I
have no gospel to preach to the self-righteous, no, not a word, Jesus
Christ Himself came not to call the righteous, and i am not going to do
what he did not do, No, I ask you rather to look at that righteousness
of yours till you see what a delusion it is. It is not half so
substantial as a cobweb. Be finished with it! Flee it!
"They
that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick"
(Mark 2:17). Is it not equally clear that the great remedies of grace
and redemption are for the sick in soul? They cannot be for the whole,
for they cannot be of use to such. If you feel that you are spiritually
sick, the Physician has come into the world for you. If you are
altogether undone by reason of your sin, you are the very person aimed
at in the plan of salvation. I say that the Lord of love had precisely
such as you in his eye when he arranged the system of grace.
He
that is a dirty sinner is the kind of man that Jesus Christ came to
make clean, Come in your disorder. Come to your heavenly Father in all
your sin and sinfulness. come to Jesus just as you are: leprous, filthy, naked. Come, though despair is brooding over you, pressing upon your chest like a horrible nightmare.
Charles Spurgeon in All Of Grace
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