# “Never divide between the life and the death of Christ” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2010-03-16T11:24:36-05:00
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“By His bruising and His stripes, as well as by His death, we are healed. Never 
divide between the life and the death of Christ. How could He have died if He had
not lived? How could He suffer except while He lived?

Death is not suffering, but the end of it. Guard also against the evil notion that
you have nothing to do with the righteousness of Christ, for He could not have made
an atonement by His blood if He had not been perfect in His life.

He could not have been acceptable if He had not first been proven to be holy, harmless,
and undefiled. The victim must be spotless, or it cannot be presented for sacrifice.
Draw no nice lines and raise no quibbling questions, but look at your Lord as He
is and bow before Him.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Spitting and the Shame,” in _Twelve Sermons on the Passion
and Death of Christ_ (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1971), 133-134. Read online here: [http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/1486.htm](http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/1486.htm).

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