Christians Opposing Christ
By C. H. Spurgeon
FRIENDS, can you bear the thought that you may have helped to drag others down to hell? Christ has loved you and pardoned your sins; and will you push others downward? And yet, if you are inconsistent, and especially if you are cold or lukewarm in your religion, you are doing it. “Well,” says one, “I don’t do much good, but I do no hurt.” That is an impossibility. You must be either doing good or evil. There is no border-land between truth and sin; a man must be either on land or in the water; and you are either serving God or serving Satan; each day you are increasing your Master’s kingdom or else diminishing it. I can not bear the thought that any of you should be employed in Satan’s camp. I behold a mournful spectacle. There is King Jesus marching at the head of His troops; and can it be that some of you, who profess to be His followers, are on the other side; that, professing to be Christ’s, you are fighting in the ranks of the enemy—carrying the baggage of Satan and wearing the uniform of hell, when you profess to be soldiers of Christ? I know there are such here; God forgive them! God spare them! And may the deserters yet come back, even tho they come back in the chains of conviction. May they come back and be saved! O brethren and sisters, there are enough to destroy souls without us—enough to extend the kingdom of Satan without our helping him. “Come out from among them; touch not the unclean thing; be ye separate.” Church of God! awake, awake, awake to the salvation of men! Sleep no longer; begin to pray, to wrestle, to travail in birth; be more holy, more consistent, more strict, more solemn in thy deportment! Begin, O soldiers of Christ, to be more true to your colors, and as surely as the time shall come when the church shall thus be reformed and revived, so surely shall the King come into our midst, and we shall march on to certain victory, trampling down our enemies, and getting to our King many crowns, through many victories achieved.—C. H. Spurgeon.