Works of Charles Spurgeon, Prince of Preachers (eBook)

Five Christian Books

Charles Spurgeon (Autor)

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2018
1404 Seiten
Seltzer Books (Verlag)
978-1-4553-9272-8 (ISBN)

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This file includes 5 books: All of Grace, Commenting and Commentaries, Eccentric Preachers, Morning and Evening, and Till He Come. According to Wikipedia: 'Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 - January 31, 1892) was a British Baptist preacher, still known as the 'Prince of Preachers'. In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, often up to 10 times a week at different places. His sermons have been translated into many languages. Spurgeon was the pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain, and later had to leave that denomination. Throughout his life, Spurgeon suffered from depression and other mental illnesses. In 1857, he started a charity organisation called Spurgeon's which now works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him after his death.'

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This file includes 5 books: All of Grace, Commenting and Commentaries, Eccentric Preachers, Morning and Evening, and Till He Come. According to Wikipedia: "e;Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 - January 31, 1892) was a British Baptist preacher, still known as the "e;Prince of Preachers"e;. In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, often up to 10 times a week at different places. His sermons have been translated into many languages. Spurgeon was the pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain, and later had to leave that denomination. Throughout his life, Spurgeon suffered from depression and other mental illnesses. In 1857, he started a charity organisation called Spurgeon's which now works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him after his death."e;

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GOD JUSTIFIETH THE UNGODLY

 

THIS MESSAGE is for you. You will find the text in the Epistle to the Romans, in  the fourth chapter and the fifth verse: To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his  faith is counted for righteousness. I call your attention to those words, "Him that justifieth the ungodly." They  seem to me to be very wonderful words.

 

Are you not surprised that there should be such an expression as that in the  Bible, "That justifieth the ungodly?" I have heard that men that hate the  doctrines of the cross bring it as a charge against God, that He saves wicked  men and receives to Himself the vilest of the vile. See how this Scripture  accepts the charge, and plainly states it! By the mouth of His servant Paul, by  the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, He takes to Himself the title of "Him that  justifieth the ungodly." He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who  deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor. You thought, did  you not, that salvation was for the good? that God's grace was for the pure and  holy, who are free from sin? It has fallen into your mind that, if you were  excellent, then God would reward you; and you have thought that because you are  not worthy, therefore there could be no way of your enjoying His favor. You must  be somewhat surprised to read a text like this: "Him that justifieth the  ungodly." I do not wonder that you are surprised; for with all my familiarity  with the great grace of God, I never cease to wonder at it. It does sound  surprising, does it not, that it should be possible for a holy God to justify an  unholy man? We, according to the natural legality of our hearts, are always  talking about our own goodness and our own worthiness, and we stubbornly hold to  it that there must be somewhat in us in order to win the notice of God. Now,  God, who sees through all deceptions, knows that there is no goodness whatever  in us. He says that "there is none righteous, no not one." He knows that "all  our righteousnesses are as filthy rags," and, therefore the Lord Jesus did not  come into the world to look after goodness and righteousness with him, and to  bestow them upon persons who have none of them. He comes, not because we are  just, but to make us so: he justifieth the ungodly.

 

When a counsellor comes into court, if he is an honest man, he desires to plead  the case of an innocent person and justify him before the court from the things  which are falsely laid to his charge. It should be the lawyer's object to  justify the innocent person, and he should not attempt to screen the guilty  party. It lies not in man's right nor in man's power truly to justify the  guilty. This is a miracle reserved for the Lord alone. God, the infinitely just  Sovereign, knows that there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and  sinneth not, and therefore, in the infinite sovereignty of His divine nature and  in the splendor of His ineffable love, He undertakes the task, not so much of  justifying the just as of justifying the ungodly. God has devised ways and means  of making the ungodly man to stand justly accepted before Him: He has set up a  system by which with perfect justice He can treat the guilty as if he had been  all his life free from offence, yea, can treat him as if he were wholly free  from sin. He justifieth the ungodly.

 

Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. It is a very surprising  thing--a thing to be marveled at most of all by those who enjoy it. I know that  it is to me even to this day the greatest wonder that I ever heard of, that God  should ever justify me. I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of  corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from His almighty love. I know by a full  assurance that I am justified by faith which is in Christ Jesus, and treated as  if I had been perfectly just, and made an heir of God and a joint heir with  Christ; and yet by nature I must take my place among the most sinful. I, who am  altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving. I am loved with  as much love as if I had always been godly, whereas aforetime I was ungodly. Who  can help being astonished at this? Gratitude for such favor stands dressed in  robes of wonder.

 

Now, while this is very surprising, I want you to notice how available it makes  the gospel to you and to me. If God justifieth the ungodly, then, dear friend,  He can justify you. Is not that the very kind of person that you are? If you are  unconverted at this moment, it is a very proper description of you; you have  lived without God, you have been the reverse of godly; in one word, you have  been and are ungodly. Perhaps you have not even attended a place of worship on  Sunday, but have lived in disregard of God's day, and house, and Word--this  proves you to have been ungodly. Sadder still, it may be you have even tried to  doubt God's existence, and have gone the length of saying that you did so. You  have lived on this fair earth, which is full of the tokens of God's presence,  and all the while you have shut your eyes to the clear evidences of His power  and Godhead. You have lived as if there were no God. Indeed, you would have been  very pleased if you could have demonstrated to yourself to a certainty that  there was no God whatever. Possibly you have lived a great many years in this  way, so that you are now pretty well settled in your ways, and yet God is not in  any of them. If you were labeled  UNGODLY it would as well describe you as if the sea were to be labeled salt water. Would  it not?

 

Possibly you are a person of another sort; you have regularly attended to all  the outward forms of religion, and yet you have had no heart in them at all, but  have been really ungodly. Though meeting with the people of God, you have never  met with God for yourself; you have been in the choir, and yet have not praised  the Lord with your heart. You have lived without any love to God in your heart,  or regard to his commands in your life. Well, you are just the kind of man to  whom this gospel is sent--this gospel which says that God justifieth the  ungodly. It is very wonderful, but it is happily available for you. It just  suits you. Does it not? How I wish that you would accept it! If you are a  sensible man, you will see the remarkable grace of God in providing for such as  you are, and you will say to yourself, "Justify the ungodly! Why, then, should  not I be justified, and justified at once?"

 

Now, observe further, that it must be so--that the salvation of God is for those  who do not deserve it, and have no preparation for it. It is reasonable that the  statement should be put in the Bible; for, dear friend, no others need  justifying but those who have no justification of their own. If any of my  readers are perfectly righteous, they want no justifying. You feel that you are  doing your duty well, and almost putting heaven under an obligation to you. What  do you want with a Saviour, or with mercy? What do you want with justification?  You will be tired of my book by this time, for it will have no interest to you. If any of you are giving yourselves such proud airs, listen to me for a little  while. You will be lost, as sure as you are alive. You righteous men, whose  righteousness is all of your own working, are either deceivers or deceived; for  the Scripture cannot lie, and it saith plainly, "There is none righteous, no,  not one." In any case I have no gospel to preach to the self-righteous, no, not  a word of it. Jesus Christ himself came not to call the righteous, and I am not  going to do what He did not do. If I called you, you would not come, and,  therefore, I will not call you, under that character. No, I bid you rather look  at that righteousness of yours till you see what a delusion it is. It is not  half so substantial as a cobweb. Have done with it! Flee from it! Oh believe  that the only persons that can need justification are those who are not in  themselves just! They need that something should be done for them to make them  just before the judgment seat of God. Depend upon it, the Lord only does that  which is needful. Infinite wisdom never attempts that which is unnecessary.  Jesus never undertakes that which is superfluous. To make him just who is just  is no work for God--that were a labor for a fool; but to make him just who is  unjust--that is work for infinite love and mercy. To justify the ungodly--this  is a miracle worthy of a God. And for certain it is so.

 

Now, look. If there be anywhere in the world a physician who has discovered sure  and precious remedies, to whom is that physician sent? To those who are  perfectly healthy? I think not. Put him down in a district where there are no  sick persons, and he feels that he is not in his place. There is nothing for him  to do. "The whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick." Is it  not equally clear that the great remedies of grace and redemption are for the  sick in soul? They cannot be for the whole, for they cannot be of use to such.  If you, dear friend, feel that you are...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• ISBN-10: 1-4553-9272-3 / 1455392723
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4553-9272-8 / 9781455392728