Coming to Christ E-Book

Charles H. Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Selected Christian Literature
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Hope messages in times of crisis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 34

Beschreibung

"To whom coming." 1 Peter 2:4 This is another volume in the series of Sermons by Charles Spurgeon. This Sermon based on the biblical passage in 1 Peter 2: 4 teaches us about the Glorious grace of God. This message will help you understand the love of God and His Grace.

Leseprobe

Summary

Summary

About the Author

Introduction

The First Salvation Of The Believer

A Good Description Of The Entire Christian Life

A Very Correct Description Of Our Departure

Exposition by C. H. Spurgeon

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day. He also famously denied being a Protestant, and held to the view of Baptist Successionism.

Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later he left the denomination over doctrinal convictions. In 1867, he started a charity organisation which is now called Spurgeon's and works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously.

Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns, and more. Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills held his listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians hold his writings in exceptionally high regard among devotional literature.

INTRODUCTION

“To whom coming.” 1 Peter 2:4.

IN THESE three words you have, first of all, a blessed person mentioned under the pronoun, “whom” “To whom coming.” In the way of salvation we come alone to Jesus Christ. All comings to baptism, comings to confirmation, comings to sacraments are all null and void unless we come to Jesus Christ! That which saves the soul is not coming to a human priest, nor even attending the assemblies of God’s saints it is coming to Jesus Christ, the great exalted Savior, once slain, but now enthroned in glory. You must get to Him, or else you have virtually nothing upon which your soul can rely. “To whom coming.” Peter speaks of all the saints as coming to Jesus, coming to Him as unto a living stone, and being built upon Him and no other foundation can any man lay than that which is laid, and if any man says that coming anywhere but to Christ can bring salvation, he has denied the faith and utterly departed from it! The coming mentioned in the text is a word which is sometimes explained in Scripture by hearing. At other times by trusting or believing, and quite as frequently by looking. “To whom coming.” Coming to Christ does not mean coming with any natural motion of the body, for He is in heaven, and we cannot climb up to the place where He is it is a mental coming, a spiritual coming it is, in one word, a trusting in and upon Him. He who believes Jesus Christ to be God, and to be the appointed atonement for sin, and relies upon Him as such, has come to Him, and it is this coming which saves the soul! Whoever the wide world over has relied upon Jesus Christ and is still relying upon Him for the pardon of his iniquities, and for his complete salvation, is saved!