# “Healing for broken hearts comes by the atonement” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2008-10-15T21:45:06-05:00
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“I have talked to you about the Physician for broken hearts; shall I tell you what
His chief medicine is? It is His own flesh and blood. There is no cure like it. 
When a sinner is bleeding with sin, Jesus pours His own blood into the wound; and
when that wound is slow in healing, He binds His own sacrifice about it.

Healing for broken hearts comes by the atonement, atonement by substitution, Christ
suffering in our stead. He suffered for every one who believeth in Him, and he that
believeth in Him is not condemned, and never can be condemned, for the condemnation
due to Him was laid upon Christ. He is clear before the bar of justice as well as
before the throne of mercy.

I remember when the Lord put that precious ointment upon my wounded spirit. Nothing
ever healed me until I understood that He died in my place and stead, died that 
I might not die. And now, today, my heart would bleed itself to death were it not
that I believe that He ‘His own self bore our sins in His own body on the tree.’‘
With His stripes we are healed,’ and with no medicine but this atoning sacrifice.

A wonderful heal-all is this, when the Holy Ghost applies it with His own divine
power, and lets life and love come streaming into the heart that was ready to bleed
to death.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “Christ’s Hospital: A Sermon on Psalm 147:3,” originally published
in _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Vol. 38 (1892), [http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/2260.htm](http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/2260.htm)(
accessed 9 October 2008).

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