Our Lord Jesus Christ is also full of grace and truth in this sense, that He
truthfully deals with matters of fact relating to our salvation. I know the
notion of the world is; that the salvation of Christ is a pretty dream, a fine
piece of sentiment; but there is nothing dreamy about it: it is no fiction; it is
fact upon fact. The Lord Jesus Christ does not gloss over or conceal the
condition of man in order to secure his salvation. He finds man condemned,
and condemned in the very worst sense, condemned for a capital offense;
and as man’s Substitute, He endures the capital penalty, and dies in the
sinner’s stead. The Lord Jesus views the sinner as depraved, yea, as dead in
trespasses and sins, and He quickens him by His own resurrection life. He
does not wink at the result of the Fall, and at the guilt of actual sin; but He
comes to the dead sinner, and gives him life; He touches the diseased heart,
and heals it.
To me, the Gospel is a wonderful embodiment of omnipotent wisdom and truth. If the Gospel had said to men, “The law of God is certainly righteous, but it is too stern, too exacting, and therefore God will wink at many sins, and make provision for salvation by omitting to punish much of human guilt,” we should always have been in jeopardy. If God could be unjust to save us, He could also be changeable, and cast us away. If there was anything rotten in the God-made structure of our salvation, we should fear that it would fail us at last. But the building is secure, and the foundation is sure, for the Lord has excavated down to the solid rock. He has taken away all sentiment and sham, and His salvation is real and substantial throughout. It is a glorious salvation of grace and truth, in which God takes the sinner as he is, and deals with him as he is; yea, and deals with the sinner as God is, on the principles of true righteousness; and yet saves him, because the Lord deals with him in the way of grace, and that grace encourages a great many hopes, and those hopes are all realized, for they are based upon God’s truth.
Excerpt from Christ's Incarnation: The Foundation of Christianity - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To me, the Gospel is a wonderful embodiment of omnipotent wisdom and truth. If the Gospel had said to men, “The law of God is certainly righteous, but it is too stern, too exacting, and therefore God will wink at many sins, and make provision for salvation by omitting to punish much of human guilt,” we should always have been in jeopardy. If God could be unjust to save us, He could also be changeable, and cast us away. If there was anything rotten in the God-made structure of our salvation, we should fear that it would fail us at last. But the building is secure, and the foundation is sure, for the Lord has excavated down to the solid rock. He has taken away all sentiment and sham, and His salvation is real and substantial throughout. It is a glorious salvation of grace and truth, in which God takes the sinner as he is, and deals with him as he is; yea, and deals with the sinner as God is, on the principles of true righteousness; and yet saves him, because the Lord deals with him in the way of grace, and that grace encourages a great many hopes, and those hopes are all realized, for they are based upon God’s truth.
Excerpt from Christ's Incarnation: The Foundation of Christianity - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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