A Dumb and Dummy Gospel

“If ever there should come a wretched day when all our pulpits shall be full of modern thought, and the old doctrine of substitutionary sacrifice shall be exploded, then will there remain no word of comfort for the guilty or hope for the despairing. Hushed will be forever those silver notes which now console the living, and cheer the dying; a dumb spirit will possess this dying world, and no voice of joy will break the blank silence of despair. The gospel speaks through the propitiation for sin, and if that be denied, it speaketh no more. Those who preach not the atonement exhibit a dumb and dummy gospel; a mouth it hath, but speaketh not…

“Would you have me silence the doctrine of the blood of sprinkling? Would anyone of you attempt so horrible a deed? Shall we be censured if we continually proclaim the heaven-sent message of the blood of Jesus? Shall we speak with bated breath because some affected person shudders at the sound of the word ‘blood’? or some ‘cultured’ individual rebels at the old fashioned thought of sacrifice? Nay, verily, we will sooner have our tongue cut out that cease to speak of the precious blood of Jesus Christ.” (Charles Spurgeon, as quoted in Pierced for Our Transgressions)

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4 Responses to “A Dumb and Dummy Gospel”

1. Don says:

   November 28, 2007 at 10:36 am

   Thanks for the Spurgeon quote.
   This book is on my “books to read shelf.”
   It is amazing how clearly men of God in ages past have spoken so clearly about our contemporary circumstances. This, no doubt, is because of the living and active Word of God.
2. erik says:

   November 28, 2007 at 10:43 am

   You are exactly right Don.

   Hey, when you get the book, go ahead and run it up to the top of the list. It is a great read. I should be reviewing it here in the next couple of days. It is by far the best thing I have read in recent memory.

   Keep striving. (Phil. 1.27)
3. Robin says:

   November 28, 2007 at 10:41 pm

   Brother Erik – although I, like Paul, say ‘May it never be so!’, the truth is that some day it will be this way. The Bible assures us there will be a day when wrong will be right and right will be wrong.

   I thank God daily that I belong to a part of the Body of Christ that still insists on the Bible as their daily portion.

   Can I just say I am looking forward to the day when the saints will be together with our Lord and Savior in the new heaven and new earth? May that day be here soon!

   In Him,
   R.
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   November 29, 2007 at 12:25 am

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