Character of Jesus

It Is God’s Gospel

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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. – Hebrews 9:22

Here it stands in great letters, “There is no remission.” So divine its authority. Perhaps you will kick at it: but remember, your rebellion is not against me, but against God, If any of you reject this truth, I shall not controvert; God forbid I should turn aside from proclaiming His gospel to dispute with men. I have God’s irrevocable statute to plead now, here it stands: “Without shedding of blood there is no remission.” You may believe or disbelieve many things the preacher utters; but this you disbelieve at the peril of your souls. It is God’s utterance: will you tell God to His face you do not believe it?

But some men will say that God’s way of saving men, by shedding of blood, is a cruel way, an unjust way, an unkind way; and all kinds of things they will say of it. Sirs, I have nothing to do with your opinion of the matter; it is so. If you have any faults to find with your Maker, fight your battles out with Him at last. But take heed before you throw the gauntlet down; it will go ill with a worm when he fighteth with his Maker, and it will go ill with you when you contend with Him. The doctrine of atonement when rightly understood and faithfully received, is delightful, for it exhibits boundless love, immeasurable goodness, and infinite truth; but to unbelievers it will always be a hated doctrine. So it must be sirs; you hate your own mercies; you despise your own salvation. I tarry not to dispute with you; I affirm it in God’s name: “Without shedding of blood there is no remission.”~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Christ’s Blood Shed for All Men

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So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many…-Hebrews 9:28

There was a blood-shedding once… it was a man-a God-that shed His blood at that memorable season. Come and see it. Here is a garden dark and gloomy; the ground is crisp with the cold frost of midnight; between those gloomy olive trees I see a Man, I hear Him groan out His life in prayer; hearken, angels, hearken men, and wonder; it is the Saviour groaning out His soul! Come and see Him. Behold His brow! O heavens! drops of blood are streaming down His face, and from His body; every pore is open, and it sweats! but not the sweat of men that toil for bread; it is the sweat of one that toils for heaven-He “sweats great drops of blood!” That is the blood-shedding, without which there is no remission. Follow that Man further; they have dragged Him with sacrilegious bands from the place of His prayer and His agony, and they have taken Him to the hall of Pilate; they seat Him in a chair and mock Him; a robe of purple is put on His shoulders in mockery; and mark His brow-they have put about it a crown of thorns, and the crimson drops of gore are rushing down His cheeks!…His back is bleeding…they scourge and tear His flesh…they hurry Him through the streets; they fling Him on the ground; they nail His hands and feet to the transverse wood, they hoist it in the air, they dash it into its socket, it is fixed, and there He hangs, the Christ of God. Blood from His head, blood from His hands, blood from His feet! In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani.” And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water. This is the shedding of blood, sinners and saints; this is the awful shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which for you, and for the whole human race, there is no remission (of sin). ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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A World-Wide and Eternal Truth

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Without shedding of blood is no remission. – Hebrews 9:22

More questions have been asked concerning the origin of evil than upon anything else. Men have puzzled their heads, and twisted their brains into knots, in order to understand what men can never know-how evil came into this world, and how its entrance is consistent with divine goodness. The broad fact is this, there is evil; and your question should be, “How can I escape from the wrath to come, which is engendered of this evil?” In answering that question this verse stands right in the middle of the way: “Without shedding of blood is no remission.” Your real want is to know how you can be saved; if you are aware that your sin must be pardoned or punished, your question will be, “How can it be pardoned?” and then point blank in the very teeth of your enquiry, there stands out this fact: “Without shedding of blood there is no remission.” Mark you, this is not merely a Jewish maxim; it is a world-wide and eternal truth. It pertaineth not to the Hebrews only, but to the Gentiles likewise. Never in any time, never in any place, never in any person, can there be remission apart from shedding of blood. This great fact, I say, is stamped on nature; it is an essential law of God’s moral government, it is one of the fundamental principles which can neither be shaken nor denied. Never can there be any exception to it; it stands the same in every place throughout all ages- “Without shedding of blood there is no remission (of sin).”~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Did He Die for You?

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that hears My word, and believes on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. -John 5:24

Remember that the one thing needful for eternal life is trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ. I know you will tell me you cannot be perfect. No, I know you cannot. You will say, “I have many sins; I have done much that is wrong.” It is true, most true, but he who believeth in the Lord Jesus Christ has his sins forgiven. You know the story-Christ came down from heaven and took His people’s sins upon His own shoulders. When God came forth to smite the sinner, Justice said, “Where is he?” and Christ came and stood in the sinner’s place, and God’s sword went through the Saviour’s heart. Why? That it might never cut nor wound the heart of those for whom Jesus died. Did He die for you? He did, if you believe in Him; your faith will be to you the evidence that Christ was substitute for you, and oh! if Christ suffered for you, you cannot suffer. If God punished Christ He will never punish you. If Jesus Christ paid your debts, you are free. Before God’s throne today, if thou believest, thou art as clear as the angels in heaven. Thou art a saved soul if thou art resting upon the atonement of Christ, and thou mayst go thy way and sing-

“Now, freed from sin, I walk at large,
The Saviour’s blood’s my full discharge;
At His dear feet my soul I lay,
A sinner saved, and homage pay.”

May God bring you to faith for Jesus’ sake. Amen. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0585.cfm

The King’s Messenger

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My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials…-James 1:2

The lapidary, if he takes up a stone and finds that it is not very precious, will not spend much care in cutting it; but when he gets a rare diamond of the first water, then he will be sure to cut, and cut, and cut again. When the Lord finds a saint whom He loves-loves much-He may spare other men trials and troubles, but He certainly will not this well-beloved one. It is an awful thing to be a favourite of heaven. It is a thing to be sought after and to be rejoiced in; but remember, to be of the King’s council-chamber is a thing involving such work for faith that flesh and blood might shrink from the painful blessing. The gardener gets a tree, and if it is but of a poor sort he will let it grow as it wills, and take what fruit comes from it naturally; but if it be of a very rare sort, he likes to have every bough in its proper place, so that it may bear well; and he often takes out his knife an cuts here and there, because, says he, “That is a favourite tree, and it is one which bears such fruit that I would have much from it, and would leave nothing whatever that would cause it detriment.” You who are God’s favourites must not marvel at trials, but rather keep your door wide open for them, and when they come in, say, “Hail, messenger of the King! the sound of thy Master’s feet is behind thee; thou art welcome here, for thy Master sent thee.”~ C.H. Spurgeon

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At the Worst Christ Can Work

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He said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep…And when He thus had spoken, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. -John 11:11,43

Let us notice that the deliverance which Christ wrought by the resurrection of Lazarus, was calculated also to strengthen the faith of the apostles. At the worst Christ can work. Why, what a plight were they now in! Here was a case which had come to the very worst. Lazarus is not merely dead-he has been buried; the stone has been rolled to the mouth of the sepulchre-worse than that, he had become putrid. Here are miracles so many, that I must describe the resurrection of Lazarus not as one miracle, but as a mass of wonders. We will not go into detail, but suffice it to say, we cannot suppose anything to be a more prodigious exhibition of the divine strength, than the restoration of health and life to a body through which the worms did creep and crawl; and yet in the very worst case Christ is not brought to a nonplus. Here was a case where human power evidently could do nothing. Now bring the viol and the harp, and let music try its charms. Bring here, physician, thy most potent draught, now, for the true aqua vitoe! Now see what thou canst do. What! does the elixir fail? The physician turns away disgusted, for the stench may sooner destroy the physician’s life, than he restore the corpse. Now, seek ye round the world and ask all men that are-Herod and his men-at-arms, and Caesar on the imperial throne-“Can you do anything here?” Nay, Death sits with ghastly smile laughing at them all. “I have Lazarus,” says he, “beyond your reach.” Yet Jesus Christ wins the day.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Blessed Axe of Sorrow

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In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials: -1 Peter 1:6

It may be asked, what is the method by which trial strengthens faith? We might answer in various ways. Trial takes away many of the impediments of faith. Carnal security is the worst foe to confidence in God. If I sit down and say, “Soul, take thine ease, thou hast much goods laid up for many years;” faith’s road is barricaded, but adversity sets the barn on a blaze, and “the much goods laid up for many years,” cease to block up the path of faith. Oh, blessed axe of sorrow, which clears a pathway for me to my God by cutting down the thick trees of my earthly comforts! When I say, “My mountain standeth firm, I shall never be moved,” the visible fortification, rather than the invisible protector, engages my attention; but when the great earthquake shakes the rocks, and the mountain is swallowed up, I fly to the immovable Rock of Ages to build my confidence on high. Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of scared courage. The balloon never rises until the cords are cut: affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls. While the wheat sleeps comfortable in the husk it is useless to man, it must be threshed out of its resting-place before its value can be known. Trial plucks the arrow of faith from the repose of the quiver, and shoots it against the foe.

…trial is of special service to faith when it drives her to her God. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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