For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? …let God be true, but every man a liar… – Romans 3:3,4

Will God fail to keep His promise to anyone who believes on Him? Because some do not believe, will God’s promise therefore fail to be kept to those who do believe? I invite you to come and try. When two of John’s disciples enquired of Jesus where He dwelt, He said to them, “Come and see.” If any person here will try Christ, as I tried Him when yet a youth, as miserable as I could be, and ready to die with despair, if they shall feel in believing such joy as I felt, if they shall experience such a change of character as passed over me when I believed in Christ, they would not tolerate a doubt. What they have known, and felt, and tasted, and handled of the good Word of God, will prove to them that, if some believe not, yet God abideth faithful, He will never deny Himself.

Will God be unfaithful to His Son if some do not believe? I have heard sometimes a fear expressed that Christ will lose those for whom He dies. I thank God that I have no fear about that. “He shall see the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied.” I never come to you, and, in forma pauperis, ask you to accept Christ, begging and praying you to take Christ, because otherwise He will be a loser by you. It is you who must beg of Him. He giveth grace as a king bestows his favours; nay more, He lovingly condescends to entreat you to come to Him. Suppose that you wickedly say, “We will not have Christ to reign over us.” If you think that you will rob Him of honour, and bring disgrace upon Him by your rejection, you make a great mistake. If you will not have Him, others will. If you who are so wise will not have Christ, there are plenty whom you reckon to be fools who will take Him to be their “wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” This word shall yet become true. “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. – Romans 3:3,4

Some will say, “If So-and-so, and So-and-so do not believe the gospel, then religion is a failure.” We have read of a great many things being failures nowadays. A little time ago, it was a question whether marriage was not a failure. I suppose that, by-and-by, eating our dinners will be a failure, breathing will be a failure, everything will be a failure. But now the gospel is said to be a failure. Why? Because certain gentlemen of professed culture and supposed knowledge do not believe it.

Man has gone from one form of philosophy to another, and every time that he has altered his philosophy, he has only made a slight variation in the same things. Philosophy is like a kaleidoscope. The philosopher turns it round and exclaims that he has a new view of things. So he has; but all that he sees is a few bits of glass, which alter their form at every turn of the toy. If any of you shall live fifty years, you will see that the philosophy to today will be a football of contempt for the philosophy of that period. They will speak, amidst roars of laughter, of evolution; and the day will come, when there will not be a child but will look upon it as being the most foolish notion that ever crossed the human mind. I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I know what has befallen many of the grand discoveries of the great philosophers of the past; and I expect that the same thing will happen again. I have to say, with Paul, “What if some did not believe?” It is no new thing; for there have always been some who have rejected the revelation of God. What then? You and I had better go on believing, and testing for ourselves, and proving the faithfulness of God, and living upon Christ our Lord, even though we see another set of doubters, and another, and yet another ad infinitum. The gospel is no failure, as many of us know. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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

This forgiveness of sins is enjoyed by us now. “In whom we have”-we have-“redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” I remember the astonishment with which I sat in a ministers’ meeting, and heard one, who professed to be a preacher of the gospel, assert that he did not think that any one of us could be sure that we were forgiven. I ventured at once to say that I was sure; and I was pleased, but by no means surprised, to find that others dared to say the same. I hope I have hundreds before me who enjoy the same assurance.

Brethren, if there be no consciousness of the forgiveness of sins possible, how can there be any rest for the conscience? Yet Jesus says, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” What rest is possible to the condemned? Can you go to bed to-night with your sins unforgiven? Some of you may have the foolhardiness to do that, but I would not dare to do it. See where you are. Within a moment you may be dead. Within that moment you will be in hell, past all hope. In a single instant you may be eternally lost: can you endure the thought? Our breath has but to stop, or the heart to cease beating, and instantly life is over. How can you be at peace, while sin is unforgiven? Unless sin had made men mad, they would never rest till they were cleared from their sins. There cannot be any true rest without a consciousness of forgiveness. Yet that rest is promised; therefore, the present enjoyment of an assurance of forgiveness must be possible. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God…- Ephesians 2:8

Beloved, be this always remembered, that it is in the application of redemption, and the personal pardon of any sinner, through the blood of Jesus, that the grace of God is best seen by that sinner. To each one pardon through the Lord Jesus comes, not only according to grace, but “according to the riches of His grace.” I can understand that God should forgive you, all of you. I could hear it with full belief, and it would not astonish me. But that He should pardon me-that I should have the forgiveness of sins, and redemption by blood-that does astonish me. And I believe that any person, under a sense of sin, sees more of the grace of God in his own salvation than in the salvation of anybody else. He may be quite conscious that he has never been a thief, or a drunkard, or a murderer; and yet, when he comes to look at it, he may see reasons why the pardon of sin in his case should be more remarkable than even in the case of a drunkard, or a thief, or a murderer. There may be elements in his own case which may make him seem to have sinned even more grievously than open transgressors, because he transgressed against greater light, with less temptation thereto, and with a direr presumption of rebellion against the Most High. That Jesus died, is unutterable grace; but that He loved me, and gave Himself for me, this is overwhelming grace, and makes the heir of heaven say with emphasis, Blessed be God that, in Jesus, I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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

The forgiveness of sin is still a matter of grace, and of rich grace. “We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” I admit that the forgiveness of sins, on God’s part, is a matter of justice, now that the redemption by blood has been completed. The man believes; the man confesses his sin; and it is written, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.” The sacrifice is so great that it justly puts away the sin, and it is righteously forgiven…Beloved, it is only by grace that we are justified; yet that this grace is exercised in a way of justice causes the grace to be not less, but even manifestly more gracious. The death of Christ, the redemption by blood, instead of veiling the grace of God, only manifests it. Oh, if it be so, that God, the Divine Ruler, the Judge of all the earth, says to guilty man, “I will pardon you, but it is imperative that My law be carried out; and this cannot be done except by the death of My dear Son, who is one with Me, who is very God of very God, who Himself wills to stand in your stead, and vindicate My justice, by suffering the penalty due to you”-then I say that the grace of God is a thousand-fold more clearly shown than by the free forgiveness which “modern thought” pleads for! Pardon which has cost God more than it cost Him to make all worlds-which has cost Him more than to manage all the empires of His providence-which has cost Him His only-begotten Son and has cost that only-begotten Son a life of sorrow and a death of unutterable and immeasurable anguish-I say that this pardon is pre-eminently gracious. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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