RIGHT VIEWS OF CHRIST by Spurgeon

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 14, 1881

RIGHT VIEWS OF CHRIST.

By Spurgeon

Some say they love Christ as an example. Quite right; you cannot have a better. But Jesus Christ will never be truly known and followed as an example—you will never be able to carry out the project—unless you first of all know him as making atonement for sin. Men have looked on Jesus Christ from one point of view and another, and now there is no book more likely to sell than a “Life of Christ,” although no life of Christ has been written yet. All the lives of Christ that are written when put together are not enough to make one drop of soup, whereas the four evangelists are a whole bullock. They have not got any juice in the whole put together. The pen of inspiration has done what all the quills in the world will never be able to do again, and there is no need that they should. There must be in every true picture of Christ the color of the red. He is never in our eyes so majestic and so surpassingly beautiful as when we see him bearing “our sin in his own body on the tree.”

Now, let this be your idea of Christ then—that he has redeemed you. We must regard Christ's redemption as the basis of everything, we must stand on the work which he has performed. Christ is a labyrinth without a thread; he is a day without a sun, until you know him as a Redeemer. Atonement spells the word, but you have spilled the letters on the floor, and you cannot make out the character of Christ until you have learned the words, “Atonement by blood.” “He hath redeemed us.” That is the grandest song in Heaven. Christ is exceedingly precious to you when you once know him as a Redeemer. —Spurgeon.