From: Suzianty Herawati
"We are come to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that
of Abel." --Hebrews 12:24
Reader, have you come to the blood of sprinkling? The question is not
whether you have come to a knowledge of doctrine, or an observance of
ceremonies, or to a certain form of experience, but have you come to the blood
of Jesus? The blood of Jesus is the life of all vital godliness. If you have
truly come to Jesus, we know how you came--the Holy Spirit sweetly brought you
there. You came to the blood of sprinkling with no merits of your own. Guilty,
lost, and helpless, you came to take that blood, and that blood alone, as your
everlasting hope. You came to the cross of Christ, with a trembling and an
aching heart; and oh! what a precious sound it was to you to hear the voice of
the blood of Jesus! The dropping of His blood is as the music of heaven to the
penitent sons of earth. We are full of sin, but the Saviour bids us lift our
eyes to Him, and as we gaze upon His streaming wounds, each drop of blood, as
it falls, cries, "It is finished; I have made an end of sin; I have
brought in everlasting righteousness."
Oh! sweet language of the precious blood of Jesus! If you have come to that
blood once, you will come to it constantly. Your life will be "Looking unto
Jesus." Your whole conduct will be epitomized in this--"To whom coming." Not to
whom I have come, but to whom I am always coming. If thou hast ever come to the
blood of sprinkling, thou wilt feel thy need of coming to it every day.
He who does not desire to wash in it every day, has never washed in it at all.
The believer ever feels it to be his joy and privilege that there is still a
fountain opened. Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians; a present
coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort. This morning let us
sprinkle our door-post fresh with blood, and then feast upon the Lamb, assured
that the destroying angel must pass us by.
CH Spurgeon
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From: Suzianty Herawati
"If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?"
--Luke 23:31
Among other interpretations of this suggestive question, the following is
full of teaching: "If the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what
will be done when the sinner himself --the dry tree--shall fall into the hands
of an angry God?" When God saw Jesus in the sinner's place, He did not spare
Him; and when He finds the unregenerate without Christ, He will not spare them.
O sinner, Jesus was led away by His enemies: so shall you be dragged away by
fiends to the place appointed for you. Jesus was deserted of God; and if He,
who was only imputedly a sinner,
was deserted, how much more shall you be? "
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" what an awful shriek! But what shall be your cry
when you shall say, "O God! O God! why hast Thou forsaken me?" and the answer
shall come back, "Because ye have set at nought all My counsel, and would none
of My reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear
cometh." If God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you! What
whips of burning wire will be yours when conscience shall smite you with all
its terrors. Ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners--who would
stand in your place when God
shall say, "Awake, O sword, against the man that rejected Me; smite him, and
let him feel the smart for ever"?
Jesus was spit upon: sinner, what shame will be yours! We cannot sum up in one
word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Jesus who died for us,
therefore it is impossible for us to tell you what streams, what oceans of
grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. You may die so, you
may die now. By the agonies of Christ, by His wounds and by His blood, do not
bring upon yourselves the wrath to come! Trust in the Son of God, and you shall
never die.
CH Spurgeon
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From: Suzianty Herawati
"Praying always." --Ephesians 6:18
What multitudes of prayers we have put up from the first moment when we
learned to pray. Our first prayer was a prayer for ourselves; we asked that God
would have mercy upon us, and blot out our sin. He heard us. But when He had
blotted out our sins like a cloud, then we had more prayers for ourselves. We
have had to pray for sanctifying grace, for constraining and restraining grace;
we have been led to crave for a fresh assurance of faith, for the comfortable
application of the promise, for deliverance in the hour of temptation, for help
in the time of duty, and for succour in the day of trial. We have been
compelled to go to God for our souls, as constant beggars asking for
everything. Bear witness, children of God, you have never been able to get
anything for your souls elsewhere. All the bread your soul has eaten has come
down from heaven, and all the water of which it has drank has flowed from the
living rock--Christ Jesus the Lord. Your soul has never grown rich in itself;
it has always been a pensioner upon the daily bounty of
God; and hence your prayers have ascended to heaven for a range of spiritual
mercies all but infinite. Your wants were innumerable, and therefore the
supplies have been infinitely
great, and your prayers have been as varied as the mercies have been countless.
Then have you not cause to say, "I love the Lord, because He hath heard the
voice of my supplication"?
For as your prayers have been many, so also have been God's answers to them. He
has heard you in the day of trouble, has strengthened you, and helped you, even
when you dishonoured Him by trembling and doubting at the mercy-seat. Remember
this, and let it fill your heart with gratitude to God, who has thus graciously
heard your poor weak prayers. "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all
His benefits."
CH Spurgeon
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From: Suzianty Herawati
"The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world."
--1 John 4:14
It is a sweet thought that Jesus Christ did not come forth without His
Father's permission, authority, consent, and assistance. He was sent of the
Father, that He might be the Saviour of men. We are too apt to forget that,
while there are distinctions as to the persons in the Trinity, there are no
distinctions of honour. We too frequently ascribe the honour of our salvation,
or at least the depths of its benevolence, more to Jesus Christ than we do the
Father. This is a very great mistake. What if Jesus came? Did not His Father
send Him? If He spake wondrously, did not His Father pour grace into His lips,
that He might be an able minister of the new covenant? He who knoweth the
Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost as he should know them, never setteth
one before another in his love; he sees them at Bethlehem, at Gethsemane, and
on Calvary, all equally
engaged in the work of salvation. O Christian, hast thou put thy confidence in
the Man Christ Jesus? Hast thou placed thy reliance solely on Him? And art thou
united with Him? Then believe that thou art united unto the God of heaven.
Since to the Man Christ Jesus thou art brother, and holdest closest fellowship,
thou art linked thereby with God the Eternal, and "the Ancient of days" is thy
Father and thy friend. Didst thou ever consider the depth of love in the heart
of Jehovah, when God the Father equipped His Son for the great enterprise of
mercy? If not, be this thy day's meditation. The Father sent Him! Contemplate
that subject. Think how Jesus works what the Father wills. In the wounds of the
dying Saviour see the love of the great I AM. Let every thought of Jesus be
also connected
with the Eternal, ever-blessed God, for "It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He
hath put Him to grief."
CH Spurgeon
