The Saviour is the Holy One of God, who saves His people “from their sins” (Matt. 1:21) and not in
their sins. He saves them from the love and dominion of their sins. How different was the preaching of
Spurgeon from that of the cheap-jack “evangelists” who have followed him. Said he, “Go not to God
and ask for mercy with sin in thy hand. What would you think of the rebel who appeared before the
face of his sovereign and asked for pardon with the dagger sticking in his belt and with the declaration
of his rebellion on his breast? Surely he would deserve double doom for thus mocking his monarch
while he pretended to be seeking mercy. If a wife has forsaken her husband do you think she would
have the impudence, with brazen forehead, to come back and ask his pardon leaning on the arm of
her paramour? Yet so it is with you-perhaps asking for mercy and going on in sin-praying to be
reconciled to God and yet harbouring and indulging your lusts . . . cast away thy sin or He cannot
hear thee. If thou lift up unholy hands with a lie in thy right hand, prayer is worthless on thy lips”
(C.H.S., 1860).
I fully concur.
Blessings
J.
their sins. He saves them from the love and dominion of their sins. How different was the preaching of
Spurgeon from that of the cheap-jack “evangelists” who have followed him. Said he, “Go not to God
and ask for mercy with sin in thy hand. What would you think of the rebel who appeared before the
face of his sovereign and asked for pardon with the dagger sticking in his belt and with the declaration
of his rebellion on his breast? Surely he would deserve double doom for thus mocking his monarch
while he pretended to be seeking mercy. If a wife has forsaken her husband do you think she would
have the impudence, with brazen forehead, to come back and ask his pardon leaning on the arm of
her paramour? Yet so it is with you-perhaps asking for mercy and going on in sin-praying to be
reconciled to God and yet harbouring and indulging your lusts . . . cast away thy sin or He cannot
hear thee. If thou lift up unholy hands with a lie in thy right hand, prayer is worthless on thy lips”
(C.H.S., 1860).
I fully concur.
Blessings
J.
