The way of grace is miracle from beginning to end.

This song is inspired by a Sermon Gem from Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The sine qua non Sermon Nine Twenty Six Spurgeon Gems dot org. Go there to find Gems galore! Now listen to the Word. Lessons of wisdom upon which I linger but a minute or two. The lesson of wisdom which comes first is this: let no supposed humility keep any of you from believing in Jesus Christ. The way of grace is miracle from beginning to end. Stagger not, therefore, to begin with accepting a miracle of grace. You say, “I cannot believe that Christ could forgive such a hell-deserving sinner as I am. I have not any claims on Him. I have been such a wretch. I cannot think that simply on my trusting Him, He, out of His abundant mercy, will forgive my sins.” My dear friend, if you cannot believe that to begin with, it is but the commencement miracle, there are still greater things than these. “But I am so unworthy!” I know you are, it is all true, you are much more unworthy than you have any idea of. You do not deserve to live, you do not deserve to be out of hell, but since God is gracious, and He bids you trust Christ and you shall live, do not be damned because you are too proudly humble to be saved. You tell me I speak sarcastically. I tell you, rather, I speak the truth. It is the devil who deceives you by making you believe that there is any humility in doubting the mercy of God in Christ Jesus. What if you be the worst sinner out of damnation, yet if God tells you He will save you upon your believing and being baptized, why, man, believe and be baptized and be saved, and may God the Holy Spirit lead you to do that now. What have you to do with saying it is too good a thing, if God chooses to give it, who are you to say it is too good? You must be washed by Christ or else perish. O do not stand back because it seems too good for you to receive! You must be washed, I say, or perish. Take the good that God provides you, and be grateful for it. What if God Himself came down from heaven, and put on human flesh and suffered and died that you might not suffer and die? I grant you it is a miracle that makes the very seraphim astonished, and causes the whole universe to tremble with amazement. But why do you draw back from it and say, “Because it is so great I will not receive it”? Do you refuse the air because a bounteous God has made it so abundant? Do you refuse to drink of the river because it is so deep and broad? Will you refuse God’s mercy because that mercy is so illimitable, so vast, so divine? O do not so, I say again, damn not yourself under pretense of humility, but come as you are, and accept the mercy which is freely presented to you in Christ Jesus, in the Gospel which He has bidden us preach. Remember, “He that believes and is baptized, will be saved; he that believes not, shall be damned.” A further lesson of wisdom is this: as you must not let a supposed humility keep you back, so let no other kind of feeling keep you from Christ. The feeling may seem to be very right and very proper, but if it prevents your being saved, it is a bad feeling. I know your human nature may excuse it and say, “Why, this is commendable for a man to feel his sin so great, is it not even praiseworthy? ” I answer, nothing is commendable which makes a man think that God cannot forgive him. Feel your sin to be as great as you will, but do not therefore slander God as though He were unwilling to forgive you. Your feeling may look pretty in the darkness of your ignorance, but in the brightness of the eternal light any feeling that keeps you away from the cross and away from your Father God is a damnable feeling, and therefore away with it. Believe you at once! I charge you to believe in the name of Jesus of Nazareth! I, His servant charge you in His name believe Him! As He spoke to the winds and they were hushed, and to the waves and they were still, so in His name I speak to you all, and say trust you Him and you shall find peace for your spirit and joy for your soul, both now and forever. The last word shall be this: remember, my dear friends, what you are if you remain unwashed, and remember what you will be if you are washed. If you remain unwashed you have no part in Him. The past unforgiven, the present unchanged, the future unsanctified, there remains for you when the dread summons comes that shall separate your soul from your body, nothing that can comfort, nothing that can afford a ray of hope. Convicted before the bar of God of ten zillion offenses against His righteous law, convicted of mad, insane rebellion against God in having refused the Gospel of His dear Son, you must be driven from His presence. And I warn you that within the cover of His Book there is not so much as a single jot or tittle that breathes anything like consolation to a spirit that has once been condemned of God after death. Men have tried if they could contort this Bible, and rack it if possible to the saying of so