Jesus is altogether lovely. That is the beautiful truth that Spurgeon wants his listeners to meditate on in this sermon to the Metropolitan Tabernacle. The infinite beauty of Jesus is not only found in His actions — His life, death, and resurrection — but in His character and nature as well. Spurgeon invites his hearers to find their satisfaction in not only what Jesus has done for them on the cross with His atoning death, but to find satisfaction in Jesus Himself. His perfection, grace, justice, and love each store a bounty of beauty to contemplate. All that He is, is more lovely to ponder than the collective thought of the world’s imagination.
Spurgeon declared that Christ’s loveliness will never run dry and believers will meditate on who He is for all of eternity. When believers meet Jesus face to face on that glorious day of His return, they will see true beauty in all its fullness. They will fulfill what David longed to do when he wrote: One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple (Psalm 27:4; ESV).
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Christ is so lovely that all you can desire of loveliness is in him; and even if you were to sit down and task your imagination and burden your understanding to contrive, to invent, to fashion the ideal of something that should be inimitable— ay (to utter a paradox) if you could labour to conceive something which should be inconceivably lovely, yet still you would not reach to the perfection of Christ Jesus. He is above, not only all we think, but all we dream of.
Do you all believe this? Dear hearers, do you think of Jesus in this fashion? We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. But no man among you will receive our witness until he can say, “I also have seen him, and having seen him, I set to my seal that he is altogether lovely.”
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