Sunday, December 5, 2010

He Will Not Reject You

He Cannot Deny Himself 

the-return-of-the-prodigal-son-rembrandt-harmenszoon-van-rijn“I tell you, if he were to shut you out, dear soul, whoever you may be, if you go to him, he would deny himself. He never did deny himself yet. Whenever a sinner comes to him he becomes his Savior. Whenever he meets a sick soul he acts as his Physician. . . . If you go to him you will find him at home and on the look-out for you. He will be more glad to receive you than you will be to be received. . . . As Matthew sat at the receipt of custom, waiting for the people to pay their dues, so does Christ sit at the receipt of sinners, waiting for them to mention their wants. He is watching for you. I tell you again that he cannot reject you. That would be to alter his whole character and un-Christ himself. To spurn a coming sinner would un-Jesus him and make him to be somebody else and not himself any longer. ‘He cannot deny himself.’ 2 Tim 2:13  Go and try him; go and try him.” [1]

References

1. C. H. Spurgeon, Treasury of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, 1950), III:862.

Note: Shamelessly stolen from a bold Ray Ortlund post, but I loved it so much I just had to post the entire thing here, for my returning often.

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