GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 10

We are using Charles Spurgeon book, “The Risen King.”  It’s a collection of well chosen excerpts from Spurgeon’s  “Easter” sermons in devotional form, put together by Jeff Medders.   Pastor Spurgeon lived from 1834 to 1892  in London, England, and had a unique gift of understanding and showing the depth of our faith.  Thus, his reverential title as the Prince of Preachers.   Even though we’re not in or near that season, every day is a good day to focus on Christ’s sacrifice and victory for us!

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TO SEEK AND SAVE THE LOST

Luke 19:10

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

O fellow sinner, is it not pure joy to know that the Son of God has come in the humble title of the Son of Man to save us?  He is no stern son of Zeus or a Roman god with a severe countenance and blood-thirsty commands.  He is Jesus, the “man of sorrows and acquainted with grief”  which Isaiah described in 53:3.  It is as your brother, touched with a feeling of your infirmities, that Jesus comes to you.  He has, moreover, come in a mediatorial capacity, for “there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”   (1Timothy 2:50.   He can put His hand upon you and, at the same time, lay His hand upon the Father.  He who bridges the gulf between the misery of fallen humanity and the eternal dignity of the unsullied God has come to save the lost.

We know that all people are lost in Adam.  As soon as we are born into this world, we are lost.  “Behold” says David, “I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.”  (Psalm 51:5); “In Adam all die” (1 Cor 15:22).  The fall of Adam was the fall of the human race.

My dear friends, you and I were lost in the sense of having broken the law of God, but Jesus came and took our sin upon Himself and bore the wrath of God as our assurance and our substitute so that God can now be the just and yet the justifier of all who believe in Jesus (Romans 3:26).  Christ literally took upon Himself the transgression and iniquity of His people and was made a curse for us, seeing that we had fallen under the wrath of God.  Christ seeks and saves the lost from sin and all its consequences by His most precious death and resurrection.

First, we see that Christ saved us from the power of Satan.  The seed of the woman has bruised the serpent’s head, so that Satan’s power is broke  (Genesis 3:15).   Next, He also saves us from the guilt of past sin.  In one moment, as soon as the blood of Christ is applied to the conscience, every past sin is gone, and in God’s sight, it is as if we had never sinned.  The next thing He does is kill the power of sin within and makes us believers new creatures.  Do not forget this precious truth of the gospel – Christ saves us from future falling!  He saves, not only for a year or for ten years, and then lets people go —no, He finally and completely saves that which was lost. 

We do not preach that Christ forgives sinners and then lets them live as before.  No, the moment He gives pardon of sin, He gives a new nature too.  The “gospel hospital” is not merely a place where lepers are harbored, but where lepers are healed.

I shall never forget how He found me – how He first gained my ear and then my desires, so that I wished to have Him for my Lord, and then He taught me to trust Him.  When I had trusted Him and found that I was saved, then I loved Him –and I love Him still.

I hope that among those who read these pages, there will be many whom the Lord Jesus has specially redeemed with His most precious blood, and I trust that He will appear at once to them and say to each one of them, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness  have I drawn you.”  Jeremiah 31:3

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Romans 3:23-25

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,  being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,  whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace,

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Galatians 6:15

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

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