Transformative Shame: Seeking Redemption Through Christ
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Fill their faces with shame, praise the psalmist, but overrule thy severity for their Everlasting good that they may seek thy name oh Lord, the worst fate that I wish to any hearer of mine who is without God and without hope in the world is that this prayer may be Prayed by honest and loving hearts for him and for others like him. [00:01:50]
If he made you and has fed you and kept you in being all these years has he not a right to expect some service from you? I might go further and say has he not a right to expect your love? Does he ask more than he should ask when he says Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might? [00:02:52]
There are many unconverted men who can never look back upon any day of their lives without having to accuse themselves of wrong, and although they are not Christians they would scarcely attempt to justify their position when they act wrongly. There is a voice within them which tells them that they are doing wrong. [00:04:40]
Do you not know that every time a man neglects a duty he commits a sin? That which you admit is your duty causes you every moment it is delayed to commit sin by the delay, and by delay obedience becomes more difficult and you yourself become continually more likely to commit yet greater sin. [00:06:46]
If Thou Art determined to be a liar, lie not unto God. If Thou Art resolved to make promises only to break them, at least trifle not with him in whose hand thy life is and whose are all thy ways. He who must play the fool had better do it with some fellow fool and not parade his folly before him that rideth upon the heavens by his name. [00:08:29]
Do you push him away from you? Will you trample on his blood and count it an Unholy thing? Will you despise his cross? It sometimes seems to me that blasphemy and adultery and murder, tremendous evils though these be, scarcely reach the height of guilt that comes through refusing the great Love Of Christ. [00:09:33]
I have known shame to drive men to God in various ways. Sometimes shame attends the breaking up of self-righteousness. I knew a young fellow who had been a very upright moral man all his days. He seemed to think that he should go to Heaven by his own good works, but he had no notion of a savior. [00:13:38]
There are two instances then in which shame drives men to God: first, when a man has lost his own good opinion of himself, and next, when he has lost the good opinion of others. Filled with shame, he has often fled to Christ. So have I seen it in the case of failure driving him to the strong for strength. [00:16:14]
I want to suggest one thing more before I leave this part of my subject. In this congregation there must be a good many men and women who might do well to look back upon the utter uselessness of their past lives. As I looked along these Galleries at the immense preponderance of men in the congregation which is so usual with us. [00:20:27]
The Lord is waiting and willing now to receive to the love of his heart those who are thus ashamed of themselves. I do not think that I need say much to enforce this great truth. Is there one person here who is ashamed of himself because of his past sin? Then you are the man I invite to come to that savior. [00:23:48]
If Thou Art empty, there is a full Christ for thee. If thy last might is gone, Heaven's Treasures are all open for thee. Come and take them, take them freely as freely as thou do breathe the air, as freely as thou wouldst drink of the flowing river. Come and take Christ without question and without delay. [00:25:30]
God Delights to save those in whom there is no trace of goodness, no hope of goodness, no shadow of goodness. The Men Who not only feel that God May well be ashamed of them but who are absolutely ashamed of themselves. In preaching on this important theme, I have not used any Grace of diction nor have I made any display of oratory. [00:27:19]
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If he made you and has fed you and kept you in being all these years has he not a right to expect some service from you? I might go further and say has he not a right to expect your love? Does he ask more than he should ask when he says Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might? [00:02:52]
There are many unconverted men who can never look back upon any day of their lives without having to accuse themselves of wrong, and although they are not Christians they would scarcely attempt to justify their position when they act wrongly. There is a voice within them which tells them that they are doing wrong. [00:04:40]
Do you not know that every time a man neglects a duty he commits a sin? That which you admit is your duty causes you every moment it is delayed to commit sin by the delay, and by delay obedience becomes more difficult and you yourself become continually more likely to commit yet greater sin. [00:06:46]
If Thou Art determined to be a liar, lie not unto God. If Thou Art resolved to make promises only to break them, at least trifle not with him in whose hand thy life is and whose are all thy ways. He who must play the fool had better do it with some fellow fool and not parade his folly before him that rideth upon the heavens by his name. [00:08:29]
Do you push him away from you? Will you trample on his blood and count it an Unholy thing? Will you despise his cross? It sometimes seems to me that blasphemy and adultery and murder, tremendous evils though these be, scarcely reach the height of guilt that comes through refusing the great Love Of Christ. [00:09:33]
I have known shame to drive men to God in various ways. Sometimes shame attends the breaking up of self-righteousness. I knew a young fellow who had been a very upright moral man all his days. He seemed to think that he should go to Heaven by his own good works, but he had no notion of a savior. [00:13:38]
There are two instances then in which shame drives men to God: first, when a man has lost his own good opinion of himself, and next, when he has lost the good opinion of others. Filled with shame, he has often fled to Christ. So have I seen it in the case of failure driving him to the strong for strength. [00:16:14]
I want to suggest one thing more before I leave this part of my subject. In this congregation there must be a good many men and women who might do well to look back upon the utter uselessness of their past lives. As I looked along these Galleries at the immense preponderance of men in the congregation which is so usual with us. [00:20:27]
The Lord is waiting and willing now to receive to the love of his heart those who are thus ashamed of themselves. I do not think that I need say much to enforce this great truth. Is there one person here who is ashamed of himself because of his past sin? Then you are the man I invite to come to that savior. [00:23:48]
If Thou Art empty, there is a full Christ for thee. If thy last might is gone, Heaven's Treasures are all open for thee. Come and take them, take them freely as freely as thou do breathe the air, as freely as thou wouldst drink of the flowing river. Come and take Christ without question and without delay. [00:25:30]
God Delights to save those in whom there is no trace of goodness, no hope of goodness, no shadow of goodness. The Men Who not only feel that God May well be ashamed of them but who are absolutely ashamed of themselves. In preaching on this important theme, I have not used any Grace of diction nor have I made any display of oratory. [00:27:19]
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