A blow at self-righteousness
“If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me; if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.”
Job 9:20
Suggested Further Reading:
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Let me just utter a solemn sentence which you may consider at your leisure. If you trust to your faith and to your repentance, you will be as much lost as if you trusted to your good works or trusted to your sins.
The ground of your salvation is not faith, but Christ; it is not repentance, but Christ.
If I trust my trust of Christ, I am lost.
My business is to trust Christ; to rest on him; to depend, not on what the Spirit has done in me, but on what Christ did for me, when he hung upon the tree.
Now be it known unto you, that when Christ died, he took the sins of all his people upon his head, and there and then they all ceased to be.
At the moment when Christ died, the sins of all his redeemed were blotted out. He did then suffer all that they ought to have suffered; he paid all their debts; and their sins were actually and positively lifted that day from their shoulders to his shoulders, for “the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
And now, if you believe in Jesus, there is not a sin remaining upon you, for your sin was laid on Christ; Christ was punished for your sins before they were committed, and as Kent says:
“Here’s pardon full for sin that’s past,
It matters not how black their cast;
And oh! my soul with wonder view,
For sins to come here’s pardon too.”
Blessed privilege of the believer! But if you live and die unbelievers, know this, that all your sins lie on your own shoulders.
For meditation:
To boast of the sincerest faith and the most thoroughgoing repentance is to exhibit the most sophisticated form of self-righteousness. Repentance and faith are both gifts from God so that sinners can receive his greatest gift, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:12).
Sermon no. 350
17 December (Preached 16 December 1860)
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