And David said unto Ahimelech, and is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? – 1 Samuel 21:8

There are some great sinners at this day who are wonderful tokens of the power of love. When we look round the temple and see the shields and spears hung up, we say, “Who did those shields and spears belong to?” One says, “Why, that is the shield and spear of John Newton, the old blasphemer!” Glory be to God, Christ conquered him. Whose shield and spears are those? Why, that is the shield and spear of John Bunyan, the blasphemer on the village green. God’s mercy conquered him. Yes, there will be a pillar for many of us, and I do not know which will bring Christ most honor, for He had much ado to bring us down. I wonder whether there will be a place for you, you old sailor? These many years you have been living without God and without Christ. You have been a frequenter of every place of sin, every filthy haunt in London. I do trust God’s grace will meet with you. The poor harlot, Mary, the woman that was a sinner-there hangs her shield and spear. She was a hard fighter, a very Amazon, but Christ conquered her, hung up her shield and spear, and there it shall hang for ever, to the praise of the glory of His grace, who vanquished even her, and made her His willing servant, nay, His beloved friend. What will heaven be when all of us shall be trophies of His power to save, and when our bodies shall be there as well as our souls! “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”-when not only souls, but bodies shall be in heaven too, all as trophies of what Christ has done when He plucked His people from the jaws of the grave and delivered them from the grasp of the sepulcher. Let us take care that we have good confidence, always walking by faith, be the path of our pilgrimage rough or smooth, and ever maintaining the fight of faith, however fierce our temptations or fiery our trials. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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