God the Father is waiting with open arms ready to receive you as His adopted child, through the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ. Will you go to Him? Our blessed Lord Jesus Christ extends a simple offer of salvation. There is no need for pretense; no need for fixing yourself up. You can trust in Jesus now, exactly as you are.
This is the simple essence of the gospel that Spurgeon does not want his listeners to miss. All can come to Christ in whatever state they are, for He has paid it all. No sin is too great, no person is too far gone, no heart is too blackened to receive His mercy. Salvation is dependent on simply trusting in Jesus; it is all that He requires. All that matters is what Christ has done; the condition of the sinner has no bearing on accepting this free grace.
The question is, do you believe that His offer is genuine, or will you turn to your own way? Jesus is delighted to welcome even the most egregious of sinners into His fold. To do so would magnify His grace all the more! Do not reject His loving arms for in them there is hope, peace, and salvation from sins. “O blessed Saviour! O blessed Father who gave his Son to be so blessed a Saviour! O blessed Spirit of the blessed God that led our wicked, proud hearts into obedience and trust in Jesus.”
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Still, we will keep to this point— Jesus is worth trusting, worthy of the sinner’s unwavering faith. He is worth trusting, O sinner, because first of all he on whom thou art bidden to rely this day by the command of the gospel, is God himself. Thou hast offended God, and it is God who came into the world to save sinners. Against Christ thy sins were launched as arrows from a bow, but he against whom those bolts were shot has come in the fulness of his power and the infinity of his mercy to save them that believe. Canst thou not trust thyself in almighty hands— almighty to save? Is anything impossible with God? An angel could not save thee, but surely God himself can? How canst thou limit the Holy one of Israel? How canst thou set bounds to boundless love, or limits to limitless grace? If Jesus were man and not God, unbelief would have good excuse; but if the Saviour be divine, where can distrust find a cloak for itself?
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