# “Your gospel is an effeminate thing” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2009-02-08T15:01:38-06:00
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“Can you stare death in the face with it, and say, ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth?’
Can you close your eyes at night, singing as your vesper song— ‘I to the end must
endure as sure as the earnest is given?’ Can you bless God for affliction? Can you
plunge in, accounted as ye are, and swim through all the floods of trial? Can you
march triumphant through the lion’s den, laugh at affliction, and bid defiance to
hell?

Can you? No! Your gospel is an effeminate thing—- a thing of words and sounds, and
not of power. Cast it from you, I beseech you; it is not worth your keeping; and
when you come before the throne of God, you will find it will fail you, and fail
you so that you shall never find another; for lost, ruined, destroyed, ye shall 
find that Christ, who is now ‘a stumblingblock,’ will be your Judge.”

-–Charles H. Spurgeon, “Christ Crucified” in _Spurgeon’s Sermons, Vol. 1_ (Grand
Rapids: Baker, 1996), 96-7.

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