"This shout of triumph rings with all the freshness and force of when He spoke it," Spurgeon writes of Christ's cry, "It is finished!"
"The satisfaction He rendered to the justice of God was finished. But next, the Savior meant that the satisfaction which He rendered to the justice of God was finished. The debt was now, to the last farthing, all discharged. The atonement and propitiation were made once and for all and forever—by the one offering made in Jesus’ body on the Tree. There was the cup, Hell was in it, the Savior drank it—not a sip and then a pause—not a draught and then a ceasing. He drained it till there is not a dreg left for any of His people. The great ten-thronged whip of the Law was worn out upon His back. There is no lash left with which to smite one for whom Jesus died. The great cannonade of God’s justice has exhausted all its ammunition—there is nothing left to be hurled against a child of God."
This volume contains six classic sermons by Charles Spurgeon (and one brief exposition):
1. “Father, Forgive Them”
2. “Today You Shall Be With Me in Paradise”
3. “Woman, Behold Your Son”
4. “My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?”
5. “I Thirst”
6. “It Is Finished!”
7. “Father, Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit”
He was converted to Christ at the age of 16 and immediately began preaching. He preached in the streets and in the fields before he was 21. In his first church, he began with 100 members. It grew until he was preaching to 10,000 people in the Surrey Music Hall. His church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle, seated 6,000 people. He withdrew from every movement among English Baptists which tended to criticize the Authorized Version 1611 in any way.
Before his death, he published more than 2,000 sermons and 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations, and devotions.
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