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

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June 10

The Gospel Feast
Well did Melanchthon say, "Old Adam is too strong for young Melanchthon." As well
might a little child seek to compel Sampson, as I seek to lead a sinner to the cross of
Christ. Lo, I see the great mountain of human depravity and stolid indifference, but
by faith I cry, "Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel, thou shalt become a plain."
Unconverted, unreconciled, unregenerate men and women, I am to COMPEL YOU
TO COME IN. Permit me first of all to accost you on the highways of sin and tell you
over again my errand. The King of Heaven sends a gracious invitation to you. He
says, "As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, but
had rather that he should turn unto Me and live:" "Come now and let us reason
together, saith the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as wool; though
they are red like crimson they shall be whiter than snow." Permit me to tell you what
the King has done for you. He knew your guilt, He foresaw that you would ruin
yourself. He knew that His justice would demand your blood, and in order that this
difficulty might be escaped, that His justice might have it's full due, and that you might
yet be saved, Jesus Christ has died. Will you just for a moment glance at this picture?
You see that man there on His knees in the garden of Gethsemane, sweating drops
of blood. You see this next; you see that miserable sufferer tied to a pillar and lashed
with terrible scourges, till the shoulder bones are seen like white islands in the midst
of a sea of blood. Again you see this third picture; it is the same man hanging on the
cross with hands extended, and with feet nailed fast, dying, groaning, bleeding;
methought the picture spoke and said, "It is finished." Now all this has Jesus Christ of
Nazareth done, in order that God might consistently with His justice pardon sin; and
the message to you is this — "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved." That is, trust Him, renounce your works, and your ways, and set your heart
alone on this man, who gave Himself for sinners.