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Today we're wrapping up our discussion of the sermon entitled Compel them to Come In by the extraordinary Charles Spurgeon. The focus of that sermon is Jesus' parable of the great banquet that we see in Luke 14, verses 12 through 24. In it, jesus describes a banquet host, god, who invites people to a great banquet, only for them to come up with excuses when it's time for the event. The host then sends out his servants to gather the dregs of society to bring them in to the banquet instead. All week we've been talking about this parable. We talked about how even the poor, maimed, halt and blind get an invitation. We talked about doing everything, up to and including threatening people so that they come to Christ and call him Lord. And we talked about how some people profess Christianity but how it's essentially a lie. And now we're here the end of the week, and what better way to end it than with Charles Spurgeon preaching a clear and blistering gospel to us all? One last time, charles Spurgeon, hear then O ye that are strangers to the truth as it is in Jesus. Hear then the message that I have to bring you. Ye have fallen. Fallen in your father Adam. Ye have fallen also in yourselves by your daily sin and your constant iniquity you have provoked the anger of the Most High. And as assuredly as you have sinned, so certainly must God punish you if you persevere in your iniquity, for the Lord is a God of justice and will by no means spare the guilty. But have you not heard? Hath it not long been spoken in your ears that God, in his infinite mercy, has devised a way whereby, without any infringement upon his honor, he can have mercy upon you, the guilty and the undeserving? To you I speak, and my voice is unto you, o sons of men. Jesus Christ, very God of very God, hath descended from heaven and was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. Begotten of the Holy Ghost, he was born of the Virgin Mary. He lived in this world a life of exemplary holiness and of the deepest suffering, till, at last, he gave himself up to die for our sins, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.

1 Peter 3.18. And now the plan of salvation is simply declared unto you whosoever believeth in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. John 3.16. For you who have violated all the precepts of God and have disdained his mercy and dared his vengeance, there is yet mercy proclaimed for whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10.13. That's John 6.37, hebrews 7, 25. Now, all that God asks of you, and this he gives you, is that you will simply look at his bleeding, dying son and trust your souls in the hands of him, whose name alone can save from death and hell.

Is it not a marvelous thing that the proclamation of this gospel does not receive the unanimous consent of men. One would think that as soon as ever this was preached, that whosoever believeth shall have eternal life, every one of you, casting away every man, his sins and his iniquities, would lay hold on Jesus Christ and look alone to his cross. But alas, such is the desperate evil of our nature, such the pernicious depravity of our character, that this message is despised. The invitation to the gospel feast is rejected, and there are many of you who are this day enemies of God by wicked works, enemies to the God who preaches Christ to you today, enemies to Him who sent His Son to give His life as a ransom for many. Strange, I say, it is, that it should be so, yet nevertheless, it is the fact, and hence the necessity for the command of the text compel them to come in. Here's my one thing for you guys to consider you. Yes, you have an invitation to God's great banquet. Don't make any excuses, just come on in.

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