The Gospel Magnet
Now, I have a mass of people here; and if I might
use a figure, I should compare you to A great heap of ashes,
mingled with which are a few steel filings. Now, my sermon if it
be attended with divine grace, will be a sort of magnet: it will
not attract any of the ashes they will keep just where they are
but it will draw out the steel filings. I have got a Zaccheus
there; there is a Mary up there, a John down there, a Sarah, or
a William, or a Thomas, there God’s chosen ones they are steel
filings in the congregation of ashes, and my gospel, the gospel
of the blessed God, like a great magnet,
draws them out of the heap. There they come, there they come.
Why? because there was a magnetic power
between the gospel and their hearts. Ah! poor sinner, come to
Jesus, believe his love, trust his mercy. If thou hast a desire
to come, if thou art forcing thy way through the ashes to get to
Christ, then it is because Christ is calling thee.
- C. H. Spurgeon, Effectual Calling
