Feast for the Soul » Spurgeon http://feastforthesoul.com Treasures old and new proclaiming the glory and majesty of Jesus Christ... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:30:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Charles Spurgeon on Calvinism http://feastforthesoul.com/2011/11/11/charles-spurgeon-on-calvinism/ http://feastforthesoul.com/2011/11/11/charles-spurgeon-on-calvinism/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:27:57 +0000 Todd http://feastforthesoul.com/?p=2431

I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed in Jesus. Such a gospel I abhor.

—Charles Spurgeon

Via: Erik Raymond

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We want the fact of substitution to strike us, and then the cross will grow sublimely great. In vision I behold it! Its two arms are extended right and left till they touch the east and west and overshadow all races of men; the foot of it descends lower than the grave, till it goes down even to the gates of hell; while upward the cross mounts with a halo round about it of unutterable glory, till it rises above the stars, and sheds its light upon the throne of the Most High.

Atonement is a divine business; its sacrifice is infinite, even as the God who conceived it. Glory be to his name for ever! It is all that I can say. It was nothing less than a stretch of divine love for Jesus to give himself for our sins. It was gracious for the Infinite to conceive of such a thing; but for him to carry it out was glorious beyond all.

—Charles Spurgeon

Via: Of First Importance

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Jesus is God and man in one person: man that he may feel our woes, God that he may help us out of them.

—Charles Spurgeon
Immanuel – The Light of Life (sermon on Isaiah 9:1,2)

Related: Inspired by this post from Of First Importance.

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It is a wonderful instance of divine grace that the Word should be made flesh and dwell among us, and reveal his glory to us. Apart from anything that springs out of the incarnation of Christ, that incarnation itself is a wondrous act of grace. There must be hope for men now that man is next akin to God through Jesus Christ. The angels were not mistaken when I they not only sang, “Glory to God in the highest,” but also, “on earth peace, goodwill towards men,” because in Bethlehem the Son of God was born of a virgin. God in our nature must mean God with gracious thoughts towards us. If the Lord had meant to destroy the race, he never would have espoused it and taken it into union with himself. There is fullness of grace in the fact of the Word made flesh tabernacling among us.

—Charles Spurgeon
The True tabernacle, and Its Glory of Grace and Peace

Related: Inspired by this post from Phil Johnson at Team Pyro.

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