The Priceless Soul

“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” – Acts 4:12

John Owen said that if you had to preach to a whole nation for twelve months, in order to win one soul, it would be good wages, for a soul is so priceless, that to redeem it from going down to the pit would be worth the expenditure of all human strength. Richard Knill once said, that if there were only one unconverted person in the wilds of Siberia, and that God had ordained that every Christian in the world must go and talk to that one person before he would be converted, it would be an exceedingly little thing for us all to do, to go all the way there through the cold, and frost, and snow, to win that one soul.

The name of our Lord Jesus Christ is glorified. Who would not wish to live, or even to die, for this?

“Let Him be crowned with majesty,
Who bowed His head in death,
And let His praise be sounded high,
By all things that have breath.”

If you have not forgotten what He suffered for you, dear friends, do you not wish to see Him crowned with many crowns? He wore the crown of thorns for you, would not you wish to see the fruit of His soul’s travail, the removal of the curse, the extension of His kingdom, the honour of His fame, the growing enthusiasm of His subjects-to make His excellency apparent, and His praise more and more famous to the very end of time? I know you would, and therefore I ask you to strive in your prayers and your efforts, that the number of His disciples may be multiplied greatly. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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