We are guilty, our heart yearns to be washed in the blood.

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. I hope there is not one among us who would consider it a barren honor to have a part with Christ, nor one who would think it to be a small calamity to be deprived of his part with Jesus the Son of God. Brethren, you and I desire to have part in the merit of His righteousness. We have no righteousness of our own, but we desire that He should be the Lord our Righteousness, that in His righteousness arrayed we should not be found naked in the day of the great wedding feast, but with the wedding garment on may sit down to the marriage supper. We desire to have a part in His death. Jesus died that He might make atonement for guilt, and we desire a part in His atoning sacrifice. We are guilty, our heart yearns to be washed in the blood, to be cleansed by that expiation, and to stand before the Lord accepted in the Beloved. We hope that the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world will give us a part in His sin-removing power. We believe in His resurrection, and our prayer is that we may have part in it, so that because He rose we also may rise, and may forever, both in body and in soul, enjoy eternal blessedness. Our faith has seen the crucified One ascending to the skies, and we desire a part in His ascension, to share in the blessings which He received for rebellious men when He led captivity captive. Yes, and before long to tread that selfsame starry way, and enter into the rest where He is, and behold the glory which God has given to Him. We aspire to share in His intercession. Before the Father’s throne He presents His ever accepted supplication, and we trust that He pleads for us that blessings numberless may descend upon us unworthy ones. We were wretched indeed, if we had not a persuasion that we share a part in the pleadings of our great High Priest. We trust our name is engraven on one of the precious stones of His breastplate, and is so borne before God. Moreover, we know that Christ sits at the right hand of God as King, all things being delivered into His hands, and we desire to have a part with Him in His kingdom, to be partakers of the peace which His scepter brings, yes, and to be ourselves made kings to reign with Him. Moreover, we expect His second advent. In the same manner as He went up to heaven, in that selfsame manner will He descend, with the trump of the archangel and the voice of God, in His own proper person actually and really, not in myth and phantom, but in very deed. As He is gone from us so will He come again, and then will He take to Himself all power, and reign from the river even unto the ends of the earth. We hope to participate in the glory of His appearing and kingdom. Whatever the Millennium may be, whatever the splendor of the latter day, our aspiration is that we may have a part with Christ in all these things. We would not shun His cross, for we desire His crown. We would not desert Him in His humiliation, for we hope to attend Him in His triumph. We would cheerfully go forth without the camp, and bear the reproach for His sake, for we hope to stand amongst the camp of the faithful ones when the crowns of immortality shall be distributed. Our soul’s deepest desire is that we may have a part with Christ. My dear brethren, I hope most of us here present know what it is to have a part in Christ, for we were elect in Him from before the foundation of the world. We have been make partakers of His Spirit and have been brought into union with Him. We have submitted ourselves to His government, we are looking to Him for our salvation. We have a part with Him as members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones—a part with Him as branches in the vine, as stones in the temple. We are serving under His banner in the same holy war, and laborers in the same sacred service. We have a part with Him as His friends and as His chosen whom He has admitted into the most familiar intercourse with Himself. We are much deceived if this be not the case. But if it indeed be so, we feel that the blessed fact is altogether due to grace, and it could never have been so if we had not first been washed. If we have not as yet participated in the blessings which come to us through Christ, we know this morning, for the text tells it to us, that we must be washed before we can have a part with Him. Brethren, we desire to be sons as He is a son, we wish to be heirs as He is an heir, we pant to be accepted as He is accepted, we aspire to be before long glorified as He is glorified. This is a blessing worthy of the utmost intensity of desire, and it is a blessing which we must obtain or we shall sink miserably down to everlasting destruction, since to be without Christ is to be without hope.