Spurgeon and Sovereignty
November 18th, 2004 | Published in Religion
I love Spurgeon. And I love Iain Murray’s book on him entitled The Forgotten Spurgeon. It lit my heart on fire the first time I read it. Here is one of the many wonderful quotes from Spurgeon contained in that little book:
“Brethren, in all our hearts there is this natural enmity to God and to the sovereignty of His grace . . . . I have known men bit their lip and grind their teeth in rage when I have been preaching the sovereignty of God . . . . The doctrinaires of today will allow a God, but he must not be a King: that is to say, they choose a god who is no god, and rather the servant than the ruler of men . . . . The fact that conversion and salvation are of God, is [a] humbling truth. It is because of its humbling character that men do not like it. To be told that God must save me if I am to be saved, and that I am in his hand, as clay is in the hands of a potter, ‘I do not like it’ saith one. Well, I thought you would not; whoever dreamed you would?” (60)