# “Cling to the cross” by Charles Spurgeon

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- Published: 2011-10-05T08:00:50-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence
comes the bread of your soul but from the cross? What is your joy but the cross?
What is your delight, what is your heaven, but the Blessed One, once crucified for
you, who ever lives to make intercession for you?

Cling to the cross, then. Put both arms around it! Hold to the Crucified, and never
let Him go. Come afresh to the cross at this moment, and rest there now and forever!
Then, with the power of God resting upon you, go forth and preach the cross! Tell
out the story of the bleeding Lamb.

Repeat the wondrous tale, and nothing else. Only proclaim that Jesus died for sinners.
The cross held up by a babe’s hand is just as powerful as if a giant held it up.
The power lies in the Word itself, or rather in the Holy Spirit who works by it 
and with it…

Believe in Christ crucified and preach boldly in His name, and you shall see great
and gladsome things. His reward shall parallel His sorrows. Let no man’s heart fail
him! Christ has died! Atonement is complete! God is satisfied! Peace is proclaimed!

Heaven glitters with proofs of mercy already bestowed upon ten thousand times ten
thousand! Hell is trembling, heaven adoring, earth waiting. Advance, ye saints, 
to certain victory! You shall overcome through the blood of the Lamb.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, _[Pictures From Pilgrim’s Progress](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561862010/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=toletaupanre-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399377&creativeASIN=1561862010)_(
Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim, 1992), 87-89.

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