04/07/2026
“Generally the people who repent the most think they are impenitent, and people feel most their need when they think they do not feel at all, for we are no judges of our feelings, and hence the gospel invitation is not put upon the ground of anything of which we can be a judge. It is put on the ground of our being sinners, and nothing but sinners.
“Well,” says one, “but it says ‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest’ (Mat 11:28)—then we must be weary and heavy-laden.”
Excerpt From
Faith
Charles H. Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards,
“Just so—so it is in that text; but then there is another—“Whosoever will, let him [come]” (Rev 22:17)—and that does not say anything about “weary and heavy-laden.”
Besides, while the invitation is given to the weary and heavy-laden, you will perceive that the promise is not made to them as weary and heavy-laden, but it is made to them as coming to Christ. They did not know that they were weary and heavy-laden when they came; they thought they were not. They really were; but part of their weariness was that they could not be as weary as they would like to be; and part of their load was that they did not feel their load enough. They came to Christ just as they were; and He saved them, not because there was any merit in their weariness or any efficacy in their being heavy-laden. But He saved them as sinners and nothing but sinners, and so they were”
“washed in His blood and made clean”
Excerpt From
Faith
Charles H. Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, Arthur W. Pink, Thomas Ho**er, George Mueller & L. R. Shelton
