Men's study...

"Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have taken your stand "and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. "For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, "that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,” ()

This, then, is the gospel. It consists in great facts.

Christ died for our sins,

He has made atonement for our transgressions;

Christ was buried and has risen from the dead;

— this is the gospel in a nutshell;

this is the gospel in a nutshell;

— those who heartily believe these facts, and rely upon the risen substitute for sinners, are saved.

If we are in him, we rejoice in that grand foundation truth, “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,”

and we delight to think that, by His death, He has redeemed us from death.

So, dear brothers, since we cannot meet our fellow-Christians on certain doctrines,

because some of you are strong men in Christ, and others are but babes,

and the babes cannot crack the nuts or eat the strong meat upon which some feed,

you can all unite in Christ.

He is like the manna, which suited all the Israelites in the wilderness;

young or old, they could all feed on the manna,

and so can all the saints feed on Christ.

And when we sit at the communion table, we say to all the world, “We are all one in Christ Jesus!”

"I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— "not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, a curse be on him! "As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!” ()

If the life of the man should be blameless as the life of Christ,

yet if he preach to you any other gospel than the gospel of Jesus Christ,

take no heed of him; he wears nothing but sheep’s clothing, and is a wolf after all.

The apostle was of a gentle spirit; he prayed heartily for the Jews who persecuted him, and

yielded his life for the conversion of the Gentiles who mistreated and lied about him;

but he had no tolerance for false gospel tellers.

He exhibited great breadth of mind, and to save souls he became all things to all men;

but when he contemplated any alteration or adulteration of the gospel of Christ,

he thundered and lightened without measure.

Spurgeon, C. H. (1915). A Warning to Believers. In The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons (Vol. 61, p. 317). London: Passmore & Alabaster.

Spurgeon, C. H. (1905). The Object of the Lord’s Supper. In The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons (Vol. 51, p. 317). London: Passmore & Alabaster.