“God asks you to believe that through the blood of Jesus Christ, He can still be just and the justifier of the ungodly. He asks you to trust in Christ to save you. Can you expect that He will save you if you will not trust Him? Man, it is the most reasonable thing in the world that He should demand of thee that thou should believe in Christ. And this He does demand of thee this morning. 'Repent and believe the gospel.' O friends, how sad is the state of man's soul when he will not do this! We may preach to you, but you never will repent and believe the gospel. We may lay God's commands, like an axe, to the root of the tree, but reasonable as these commands are, you will still refuse to give God His due; you will go on in your sins; you will not come unto Him that you may have life; and it is here the Spirit of God must come in to work in the souls of the elect to make them willing in the day of His power. But oh! In God's name I warn you that, if, after hearing this command, you do, as I know you will do, without His Spirit, continue to refuse obedience, to so reasonable a gospel, you shall find at the last it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorah, than for you; for had the things which are preached in London been proclaimed in Sodom and Gomorrah, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Woe unto, inhabitants of London!”(Source: The Forgotten Spurgeon, by Iain Murray, or you can follow the links below to listen to this great book!)
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