Sep 16
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ALL CHRIST OR NO CHRIST AT ALL!
Do you think that you are to get onto the scale, with your beautiful
righteousness, and that you are to be accounted somebody of great
importance, and that Christ is to do the little that you cannot do; that
it is to be “Christ and company,” or rather, “Self and Company,” and
that you are to be the head of the firm, and Christ to be a kind of
sleeping partner? He will not do it; it would be a disgrace to Christ to
yoke you with Him in such a fashion. You might as soon yoke a gnat with
an archangel as think of your going in to help Christ to save you. To
join a filthy rag from off a dunghill with the golden garments of the
King cannot be permitted. Christ will be everything, or else He will be
nothing; you must be saved wholly by mercy, or else not at all. There
must not be even a trace of the fingers of self-righteousness upon the
acts and documents of divine grace. It must be all of grace; “And if by
grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no
more work” (Romans 11:6). There can be no more mingling of the two
together as the ground of hope than oil will mix with water, or fire
will burn beneath the sea. You cannot be saved by your own merits.
C. H. Spurgeon