Question, A Solemn – Charles Spurgeon

I WOULD do with you what the Roman ambassadors did with Antiochus. They met him and asked him whether he meant war or peace. He said he must see; and one of them taking his staff, made a circle round him where he stood, and said, “You must answer before you leave that spot. If you step out of that, it is war. Now, war or peace?” And I too would draw a secret circle round you in the pew this morning, and say to you, “Which shall it be, sin or holiness, self or Christ? Shall it be grace or enmity, Heaven or Hell?” And I pray you answer that question in the light of Hell. It is a dread light, but it is a revealing one. It is a fire that will devour the scales that are about your blind eyes. God grant that it may scorch those scales away, that you may see now how dreadful a thing it is to be an enemy of God, and be led by his Holy Spirit to apply to Jesus Christ even now.