A Grateful Summary of Twenty Volumes

A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1874,

BY C. H. SPURGEON,

AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON.

"Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this Grace
given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
of Christ." Ephesians 3:8.

THIS is a very remarkable day for me, for if I am spared to preach this
present sermon, I shall have completed 20 years of printed discourses
issued week by week. This will be the last sermon of my 20th volume,
making 1,209 in all. This is by no means a common occurrence. Indeed, I
have not heard of another case in which for so long a time published
discourses have been welcomed by the Christian Church and scattered
broadcast over the land. Having obtained help of God, I continue unto
this day testifying the Gospel of Christ Jesus. For this I magnify the
name of the Lord and ask my dear friends associated with me to assist
me in the expression of my thankfulness to Almighty God for such
special lovingkindness.

I could not find, even in the rich volume of Inspiration, any language
more expressive of the deep emotions of my soul than the verse which is
now before us, "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is
this Grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the
unspeakable riches of Christ." How long or how short the time allotted
to my future ministry may be, I do not wish to know. Whether I shall
complete another 20 years or become silent in a few months, for these
20 years of blessed assistance in the ministration of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ I must, and will, adore the name of the Lord, even if
never again He should permit me to open my lips in His service. It is
enough of mercy for one man to have enjoyed, even if there were no more
to follow. Bless the Lord, O my Soul!

While we shall consider the verse as Paul's own expression, we shall
retain our own hold upon it, and use it very much as a summary of our
own emotions. Note from the text that Paul thought very little of
himself. "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints," he says,
"is this Grace given." I am sure Paul was never guilty of mock modesty
and never pretended to be more humble than he really was. At suitable
times he could vindicate himself and claim his position among his
fellow men. If any denied his Apostleship, he proved it by abundant
arguments. Yes, he even became, on one occasion, what he calls a "fool
in glorying"–he recounted his abundant labors and his frequent
sufferings–he pointed to his success and protested that he was not a
whit behind the very chief of the Apostles though he was nothing!

Although all this was true and Paul expressed only the bare truth when
he thus defended himself, yet in his heart of hearts he chose to take
the lowest seat in the lowest room. And because there were no
adjectives in correct language which could express his opinion of
himself, he did violence to language and said that he was "less than
the least of all saints." His straining of words is not to be censured,
for language was made for man and not man for language. And when,
within the bounds of grammar, a mighty heart cannot express itself, it
does well to snap the bonds and let its strength have space to exercise
itself.

I do not quarrel with Paul's language, but I do dispute his right to
push me out of my place! Less than the least is a position which I had
hoped to occupy, but he has taken it from me and I would gladly give
him a touch on the shoulder and say, "Friend, go up higher." For as
there are no lower seats and we could not think of sitting above the
great Apostle, he must allow us to allot him a higher place. Was Paul
really less than the least of all saints? Was not this too low an
estimate of himself? Brothers and Sisters, I suppose he meant that he
felt this to be the case when he looked at himself from certain
aspects. He was one of the late converts–many of his comrades were in
Christ before him–and he yielded precedence to the older ones.

He had been, before, a persecutor and injurious and, though God had
forgiven him, he had never forgiven himself. And when he remembered his
share in the sufferings and martyrdom of the saints, he felt that
though now numbered among them, he could only dare to sit in the lowest
place. Besides, any devout man, however eminent he may be in most

respects, will find that there are certain other points in which he
falls short. And the Apostle, instead of looking at the points in which
he excelled, singled out with modest eye those qualities in which he
felt he failed. It is in these respects he put himself down as, "less
than the least of all saints."

This strikes us as being a very different mode of speech from that
which is adopted by certain Brethren. One friend asserts that he has
ceased from known sin for some months. Then another Brother, to go a
little further, asserts that the very being of sin in him has been
destroyed, root and branch–of which I believe, in both cases, not one
single word! If those Brothers had said that they were 16 feet high,
that their eyes were solid diamonds and that their hair was Prussian
blue, I should feel towards them very much as I do now. They simply do
not know themselves and the best article of furniture they could have
in their houses would be a mirror which would let them see their own
reflection! If they had once had such a sight, I guarantee you they
would sing another tune, pitched to a far lower key.

Many who now shine in the highest places of self-estimation will, one
day, be glad enough to sit at the feet of the poorest of the saints,
unless I am greatly mistaken–for everyone that exalts himself shall be
abased. For my part I had sooner hear Paul say that he was less than
the least of all the saints than I would hear the holiest Brother out
of Heaven say that he had been living without sin. I could believe the
one, but I could not believe the other. Paul was as holy as the holiest
now upon earth, but among the humble he was the most humble. The Lord
make us each so.

Our next remark is that Paul thought very much of his Brethren. These
two things usually go together–a low opinion of one's self and a high
estimate of others. He calls himself less than the least–not of all
the Apostles, though even that would have been a lowly judgment–but
less than the least of all saints. And yet there were some very
imperfect saints among his acquaintance. His pastoral observation had
discovered many weak, trembling, half-instructed and even backsliding
Brothers and Sisters. Remember how he differed from Barnabas about John
Mark and how he rebuked Peter to his face because he was to be blamed?

He was not insensible of the defects of the saints, for in some of his
Epistles he gives us a very sad picture of the condition of some of the
members of the Churches. Yes, and of some who were true saints he tells
them that he could only write to them as to carnal, as to babes in
Christ and that when they ought to have been teachers they needed,
themselves, to be taught the very elements of the faith! And yet he
says he was less than the least of them! He must have thought very
highly of the least instructed and most imperfect of the Divine family.
After all, dear Brothers and Sisters, though we hear much fault found
with professing Christians and Church members, and hear it said that
they are no better than men of the world, we dare not be among their
detractors. If we cannot find saints in the Church of God, certainly we
shall find them nowhere else.

They are faulty, no doubt, but still, they are the Lord's elect and the
people on whom His heart is set! They are the excellent of the earth
and if we may but be numbered with them we shall be thankful even if
our name should stand lowest and last on the list! We count the
regenerate and the sanctified to be the true aristocracy, the real
nobility of the world. "O God You are my God, my goodness extends not
to You, but to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent in
whom is all my delight." The Church, notwithstanding her spots, is
fairest among women, and though her garments are sometimes stained,
(would God they were not), yet, for all that, she is all glorious
within–her clothing is of worked gold. She is beautiful in the eyes of
her Lord! He loved her well enough to redeem her with His precious
blood and to make her His bride!

It would be shameful on our part to despise her. She ought to be lovely
in our eyes, yes, and she is, for we love the people of God beyond all
others. My inmost soul can say of the Church of God–

"My soul shall pray for Zion still While life or breath remains. There
my best friends, my kindred dwell There God my Savior reigns."

The next reflection suggested by the text is that Paul thought very
highly of his work. He says, "Unto me, who am less than the least of
all saints, is this Grace given, that I should preach." He looked upon
his ministry as a great gift from God, an honor bestowed, a favor
granted. Yet, my Brethren, Paul's office was not such a very attractive
thing, after all, looking upon it after the manner of men. Paul was not
a Lord Bishop or a Right Reverend. His salary was less than nothing. He
received no homage from men. His greatest gains were his losses. His
honors came from his dishonors and his glory from his sufferings!

Stripes and imprisonments awaited him in every city. Stoning and
shipwreck, perils of robbers and perils of traitors, care and grief
were his portion. He was made an outcast for Christ's sake. His Jewish
brethren even foamed at the mouth at the very thought of the renegade
Pharisee who preached to the Gentiles! He had suffered the loss of all
things for Christ's sake and he says he, "counted them but dung that he
might win Christ and be found in Him." If the vacancy and next
presentation of Paul's office had been put up at Garraway's, our modern
imitators of Simon Magus would have been very slow in the bidding–they
would rather have paid a heavy fee to be excused! Paul, himself, said
of it, "If in this life, only, we have hope, we are of all men most
miserable."

Yet so content was he to preach the Gospel that, notwithstanding all
the hardships and reproaches which went with it, he considered it to be
a special favor granted him of the Lord that he was permitted to
proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ among the Gentiles! The
Apostle even lifts up his hands in grateful astonishment that so great
an honor should be bestowed upon him. He says "Unto me–unto me, who am
less than the least of all saints, is this Grace given, that I–the
persecutor, the man who breathed out threats and slaughter–that I
should preach among the Gentiles." He marvels at it! He cannot
understand it!

The passage reads as if he paused in his writing and burst into a song
of adoring gratitude because the Lord had honored him so exceedingly as
to put him in trust with the Gospel! How deeply do I sympathize with
him in his wonder at electing love! My heart cries, "Why me, Lord, why
me?" Note well that the Apostle had a very clear view of what he had to
do. "That I should preach," he says, "among the Gentiles." Paul does
not claim to be sent to regenerate the Gentiles by sprinkling them, or
to hear their confessions of secret sin, or to pry into their private
lives with filthy questions and to absolve them on the fulfillment of
appointed penances–he has not a word to say about playing the priest!

He does not glory in the Grace which enabled him to display a comely
ritual, or restore a pompous ceremonialism. He boasts not of carrying a
crucifix or a banner in a procession up and down the aisles to delight
the Gentiles. Nor, in a word, does he set himself up as a sort of
demi-god, able to kill and to make alive, to distribute pardons and to
regenerate babes. Paul was quite satisfied to preach the Gospel–that
was as far as his commission went–and whenever God, the Holy Spirit,
sends forth a minister to bless the Church, that is the purpose of his
mission and nothing else–he is to preach among the Gentiles the
unsearchable riches of Christ!

Neither our Lord nor His Apostles command us to set up altars–the
grand command is "preach the Gospel to every creature." O you priests
of the Church of England, take off your tag-rags and stand out like men
and preach the Gospel, if, indeed, you are ministers of God and not
sappers and miners for the pope of Rome! God sends men to preach the
Gospel–He never sends them to intrude into the office of Christ and
set themselves up as priests offering sacrifices for the quick and
dead–when in Him the priesthood is fulfilled! Paul knew what his
vocation was and he kept to it. Find me one instance of his acting the
priest! Wherever he went, he was preaching and teaching–preaching and
teaching, preaching and teaching–that was the one object of his life.

Whether in Damascus or Corinth, Jerusalem or Rome, he must preach! When
he was amid the Areopagites on Mars' Hill, why did he not show them the
beauty of Divine service as performed in the most approved fashion? Why
at Lystra did he not offer a sacrifice to God and wave a censer?–all
the materials were ready! No. He preached everywhere! When detained at
Rome he did not train a choir, or instruct a company of clergy in
ecclesiastical calisthenics, or Church millinery–he taught Jesus to
all around. We read nothing of his genuflexions and intonations–but a
great deal of his preaching the Word in season and out of season!

This, too, is our work. The Church must see to it that this ordinance
is used above every other for the conversion of men. It pleases God, by
the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe! Stand to your
guns, my Brothers–preach the Word of God–make full proof of your
ministry and cease not to teach all men the Truth of God concerning
Jesus. Remark how Paul calls his ministry a "Grace." Every true
preacher of the Gospel will have to thank God that he has been
permitted to preach. I do not know how my soul would have been kept
alive if it had not been for the searching of Scripture, the prayer,
the faith and the joy which preaching has involved!

Though it may be true that professional familiarity with sacred things
is apt to breed a lack of personal enjoyment in men, I do not find it
so. To me it is a great blessing to have to prepare for preaching.
Often the best means of Grace to my own soul are the groans, the
pleading, the meditation and the communion needed for the selection of
the right subject

upon which to feed your souls. Preachers have to grow in Grace, for
their very calling places them at a great advantage, since they are
bound to search the Scriptures and to be much in prayer. It is a choice
mercy to be permitted to preach the Gospel! I wish some of you would be
desirous of it, for earnest preachers are needed. There are several
Brothers here who ought to preach–and I believe they would preach with
great power if they were once driven to the attempt. A modesty which
may be cowardice silences many. A diffidence, which may also be
culpable love of ease, keeps them back from speaking in the name of the
Lord. Brothers, let it be so no longer!

Thus, you see, Paul thought little of himself, much of his Brethren,
and highly of his work. Again, Paul thought very lovingly of his
congregation. He counted it a great Grace that he was permitted to
preach among the Gentiles. Peter had a much more respectable sphere,
for he was the Apostle of the Circumcision and preached to the ancient
aristocratic race of the Hebrews. But Paul was sent to preach to the
Gentile dogs who were despised by the Jews as uncircumcised and
unclean. Our Lord Jesus Christ, Himself, gave the Gentiles a sad
character, for when speaking of worldly things He said, "After all
these things do the Gentiles seek," as if they were utterly gross and
carnal and entirely besotted with groveling pursuits.

Paul, however, rejoiced to preach to these "worldly-minded Gentiles."
He was glad to bring the outcasts to Jesus! They were such an ignorant
crew, these Gentiles, ignorant of the true God and eternal life. Though
there were some of them wise in their own conceits, yet were they sunk
in spiritual ignorance. There were the Greeks, proud of their learned
folly. The Romans, boasting of brute force and despising a merely
spiritual kingdom. The Scythians, barbarous and uncouth. And the
bondsmen, sunk in vice and degradation. But he who was sent to labor
among them preferred them to any other audience! Paul thanked God for
his congregation, ignorant as they were.

Worse than ignorant, they were worshippers of idols–they had many gods
and lords–and they bowed themselves before the personifications of
their own wickedness. Yet Paul was glad to preach to idolaters! The
first chapter of his Epistle to the Romans contains a fearful
indictment against the Gentiles for their horrible vices. They were
sunk in a horrible slough of corruption and yet Paul considered it a
great privilege to preach among these ignorant, debased, vicious
heathen Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ! And a privilege it
was! It is a royal honor to preach to the lowest of the low.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, wherever you and I are called to labor we
ought to be thankful that God has given us that particular place to
labor in. I like to see Christian workers fall in love with their
spheres. For instance, the Brethren who work in Golden Lane and Seven
Dials do well to look upon their districts as the most important in
London. And every city missionary, if he is to succeed, must feel that
his particular part of the city is that which is best for him. I like
to hear Mr. Moffat speak as if there were no people in the world of
more consequence than Bechuanas and Hottentots. I never knew a man to
succeed among a people unless he preferred them to all others as the
objects of his care. When ministers despise their congregations, their
congregations are very likely to despise them–and then usefulness is
out of the question.

When a man thinks himself above his work, the probability is that he is
altogether in the clouds, or stands in the way of some practical worker
of a more commonplace kind who would do the work which he is despising.
Oh you who teach little children, love them or you cannot teach them!
If you preach in the street, feel a sympathy with the people who gather
around you, or you had better give it up. Paul became a Gentile for the
Gentiles' sake. Pharisee as he had been, we see nothing of his
phylacteries or the broad borders of his garment. He always loved his
kinsmen, according to the flesh, and would have gladly died to save
them. Jew as he was and at one time bound by the strongest possible
Jewish prejudices, he had broken them all down and had made the
Gentiles his clients, his flock, his children! It was his daily joy
that he was ordained to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ!

Upon our next remark we will more fully enlarge. It is this–Paul
thought most of all, of his Subject. That he had to preach the
unsearchable riches of Christ was his highest bliss. The glories of
Jesus, whom once he had persecuted, were his one and only theme. All he
had to say was contained within the circumference of that word, Christ,
and all that he aimed at was to glorify his Lord. Neither ceremonies,
nor orthodoxies, nor philosophies, nor sects, nor parties did Paul
labor for–he exalted only in Christ Jesus the Lord! Nor did he feel
that his engrossment by one solitary Subject restricted him in his
thought or speech, for he looked upon his theme as full of riches,
riches altogether unsearchable! He had a deep

insight into the Truth which he had to proclaim and saw within it veins
of precious thought which he could never exhaust–lodes of more than
golden treasure which no research could ever fully explore!

O to be in this fashion enamored of the Gospel, absorbed in it and
wholly carried away by its charms! Let us meditate a few minutes upon
the unsearchable riches of Christ, which it has been our joy to preach,
even as it was Paul's. Notice, first, that the Apostle dwelt much upon
the essential riches of Christ's Person. Beloved, there are
unsearchable riches in Christ, for He is, by Nature, "God over all,
blessed forever." Others may make Him a mere man, but we behold the
unsearchable riches of the Deity in Jesus Christ, "In whom dwells all
the fullness of the Godhead bodily." He is the Creator, without whom
was not anything made that was made!

He is the Preserver of all things and by Him all things consist. What
riches there must be in Him who both makes and sustains the universe by
the Word of His power! In Jesus Christ all the attributes of God are
manifest–the Wisdom, the Power, the Immutability, the Truth, the
Faithfulness, the Justice and Love of God are all to be found in the
Character of Jesus Christ our Lord! Even while He was here on earth and
clothed Himself in mortal flesh, the Godhead shone through the veil!
The winds knew Him and were silent. The waves knew Him and kissed His
feet. The angels ministered to Him and the devils fled before Him.
Diseases were healed, for His touch was Omnipotent. The dead lived, for
His voice was almighty. He was God, even while to mortal eye He was
only the carpenter's son.

Today He has put off His servant's garments and laid aside the towel
which with He wiped His disciples' feet–and all power is given unto
Him in Heaven and on the earth! Let us, then, proclaim His unsearchable
riches. Now is He crowned with universal Sovereignty and the government
is upon His shoulders! His name is called, "Wonderful, Counselor, The
Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Riches beyond
compare belong to Him who, for our sakes, became poor, though He has
riches unsearchable, for He is God, and, "Who, by searching, can find
out God? Who can find out the Almighty unto perfection?" Jesus is "very
God of very God" and as such we adore Him, and glory in the wealth of
His Nature.

Jesus, our Lord, is also Man–Man of the substance of His mother–bone
of our bone. And here we may sing of the wealth of human love which is
treasured up in Him and manifested to His Brethren. His wealth of
sympathy with His people, for He has been tempted in all points like as
they are. His wealth of discernment, for He knows the secrets of our
nature, having worn that nature, Himself. Because of the riches of His
love He is not ashamed to call His redeemed ones Brethren. It is a
wonderful subject, the wealth of pure Manhood which dwelt in Jesus, for
He both thought and spoke and acted as man–with a richness of perfect
Manhood which never dwelt in any other son of man! He was the true
Adam–the sum of humanity's best Glory, made to have dominion over all
the works of Jehovah's hands. Thus, in the two Natures which make up
His mysterious Person, Son of man and Son of God, there was a
measureless wealth–and this Paul preached.

My Brethren, I boldly ask you whether during these 20 years I have not
tried to set forth the unsearchable riches of my Lord and Master in His
blessed Person? I have preached Him to you as no mere abstraction, but
as a real Christ. I have not talked of Him as if He were a myth. I have
spoken of Him always as an actual Person who lived and died, and is
risen and gone into Heaven. I have also preached Him as still among you
in Spirit, Head of the Church and Lord over all. Neither have I
preached to you a Christ stinted in power or Glory. I have endeavored,
according to my ability, to set Him forth as King of kings and Lord of
lords. Your hearts have rejoiced to hear of Him and mine has rejoiced
to speak of One so altogether lovely, so good, so kind, so ready to
forgive, so faithful and mighty! In a word, I have preached the
unsearchable riches of His Person.

Next, we have to preach the riches of our Lord Jesus as the Christ.
That is to say, in His relationship towards us. Now, think a minute or
two. In the old eternity, before ever the earth was, the unsearchable
riches of Christ were displayed when He entered into Covenant with the
Father on our behalf. What matchless love it was which prompted the
Second Person of the Divine Unity to become the Surety of the Covenant
of Grace for His elect! Unsearchable were the riches of Love which
suggested the Covenant and the riches of the Wisdom which planned it.
It was worthy of a God!

Remember, that as time rolled on, His people, as they were one by one
created, were saved simply on the ground of His word and pledge. And if
the bare bond of Christ, before He had shed a drop of His blood, was
able to save myriads of His elect, what riches there must be in His
Atonement, itself! If His promise to redeem was enough for thousands of
years

to save multitudes from death and Hell, what must be the riches of the
finished Righteousness and the accomplished Substitution?

Think of the riches of Christ's Grace from the day of man's Fall until
the day of his redemption. He saw man in his waywardness and knew what
he would be under the best conditions, yet He did not turn aside from
His pledge of love because of the baseness of fallen humanity. He knew
that men would prove ungrateful, yet He resolved to redeem His people.
He had, throughout those ages, an opportunity of estimating what the
pangs of death would be. He knew the cost at which He must seek and
save the lost–but through those thousands of years such were the
riches of His infinite Love that He never started back from the compact
which He had made–but determined to push on till, by His death He had
delivered man from sin and the earth from the curse!

Wealth of mercy! What can transcend this? Down the Lord descends to
Bethlehem's manger and there He lies, a Baby wrapped in swaddling
clothes! Who shall tell the riches of the condescending love which made
the Infinite, Incarnate? Among the sons of men He tarries, going about
doing good! Calculate, if you can, the riches of that generous heart
which detained Him for years among a sinful and gainsaying generation!
The life of Jesus on earth is a mint of Grace! But oh, the unsearchable
Love which led Him to give His hands to the nails and His heart to the
spear! What unspeakable love is centered in the Cross! What riches of
Divine Grace that He should deign to die a malefactor's death for His
enemies!

Can any of us conceive the unsearchable riches of merit which must lie
in the holy life and painful death of our beloved Lord? If the Son of
God, Himself, deigns to die, the Just for the unjust, surely no limit
can be set to the virtue of that death! Neither, indeed, can we
calculate how precious it must be in the Father's sight. O You bleeding
Savior, when You had become poorest of all in Your own Glory, surely
You did also become richest of all for the redemption of the sons of
men! None shall ever know, nor even eternity, itself, fully declare the
infinite value of Your tears and bloody sweat, and agony and death! But
look, He rises again, for the tomb could not contain Him–He rises for
our Justification! In the risen Savior what wealth may be seen, for
while He justifies all His people by His rising, He also secures
eternal life for them and guarantees to their bodies a glorious
resurrection! Think of our Lord as the first fruits of them that sleep
and you will see in His Resurrection a Truth of God which is the
cornerstone of the entire Gospel–and the sure pledge of eternal bliss.

But lo, He spurns the hill of Olivet and mounts into the opened
heavens–a cloud receiving Him from mortal sight! As He ascends, He
scatters gifts among the sons of men. The Holy Spirit is given–He
rests in tongues of fire upon the heads of chosen men. He gave "some
Apostles, some pastors and teachers" for the building up of His Church.
Those gifts He still continues to bestow, for He "received gifts for
men, yes, for the rebellious, also, that the Lord God might dwell among
them." The riches of the ascended Savior–it is not possible for the
mind to calculate! Look again! Behold Him in Heaven! There He sits at
the right hand of the Father to represent His people! Is there not a
wealth of comfort in that representation? He sits on the Throne to rule
for His people–there is another mine of consolation! His Presence is
the guarantee of our being there–is not this full of richness?

He intercedes for all His saints before the Eternal Throne–there is
another treasure house of marvelous instruction and delight! Jesus sits
forever at the right hand of God, because His work is done. He waits
until His enemies become His footstool–is He not to us a treasure of
unsearchable riches? But He is soon to come and who shall tell the
riches which then shall be revealed–when sin shall fly before Him and
this burdened earth shall be eased of the load which has made her
continually groan? When, instead of thorn and thistle, shall come up
the cedar and the rose! When the desert shall rejoice and blossom and
men down-trod and weary, shall lift up their eyes to behold a new
Paradise and enjoy a Glory such as eye has not seen nor ear heard–a
splendor of millennial bliss of which may every one of us be partakers!
All this shall be because He comes!

There are unsearchable riches in Christ, whether living, dying, rising,
dwelling in Heaven, or descending a second time to earth. See what a
subject Paul had to preach! And we have preached it, too. These 20
years our one theme has been Christ Jesus in His relationship to His
people, in His everlasting love, in His once-offered, completely
atoning Sacrifice, in His pleading before the Father's Throne and in
the kingdom which is yet to subdue all things to itself. What a joy it
is to have been privileged to preach all this!

Thirdly and briefly, Paul had preached the unsearchable riches of Jesus
Christ in and to His people. He had told them that Christ had paid
their debts and they were free. How wondrously had he put it–"There is
therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." We
cannot stop to repeat the texts, but Paul had been clear enough upon
the point–that the riches of Christ in pardoning sin were
unsearchable. He had told the saints that Christ had provided all that
could be needed by them between where they were and the gates of
Heaven, for, he said, "you are complete in Him." "All things are yours,
whether things present or things to come."

Paul had delighted to dive into the depth of overflowing Grace. What a
grand swimmer he was in the sea of Joy! He had also told the saints
that they might have whatever they asked for in answer to believing
prayer. How often had he put it before them that He who spared not His
own Son, but freely delivered Him up for them, would also, with Him,
freely give them all things? What riches of Christ are found at the
Mercy Seat! He who knows how to draw near to God by Jesus Christ will
find great stores of wealth there. He had assured them that the Lord,
Himself, was theirs, yes, he said, "all things are yours, and you are
Christ's, and Christ is God's."

He had told them that Heaven was theirs, for they had obtained an
inheritance in Christ and were on their way to Glory, every hour
bringing them nearer. Truly, if you want to know the deep things of
God, you must listen to Paul, for he tells us of the eternity of
Christ's Love, a Love without beginning and without end! He tells us of
the Immutability of that Love, for Jesus Christ is "the same yesterday,
today, and forever." He tells us of the Infinity of that Love, and
delights to declare that it passes knowledge. In fact, he tells us that
God, Himself, is ours, to be our portion forever. Oh, children of God,
if you are limited, you are not limited in the preaching of the
Apostle–you are limited in yourselves! I venture, also, to say that in
my own preaching I have not knowingly held back any of the blessings of
the Covenant of Grace, nor spoken lightly of the blessings which Jesus
gives to His beloved. No, I have delighted to speak upon what the Lord
has given to His saints and have bid Believers enjoy the fat things
full of marrow which He has provided for them. Happy people to have
such a Savior!

But lastly, the point Paul most rejoiced to preach upon was this–the
unsearchable riches of our Lord towards sinners, for he says that he
preached among the Gentiles–the sinners–the unsearchable riches of
Christ. This is the most delightful theme of all–to tell poor sinners
that there is an unspeakably rich Savior! I lament to say that there
are preachers who do not preach this among the Gentiles. They have a
great deal to say to God's own people, but they have nothing to say to
the Gentiles, to the sinners–to the insensible, unquickened
sinners–nothing to say to them. I have known them close a sermon by
saying, "The election has obtained it, the rest are blinded," and sit
down with not a word for those dead in sin.

Brothers and Sisters, we have not so learned Christ! We delight to
preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ and to make
all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery. What have we to say
to Gentile sinners? Why, we have to tell them that our Lord Jesus is so
rich in Divine Grace that He keeps open house all day and all night
long– and, "Come and welcome," is written over His palace gates!
"Whoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freely." We
have to tell you that, though millions of sinners have already come,
the banquet table is as loaded as it ever was! He has as much Grace and
Mercy to distribute as He had 1,800 years ago! He is as able to cleanse
from sin, as able to justify and to sanctify as He was when first He
began His work of mercy! There is no limit to His Grace for those that
come to Him! Whoever comes to Him shall receive eternal salvation!

My Master is so rich that He needs nothing from any of you. You need
not bring a rag with you–He will cover you from head to foot. You need
not bring a moldy crust–He will give you of the Bread of Heaven! You
need not stop to cleanse away a single spot–He will wash you white as
snow. Help from you? Does the sun need help from darkness? Christ needs
no help from sinners! Let them come empty-handed, naked, sick, helpless
and believe that He is able to do for them all that they require.

I am bold to tell you that my Master's riches of Divine Grace are so
unsearchable that He delights to forgive and forget enormous sin! The
bigger the sin the more Glory to His Grace! If you are over head and
ears in debt, He is rich enough to discharge your liabilities. If you
are at the very gates of Hell, He is able to pluck you from the jaws of
destruction. So mighty is His Mercy that no case did ever exceed His
power to save or ever will! I will challenge you to a contest with
regard to my dear Lord and Master, that if you will sit down and think
the best and largest thoughts you can of Him, you will not think Him to
be so good and loving as He really is! If you will try and wish for the
largest

blessings you can conceive, you shall not be able to wish for such
blessings as He is prepared to bestow! And if you will open your mouth
wide and make a request for the greatest favor that ever a human being
asked of God or man, you shall not ask for a tenth of what He is
prepared to give!

Come and try Him! Let it be a wrestling match between your needs and
Christ's abundance–and see which will win the day! I tell you that, as
Aaron's rod swallowed up the rods of the magicians, so my Master's
All-Sufficiency will swallow up all the demands of your dreadful
necessities! Only come and try Him now! All that you need between the
gates of Hell and the gates of Heaven you shall find in Christ–and you
shall have it all for nothing–all just for the asking. Open your hands
and take it, it is all He asks of you–that you believingly receive
what He freely bestows! Trust in Him, in Him as dead and risen, and
ascended, and reigning! Rely upon Him, and by so doing you shall find
that there are unsearchable riches of Grace in Him.

Now, I have done when I have said just this. I have no doubt Paul would
not have been so pleased to preach Christ as he was unless something
had come of it. Now, at the close of 20 years of printed sermons, my
great delight in having preached the unsearchable riches of Christ lies
in this–that something, by the Grace of God, has come of it! How many
souls have been converted is not in my power to tell. I do not think I
ever pass a single day, nor have done so for some years, without having
intimations of some persons at the very ends of the earth, or at home,
having been led to the Savior by the reading of the sermons.

I am not prepared to say how many persons have gone through this Church
to other Churches or to Heaven. The number can hardly be far short of
those which remain, and of these it may suffice to say that 4,700 souls
are with us, still kept by the power of Grace, and knit together in
Church fellowship. Is not this matter of great thankfulness to God?
During these 20 years the dew has never ceased to fall! The Church has
been planted like a tree by rivers of water–she has brought forth her
fruit in her season–and whatever she has attempted has prospered. I
joy, therefore, and will joy in this.

Yet, once more, I think Paul must have felt a special gladness that
through his preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ, others had
been raised up to preach it, too. So has it been with us, by God's
Grace. How many tongues this day are preaching Christ out of our Church
members and students, I cannot assert definitely, but that they are to
be counted by hundreds is certain. Would to God they were 10 times as
many! I wish all the rest of this congregation who love Christ would go
and talk about Him, too. Some among you are very diligent and I bless
God for you. I wish more of you were trying to bring these unsearchable
riches of Christ within the knowledge of the ignorant and sinful.

It is the last Sabbath of the year. Could we not begin, next year, with
a great deal more industry than we have strewn this year? I am afraid
there are many members who have no work to do for Jesus and these are
the sort of people to backslide. You that have neither to do nor to
suffer are the baggage of the army, the impediments which prevent the
host from marching on to victory! Bestir yourselves! Feed upon Jesus
and then take the good cheer to those who do not know the riches of
Christ. And as God gives you Grace, go and fulfill this ministry and
you will then say, as I do, and as the Apostle said of old, "Unto me,
who am less than the least of all saints, is this Grace given, that I
should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ."
The Lord bless you. Amen.

PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON–Ephesians 3. HYMNS FROM "OUR
OWN HYMN BOOK"–1,035, 1,041, 960.
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Indexes
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Index of Scripture References

Genesis

[2]49:10

Exodus

[3]21:5 [4]21:6 [5]29:1

Deuteronomy

[6]2:7 [7]30:9

1 Samuel

[8]20:10

2 Samuel

[9]7:18-22

1 Kings

[10]20:11

2 Kings

[11]5:11

2 Chronicles

[12]14 [13]15 [14]16:9

Nehemiah

[15]4:10

Esther

[16]9:1

Psalms

[17]9:10 [18]40 [19]59:10 [20]78:58 [21]78:59 [22]95
[23]100:3 [24]100:4 [25]100:5 [26]103:9 [27]119:59

Song of Solomon

[28]2:16

Isaiah

[29]8:18 [30]33:14-16 [31]44:3-6 [32]53:11 [33]55:1
[34]55:7 [35]60:20

Jeremiah

[36]7:12-15 [37]24:6 [38]24:7 [39]31:33 [40]31:33-34

Ezekiel

[41]12:27 [42]36:26 [43]36:27

Daniel

[44]6:10

Hosea

[45]2:19

Matthew

[46]4:4 [47]7:21 [48]26:37 [49]26:37 [50]27:29 [51]28:18-20

Luke

[52]7:50 [53]8:48 [54]14:25-35 [55]14:28-30 [56]15:20
[57]15:22 [58]15:23 [59]17:19 [60]18:42 [61]22:44 [62]24:16

John

[63]1:12 [64]1:13 [65]4:14 [66]5 [67]5 [68]5:24 [69]8:29
[70]8:45 [71]10:10 [72]11:28 [73]12:27 [74]14:21 [75]15:7
[76]116

Acts

[77]2:22 [78]2:29 [79]7:59 [80]7:60

Romans

[81]5:1-11 [82]5:6 [83]5:6 [84]6:17

1 Corinthians

[85]1:31 [86]3 [87]6:20 [88]7:23 [89]9:22

2 Corinthians

[90]2:14 [91]3:18 [92]5:17

Galatians

[93]3:24-26 [94]5:24 [95]6:15

Ephesians

[96]1:19 [97]2:1 [98]2:10 [99]3:8 [100]4:24 [101]5:30

Colossians

[102]1:9 [103]1:13 [104]1:16 [105]1:19 [106]1:21 [107]3:9
[108]3:24

1 Timothy

[109]1:15 [110]1:16

Hebrews

[111]3:7 [112]4:1 [113]4:2 [114]4:3 [115]5:9 [116]8:10-12
[117]10:16 [118]13:16 [119]13:20-21

James

[120]2:10

1 Peter

[121]1:3 [122]2:9 [123]3:7

1 John

[124]2:3 [125]3:14 [126]5:1 [127]5:8 [128]5:10

Revelation

[129]3:14-21 [130]21:5 [131]21:8
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Index of Scripture Commentary

Genesis

[132]49:10

Exodus

[133]21:5-6 [134]29:1

Deuteronomy

[135]2:7

1 Samuel

[136]20:10

2 Samuel

[137]7:18-22

1 Kings

[138]20:11

2 Kings

[139]5:11

2 Chronicles

[140]16:9

Nehemiah

[141]4:10

Esther

[142]9:1

Psalms

[143]59:10 [144]100:3-5 [145]103:9 [146]119:59

Song of Solomon

[147]2:16 [148]6:12

Isaiah

[149]8:18 [150]44:3-6 [151]55:1 [152]55:7 [153]60:20

Jeremiah

[154]24:7

Ezekiel

[155]12:27

Daniel

[156]6:10

Matthew

[157]4:4 [158]7:21 [159]27:29 [160]28:18-20

Luke

[161]7:50 [162]14:28-30 [163]15:20 [164]15:22-23 [165]18:42
[166]22:44 [167]24:16

John

[168]4:14 [169]8:29 [170]10:10 [171]11:28

Acts

[172]2:47 [173]7:59-60

Romans

[174]5:6 [175]5:6

1 Corinthians

[176]1:31 [177]7:23 [178]9:22

2 Corinthians

[179]5:17

Galatians

[180]3:24-26

Ephesians

[181]3:8 [182]5:30

Colossians

[183]1:19 [184]3:24

Hebrews

[185]3:7 [186]4:1-2 [187]5:9 [188]13:20-21

1 Peter

[189]3:7

1 John

[190]5:8 [191]5:10

Revelation

[192]3:14-21
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