Thursday, May 16, 2013

Quote of the Day

"No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ."
Interesting quote from the Prince of Preachers.  What do you think it means?

6 comments:

Denny Fusek said...

Obedient to Christ in what way is the wuestion. His statement, as it is written is not found in Scripture.

Jim said...

Not sure, based on the quote I would say Romans 16 or Matthew 28.

As it turns out many of our statements that we all make are not found in scripture. If all we do is reiterate what is said there would be no need for teaching. Most of what we do in bible teaching is work to understand the text so that we can teach it and apply it to the life of the believer.

So for example Matthew 28 our Lord tells His disciples to make more disciples, then baptize them into the faith, then teach them to execute on everything He had commanded them. These would be the imperatives because they tell us what to do. For us to actually do what Christ asked us to do follows from our deep desire after having been redeemed by Christ's atoning work on the cross. Those who have no regard for Christ's atoning work on the cross can be expected to be disobedient. I think that's what Spurgeon is getting at.

Thanks for the question!

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A Light to my Path said...

Hey Jim

I found it...I could not stop my search and so I found another site devoted to Spurgeon. This quote is from one of his sermons

PROMPT OBEDIENCE
NO. 3310
A SERMON
PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, JULY 11H, 1912.
DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON,
AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON,
ON THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1866.

Here is the context of the quote:

Then, if obedience to that command is truly rendered, there will follow obedience to all the Savior’s commands. No man is really saved unless he is, in his heart, obedient to Christ. I do not say that you will be perfect, but you will desire to be so. I do not say that you will not be tempted to sin until you die, but there will be no sin that you will love, there will be no sin from which you will not long to be delivered. Your spirit will cheerfully bend down its neck to wear the collar of sacred service and as far as your inner and spiritual man is concerned, you will cry mightily unto God against the very thought of sin—and pray that you may walk in holiness and in the fear of the Lord all the days of your life.

Here is the link to the whole sermon:

http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols58-60/chs3310.pdf

This is classic reformed soteriology.

Mark

Jim said...

Thanks Mark, I would equate that with finding a needle in a hay stack.

I agree with you, it is Reformed soteriology but I would take one step further and say its NT theology.