Sovereignty of God

Trust the Grace of God

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“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” – Acts 16:31

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” Are there not many believers who do not believe for their house. Come, now, and believe in His provision of the Lamb for the house. Trust the grace of God for that little girl, the last born, and for that boy who is still at school, who does not think much of these things as yet; and for that son of yours who has left home and gone out as an apprentice. Oh, that the Lamb of God might be for him! Pray for him; and you older parents, pray for your sons who are married, and your daughters who have taken to themselves husbands, and are away from you. The Lamb is for the house, pray for the whole household; take in your grandchildren, all you old folks, all of them who are in your house. Pray that the Lamb may be for the house. I do bless God that I can look upon all my household and rejoice that they are converted to Christ. My father has this joy, too; and my grandfather also had that joy. Oh, it is a great bliss to have families, generation after generation, all brought to Christ without exception! Why should it not be so? Let us cry for it; surely, we may expect the same blessing that God gave to His chosen people under the law and expect it more largely. Grace does not run in the blood, but grace often runs side by side with it, so that Abraham is loved, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph, and Ephraim, and Manasseh. Thus, the covenant blessing goes from one to another. Plead with God that all in your house may be beneath the sprinkled blood of the Lamb, and be saved from the destroying angel, and that all with you may go out of Egypt to have a possession in the land of the promised. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Now, Not Tomorrow

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Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. – 2 Corinthians 6:2

I have heard that there was once a great meeting in the den of the arch-enemy, and he was stirring up his myrmidons to seek the destruction of men. One of the them said, “I have gone forth, and I have told men that there is no God, and no hereafter, and no difference between sin and righteousness, and that they may live as they like”; and there was considerable approbation among the evil spirits. But Satan himself said, “Thou hast done small service, for man has a conscience, and his conscience teaches him better; he knows that there is a God, he knows that there is a difference between sin and righteousness, he knows that there must be future punishment; you have done but little.” Then another stood up, and said, “I have done better, I think, most mighty chieftain, for I have told them that the Bible is a worn-out book, that it was a fable at the first, and that they need not believe it.” There was a round of cheers, for they said that he had done splendid service for the cause of darkness; but Satan said, “It is in vain that you meddle with the old Book, it has taken care of itself, and it can still do so. There is no shaking, it is like a rock. Thou hast done service for a time, but it will soon pass away.” And scarcely did anyone of the fallen spirits venture to bring forward his boasting in the presence of the terrible master who sat it the midst of them; but, at last, one said, “I have told men that they have souls, and there is a God, and that the Bible is true. I have left them to believe as they will, but I have whispered in their ear that there is plenty of time to consider all this.” Then there was a hush, and the great master of demons said, “Thou hast done best of all. This is my great net in which I take more souls than with any other, this net of procrastination or delay.” Therefore say I to you, my hearers, disappoint the fiend. Fly to Jesus at once, Behold, not tomorrow, but (now), behold the Lamb of God, each man for himself. – C.H. Spurgeon

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The Only Acceptable Sacrifice

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“Behold! The Lamb of God…” – John 1:29,36

How was the Lamb of God first seen in the world? It was the case of the lamb for one man, brought by one man for himself, and on his own behalf. You all know that I refer to Abel, who was a shepherd, and brought of the firstlings, of his flock, that is, a lamb, and he brought this lamb for himself, and on his own account, that he might be accepted by God, and that he might present to God an offering well-pleasing in His sight. Cain brought of the fruit of the ground as an offering to God. I think that there was a difference in the sacrifice, as well as in the man bringing it, for the Holy Ghost says little about the difference of the man, but He says, “By faith Abel offered unto to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,” and he was accepted because he brought a more excellent sacrifice. The one sacrifice was bloodless, the fruit of the ground, the other was typical of Christ, the Lamb of God, and was therefore accepted: “and the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering.”

Now, beloved, our first view of Christ usually is here, to know Him ourselves. I am a sinner, and I want to have communion with my God; how shall I obtain it? I am guilty, I am sinful; how shall I draw near to the holy God? Here is the answer. Take the Lord Jesus Christ to be yours by faith and bring Him to God; you must be accepted if you bring Christ with you. The Father never repelled the Son, nor one who was clothed with the Son’s righteousness, or who pleaded the Son’s merit. Come you, as Abel came, not with fruits of your own growing, but with the sacrifice of blood, with Christ the holy Victim, the spotless Lamb of God, and so coming, whoever you may be, you shall be acceptable before God by faith. Now, behold Him, each one of you for yourself! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Look to Him

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“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” – John 1:29

Take your eyes off everything else and behold the Lamb of God! You need not see anything else, nothing else is worth seeing; but behold Him. See how He takes your guilt, see how He bears it, see how He sinks under it, and yet rises from it, crying, “It is finished.” He gives up the ghost, He is buried, He rises again from the dead because He is accepted of God, and His redeeming work is done. Trust Him, trust Him, trust Him. “Look and live,” is now our nosegay; not “do and live,” but “live and do.” If you ask how you are to live, our answer is look, trust, believe, confide, rest in Christ, and the moment you do so, you are saved.

When John said to his disciples, “Behold the Lamb of God!” It was a hint that they should leave off at John, and turn their attention wholly to Jesus, and follow Him. Hence, we find that John’s two disciples left him, and became the disciples of Christ. Beloved, we who preached long to have your attention, but when you give your attention to us, our longing then is to pass it on to Christ our Lord. Look on Him, not us. What can we do, poor creatures that we are? Look unto Him, mark His footsteps, tread in them. Do as He bids you, take Him for your Lord, become His disciples, His servants. Behold the Lamb of God, and always behold Him. Look to Him, look up to Him, and follow where He leads the way. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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God’s Great Sacrifice

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“Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking upon Jesus as He walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God.”- John 1:35-36

The world was lost; God must punish sin; He sent His Son to take our sin upon Him that He might honor the law of God and establish God’s government by being obedient to the law, and yielding Himself up to the death-penalty. He whom Jehovah loves beyond all else came to earth, became a man, and, as a man, was obedient unto death of the cross. It is He who is called in our text “the Lamb of God,” the one Sacrifice for man’s sin. There is no putting away of sin without sacrifice; there is only one Sacrifice that can put away sin, and that is, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is divine, yet human; Son of God, yet son of Mary. He yielded up His life, “the Just for the unjust,” the Sinless for the sinful, “that He might bring us to God,” and reconcile us to the great Father. That is the story, and whosoever believeth in Him shall live. Any man, the world over, who will trust himself to Christ, God’s great Sacrifice, shall be saved, for this is our continual witness, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.” “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

I want to entreat men, who have looked elsewhere, now to turn their eyes away from the fruitless search after peace and life, and to come and “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” May the Spirit of God open their eyes, and incline their hearts, that they may look unto Him and live! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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To Be with Him Where He Is

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Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. – Romans 8:33

The great white throne is set, the books are opened, men are trembling, fiends are yelling, sinners are shrieking-“Rocks hide us, mountains on us fall;” these make up an awful chorus of dismay. There stands the believer and looking round on the assembled universe of men and angels, he cries, “Who shall lay anything to my charge?” and silence reigns through earth and heaven. Again he speaks, and fixing his eyes full on the Judge himself, he cries, “Who is he that condemneth?” And lo, there upon the throne of judgment sits the only one who can condemn; and who is that? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who sitteth on the right hand of God, who maketh intercession for him. Can those lips say, “Depart, ye cursed,” to the man for whom they once did intercede? Can those eyes flash lightnings on the man whom once they saw in sin, and thence with rays of love they did lift him up to joy, and peace, and purity? No! Christ will not belie Himself. He cannot reverse His grace; it cannot be that the throne of condemnation shall be exalted on the ruins of the cross. It cannot be that Christ should transform Himself at last; but till He can do so, none can condemn. None but He hath a right to condemn, for He is the sole judge of right and wrong, and if He hath died shall He put us to death, and if He hath risen for us, shall He thrust us downwards to the pit, and if He hath reigned for us and hath been accepted for us, shall He cast us away, and if He hath pleaded for us, shall He curse us at the last? No! Come life, come death, my soul can rest on this: He died for me, I cannot be punished for my sin; He rose again, I must rise, and though I die yet shall I live again. He sits at the right hand of God, and so must I. I must be crowned and reign with Him for ever. He intercedes, and He must be heard. He beckons me, and I must be brought at length to see His face, and to be with Him where He is. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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No One Can Accuse God’s Elect

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 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. – Romans 8:33

“Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?” Why, Paul, Satan will bring thundering accusations against thee; art thou not afraid? “No,” says he, “I can stop his mouth with this cry, ‘It is Christ that died;’-that will make him tremble, for He crushed the serpent’s head in that victorious hour. And I can shut his mouth again-‘yea rather, that is risen again,’ for He took him captive on that day;-I will add, ‘who sitteth at the right hand of God.’ I can foil him with that, for He sits there to judge him and to condemn him forever. Once more I will appeal to His advocacy ‘Who maketh intercession for us.’ I can stop his accusation with this perpetual care of Jesus for His people.” Again, cries Paul, “Who shall lay anything to my charge?” There lie the bodies of the saints he has martyred, and they cry from under the altar-“O Lord! how long wilt Thou not avenge Thine own elect?” Paul says,-“Who can lay anything to my charge?” And they speak not; “because,” says Paul, “I have obtained mercy-who was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious, that in me first He might show forth all longsuffering.” “Christ hath died, yea rather, hath risen again.” And now standing in the midst of men who mock, and boast, and jeer, he cries-“Who can lay anything to my charge?” and no one dares to speak, for man himself cannot accuse; with all his malevolence, and acrimony, and malice, he can bring nothing against him; no charge can stand at the bar of God against the man whom He hath absolved through the merits of the death of Christ, and the power of His resurrection. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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