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Morning and Evening

December 4, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"I have much people in this city." — Acts 18:10 · KJV

This should greatly encourage us to try to do good, since God has, even among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because God has ordained you to be the messenger of life to their souls, and they must receive it, for so runs the decree of predestination. They are as much redeemed by blood as the saints before the eternal throne. They are Christ's property; and yet perhaps they are lovers of the alehouse and haters of holiness. But if Jesus Christ purchased them, He will have them. God is not so unfaithful as to forget the price His Son has paid; He will not let His substitution be, in any case, an ineffectual, dead thing. Tens of thousands of the redeemed are not yet regenerated, but regenerated they must be; and this is our comfort as we go out to them with the quickening Word of God. No, more — these ungodly ones are prayed for by Christ before the throne. "Neither pray I for these alone," says the great Intercessor, "but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word." Poor, ignorant souls, they know nothing of prayer for themselves, but Jesus prays for them; their names are on His breastplate, and before long they must bow their stubborn knee, breathing the penitential sigh before the throne of grace. "The time of figs is not yet." The predestined moment has not struck; but when it comes, they shall obey, for God will have His own. They must, for the Spirit is not to be withstood when He comes forth in fullness of power — they must become the willing servants of the living God. "My people shall be willing in the day of My power." "He shall justify many." "He shall see of the travail of His soul." "I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong."