Comfort in Christ Jesus and His Glorious Everlasting Gospel
God
has revealed unto the true believer the true nature of sin and his
wound grows deeper with the passing of time, as God gives him more
light. Consequently, his need, his hungering and thirsting for Christ
also increases with time. The deeper his wound, the deeper his
repentance, and the more he loves to hear of the all-sufficient
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Those
who profess faith in Christ and do not, with the passing of time,
have a deeper sense of their sinfulness, and thus live in a deeper
state of repentance, have never likely experienced anything but a
superficial religious scratch, not Holy Spirit conviction and
repentance. This condition is nearly always manifest in their lack of
an increasing hunger and thirst for Christ, and the indifferent
manner in which they hear that precious gospel of God’s glory and
grace. They would just as soon, or would rather hear other things
than the things of Christ.
Contrariwise,
the true believer can never hear too much of that glorious message of
“Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”
The true believer is described in Philippians 3:1-14. May we, you and
I, be found in that blessed number.
Mr.
Spurgeon once said, “After some years of experience, the Christian
comes to know, better than he did at first, how much the gospel suits
him. He finds that its simplicity suits his bewilderment; its grace
suits his sinfulness; its power is suitable to his weakness; its
comfort is suitable to his despondence; and the more he grows, the
more he loves the gospel of the grace of God.”
-Gospel
report by preacher Maurice Montgomery
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