Death and Life: the Wage and the Gift

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Another quality eBook from Chapel Library. In this gospel message on sin, death, and salvation from Romans 6:23, Spurgeon helps us to see the wages the sinner has earned and then brings us to the gift of God which is eternal life. "...Death is a wage, but life is a gift. Sin brings its natural consequences with it; but eternal life is not the purchase of human merit, but the free gift of the love of God. The abounding goodness of the Most High alone grants life to those who are dead by sin...When a man is lost, he has earned it; when a man is saved, it is given him" (pages 16-17, printed edition).

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 26, 2015

About the author

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian, John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues, Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861, the congregation moved permanently to the newly constructed Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Reviews

[Calvin Esslinger · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars, every one of them on purpose. Should we call him Charles "The Kernel" Spurgeon for his gifting of endless succinct kernels of preaching about God's words of Scripture to us?
"Dying does not mean ceasing to exist, for Adam did not cease to exist.."
"The further a man goes in lust and iniquity, the more dead he becomes to purity and holiness."
"When the flame of eternal life first drops into a man's heart, it is not as the result of any good works of his that preceded it, for there were none; nor as the result of any feelings of his for good feelings were not there till the life came."