30 NOVEMBER (1873)
The great jail, and how to get out of it
‘But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.’ Galatians 3:22
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Ephesians 2:1–10
The plan of salvation by grace has this beauty about it, that it gives men high thoughts of God. In the other systems their idea of God is that he is very much like themselves. See the Catholic’s God. He is pleased with candles and delights in incense; he is a God who likes show, garments of blue and scarlet, dolls dressed up and flowers on his altars. I know not what kind of God to call him. However, that is their notion of him. They try to save themselves, and they pull God down to their standard; and every man who is a self-saver, even if he be a Protestant, lowers God in some manner.
He fancies that God will accept something short of perfection. Each man has a different standard. That miserly old gentleman’s standard is that he will build a row of almshouses with his mouldy leavings, and that will content the Most High. Another says, ‘I never open my shop on a Sunday.’ Perhaps he cheats enough on Monday to make up for it, but Sunday’s rest will do for his God. Another, who is living a wicked life in private, believes the doctrines of grace and that will satisfy his God.
But the man who is saved by the grace of God says, ‘My God is infinitely just; nothing will content him but a perfect righteousness; as a moral lawgiver, he would not put away sin till he had laid punishment upon one who stood in the sinner’s stead. He is so loving that he gave his Son; he is so just that he slew his Son on my behalf.’ All the divine attributes will splendour forth before the eyes of the man who is saved by faith, and he is led to reverence and to adore.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.554 v.1—Isaac Watts, 1709)
‘No more, my God, I boast no more
Of all the duties I have done;
I quit the hopes I held before,
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 345.
The great jail, and how to get out of it
‘But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.’ Galatians 3:22
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Ephesians 2:1–10
The plan of salvation by grace has this beauty about it, that it gives men high thoughts of God. In the other systems their idea of God is that he is very much like themselves. See the Catholic’s God. He is pleased with candles and delights in incense; he is a God who likes show, garments of blue and scarlet, dolls dressed up and flowers on his altars. I know not what kind of God to call him. However, that is their notion of him. They try to save themselves, and they pull God down to their standard; and every man who is a self-saver, even if he be a Protestant, lowers God in some manner.
He fancies that God will accept something short of perfection. Each man has a different standard. That miserly old gentleman’s standard is that he will build a row of almshouses with his mouldy leavings, and that will content the Most High. Another says, ‘I never open my shop on a Sunday.’ Perhaps he cheats enough on Monday to make up for it, but Sunday’s rest will do for his God. Another, who is living a wicked life in private, believes the doctrines of grace and that will satisfy his God.
But the man who is saved by the grace of God says, ‘My God is infinitely just; nothing will content him but a perfect righteousness; as a moral lawgiver, he would not put away sin till he had laid punishment upon one who stood in the sinner’s stead. He is so loving that he gave his Son; he is so just that he slew his Son on my behalf.’ All the divine attributes will splendour forth before the eyes of the man who is saved by faith, and he is led to reverence and to adore.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.554 v.1—Isaac Watts, 1709)
‘No more, my God, I boast no more
Of all the duties I have done;
I quit the hopes I held before,
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 345.
30 NOVEMBER (1873)
The great jail, and how to get out of it
‘But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.’ Galatians 3:22
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Ephesians 2:1–10
The plan of salvation by grace has this beauty about it, that it gives men high thoughts of God. In the other systems their idea of God is that he is very much like themselves. See the Catholic’s God. He is pleased with candles and delights in incense; he is a God who likes show, garments of blue and scarlet, dolls dressed up and flowers on his altars. I know not what kind of God to call him. However, that is their notion of him. They try to save themselves, and they pull God down to their standard; and every man who is a self-saver, even if he be a Protestant, lowers God in some manner.
He fancies that God will accept something short of perfection. Each man has a different standard. That miserly old gentleman’s standard is that he will build a row of almshouses with his mouldy leavings, and that will content the Most High. Another says, ‘I never open my shop on a Sunday.’ Perhaps he cheats enough on Monday to make up for it, but Sunday’s rest will do for his God. Another, who is living a wicked life in private, believes the doctrines of grace and that will satisfy his God.
But the man who is saved by the grace of God says, ‘My God is infinitely just; nothing will content him but a perfect righteousness; as a moral lawgiver, he would not put away sin till he had laid punishment upon one who stood in the sinner’s stead. He is so loving that he gave his Son; he is so just that he slew his Son on my behalf.’ All the divine attributes will splendour forth before the eyes of the man who is saved by faith, and he is led to reverence and to adore.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.554 v.1—Isaac Watts, 1709)
‘No more, my God, I boast no more
Of all the duties I have done;
I quit the hopes I held before,
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 345.
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