Perhaps you know someone—perhaps you are someone—who has wished to be spiritually worse, that they might know when they are savingly better. It is not as rare a case as we might imagine, and Spurgeon shows his sensitivity as a pastor and his versatility as an evangelist in going after people who have a legitimately good reputation among men, but who are conscious of their unworthiness before God. He uses the example of the centurion with strong faith in Christ to assure such that they can and must come to Jesus Christ in order to be delivered from their sins. This is a lovely sermon, beautifully balanced in its sentiments and structure, full of good sense and earnest pleading. There is encouragement for all to trust in God, and not to imagine that our own merits earn anything or that our demerits forfeit mercy and grace—rather they fit us for it. There is particular encouragement for the reputable sinner. God will take all who come to him trusting in Christ.
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Encourage Your Minister (S537)
The Warrant of Faith (S531)
From Death to Life (S523)
The Bridgeless Gulf (S518)
The Power of Prayer and the Pleasure of Praise (S507)
Strong Meat (S506)
The Gladness of the Man of Sorrows (S498)
Gracious Renewal (S490)
Life and Walk of Faith (S483)
Self-Delusion (S475)
What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper? (S469)
Repentance and Faith Inseparable (S460)
Sunshine in the Heart (S454)
An Exhortation and A Salutation (S450)
God’s Will and Man’s Will (S442)
Life in Earnest (S433)
A Psalm for the New Year (S427)
Abram and the Ravenous Birds (S420)
Fellowship With God (S409)
The Joint Heirs and Their Divine Portion (S402)
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