Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
“Oh! I love God’s
‘shalls’ and ‘wills.’ There is nothing
comparable to them. Let a man say
‘shall,’ what is it good for? ‘I will,’
says man, and he never performs; ‘I shall,’ says he, and he breaks his promise. But it is never so with God’s ‘shalls.’ If he says, ‘shall,’ it shall be; when he
says, ‘will,’ it will be. Now He has
said here, ‘many shall come.’ The devil says, ‘they shall not come’; but
‘they shall come’. You yourselves, say,
‘we won’t come’; God says, ‘You shall come’.
Yes! There are some
here who are laughing at salvation, who can scoff at Christ, and mock at the
gospel; but I tell you some of you shall come yet. ‘What!’ you say, ‘can God make me become a
Christian?’ I tell you yes, for herein
rests the power of the gospel. It does
not ask your consent; but it gets it. It
does not say, will you have it, but it makes you willing in the day of God’s
power…
The gospel wants not your consent, it gets it. It knocks the enmity out of your heart. You say, ‘I do not want to be saved;’ Christ
says you shall be. He makes your will
turn round, and then you cry, ‘Lord, save, or I perish.’ Ah, might heaven exclaim, ‘I knew I would
make you say that;’ and then he rejoices over you because he has changed your
will and made you willing in the day of his power.
If Jesus Christ were to stand on this platform tonight, what
would many people do with Him? If He
were to come and say, ‘Here I am, I love you, will you be saved by me?’ not one
of you would consent if you were left to your will. He Himself said, ‘No man can come to me
except the Father who hath sent me draw him.’
Ah! We want that; and here we
have it. They shall come! They shall come! You may laugh, you may despise us; but Jesus
Christ shall not die for nothing. If
some of you reject Him there are some that will not. If there are some that are not saved, others shall be. Christ shall
see His seed, He shall prolong
His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in His hands. They shall
come! And nought in heaven, nor on
earth, nor in hell, can stop them from coming.” Charles Spurgeon
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