you; for your ear
shall be cold in death. It shall not be anymore threatening; it shall be the fulfillment
of the threatening. There shall be no promise, no proclamations of pardon and of
mercy; no peace-speaking blood, but you shall be in the land where the preachings
of the Gospel are forbidden because they would be unavailing. I charge you then,
listen to this voice that now addresses your conscience; for if not, God shall speak to
you in His wrath, and say unto you in His hot displeasure, "I called and ye refused; I
stretched out My hand and no man regarded; therefore will I mock at your calamity; I
will laugh when your fear cometh." Sinner, I threaten you again. Remember, it is but
a short time you may have to hear these warnings. Come, then, let the threatening
have power with you. I do not threaten because I would alarm without cause, but in
hopes that threatening may drive you to the place where God has prepared the feast
of the Gospel. Have I exhausted all that I can say? No, I will come to you again. Tell
me what it is, that keeps you from Christ. I hear one say, "Oh, sir, it is because I feel
myself too guilty." That cannot be, my friend, that cannot be. "But, sir, I am the chief
of sinners." Friend, you are not.