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. The blessings which are in Christ are so spiritual that until we are cleansed we cannot enjoy them. Who can see God but those who are first made pure in heart? Who can have peace with God but those who are justified by faith? The blessings of the covenant are not like oil and wine, which the ungodly man can rejoice in. Neither are they like silver and gold, which the carnal heart can laugh over, but they are blessings pure and refined, which the natural man knows not, which only the man renewed by the Spirit of God can ever prize, for to others they are far above and out of their sight. You must be born again, you must be washed, you must be renewed in the spirit of your minds, or else heaven itself would not be a heaven to you, and the things of the kingdom of God you could not know, its joys you could not enter into, want of washing disqualifies you. Moreover, man’s nature is such, if he did but know it, that it is impossible for him to have part with Christ without washing. Peter did not see on his feet what Christ could see there. I mean not on the flesh of his feet, but on what they represent, namely, his daily life. Christ could see in Peter blots and blurs, and spots and defilement, which made Him indeed say, “Alas! my poor follower, you can have no part with Me unless I wash you. Poor Peter, if you did know yourself, you would see how impossible it is for Me to give you a portion with Me till first I have cleansed you.” So, brothers and sisters, if we had a sight of ourselves, a true sight in God’s own light, instead of starting back from Christ the purifier we should cry to Him incessantly. “Wash me, O LORD, purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” For all these reasons then, the being washed by becomes a necessity. You cannot have a part in Christ unless you be washed by Him Don't wait. Get washed!
