The Essence of Simplicity

A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1872,

BY C. H. SPURGEON,

AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON.

"Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He
said unto him, Do you believe on the Son of God? He answered and said,
Who is He, Lord, that I might believe on Him?" John 9:35,36.

THIS text is from the story of the blind man to whom Jesus had given
sight. His narrative of the cure provoked the anger of the Jews and
their rulers. And, as the man could not be convinced by them that one
who had opened his eyes could also be a bad man, they cast him out of
their assembly–and by that act signified to him that he would be, or
already was, cast out of the Jewish Church–set aside from the
Synagogue and made the victim of the greater excommunication. This was
one of the most fearful calamities that could befall a Jew and I do not
doubt but what the man considered it to be so.

Now, it is not at all likely that any person here is feeling the same
trouble, but many may be suffering from something similar. It may be
that you have excommunicated yourselves. Within the court of your own
bosom, conscience has held a solemn court and pronounced upon you a
sentence which continually rings in your ears. You scarcely dare mingle
with those who assemble in the house of God for you feel yourselves
unworthy to be among them. Up till lately you were upon the best of
terms with yourselves and reckoned that all was right with God. You
hoped that you stood on as good a footing, at any rate, as other men
and perhaps were somewhat better than many around you.

But now a process of enlightenment has come over your mind–practices
have been seen to be seriously evil which before were regarded as
trifles and sin itself has worn another aspect than any which it bore
in former times. Does such a person stand here this morning? Then let
me assure him that his state of mind is well known to me, for I knew
its horrors by the space of many months together. I, too, felt that I
was cut off from the congregation of the hopeful and must not hope for
mercy from God. I dared not lift so much as my eyes towards Heaven, but
complained to the Lord as Jonah did–"I am shut out of Your sight."

Therefore with brotherly sympathy I speak to any man who reckons
himself a castaway, shut out from the house of the Lord. The man in the
narrative, most happily for him, at the time when the sentence began to
cast its gloom over him, was met by the Lord Jesus Christ who at once
proceeded to afford him the necessary cordial. Christ has come as the
consolation of Israel and where He finds that men are burdened in
spirit He commences His gracious work. But, observe, He brings but one
cordial and prescribes but one way by which its efficacy can be
realized. He spoke to the oppressed man concerning the Son of God and
personal faith in Him–for this is the master consolation for broken
hearts–this is the surest and best means of bringing joy to souls
which sit in the dungeons of despondency.

Our Lord began by saying to the cast-out one, "Do you believe on the
Son of God?" Now, if any here present are in the state which I have
thus hurriedly sketched, feeling themselves guilty before God with
spirits ill at ease, with hearts alarmed at coming and deserved
judgment–I come in Christ's name to them this morning with words of
comfort! But they will be no other than those which Jesus uttered of
old. I have nothing to speak to you by way of comfort but concerning
the Son of God and concerning Him only, by demanding that you believe
on Him, for only as you receive Him by faith will He be to you a relief
from sorrow. He that believes on the Lord Jesus shall not be
ashamed–but without faith you are without salvation!

We shall this morning labor to bring you all to the point in hand.
There shall be between the doctrine of the Gospel and your soul this
morning, O you who are not yet a Believer, a direct encounter. You
shall come up this morning and face the Gospel whether you spurn it or
accept it. You shall know, if the plainest words can tell it to you,
that if you believe in Christ Jesus you shall be saved. And it shall be
put to you whether you will do this or not and you shall either

believe on the Son of God or incur anew the sin of putting from you the
only name given under Heaven among men whereby you can be saved!

I say you shall be brought to this if words can bring you to it–and
then I must leave the work of your deciding in the hands of God the
Holy Spirit. I entreat you who love the Lord and have prevalence in
prayer to aid me with your supplications. Pray that the result of
bringing the sinner face to face with the Gospel may be that he may
decide to believe in Jesus! Pray that faith may be given him! Pray that
the Son of God may become the object of his soul's confidence and that
in no case the hearer may be left to continue in unbelief and to reject
the Son of God!

You have seen at the mouth of the coal pits how the full wagons, as
they run down the incline draw the empty ones up to the pit's mouth
that they also may be filled–I would to God that you who have Grace
may exert the power God has given you with Himself–and so by prevalent
intercession you may draw others to the Savior. While we are preaching
you be praying and God will work by us both!

Look upon the unsaved around you with an eye of pity–then look to
Christ, your exalted Savior, with the eyes of faith and say to
Him–"Jesus, You who have redeemed myriads by Your blood, now work by
Your eternal Spirit and redeem also by power. Let the Spirit that
rested on Your own ministry, the Spirit that was with Your servants at
Pentecost, the Spirit that has converted us also to your Truth, work
mightily among the congregation this morning, that all these may be led
to obey You. When your Cross is lifted high, let it bring life to the
dead throughout the camp and be to the awakened a lighthouse of safety
and to the despairing a pillar of hope."

I. The run of our discourse this morning being solemnly practical, we
shall, in the most distinct manner, lay down and define THE MATTER IN
HAND. With you, my anxious Friend, the greatest and weightiest business
that can concern you is that you find salvation. You have it not at
present, your conscience tells you that–and though you are well aware
that you must obtain it or be forever lost–you have as yet but small
prospect of ever finding it. You have sinned and punishment awaits you
and neither can you escape!

The point above all points with you is that you be saved. And if you
are really awakened you desire to be saved from sin as well as from its
punishment. You would not only escape from the consequences of doing
wrong, but from the propensity to do wrong–from the constant power and
defilement of past sin–and from the tendency to sin again. You desire,
also, to be forgiven and by forgiveness to be set clear from the anger
of a justly offended God. And you desire to be rendered acceptable to
the Most High–and if you are in your right mind you desire that all
this should be done really and truly–not in pretence or fiction, but
in deed and in truth.

God forbid that you should ever be content with the name of being
saved–with an external and professional salvation of outward rites and
ceremonies–while your heart remains unpurified and your nature
uncleansed! In some other departments we may be deceived and not be
very great losers, but in soul matters we must make all things sure.
For if we are deceived there, it is all over with us, indeed. Let me be
cheated with base metal instead of gold if you will, but not with
falsehoods in the place of the saving Truth of God, or deceptive
notions in lieu of gracious operations. Let me be deceived as to the
food I eat and find every morsel of it adulterated, if so it must
be–but not in the eternal life-bread, which my soul craves after. Be
true to my soul, if all else is a lie!

Do you, my Hearer, desire salvation from the power and guilt of sin?
And do you desire it to be thorough and real? Do you not also long for
it now? If God has at all quickened you, you long to be saved at once!
You tremble at the idea of delay. Sin is bitter to you now; it is a
present plague. The matter before us now is present salvation, personal
salvation to be realized for yourself. If there is such a thing as
looking up to the smiling face of a reconciled Father in Heaven, you
desire to enjoy it now! If it is possible for the load of sin to be
rolled from off a mortal's shoulders forever, you desire to be rid of
that burden at this instant! If there is, indeed, a fountain in which,
if a man is washed, every stain shall disappear, you long to plunge
beneath its cleansing flood at once and be made whiter than the driven
snow.

If your soul is so far awakened I bless God, indeed, for there is
nothing beneath the sun–and, indeed, there is nothing above it–that
can rival in importance your soul's salvation. Now the matter which I
must press upon you is this. If you are ever to be saved, God has
declared that salvation must come to you as a gift of His Grace, as an
act of His free favor and can only be received by you through your
believing in His Son. As Christ consoled the man in the temple by
saying to him, "Do you believe on the Son of God?" so today there is no
consolation, much less salvation for you except through believing in
God's own Son.

A hundred times have you heard the story of God's only begotten Son who
is the lover of men's souls. But we must tell it to you yet again. God
will not save men on the ground of their merits. Indeed, if they have
any merits they do not require saving. If God owes you anything,
produce the account and you shall have it! If there are obligations on
God's part towards you, say what they are and if they can be proved to
exist God will never give you less than you can justly claim. Alas, my
Friend, if you are lodged where you deserve to be, where will it be but
in the pit of Hell? It were well for you, then, to have done with all
claims and demands! God will only save you as a guilty person who
deserves to be destroyed, but whom He saves because He chooses to save
you–because He resolves to manifest in you the abundance of His mercy.

"By Grace are you saved," is the immutable purpose of Heaven! And it is
further decreed that this Grace shall be received by men through the
channel offaith, and by that channel only! God will save only those who
trust in His Son. Jesus Christ the Lord came into this world and took
upon Himself our Nature, as we taught you last Sunday, [THE HEXAPLA OF
MYSTERY, Sermon #1087] and being found in fashion as a Man, He took the
transgressor's place. The sins of His people were numbered upon Him,
imputed to Him, charged to His account and He suffered for them as if
they had been His own sins. He was scourged, tormented, crucified and
slain–the stripes He bore were the chastisements due to human sin–and
the death He endured was the death threatened to transgressors.

And now, whoever will trust in Jesus shall participate in the result of
all the Redeemer's substitutionary agonies and the case shall stand
thus–the sufferings of Christ shall be instead of the Believers'
suffering and the merits of Christ shall be instead of the obedience
which man ought to have rendered. Faith in Jesus makes us righteous
through the righteousness of another–it causes us to be accepted in
the Beloved, perfect in Christ Jesus! As by the first Adam we fell, so
by the second Adam we rise again.

Now the way to partake in the benefits of the death of the Lord Jesus
is simply by believing in Him. Here let it be understood that believing
in Jesus is not a mysterious and complex action. It does not require a
week to explain what faith is. Faith believes what God has revealed
concerning Christ and it therefore trusts in Christ as the
Divinely-appointed Savior. I believe that Jesus was God's Son. I
believe that God sent Him into the world to save sinners. I believe
that to do so He became a Substitute to justice for all those who trust
Him and, as I trust Him, I know that He was my Substitute and that I am
clear before God.

Since Jesus died for me, God's justice cannot put me to eternal death
for whom Jesus, my Substitute has died. God's Truth cannot demand a
second time the debt which has already been fully paid on my behalf.
The rationale of the whole thing is as plain as possible and whoever in
this world, old or young, Jew or Gentile, literate or illiterate, rich
or poor, debauched or moral will trust in Jesus shall be saved–he is
saved the moment he does so! But whoever of women born refuses to trust
in Jesus–he is condemned already because he has not believed on the
Son of God. Let a man's character be what it may, if in that character
there is no faith, he is a lost soul! But on the other hand, let that
character have been what it may, if now he comes to the Cross and
believes in Jesus, he begins from that moment a new life–God will give
to him all the Graces and excellencies of character which will adorn
his faith and his faith shall save him!

Trusting in Jesus, believing in Jesus–that is the matter. I need to
bring my hammer down upon this anvil at every stroke. And if the Lord
will be pleased to place before me some heart that He has melted in the
furnace of conviction, the strokes will count if the Eternal God will
lay to His almighty arm and strike with Divine energy. If any soul is
but brought to faith in Jesus, the work is done! To believe in the Son
of God is the point, and nothing else.

II. This being the matter in hand, we will make an advance, in the
second place, to notice that there is A QUESTION IN OUR TEXT WHICH
INVOLVES THE WHOLE BASIS OF FAITH. The man said to Jesus, "Who is He,
Lord, that I might believe on Him?" This man all through the narrative
proves himself to be a very shrewd fellow. I do not know that holy
Scripture gives us an instance of a more commonsense man than this man
whose eyes were opened. And so, when he is told that he must believe in
the Son of God, he comes to the point at once and says, "Who is He,
Lord, that I might believe on Him?" as if that was all he wanted to
know–"Who is He?"–and then the faith would surely come.

When a soul is seeking faith, this question is the main point. The
hinge of the whole matter lies there. This man did not say, "Lord, who
am I that I should believe?"–not at all. That would have been wide of
the point. If I read a story in the newspapers about the truthfulness
of which there is a question, I do not begin asking what my own
character is, as though that had anything to do with it! But I ask who
the authority for the story may be. I do not look within, but I

look to the person claiming belief. The story is true or not, whatever
I may be. My character does not concern the truth or falsehood of the
statement. I must enquire into the statement itself. So this man did
not make any remarks about what he might have been or might still be,
but he hung the issue on this nail–"Who is He, Lord, that I might
believe on Him?"

So now, dear Hearer, all the arguments for your faith lie within the
compass of that question, "Who is He, Lord, that I should believe on
Him?" You need not say, "Who am I that I should believe? I have lived a
life that has been defiled with sin. I have gone from one transgression
to another. I have resisted conscience. I have stood out against the
Gospel. I have defiled myself by sins against light and knowledge." It
matters not. There you stand with all your defilement taken for granted
and God says to you, "Whoever believes on the Lord Jesus Christ has
everlasting life." That is the saving matter–that, and nothing more
nor less!

Will you believe in the Lord Jesus or not? What you are is nothing to
the point. If God's witness is true, it is true whether you are black
or white, whether you are a big sinner or a little sinner! And if it is
false it will not be any the truer whether you are good or bad, worthy
or unworthy! If Jesus is able to save He ought to be trusted. And if He
is not able, none ought to rely upon Him–the whole question turns on
that. Neither raise any quibbles as to your present condition. You say,
"But I at this moment feel myself so hard of heart! I cannot weep as
some can. Repentance is hid from my eyes. Prayer is heavy, groaning
work with me. Even while I am listening to the Gospel this morning my
attention is not riveted as it ought to be upon the Truth of God which
I know to be vital! I am destitute of every good point. I am empty of
everything that can recommend me to mercy."

I answer, so what? Suppose I tell a man that the sum of 10,000 pounds
has been left him in a will–is it anything to the point if he shows me
his raps, his empty cupboard and his wretched bed? Does his poverty
make me a liar? Why does the man introduce such extraneous matter into
the good news? Either it is true or it is not! His condition has
nothing to do with the truth or falsehood of my declaration. If the man
were wrapped in scarlet and fine linen, that would not make my
statement any truer. And if the dogs lick him as they did Lazarus, that
does not give him a right to deny my truthfulness when I tell him a
fact.

So, O Sinner, your condition has nothing to do with the question
whether Jesus is to be trusted or not. "God so loved the world that He
grave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life." Will you believe in Him? Will you
trust the Lord Jesus? If you desire to trust Him the subject for
enquiry is, "Is He worth trusting?" But it is a question far away from
the point to say, "I am this," or, "I am that." Is not this so? I
appeal to your own common sense! "But still, as to the future," says
one. "I might go back to my old sins. I cannot trust myself–I have
made some reformations before and they have been but poor ventures–my
ship has gone out to sea and foundered in the first gale. I cannot
expect with such temptations as will await me, that I shall bear up and
enter Heaven."

Now, what has the question of believing in Jesus to do with your good
resolutions or your miserable failures? Whoever trusts Christ shall be
saved. If you are lost trusting Him in the future, God's Word will not
be true. The question is, Can you trust Christ? And that turns on that
other, "Is He worthy to be trusted?" No other question can be admitted
for a single moment. The case is something like that of a man in yonder
sea. His ship is wrecked–she is breaking to pieces–her decks have
been swept. He barely retains his hold on a floating spar. Look! The
lifeboat comes up close to his side and is ready to take him on board.

Now, if there is a question in that man's mind about getting into that
lifeboat in order to be saved, the only rational one that I can
conceive is, "Will the boat carry me to shore? Is she seaworthy? Will
she outlive the breakers? Can she reach the land safely?" You cannot
conceive the poor fellow's saying, "I quiver too much with chills to be
rescued by that boat," or, "The sea has washed the last rag from off my
back, the boat will not suit me," or, "Another time I may be wrecked on
the coast of Africa and there may be a lifeboat." No, no! Man alive,
there is the boat! Is she seaworthy? That is the question! If so, get
into her! If Christ is not worth trusting, do not trust Him but if He
is worthy of all confidence, then have done with idle questions and
cast yourself upon Him.

"If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for
this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son. He that
believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself: he that believes
not God has made Him a liar

because he believes not the record that God gave of His Son. And this
is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is
in His Son. He that has the Son has life and he that has not the Son of
God has not life" (1 John 5:9-12).

Still, we will keep to this point–Jesus is worth trusting, worthy of
the sinner's unwavering faith. He is worth trusting, O Sinner, because
first of all He on whom you are bid to rely this day by the command of
the Gospel is God Himself! You have offended God and it is God who came
into the world to save sinners. Against Christ your sins were launched
as arrows from a bow, but He against whom those bolts were shot has
come in the fullness of His power and the infinity of His mercy to save
them that believe. Can you not trust yourself in almighty
hands–almighty to save? Is anything impossible with God?

An angel could not save you, but surely God Himself can! How can you
limit the Holy one of Israel? How can you set bounds to boundless love,
or limits to limitless Grace? If Jesus were man and not God, unbelief
would have good excuse! But if the Savior is Divine, where can distrust
find a cloak for itself? I feel this morning as if I could not help
believing in Christ now that I know Him to be Divine. Faith has grown
to be a necessary act of my mind. Save me? Who shall persuade me that
He cannot? Come forth, you devils with your arguments, and plead with
me, and you cannot inject a doubt into my soul while I know Him to be
God! He can shake the heavens when He pleases and make the earth to
tremble! He bears up the universe upon His shoulders–cannot He save my
poor soul? Yes, that He can. "Who is He that I might believe on Him?"
He is Divine and therefore I believe.

But next, the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom the sinner is bid to trust, is
commissioned by God to save. He came into the world as a Savior, not
alone on His own account, but as Messiah sent of God. He has the full
concurrence of the sacred Trinity. It is the will of the Father; it is
the will of the Holy Spirit as well as the will of the Son that whoever
believes in Jesus will be saved. He was anointed of the Lord for His
peculiar work. Now, I feel as if this were a special ground for trust
in Him. If Christ were an amateur Savior who had taken up the trade of
saving on His own account, there might be a question. But if God has
divinely commissioned Him to save, O Soul, why can you doubt any more?
Warranted of God, authorized of the Eternal–O Heart, rest in Him!

Then, mark, the Lord Jesus Christ has actually done all that is
necessary for Him to do for the salvation of all who trust Him. Years
ago, before Jesus Christ came into the world, if I had been sent to
preach the Gospel, I must have cried "Jesus will take upon Him the sins
of Believers and lay down His life for His Church!" But now I have a
more encouraging message–Jesus has carried His people's sins away
forever! He has suffered on their behalf all that was required to make
an end of their transgressions. Whatever was demanded by the justice of
God as a recompense for the injured honor of the Law He has rendered!
The equivalent for all the sufferings of all the elect in Hell forever,
Christ has suffered to the utmost–everything that was necessary that
God might be just and yet the Justifier of him that believes, Christ
has endured! The cup of vengeance is not full and to be drained–it is
empty and turned bottom upwards–Jesus has drank it dry!

The labors necessary for our redemption, superlatively greater than the
labors of Hercules, have all been accomplished! Christ has gone into
the grave, has gone out of the grave and gone up to His Glory. He has
entered Heaven because His work is done–and now He sits down at the
right hand of the Father in the posture of rest and honor because He
has perfected forever all those who put their trust in Him! Now, Soul,
how can you refuse to believe in Jesus? To me the argument seems
impossible to be resisted. If it is so, that Christ has died, the Just
for the unjust and that all who trust Him shall be saved, I will also
trust Him and I shall find peace through His blood.

Moreover, Soul, the point, we trust God's Grace is bringing you to is
this–Jesus deserves to be trusted and trust Him we will. He is full of
power to save for He is now upon the Throne of God and all power is
given Him in Heaven and in earth. He is full of power to save, we know,
because He is saving souls every day. Some of us are the living
witnesses that He can forgive sin, for we are pardoned, accepted and
renewed in heart! And the only way in which we obtained those gifts was
this–we trusted Him–we did nothing else but trust Him!

If any soul here that believes in Jesus should perish, I must perish
with him. I sail in that boat and if it sinks I have no other to flee
to. I avow before you all that I have no other confidence. I have not
so much as the shred of a reliance in any sacrament I have undergone or
enjoyed, in any sermon I have ever preached, in any prayer I have ever
prayed, in any communion with God I have ever known. My hope dies in
the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ! And I shake off into the
fire as though it were a viper, as a deadly thing only fit to be
burned, all pretence of relying on anything I may

be, or can be, or ever shall be, or do. "None but Jesus"–this is the
settled pillar upon which we must build! It will bear us up, but
nothing else can.

Now, since by the authority of Infallible Scripture we know that Jesus
has this power, why is it that souls seeking rest do not obey the
command and rest themselves freely upon Him? This is the climax of
human depravity–that it rejects the witness of God, Himself, and
chooses to perish in unbelief! Moreover, remember, also, that Jesus
Christ this morning is by no means unwilling to save sinners, but on
the contrary He delights to do it! You have never to drag mercy out of
Christ as money from a miser–it flows freely from Him like the stream
from the fountain, or the sunlight from the sun. If He can be happier,
He is made happier by giving His mercy to the undeserving. When a poor
wretch who only deserves Hell comes to Him and He says, "I have blotted
out your sins," it is joy to Christ's heart to do it.

When a poor blasphemer bows his knee and says, "Lord, be merciful to me
a sinner," it makes Christ's heart glad to say, "Your blasphemies are
forgiven. I suffered for them on the Cross." When a poor little child,
by her bedside, cries, "Gentle Jesus, teach a little child to pray and
forgive the sins which I have done," the Savior loves to say, "Suffer
these little children to come to Me, for this, also, is a part of My
recompense for the wounds I endured in My hands, My feet and My side."
When any of you come to Him and confess your transgressions and trust
yourselves in His hands, it will be a new Heaven to Him–it will put
new stars into His ever bright and lustrous crown! It will make Him see
of the travail of His soul and give Him satisfaction!

Have we not here, also, arguments to prove that Jesus is worthy to be
trusted?

III. This leads us in the third place to say by all these answers to
the question–"Who is He?" EVERY SINNER IN

THIS TABERNACLE IS SHUT UP THIS MORNING TO THE ALTERNATIVE OF FAITH OR
UNBELIEF. You are

shut up either to trust in Christ, in whom God commands you to trust,
or to refuse to trust Him. I am not sent to preach to some of you this
morning, but to everyone who has ears to hear. I have never learned to
preach a restricted Gospel to a part of a congregation–the commission
received by every true minister of Christ is, "Go you into all the
world and preach the Gospel to every creature: he that believes and is
baptized shall be saved; he that believes not shall be damned."

As you are all creatures, the Gospel is hereby preached to all of
you–sensible or insensible, spiritually dead or spiritually alive, so
long as you are able to hear the Gospel, one message comes to you all
out of the excellent glory– "Whoever will, let him come and take of
the water of life freely." "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you
shall be saved." But I know what will be your course of action unless
the Spirit of God prevents it. Many of you will try to decline the
alternative between believing and not believing which I have put so
nakedly before you. You will not like to say, "I will not trust
Christ," and yet you will not trust in Him!

What, then, will you do? Why, you will ring the changes on the old
bells, "But I am such a sinner. I am so unworthy!" I have already shown
that the plea is not relevant and ought not to be thrust into the
business. The question is one and indivisible–"Will you believe on the
Son of God?" Why, then, do you raise another question about yourself
which has nothing to do with it? Yet I will take you on your own
grounds and answer you. Granted that you are a special and abominable
sinner–then of all men in the world you are the man who should trust
Christ, because it is written, "This is a faithful saying and worthy of
all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save
sinners."

You have been a drunk, a fornicator, an adulterer, a thief–in fact–a
devil of a man. Well, then, you have been a sinner–that is all it
comes to and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
Therefore, instead of being shut out by your character, you are shut in
by it. You are the sort of man that Christ came to save! You cannot run
away and say, "He did not come to save me because I am not a sinner."
You dare not do that! Very likely you will turn round upon me and say,
"My reason for unbelief is that I do not feel as I should."

I again say the plea ought never to be urged. Because I feel a pain in
my foot this morning, is that a reason why I should not trust in an
honest man or believe a statement which comes to me upon good
authority? I will, however, urge objections on behalf of the slaves. No
black man came forward to say that the Blacks were unworthy and
undeserving– neither did the slaves propose that a part of the money
should be paid by themselves. O no, it is not in human nature to
request others to encumber their free gifts in that fashion!

Yet here we are so false to all that is reasonable that we need to
encumber Sovereign Grace! When God says, "I will blot out your
transgressions now and save you once and for all–only trust My dear
Son"–it is strange, 'tis passing strange, 'tis madness at its
consummation that men should invent objections and plead for a Gospel
with conditions and

hard terms! Now, what will men do if driven out of this? I have often
seen the sinner in the next place turn to downright falsehood and say,
"It is too late," though he knows right well it never can be too late,
for the Gospel says, "He that believes and is baptized shall be saved."

It does not say, if he believes when he is 25 years of age, or 35, or
55, or 105, but it stands the same for all ages! It is never too late
to believe a Truth of God and that is the point–"Will you believe on
the Son of God?" Then the sinner will say that he feels within himself
that there is no hope and so, because he happens to believe a lie, he
will make out that God's Truth also is a lie and refuse to believe that
which God solemnly declares, namely, that there is salvation in Jesus
Christ! But I cannot stay to mention all these falsehoods, nor, indeed,
to run into all the subterfuges of men who seek to escape from their
own mercies.

I saw in Pompeii, on a shop door, the motto, "Eme et Habe bis"–"Buy
and you shall have"–and I could not but think that if I were walking
the streets of the New Jerusalem, I should have seen a very different
device, "Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." Now
if there could be a shop opened in London in which all the goods were
to be had without money and without price, would you quarrel with the
shopkeeper and petition for an Act of Parliament to shut his shop up
and say it was wicked because you would rather go on the old terms and
pay for all you have? Of course not!

Yet why is it you stand out against free Grace's golden motto, "Trust
in Christ and you shall have." Here is instantaneous pardon, perfect
pardon, everlasting pardon, sonship through Christ, safety on earth,
glory in Heaven and all for nothing, all for nothing–the free gift of
a gracious God to undeserving sinners who trust in Jesus! Never angel
had a more gracious, more God-like message of mercy than I have! How I
wish I could glow with a seraph's zeal and cry with a cherub's voice
while proclaiming it! Would God that men would leave their foolish
reasonings and believe in Jesus Christ!

IV. Lastly, on this alternative, this day may hang EVERLASTING THINGS
TO MANY OF YOU. I remember well, for the anniversary of the season has
almost come round, when I was placed in a similar condition to many now
present, when I knew myself to be ruined and undone and heard, for the
first time truly to understand it, that word, "Look unto Me, and be you
saved, all you ends of the earth."

I know how it stood that morning. I was like Naaman by the Jordan's
brink. There flowed the flood. The old nature said, "Are not Abana and
Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May
I not wash in them and be clean?" Human nature said, "I need to feel
something: I need to have John Bunyan's experience. I need to have my
mother's experience. I need to feel a broken heart. I need to groan
more bitterly. I need to be kept awake so many more nights and all that
sort of thing."

Suppose I had resisted still? If God's Grace had not come in and made
all that wicked pride of mine give way, I might have been at this hour
I know not where, if still living among men. I might have been in Hell,
gnawing my tongue to think I should ever have heard a plain Gospel
sermon and should have put far from me the Gospel when it was
proclaimed–and all because I would not believe what is indisputably
true–and would not trust in Him whom no one ever trusted in vain.

This morning I know there are some here in my past condition, in whom
the good Spirit will say, "Wash and be clean," and the soul will sigh,
"It seems too good to be true." But the good Spirit will reply, "Are
not My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts?"
Unbelief will say, "Your sins are many." But the good Spirit will
answer, "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Then
the heart will suggest, "But I have rebelled against You, O God, so
long." And the sweet Spirit of God will whisper, "I have blotted out
your sins like a cloud, and like a thick cloud your iniquities: Return
unto Me, for I am married unto you, says the Lord."

And I do trust that now, at this very moment, many a heart will say, "I
will, then, simply rest my soul's salvation upon Christ the Son of God
who is the only Savior of the lost–I will never from this day on hope
to be a self-saved man, nor look to anything but to Him who on the
bloody tree endured the wrath of God on the behalf of as many as
believe on Him." Soul, if you do so trust Jesus, as surely as you live
you are saved! Go in peace. Not only do I speak these words this
morning from these poor lips of clay, but He who was nailed on the
tree, whom all Heaven adores, speaks this morning

through me–and He says to one, "Daughter, be of good cheer, your sins
are forgiven you." And to another, my Master says, "Son, your sins are
forgiven you: take up your bed and walk."

O forgiven ones, I charge you do it! And as you got out of this house
this morning, saved, and full of joy, tell others about it! Never leave
off telling about it and live to love Him who has saved you! I saw the
other day a picture by Rubens, in which he has painted Mary Magdalene
kissing the feet of Christ while still they are gushing with founts of
blood on the Cross. It was a strange picture, but I felt if I had been
there I would have kissed them, too, though they had been crimson with
His gore.

O blessed feet! O blessed Savior! O blessed Father who gave His Son to
be so blessed a Savior! O blessed Spirit of the blessed God that led
our wicked, proud hearts into obedience and trust in Jesus! Yes,
blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has begotten
us unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead. The Lord bless you. Amen.
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Indexes
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Index of Scripture References

Genesis

[1]17:1 [2]17:2

Leviticus

[3]4:27-31

Joshua

[4]3:4

1 Kings

[5]18:40

Psalms

[6]22:27 [7]72:12 [8]103:1 [9]115:15 [10]116:15 [11]119:37
[12]141:5

Song of Solomon

[13]3 [14]3:4-5

Isaiah

[15]1:3 [16]48:9-11 [17]51:1 [18]53:2 [19]53:5 [20]66:1
[21]66:2

Jeremiah

[22]15:16 [23]28:13 [24]49:8

Ezekiel

[25]36:26 [26]36:27

Hosea

[27]13:14

Micah

[28]4:1-3

Habakkuk

[29]2:14

Matthew

[30]5:47 [31]21:5 [32]28:6

Mark

[33]9:24

Luke

[34]3:16 [35]4:39

John

[36]1:11 [37]1:36 [38]4:39-42 [39]5:28 [40]9:32 [41]9:35
[42]9:36 [43]10:14-15 [44]10:28 [45]11:39 [46]11:44
[47]14:15 [48]14:15-16 [49]14:16 [50]16:10 [51]18:37

Acts

[52]26:8 [53]27:20

Romans

[54]3 [55]5:11 [56]7:22 [57]7:23 [58]8:29 [59]10:17
[60]11:2 [61]11:25 [62]11:26

1 Corinthians

[63]15:39-58

2 Corinthians

[64]5:10 [65]6:16 [66]12:7 [67]12:8 [68]12:9

Galatians

[69]4:23

Ephesians

[70]2:8 [71]3:4-6 [72]5:31 [73]5:32

1 Thessalonians

[74]5:17

1 Timothy

[75]3:16

2 Timothy

[76]1:6 [77]2:19

Hebrews

[78]3:14 [79]10:11-14 [80]11:15-16 [81]11:24 [82]11:25
[83]11:26 [84]11:31 [85]12:3

James

[86]2:25

1 John

[87]5:9-12

Revelation

[88]1 [89]1:17-18 [90]2:3 [91]5:8 [92]7:9-17 [93]7:13-14
[94]19:5 [95]20:5 [96]20:6
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Index of Scripture Commentary

Genesis

[97]17:1-2

Leviticus

[98]4:27-31

Joshua

[99]3:4

1 Kings

[100]18:40

Psalms

[101]22:27 [102]72:12 [103]103:1 [104]115:15 [105]116:15
[106]119:37 [107]141:5

Song of Solomon

[108]3:4-5 [109]7:11-13

Isaiah

[110]1:3 [111]48:9-11 [112]51:1 [113]53:2 [114]53:5
[115]66:1-2

Jeremiah

[116]15:16 [117]28:13 [118]49:8

Ezekiel

[119]36:26-27

Matthew

[120]5:47 [121]21:5 [122]28:6

Mark

[123]9:24

Luke

[124]3:16 [125]4:39

John

[126]1:11 [127]1:36 [128]4:39-42 [129]9:32 [130]9:35-36
[131]10:28 [132]11:39 [133]14:16 [134]18:37

Acts

[135]26:8 [136]27:20

Romans

[137]5:11 [138]7:22-23 [139]8:29 [140]10:17

2 Corinthians

[141]5:10 [142]12:7-9

Ephesians

[143]2:8

1 Thessalonians

[144]5:17

1 Timothy

[145]3:16

2 Timothy

[146]1:6

Hebrews

[147]3:14 [148]10:11-14 [149]11:15-16 [150]11:24-26
[151]11:31 [152]12:3

Revelation

[153]1:17-18 [154]2:3 [155]5:8 [156]7:13-14
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