Compel Them to Come In by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
Here is a short excerpt from this sermon:
"My brother, I entreat
you, I entreat you stop and
consider. Do you know what it is you are rejecting this morning? You are
rejecting Christ, your only Savior. 'Other foundation can no man lay;'
'there is none other name given among men whereby we must be saved.' My
brother, I cannot bear that ye should do this, for I remember what you
are forgetting: the day is coming when you will want a Savior. It is
not long ere weary months shall have ended, and your strength begin to
decline; your pulse shall fail you, your strength shall depart, and you
and the grim monster—death, must face each other. What will you do in
the swellings of Jordan without a Savior? Death-beds are stony things
without the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an awful thing to die anyhow; he
that hath the best hope, and the most triumphant faith, finds that death
is not a thing to laugh at. It is a terrible thing to pass from the
seen to the unseen, from the mortal to the immortal, from time to
eternity, and you will find it hard to go through the iron gates of
death without the sweet wings of angels to conduct you to the portals of
the skies. It will be a hard thing to die without Christ. I cannot help
thinking of you. I see you acting the suicide this morning, and I
picture myself standing at your bedside and hearing your cries, and
knowing that you are dying without hope. I cannot bear that. I think I
am standing by your coffin now, and looking into your clay-cold face,
and saying. "This man despised Christ and neglected the great
salvation."
