Spurgeon: April PM
* 04/06/PM
"In the name of the Lord I will destroy them."
--Psalm 118:12
Our Lord Jesus, by His death, did not purchase a right to a
part of us only, but to the entire man. He contemplated in His
passion the sanctification of us wholly, spirit, soul, and body;
that in this triple kingdom He Himself might reign supreme
without a rival. It is the business of the newborn nature which
God has given to the regenerate to assert the rights of the Lord
Jesus Christ. My soul, so far as thou art a child of God, thou
must conquer all the rest of thyself which yet remains unblest;
thou must subdue all thy powers and passions to the silver
sceptre of Jesus' gracious reign, and thou must never be
satisfied till He who is King by purchase becomes also King by
gracious coronation, and reigns in thee supreme. Seeing, then,
that sin has no right to any part of us, we go about a good and
lawful warfare when we seek, in the name of God, to drive it
out. O my body, thou art a member of Christ: shall I tolerate
thy subjection to the prince of darkness? O my soul, Christ has
suffered for thy sins, and redeemed thee with His most precious
blood: shall I suffer thy memory to become a storehouse of evil,
or thy passions to be firebrands of iniquity? Shall I surrender
my judgment to be perverted by error, or my will to be led in
fetters of iniquity? No, my soul, thou art Christ's, and sin
hath no right to thee.
Be courageous concerning this, O Christian! be not
dispirited, as though your spiritual enemies could never be
destroyed. You are able to overcome them--not in your own
strength--the weakest of them would be too much for you in that;
but you can and shall overcome them through the blood of the
Lamb. Do not ask, "How shall I dispossess them, for they are
greater and mightier than I?" but go to the strong for strength,
wait humbly upon God, and the mighty God of Jacob will surely
come to the rescue, and you shall sing of victory through His
grace.