For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. -1 Corinthians 3:11

There is only one hope for a poor sinner from the justice of Jehovah; and that is in the “Man of sorrows acquainted with grief,” who “gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair.”…Dost thou not know that the law which God made on Sinai has been broken by us all, and that God, the “jealous God,” will “by no means spare the guilty?” And dost thou not know, O sinner, that thou must offer something to God, to make up a recompense for what thou hast done? Dost thou not know, that God is so angry with the man who sins, that He will damn that man, unless there is some one who will be damned for him, and suffer the punishment in his stead? And dost thou not know, that our religion is a religion of substitution-that Jesus Christ the Son of God became man; that He might take the punishment we ought to have had; that He bore the wrath we ought to have borne; that He took the guilt we committed, just as the scape-goat of old did, and carried it right away into the wilderness of forgetfulness; so that now a sinner who is putting his trust in that substitution can escape punishment.

Precious Jesus! what a substitute Thou wast for guilt! Sweet Lord Jesus! I kiss Thy wounds this day; Thou Man! Thou God! Thou who didst wrestle with Jacob! Thou who didst walk with Abraham, the man of God, of Mamre! Thou who stoodst in the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! Thou Son of God, Thou Son of Man, who didst appear to Joshua with Thy sword drawn! I worship Thee, my substitute, my hope! Oh! that others might do so, too…accept Him as their Saviour! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? -Isaiah 60:8

Try, try, O enemy, to stop one of the Lord’s doves, when he is coming to the windows! You cannot do it. Did not the devil try to stop you, O brother, when you were coming to God? Ah! he did; but it was all in vain. And when you went to join the church, how many difficulties there were in the way! But when you are called to God you will not be afraid, you will fly like a cloud. Ah! the world says we shall stop by-and-by; that all our success is as nothing; that it will soon die away; that it is a mere excitement, and will soon end. Ah! let them talk so, if they please. We are flying like a cloud. We have God within us; we have good within us; we have the might of the Deity within our church; and who is he that shall stop us? We bid the mighty men of this earth come; we bid carnal reason array itself against us; we bid the wisdom of the critic try to stop us. But they cannot do it. The weakness of God is mightier than man; and He who took us from the sheep-folds to lead His people Israel will not desert His David; He who has put us before His people will not cast us away, nor will He leave His church, nor forsake His chosen ones. “Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?”

It is amazing that any man should be saved, if you look at man; it is not amazing if you consider God. May the Lord in His mercy keep us from pride, and also keep us living on Him, believing in His might, and trusting in His power!   ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. -Luke 19:10

Timid spirit, timid spirit, put away the thought that He is unwilling to save. It is a lie against thy own soul; it is a libel against His character. What! He unwilling to distribute that which He so freely bought at so immense a price! Do you see in any one period of His life an unwillingness to save?.. It is done; redemption is accomplished, and think you He was so earnest and so intent on the work of redemption, and now is unwilling to reap the fruits of it? Why, do you not know, poor penitent, that He died to save you, and think you that it needs much argument to move the heart that once was pierced to pity and compassion? Scout the thought once for all. He is able to forgive; that thou knowest. He is as willing as He is able. Infinite is His ability, and as infinite His willingness. I beseech thee, distrust Him not. Come as thou art, with all thy sins about thee. Come, now and put thy trust in Him. Thou shalt find the door of heaven’s gate not creaking on its hinges, but standing ajar and opening easily…

He is not unwilling; thou art unwilling. If there be any hardness of heart, it lies with thee, and not with Him. If there be difficulties in the way of thy salvations they are difficulties in thyself, not in Him. Come and welcome. This is the invitation which reaches thee to day from heaven’s festal board. Come and welcome. Come and welcome. Come and welcome, sinner, come! Let nothing make thee linger. He thirsts to save; He pants to bless. He longs to redeem and ransom. Only trust Him; and if thou be made glad when thou trustest, He will be glad too…So come, and make thy Savior glad. Come and make Him see of the travail of His soul that He may be abundantly satisfied. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work… And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.-John 4:34, 36

Now you generally know when a man’s heart is in his work, by the joy he feels in it. You see some preachers go up into their pulpits as though they were going to be roasted at the stake; and they read their sermons through as if they were making their last dying speech and confession. What do you think they call it?-why, doing their duty. True ministers call preaching a pleasure, not a duty. It is a delight to stand up to tell to others the way of salvation and to magnify Christ. But mere hirelings cannot go higher than the idea of doing their duty when they are telling out this glorious tale. Jesus Christ was none of these. “My meat is” He said, “to do the will of Him that sent Me.” The only times that Jesus ever smiled and rejoiced are the times when He was in the midst of poor sinners. At that time “Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” Let Him see a penitent, let Him hear the groan of a sinner mourning over his evil way, let Him discern a tear trickling down the cheek of one of His hearers, and Jesus Christ begins to be glad, and the Man of Sorrows wears a smile for a moment upon that pale and sorrowful face. At all times there is a travailing in birth for souls: He is only happy when He sees the family of God enlarged.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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For the zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached Thee are fallen upon me. -Psalm 69:9

Mark our Master when He goes about doing good. The task is not irksome to Him. There are some men who if they distribute to the poor, or if they comfort the fatherless, do it with such reserve with such coldness of spirit, that you can perceive that it is but the shell of the man that acts, and not the man’s whole soul. But see our divine Lord. Wherever He walks, you see His whole self in flame. His whole being at work. Not a single power slumbers, but the whole man is engaged. How much at ease He seems among His poor fishermen! You do not discover that His thoughts are away in the halls of kings; but He is a fellow with them, bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh. He walks in the midst of publicans and harlots, and He is not ill at ease; not like one who is condescending to do a work which He feels to be beneath Him; He is pleased with it, His whole soul is in it. Mark how He takes the little children on His knee, and though His disciples would put them away, yet His whole spirit is set truly with the poor, with the sinful, whom He came to save, that He says, “Suffer the little children to come unto Me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Look up into that face, and there is a whole-soured man there; not one whose thoughts are set on dignity and power, and who is schooling Himself down, toning down His mind to the circle in which He moves, as a matter of constraint and duty. His vocation becomes His delight. His Father’s service is His element. He is never happy when He is out of it. He casts His whole being, His whole spirit, into the work of man’s redemption.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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