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Chapter 10 : Around the Wicket Gate – Without Faith No Salvation

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~ Around the Wicket Gate ~
Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

Here in Chapter 10, Spurgeon addresses those who see it as unfair that unbelief should lead to ruin. He shows that rejecting Christ is not punished arbitrarily—it is the natural result of refusing the only means of life. Just as a man who will not eat must starve, or one who will not drink must die of thirst, the soul that refuses to trust Christ perishes by its own choice. Through clear and forceful illustrations Spurgeon demonstrates that unbelief is spiritual suicide. The gospel is God’s appointed remedy, and Christ alone is the way of salvation.

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…you would most certainly find that no climate, and no amount of exercise, would keep you alive if you refused food. Would you then complain, “It is an unjust thing that I should die just because I do not believe in eating”? It is not an unjust thing that if you are so foolish as not to eat, you must die. It is the same with believing. “Believe, and you will be saved.” If you will not believe, it is not unjust that you would be lost.

You must believe or die. Why refuse to obey the command? Drink, friend—drink! Take Christ and live! The way of salvation is before you. To enter, you must trust Christ. There is nothing unjust in the fact that you must perish if you refuse to trust the Savior.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Chapter 9 : Around the Wicket Gate – On Raising Questions [Doubt]

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Here in Chapter 9, Spurgeon warns against the modern tendency to question everything and believe nothing, especially when it comes to the gospel. He shows how people sabotage their own salvation by focusing on obscure difficulties, criticizing Scripture, or delaying faith until all questions are answered. Using vivid illustrations, he urges readers to accept God’s plain command—“Believe and live”—instead of cutting away the very truths that can save them. True faith, like a man who hears news of a great inheritance and drops everything to claim it, acts immediately. Spurgeon pleads with readers to trust Christ now and turn from sin without hesitation.

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What use are obscure questions while our souls are in peril? The way to escape from sin is plain enough. God has not mocked us with a salvation that we cannot understand. “Believe and live” is a command that even a child may comprehend and obey.

The fact is that most of us know quite enough already, and our real need is not light in the head, but truth in the heart—not help over intellectual difficulties, but grace to make us hate sin and seek reconciliation.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Chapter 8 : Around the Wicket Gate – A Real Hindrance [to Faith]

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Here in Chapter 8, Spurgeon addresses a real obstacle to saving faith: the unwillingness to part with sin. He illustrates how even a hidden or cherished sin can keep a person from truly trusting Christ, likening it to ivy choking a tree or poison in a patient’s hand. Spurgeon insists that salvation cannot coexist with a love for evil—Christ must be received as both Savior and Deliverer from sin. He pleads with readers to choose between sin and Christ, warning that delay is itself a decision.

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Harboring a sweet sin in the heart will prevent a soul from laying hold of Christ by faith. The Lord Jesus has come to save us from sinning, and if we are resolved to keep on sinning, Christ and our souls will never agree. If a person drinks poison, and a doctor is called in to save their life, the doctor may have a sure antidote ready, but if the patient persists in keeping the bottle of poison at their lips and continues to swallow the deadly drops, how can the doctor save them? Salvation consists largely in parting the sinner from their sin, and the very nature of salvation would have to be changed before we could speak of a person being saved while they are loving sin and willfully living in it. A person cannot be made clean while they continue in filth; they cannot be healed and yet remain sick; neither can anyone be saved and still be a lover of evil.

If you win Christ, it will matter little what you lose.

In the name of God, I ask you, which will it be—Christ and salvation, or your favorite sin and damnation? There is no middle road.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Chapter 7 : Around the Wicket Gate – A Helpful Survey (of Christ’s Wounds)

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Here in Chapter 7, Spurgeon focuses on the sufferings of Christ, urging readers to look to his wounds as the sole cure for sin. He describes Jesus’ agony—from Gethsemane to the cross—as the full payment for our guilt. Spurgeon reminds seekers that salvation rests entirely on Christ’s finished work, not on anything we do. Faith and repentance naturally follow, but it is Christ’s atonement alone that heals and saves.

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Holy men of old have lovingly elaborated on the bodily sufferings of our Lord, and I have no hesitation in doing the same, trusting that trembling sinners may see salvation in these painful “wounds” of the Redeemer.

No language can ever fully convey his agony in anticipation of his passion; how much less can we comprehend the passion itself? When nailed to the cross, he endured what no martyr ever suffered. When they have died, martyrs have been so sustained by God that they have rejoiced amid their pain. But our Redeemer was forsaken by his Father, until he cried, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). That was the bitterest cry of all, the utmost depth of his unfathomable grief.

Yet it was necessary for him to be deserted, because God must turn his back on sin, and consequently, he must turn his back on him who was made sin for us. The soul of the great Substitute suffered a horror of misery in place of the horror of hell into which sinners would have been plunged had he not taken their sin upon himself and been made a curse for them.“Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree” (Galatians 3:13); but who can truly understand what that curse means?

The remedy for your sins and mine is found in the substitutionary sufferings of the Lord Jesus, and in these only. These “wounds” of the Lord Jesus Christ were on our behalf. Do you ask, “Is there anything for us to do to remove the guilt of sin?” I answer: There is nothing whatsoever for you to do. By the wounds of Jesus, we are healed. He has endured all those wounds and left not one of them for us to bear.”

“But must we not believe in him?” Yes, certainly. If I say a certain ointment heals, I do not deny that you need a bandage to apply it to the wound. Faith is the linen that binds the plaster of Christ’s reconciliation to the sore of our sin. The linen does not heal; that is the work of the ointment. Similarly, faith does not heal; that is the work of the atonement of Christ.

“But we must repent,” cries another. Assuredly we must, and we will, for repentance is the first sign of healing. But it is the wounds of Jesus that heal us, not our repentance. These wounds, when applied to the heart, work repentance in us. We hate sin because it made Jesus suffer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Chapter 6 : Around the Wicket Gate – Difficulty in the Way of Believing

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Here in Chapter 6, Spurgeon addresses the difficulty some face in believing, showing that faith is not an instant act but often comes in stages. He encourages seekers to actively pursue faith by hearing, reading, and thoughtfully considering Christ. Using vivid illustrations, he highlights how faith grows through experience, much like a lighthouse keeper who, over time, no longer fears the storm. Spurgeon warns against willful unbelief, urging readers to examine the truth honestly, trust in Christ’s power to save, and rest securely in the gospel.

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Go to places of worship to see Jesus; and if you do not hear the mention of his name, leave for another place where he is more thought of, and is therefore more likely to be present.

The Bible is the window through which we may look and see our Lord. Read over the story of his sufferings and death with devout attention, and before long the Lord will cause faith to enter your soul. The Cross of Christ not only rewards faith, but also creates faith.

At one time I might have needed evidence to make me believe in the Lord Jesus, but now I know him so well by proving him, that I would need a very great deal of evidence to make me doubt him.

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Chapter 3 : Around the Wicket Gate – Faith in the Person of the Lord Jesus

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Around the Wicket Gate – Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost
Chapter 3 – Faith in the Person of the Lord Jesus

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In Chapter 3, Spurgeon explores the necessity of personal faith in Jesus for salvation, stressing that it’s not enough to acknowledge Christ’s sufficiency without actively seeking refuge in Him. Through vivid analogies, Spurgeon illustrates how faith involves running to Christ, much like a pursued sinner fleeing to a sanctuary. He urges readers to fully trust in Christ’s ability to save, regardless of the depth of their sinfulness. Spurgeon closes by reinforcing the idea that true faith places the entirety of one’s hope in Christ, who alone can protect and deliver from judgment.

Chapter 2 : Around the Wicket Gate – Jesus Only

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Here in Chapter 2, Spurgeon underscores the centrality of Jesus Christ as the sole means of salvation. He argues against the notion that human efforts or righteousness can contribute to one’s salvation, highlighting that only Christ’s sacrifice is sufficient. Through metaphors and analogies, he illustrates the folly of depending on anything other than Christ, urging readers to trust in him entirely for forgiveness and eternal life. Spurgeon concludes by emphasizing that faith unites believers with God and guarantees salvation, encouraging readers to cling to Christ as their only hope.

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It stands to reason that the darling of heaven would not have died to save us if we could have been rescued at less expense. Infinite grace provided the great sacrifice; infinite love submitted to death for our sake. How can we dream that there can be another way than the way which God has provided at such cost and set forth in Holy Scripture so simply and so urgently? Surely it is true that “there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

When a person believes, there is a point of union between them and God, and that union guarantees blessing. Faith saves us because it makes us cling to Christ Jesus, who is one with God, and thus brings us into connection with God.
I am told that, years ago, above Niagara Falls, a boat was flipped over, and two men were being carried down by the current. People on the shore managed to float a rope out to them, and both men seized the rope. One of them held fast to it and was safely drawn to the bank; but the other, seeing a sizeable log floating by, unwisely let go of the rope and clung to the large piece of timber, for it was bigger and apparently better to cling to. Alas! The timber, with the man on it, went right over the vast abyss because there was no union between the wood and the shore. The size of the log was no benefit to him who grasped it; it needed a connection with the shore to produce safety.
Similarly, when a person trusts in their works, or in their prayers, or almsgivings, or in sacraments, or in anything of that sort, they will not be saved because there is no junction between them and God through Christ Jesus. But faith, though it may seem to be like a slender cord, is in the hand of the great God on the shore side; infinite power pulls in the connecting line, and thus pulls the person from destruction. Oh, the blessedness of faith, because it unites us to God by the Savior, whom he has appointed, even Jesus Christ! O reader, is there not common sense in this matter? Think it over, and may there soon be a rope of union between you and God through your faith in Christ Jesus!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Preface : Around the Wicket Gate

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Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

“Enter by the narrow gate.”—Matthew 7:13

In this preface, Charles Spurgeon addresses those who are close to entering the path of salvation but hesitate at the threshold. Drawing inspiration from John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” Spurgeon uses the metaphor of the “wicket gate” to represent the entrance to the way of life. He highlights the peril of being “almost saved, but altogether lost,” and expresses his earnest hope that this book will guide many to faith in Christ.

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It will be an awful thing to die just outside the gate of life. Almost saved, but altogether lost! This is the most terrible of positions. A person just outside Noah’s ark would have been drowned; a manslayer close to the wall of the city of refuge, but still outside, would be slain; and the person who is within a yard of Christ, and yet has not trusted in him, will be lost. Therefore, I am deeply earnest to get my hesitating friends over the threshold.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

603. Now — 2 Corinthians 6:2

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“For he says, “In an acceptable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
—2 Corinthians 6:2.

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0:00 – Introduction
8:57 – 1. Now of believers
27:11 – 2. Now of sinners
38:26 – 3. Now in heaven
39:54 – 4. Now in hell

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…there is one thought which should not leave us when talking about times and seasons, namely, that now, now, just now, this present flying moment, that second which is being recorded by the ticking of yonder clock, is the only time which we have to work with.

You perceive that our text is a quotation. How ought we to value the Old Testament! If inspired men of God, who spoke by the Holy Ghost, yet quoted the Old Testament, how valuable must be its bejeweled sentences!

If Christ had not died, there had never been a day of salvation. If Christ had not been heard and accepted, an accepted time there never could have come to us; but since he, man’s representative, hath obtained favour in the eyes of God, and through his complete work, hath for ever settled that favour upon himself, there is favour in the heart of God to those whom Christ represented, even to those transgressors for whom he maketh intercession.

The great mischief of the most of men is that they procrastinate. It is not that they resolve to be damned, but that they resolve to be saved to-morrow. It is not that they reject Christ for ever, but that they reject Christ to-day; and truly they might as well reject him for ever, as continue perpetually to reject him “now.”

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588. The Prodigal’s Reception — Luke 15:20

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“And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.”—Luke 15:20.

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2. The matchless kindness of the Father – 20:11

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O you who know the Lord… while we talk of what he is willing and able to do to the far off sinners, let your souls leap with joyous gratitude at the recollection of how he received you into his love, and made you partakers of his grace in days gone by.

…the sinner is a long way off from God when you consider his utter want of strength to come to God. Even such strength as God has given him is very painfully used. God has given him strength enough to desire salvation, but those desires are always accompanied with deep and sincere grief for sin.

if you had to come to God by the way of your own righteousness you would never reach him, for he is not thus to be found. Christ Jesus is the way. He is the safe, sure, and perfect road to God. He who sees Jesus, has seen the Father; but he who looks to himself will only see despair. The road to heaven by Mount Sinai is impassable by mortal man, but Calvary leads to glory; the secret places of the stairs are in the wounds of Jesus.

I recollect a young prodigal who was received in the same way. Here he stands, it is I, myself. I sat in a little chapel, little dreaming that my Father saw me; certainly I was a great way off. I felt something of my need of Christ, but I did not know what I must do to be saved; though taught the letter of the Word, I was spiritually ignorant of the plan of salvation; though taught it from my youth up, I knew it not. I felt, but I did not feel what I wished to feel. If ever there was a soul that knew itself to be far off from God, I was that soul; and yet in a moment, in one single moment, no sooner had I heard the words, “Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth,” no sooner had I turned my eyes to Jesus crucified, than I felt my perfect reconciliation with God, I knew my sins to be forgiven. There was no time for getting out of my heavenly Father’s way, it was done, and done in an instant; and in my case, at least, he ran and fell upon my neck to kiss me. I hope that will be the case this morning; before you can get out of this place, before you can get back to your old doubtings, and fearings, and sighings, and cryings, I hope here the Lord of love will run and meet you, and fall upon your neck and kiss you.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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~ Around the Wicket Gate ~Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

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~ Around the Wicket Gate ~Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

~ Around the Wicket Gate ~Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

“For he says, “In an acceptable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”—2 Corinthians 6:2.

“And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.”—Luke 15:20.

~ Around the Wicket Gate ~
Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

~ Around the Wicket Gate ~
Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

~ Around the Wicket Gate ~
Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

~ Around the Wicket Gate ~
Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

~ Around the Wicket Gate ~
Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

~ Around the Wicket Gate ~
Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

~ Around the Wicket Gate ~
Almost Saved, But Altogether Lost

“For he says, “In an acceptable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
—2 Corinthians 6:2.