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These Should Have Believed

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For what if some did not believe? – Romans 3:3

In our Saviour’s day, they said, “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in Him?” The gospel has usually had a free course among the poor and among those who some call “the lower orders”, though why they are said to be lower than others, I do not know, unless it is because the heavier and more valuable things generally sink to the bottom. The Church of God owes very little to kings and princes and nobles. She owes far more to fishermen and peasants. Jesus said, “I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight.” I suspect that, until the King Himself shall come, we shall still find that the common people will gladly hear the gospel; and that, while Christ the Lord will choose for His own some from all ranks and conditions of men, it will still be true that “not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.”

In the days of our Lord and His apostles, the scribes and Pharisees were the greatest haters of the doctrine of Christ. Those whom you might have supposed, being most familiar with the Scriptures, the scribes, would soonest have recognized the Messiah, were the men who would not acknowledge Him. So it was with the priests, even the chief priests, the men who had to do with the sacrifices and with the temple. They rejected Christ, although they were the religious leaders of the people. Do you suppose it is very different now? …Believers are not always those whom you would suppose would be believers…But alas! Alas! Among those who appear to be the children of the kingdom, brought up in the worship of God, there are some, yea, many, who have not believed on Christ; and, saddest of all, even among those who are the teachers of others in the things of God, there are some that have not savingly believed. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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A Numerous “Some”

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For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? – Romans 3:3

“What if some did not believe?” It is implied that some did believe. Glory be to God, there is a numerous “some” who have believed that Jesus is the Christ; and believing in Him, have found life through His name! These have entered into a new life, and now bear a new character, “being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” Beloved, we do thank God that the preaching of the gospel has not been in vain. Up yonder, more numerous than the stars are they that walk in white robes which they have washed in the blood of the Lamb; and down here, despite our mourning, there is a glorious company, who still follow the Lamb, who is to them, their only hope.

It must be admitted that, sometimes, unbelievers have preponderated even among the hearers of the precious Word. Read the story of Israel through, in the Books of Kings and Chronicles, and you will be saddened to find how again and again they did not believe. The history of Israel, from the moment they became a nation, is a very painful one. It is full of the mercy of God; but it is also full of treachery of the human heart. In the days of the judges, the people served God while a good judge ruled over them; but as soon as he was dead, they went astray after false gods. I almost think that the Christian church is in the period of the judges now. When the Lord raises up, here one and there another, to preach His Word faithfully, the people seem to take heed to it; but when the faithful preachers are gone, many of their hearers turn aside again.

Blessed be to God, we expect the coming of the King soon; and when the King comes, and the period of the judges shall have ended, then we shall enter upon a time of rest and peace. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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The Lily Among Thorns

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You who are King of kings and Lord of lords, we worship You. Before Jehovah’s awful throne we bow with sacred joy.

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God Will Be Vindicated

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For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That Thou mightest be justified in Thy sayings, and mightest overcome when Thou art judged.- Romans 3:3, 4

The seed of Israel had great privileges even before the coming of Christ. God had promised by covenant that they should have those privileges; and they did enjoy them. They had a revelation and a light divine, while all the world beside sat in heathen darkness. Yet so many Jews did not believe; that, as a whole, the nation missed the promised blessing. A great multitude of them only saw the outward symbols, and never understood their spiritual meaning. They lived and died without the blessing promised to their fathers. Did this make the covenant of God to be void? Did this make the faithfulness of God to be a matter of question? “No, no,” says Paul, “if some did not believe, and so did not gain the blessing, this was their own fault; but the covenant of God stood fast and did not change because men were untrue.”

When God devised the great plan of salvation by grace; when He gave His own Son to die as the Substitute for guilty men; when He proclaimed that whosoever believed in Jesus Christ should have everlasting life; you would have thought that everybody would have been glad to hear such good news, and that they would all have hastened to believe it. Christ is so suitable to the sinner. Why does not the sinner accept Him? The way of salvation is so simple, so suitable to guilty men, it is altogether so glorious, so grand, that if we did not know the depravity of the human heart, we should expect that every sinner would at once believe the gospel and receive its boons. But, alas, some have not believed! When the great drama of human history shall have been played out, the net result will be that the ways of God shall be vindicated notwithstanding all the unbelief of men. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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He Has Made My Peace with God

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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. – Acts 16:31

In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace… – Ephesians 1:7

To this day we find no reason for forgiveness in ourselves. The precious blood is still our one plea. Lost and condemned are we apart from the one offering of our Great High Priest. But cleansed and justified are we in Him.

“Oh! how sweet to view the flowing
Of His sin-atoning blood,
With divine assurance knowing,
He has made my peace with God.”

Dear friend, what would you give to have this assurance? Thou mayest have it-“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” Whoso believeth in Him is justified from all sin. “He that believeth in Him hath everlasting life.” Oh, that God’s grace may lead you to cast away all other confidences, and to lay your guilty spirit down at Jesus’ feet! Then shall you go your way rejoicing that you also, with us, can say, “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” Blessed be His adorable name! Amen, and Amen. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Come to the Cross Again

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…and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. – Galatians 2:20

I notice that some believers, when they get rather dull and cold, begin the work of self-examination. This may appear very proper, but it is dreary work. I do not believe, dear friends, if you are very poor, that you will ever get rich by looking through all your empty cupboards. If it is very cold, and you have no coals in the cellar, you will not become warm by going into the cellar and seeing that there is nothing below but an empty coal-hole. No, no; if our graces are to be revived, we must begin with a renewed consciousness of pardon through the precious blood; and the only way to get that sense of pardon is to go to the cross again, even as we went at the first. I sometimes wonder that you do not get tired of my preaching, because I do nothing but hammer away on this one nail. I have driven it in up to the head, and I have gone round to the other side to clinch it; but still, I keep at it. With me it is, year after year, “None but Jesus! None but Jesus!” Oh, you great saints, if you have outgrown the need of a sinner’s trust in the Lord Jesus, you have outgrown your sins, but you have also outgrown your grace, and your saintship has ruined you! He that has the mind of Christ within him must still come to his Lord, just as he came at the first. I frankly confess that still I cry to my Lord Jesus-

“Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling.”

Still, to this day, I have no redemption in myself, but only in Jesus. I am not an inch forwarder as to the ground of my trust. Is it not so with you? ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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All in Christ Alone

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In whom we have redemption through His blood the forgiveness of sins… – Ephesians 1:7

The forgiveness of sins binds us to our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us read the text again. “In whom we have redemption through His blood.” We have nothing apart from Jesus. Every blessing of the covenant binds us to Christ. Covenant gifts are so many golden chains to fasten the soul of the believer to his Lord. Our wealth of mercy is all in Christ. There is nothing good outside of Christ. When are we pardoned, brethren? When have we forgiveness? Why, when we are in Him, “in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” O son of Adam, living without Jesus, hear and take warning! So long as thou art out of Christ, thou must bear thine own burden till it crush thee to the dust; but as soon as thou hast touched the hem of His garment, there is a link of connection; and if thou canst rise from that to holding Him by the feet, the union is closer; and if thou canst from that become like Simeon, who took Him up in his arms, then mayest thou cry, “Mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.” When thou hast Christ to the full, thou hast grace to the full. It is as you are in Christ-in connection and communion with Christ-that you receive the pardon of sin, for all the pardon is in Him. Do you see that?

“In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” The forgiveness is not so much in His office, and in His work, as in Himself. When thou gettest Christ, thou hast redemption; for He is redemption. When thou gettest Christ, thou hast forgiveness of sins; for He is the propitiation for our sins. He has put the sin away by the sacrifice of Himself. Get Christ, and thou hast the proof, the evidence, the sum, the substance of perfect pardon. If thou acceptest the Beloved, thou art “accepted in the Beloved.” When thou art in Him, then thou art forgiven; but thy forgiveness is alone in Him. In Him thou hast redemption: out of Him thou art in bondage. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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