Why persecutest thou Me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. – Acts 26:14

I ask you, what have you ever got by opposing Christ? Suppose you say you don’t like religion, what have you ever got by hating it? I will tell you what you have got. You have got those red eyes sometimes on the Monday morning, after the drunkenness of the Sunday night. I will tell you what you have got, young man. You have got that shattered constitution, which, even if you had now turned it to the paths of virtue, must hang about you till you leave it in your grave. What have you got? Why, there are some of you who might have been respectable members of society, who have got that old broken hat, that old ragged coat, that drunken, slouched manner about you, and that character that you would like to let down and run away from, for it is no good to you. That is what you have got by opposing Christ. What have you got by opposing Him? Why, a house without furniture-for through your drunkenness you have had to sell everything of value you had. You have got your children in rags. and your wife in misery, and your eldest daughter, perhaps, running into shame, and your son rising up to curse the Saviour, as you yourself have done. What have you got by opposing Christ? What man in all the world ever got anything by it? There is a serious loss sustained, but as for gain, there is nothing of the sort.

Take heed, ye that hate Christ and oppose His gospel for as certainly as the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and His religion is true, you are heaping on your head a load of injury, instead of deriving good. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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