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How Can You Be Saved?

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…the wrath of God abides on him. – John 3:36

Notice the word, “abides,” this is to say, it is upon you now. God is angry with you at this moment—and always. You go to sleep with an angry God gazing into your face, you wake in the morning, and if your eyes were not dim, you would perceive His frowning countenance. He is angry with you, even when you are singing His praises, for you mock Him with solemn sounds upon a thoughtless tongue. Angry with you on your knees, for you only pretend to pray, you utter words without heart. As long as you are not a believer, He must be angry with you every moment. “God is angry with the wicked every day.” Spiritual life belongs only to believers. You are now without that life, yet you exist, and wrath abides on you, and so it ever must be. While you shall not see life, you shall exist in eternal death, for the wrath of God cannot abide on a non-existent creature. You shall not see life, but you shall feel wrath to the uttermost. It is horror enough that wrath should be on you now, it is horror upon horrors, and hell upon hell that it shall be upon you forever.

And notice that it must be so, because you reject the only thing that can heal you. As George Herbert says, “Whom oils and balsams kill, what salve can cure?” If Christ Himself has become a savor of death unto death to you, because you reject Him, how can you be saved? There is but one door, and if you close it by your unbelief, how can you enter heaven? There is one healing medicine, and if you refuse to take it, what remains but death? There is one water of life, but you refuse to drink it then must you thirst forever. You put from you, voluntarily, the one and only Redeemer, how then shall you be ransomed? Shall Christ die again, and in another state be offered to you once more? O sirs, you would reject Him then, as you reject Him now. There remains no more sacrifice for sin. On the cross, God’s mercy to the sons of men was fully revealed, and will you reject God’s ultimatum of grace, His last appeal to you. If so, it is at your own peril. Christ being raised from the dead dies no more. He shall come again, but without a sin offering unto the salvation of His people. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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“The wrath of God!”

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…he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. – John 3:36

“He shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” “The wrath of God!” No words can ever fully explain this expression. Holy Whitefield, when he was preaching, would often hold up his hands, and with tears streaming down his eyes, would exclaim, “Oh, the wrath to come! The wrath to come!” Then he would pause because his emotions checked his utterance.

The wrath of God! I confess I feel uneasy if anybody is angry with me, and yet one can bear the anger of foolish, hot-tempered persons with some equanimity. But the wrath of God is the anger of the One who is never angry without a cause; One who is very patient and long-suffering. It takes much to bring choler into JEHOVAH’s face yet is He wroth with unbelievers. He is never wroth with anything because it is feeble and little, but only because it is wrong. His anger is only His holiness set on fire. He cannot bear sin, who would wish that He should? What right-minded man would desire God to be pleased with evil? That were to make a devil of God. Because He is God, He must be angry with sin wherever it is.

This makes the sting of it, that His wrath is just and holy anger. It is the anger, remember, of an Omnipotent Being, who can crush us as easily as a moth. It is the anger of an Infinite Being, and therefore infinite anger, the heights and depths and breadths and lengths of which no man can measure. Only the incarnate God ever fully knew the power of God’s anger. It is beyond all conception, yet the anger rests on you, my hearer. Alas, for you, if you are an unbeliever, for this is your state before God. It is no fiction of mine, but the word of inspired truth, “The wrath of God abides on him.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Thoughts on the Last Battle

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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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The Crime of Crimes

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And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. – John 3:19

In many love of sin rather than any boasted self-righteousness keeps them from the Savior. They do not believe in Jesus, not because they have any doubt about the truths of Christianity, but because they have an enslaving love for their favorite sin.

“Why,” says one, “if I were to believe in Christ, of course, I must obey Him—to trust and to obey go together. Then I could not be the drunkard I am, I could not trade as I do, I could not practice secret licentiousness, I could not frequent the haunts of the ungodly, where laughter is occasioned by sin and mirth by blasphemy. I cannot give up these my darling sins.” Perhaps this sinner hopes that one day, when he cannot any longer enjoy his sin, he will meanly sneak out of it and try to cheat the devil of his soul. But meanwhile he prefers the pleasures of sin to obedience to God, and unbelief to acceptance of his salvation.

O sweet sin! O bitter sin! How are you murdering the souls of men! As certain serpents before they strike their prey fix their eyes upon it and fascinate it, and then at last devour it, so does sin fascinate the foolish sons of Adam. They are charmed with it and perish for it. It yields but a momentary joy, and the wage thereof is eternal misery, yet are men enamored of it. The ways of the strange woman and the paths of uncleanness lead most plainly to the chambers of death yet are men attracted thereto as moths to the blaze of the candle, and so are they destroyed…The preference of a lust to God is a greater insult still. To obey our passions rather than His will, and to prefer sin to His mercy, this is the crime of crimes. May God deliver us from it, for His mercy’s sake. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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The Unbeliever’s Ease

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…he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. – John 3:36

Oh man, I pray you as your fellow creature let me speak with you a word of expostulation. God declares that His wrath abides upon you as an unbeliever, and do you call that nothing? God says, “I am angry with you,” and you say to Him, “I do not care, it is of very small importance to me. The rise or fall of the government bonds is of much more consequence than whether God is angry with me or not. My dinner being done to a turn concerns me a great deal more than whether the infinite God loves me or hates me.” A man who is able to take pleasure and be at ease while God is angry with him shows that his heart is harder than steel.

In certain cases, the root of this unbelief lies in another direction. It is fed by pride. The person who is guilty of it does not believe that he needs a Savior. His notion is that he will do his very best, attend the church or the meeting house very regularly, subscribe occasionally or frequently, and go to heaven partly by what he does, and partly by the merits of Christ…God believed it needful, in order to save man, that the Redeemer should die. Yet you self-righteous ones evidently think that death a superfluity, but if a man could save himself, why did the Lord descend and die to save him? If there is a way to heaven by respectability and morality without Christ, what is the good of Christ? It is utterly useless to have an expiator and a mediator, if men are so good that they do not require them. You tell God to His face that He lies to you, that you are not so sinful as He would persuade you, that you do not need a substitute and sacrifice as He says you do. Oh, sirs, this pride of yours is an arrogant rebellion against God. Look at your fine actions, you who are so good—your motives are base, your pride over what you have done has defiled, with black fingers, all your acts. In as much as you prefer your way to God’s way, and prefer your righteousness to God’s righteousness, the wrath of God abides on you. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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The Well-known News

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

In a great many, unbelief may be ascribed to a careless ignorance of the way of salvation. Now, I should not wonder if many of you imagine that if you do not understand the Gospel, you are therefore quite excused for not believing it. But, sirs, it is not so. There are places of worship all around you, which you can without difficulty attend. The Book of God is very cheap. You have it in your houses. You can all read it or hear it read.

Is it so, then, that the King has been pleased to reveal Himself to you, and tell you the way to salvation, and yet you, at the age of twenty, thirty, or forty do not know the way of salvation? What do you mean, sir? What can you mean? Has God been pleased to reveal Himself in Scripture, and tell you how to escape from hell and fly to heaven, and yet have you been too idle to inquire into that way? Dare you say to God, “I do not think it worth my while to learn what You have revealed, neither do I care to know of the gift which You have bestowed on men.”

How can you think that such ignorance is an excuse for your sin? What could be a more gross aggravation of it? If you do not know, you ought to know. If you have not learned the Gospel message, you might have learned it, for there are some of us whose language it is not difficult for even the most illiterate to understand, and who would, if we caught ourselves using a hard word, retract it, and put it into little syllables, so that not even a child’s intellect need be perplexed by our language. Salvation’s way is plain in the Book. Those words, “Believe and live,” are in this Christian England almost as legible and as universally to be seen as though they were printed on the sky. That trust in the Lord Jesus saves the soul is well-known news. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Unbelievers are Enemies of the Triune God

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…he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. – 1 John 5:10

Oh, unbeliever, it appears to be nothing to you that Christ has died. His wounds attract you not. His groans for His enemies have no music in them to you. You turn your back upon the incarnate God who bleeds for men, and in so doing you shut yourselves out of hope, judging yourselves unworthy of eternal life.

Furthermore, the willful rejection of Christ is an insult to God the Father. “He that believes not has made God a liar, because he has not believed the record that God gave of His Son.” God has Himself often borne testimony to His dear Son. “Him has God the Father set forth to be a propitiation for our sins.” In rejecting Christ, you reject God’s testimony and God’s gift. It is a direct assault upon the truthfulness and lovingkindness of the gracious Father when you trample on or cast aside His priceless, peerless gift of love.

As for the Blessed Spirit, it is His office here below to bear witness to Christ. In the Christian ministry, daily the Holy Spirit cries to the sons of men to come to Jesus. He has striven in the hearts of many of you, given you a measure of conviction of sin, and a degree of knowledge of the glory of Christ, but you have repressed it, you have labored to your utmost to do despite to the Spirit of God. Believe me, this is no slight sin. An unbeliever is an enemy to God the Father, to God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Against the Blessed Trinity in Unity, O unbeliever, your sin is a standing insult. You are now to God’s face insulting Him, by continuing an unbeliever. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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