We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the certainty of salvation through Christ's death for countless individuals.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon conveys the theological belief that Christ's sacrificial death guarantees the salvation of a vast multitude of people. It asserts not only the possibility of salvation through Christ but also the necessity and inevitability of being saved for those who believe, reflecting the deep assurance found in the Christian faith regarding redemption and eternal life.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the assurance of salvation, this quote can be used to illustrate the promise of faith in Christ.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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