Salvation, Security of – Charles Spurgeon

IF you can so pervert your imaginations, and make your judgments play the acrobat as to conceive a justified soul damned, then I ask you what greater curse could the infernal fiend himself confer upon a mortal than this so-called justification. A spirit pronounced just, and then sent down to Hell, accursed of God, accursed by the same lips that justified it—blasphemous thought! To lie in those flames, and to remember that I once had the righteousness of Christ, that I once was washed in his precious blood—oh, impossible! It shall not, must not, cannot be, while the Deity is immutable, and while the strong hand of God will not suffer the righteousness of Christ thus to be covered with disgrace. He did not begin to build, and then fail to finish. Whom he justified, them he also glorified.” Where a man has done the greater, he does not fail to do the less. Now, it is a greater thing to justify a man than it is to glorify him. I mean this—that justification cost the Savior’s life, and the Savior’s death; but to glorify a man who is already justified costs God nothing. The expense is already laid out in the justification of the soul; and to take a man to Heaven is only to take him to a prepared place, for which he is himself prepared. Shall he do the greater, and then neglect the less? He who spared not his own Son, but freely delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?