Learn from the Prince of Preachers on pleading with sinners to come to Christ for salvation:
Oh! my dear hearers, my beloved hearers, I cannot bring
you to Christ. Christ has brought some of you himself, but I cannot
bring you to Christ. How often have I tried to do it! I have tried to
preach my Saviour's love, and this day I have preached my Father's
wrath; but I feel I cannot bring you to Christ. I may preach God's law;
but that will not affright you, unless God sends it home to your heart; I
may preach my Saviour's love, but that will not woo you, unless my
Father draw you. I am sometimes tempted to wish that I could draw you
myself—that I could save you. Sure, if I could, ye should soon be saved!
But ah! remember, your minister can do but little; he can do nothing
else but preach to you. Do pray that God would bless that little, I
beseech you, ye who can pray. If I could do more, I would do it; but it
is very little I can do for a sinner's salvation. Do, I beseech you, my
dear people, pray to God to bless the feeble means that I use. It is his
work and his salvation; but he can do it. O poor trembling
sinner, dost thou now weep? Then come to Christ! O poor haggard sinner,
haggard in thy soul! come to Christ! O poor sin-bitten sinner! look to
Christ! O poor worthless sinner! come to Christ! O poor trembling,
fearing, hungering, thirsting sinner! come to Christ! "Ho! everyone that
thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come, buy
wine and milk; yea, come buy wine and milk, without money and without
price." Come! Come! Come! God help you to come! for Jesus Christ's sake.
Amen.
—Charles Spurgeon, sermon on Psalm 51:4: "Unimpeachable Justice"
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