17 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
Our Lord’s humanity a sweet source of comfort
‘Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me.’ Daniel 10:18
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 9:15–28
Do you feel yourselves guilty before God? Do you wish for mercy? Come, then, and come directly, for Jesus Christ, a man like yourselves, invites you. Remember, you cannot go to God without a mediator, but you may go to Christ without one: you may go just as you are. You need no introduction to Jesus. I know that you can go and tell another man like yourself your sin, for some are so foolish as to do so. They confess their sins to the priests, like Judas did, but you know Judas then went and hanged himself, which was a very likely thing to do after such a confession. But if you will go and tell your sins to Jesus, who is a man and something more than a man, he will hear your story, and it will not pollute his ear. He will listen to it and do more; he will absolve you effectually.
Have you not felt, now that you have grown up, that you wished you were boys again, so that you could go at night and tell mother all that you had done wrong during the day, so that mother might kiss you and you would go to bed feeling that everything was right again? Well, there is no mortal to whom you can go for such forgiveness now, but the Lord Jesus Christ will be to you all that your mother was to you when you were a child. Go and tell him all about it, and ask him to wash you in his blood and cover you with his righteousness, and he will forgive you as freely as your own kind mother would have done.
Jesus Christ will feel for you, for he knows all your temptations and weaknesses. If there is any sort of excuse to be made for you, he will make it: he did that for his murderers when he said, ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’ For that which cannot be mitigated at all he has something a great deal better than an excuse, namely his own atoning sacrifice.
FOR MEDITATION: By virtue of his atoning sacrifice upon the cross the Lord Jesus Christ is fully equipped and qualified to act as our intercessor (Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25–27), mediator (1 Timothy 2:5–6; Hebrews 9:14–15; 12:24) and advocate with the Father (1 John 1:7–2:1). He does not require the assistance of human priestly ‘confessors’.
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 332.
Our Lord’s humanity a sweet source of comfort
‘Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me.’ Daniel 10:18
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 9:15–28
Do you feel yourselves guilty before God? Do you wish for mercy? Come, then, and come directly, for Jesus Christ, a man like yourselves, invites you. Remember, you cannot go to God without a mediator, but you may go to Christ without one: you may go just as you are. You need no introduction to Jesus. I know that you can go and tell another man like yourself your sin, for some are so foolish as to do so. They confess their sins to the priests, like Judas did, but you know Judas then went and hanged himself, which was a very likely thing to do after such a confession. But if you will go and tell your sins to Jesus, who is a man and something more than a man, he will hear your story, and it will not pollute his ear. He will listen to it and do more; he will absolve you effectually.
Have you not felt, now that you have grown up, that you wished you were boys again, so that you could go at night and tell mother all that you had done wrong during the day, so that mother might kiss you and you would go to bed feeling that everything was right again? Well, there is no mortal to whom you can go for such forgiveness now, but the Lord Jesus Christ will be to you all that your mother was to you when you were a child. Go and tell him all about it, and ask him to wash you in his blood and cover you with his righteousness, and he will forgive you as freely as your own kind mother would have done.
Jesus Christ will feel for you, for he knows all your temptations and weaknesses. If there is any sort of excuse to be made for you, he will make it: he did that for his murderers when he said, ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’ For that which cannot be mitigated at all he has something a great deal better than an excuse, namely his own atoning sacrifice.
FOR MEDITATION: By virtue of his atoning sacrifice upon the cross the Lord Jesus Christ is fully equipped and qualified to act as our intercessor (Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25–27), mediator (1 Timothy 2:5–6; Hebrews 9:14–15; 12:24) and advocate with the Father (1 John 1:7–2:1). He does not require the assistance of human priestly ‘confessors’.
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 332.
17 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
Our Lord’s humanity a sweet source of comfort
‘Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me.’ Daniel 10:18
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 9:15–28
Do you feel yourselves guilty before God? Do you wish for mercy? Come, then, and come directly, for Jesus Christ, a man like yourselves, invites you. Remember, you cannot go to God without a mediator, but you may go to Christ without one: you may go just as you are. You need no introduction to Jesus. I know that you can go and tell another man like yourself your sin, for some are so foolish as to do so. They confess their sins to the priests, like Judas did, but you know Judas then went and hanged himself, which was a very likely thing to do after such a confession. But if you will go and tell your sins to Jesus, who is a man and something more than a man, he will hear your story, and it will not pollute his ear. He will listen to it and do more; he will absolve you effectually.
Have you not felt, now that you have grown up, that you wished you were boys again, so that you could go at night and tell mother all that you had done wrong during the day, so that mother might kiss you and you would go to bed feeling that everything was right again? Well, there is no mortal to whom you can go for such forgiveness now, but the Lord Jesus Christ will be to you all that your mother was to you when you were a child. Go and tell him all about it, and ask him to wash you in his blood and cover you with his righteousness, and he will forgive you as freely as your own kind mother would have done.
Jesus Christ will feel for you, for he knows all your temptations and weaknesses. If there is any sort of excuse to be made for you, he will make it: he did that for his murderers when he said, ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’ For that which cannot be mitigated at all he has something a great deal better than an excuse, namely his own atoning sacrifice.
FOR MEDITATION: By virtue of his atoning sacrifice upon the cross the Lord Jesus Christ is fully equipped and qualified to act as our intercessor (Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25–27), mediator (1 Timothy 2:5–6; Hebrews 9:14–15; 12:24) and advocate with the Father (1 John 1:7–2:1). He does not require the assistance of human priestly ‘confessors’.
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 332.
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