THE GOSPEL: ALWAYS & EVERYWHERE

Charles Spurgeon said, “People have often asked me,”What is the secret of your success?” I always reply that I have no secret but this, that I have preached the gospel–not about the gospel–but the gospel; the full, free, glorious gospel of the Living Christ, who is the Incarnation of the Good News. Preach Christ, brethren, always and everywhere.”   That’s exactly what Paul did. He said,”I am ready to preach the gospel–For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth–“(Romans 1:15-16).”–I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel–“(Romans 15:19-20).   One preacher, a Dr. Baldwin, who pastored a church for 41 years, said: “I testify that at thirty, after examining as best I could the philosophies and religions of the world, I said ‘Nothing is better than the Gospel of Christ.’ At forty, when burdens began to press heaviliy and years seem to hasten, I said,‘Nothing is as good as the Gospel.’ At fifty, when there were empty chairs in the home and  the mound builders had done me service,’I said,‘There is nothing to be compared with the Gospel.’ At sixty, when my second sight saw through the delusions and vanities of earthly things,I said,’There is nothing but the Gospel.‘ At severty, amid many limitations and deprivations,I sing: “Should all the forms that men devise Attack my faith with treacherous art, I’d call them vanities and lies, And bind the Gospel to my heart.”