Charles H. Spurgeon
“Children’s Bread Given to Dogs” Matthew 15:27
Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 12, Sermon #715,
Delivered on Sunday Morning, October 14, 1866
No man clings more closely to Christ than he who is most sensible of his lost estate. Who holds the plank the tightest? Why the man who is the most afraid of being drowned. Fear frequently intensifies faith. The more afraid I am of my sins the more firmly do I grasp my Saviour. Fear is sometimes the mother of faith. One who was walking in the fields was surprised to find a trembling lark fly into his bosom. A strange thing for a timid bird to do, was it not? But there was a hawk after it, and therefore fear of the hawk made the bird bold enough to fly to man for shelter. And oh! when the fierce vultures of sin and hell are pursuing a poor sinner, he is driven by the courage of despair to fly into the heart of the blessed Jesus. John Bunyan has somewhere words to this effect, “I was brought into such a dread and horror under the wrath of God that I could not help trusting in Christ; I felt that if he stood there with a drawn sword in his hand I must even run right upon its point sooner than endure my sins.” I hope and pray that the Lord may drive you to Jesus in such a way as this if you will not be drawn by gentler means.
Brethren, a soul set upon Jesus, and clinging to him with a death grip, can by no means perish; the thing is utterly impossible.
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