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The Honoured Guest
A Sermon
by
C. H. SPURGEON
1834-1892
"And he made haste and came down, and received him joyfully."-- Luk_19:6.
Are you prepared, like Zaccheus, to give the Lord Jesus Christ a glad and
grateful welcome? If we would obtain the full benefit of his devoted life,
his atoning death, and his triumphant resurrection, we must receive him
into our hearts by simple faith, and entertain him with tender love.
Outside the door of our heart Jesus is a stranger; he is no Saviour to us;
but inside the heart which has been opened, by divine grace, to admit
him, his power is displayed, his worth is known, and his goodness is felt.
My dear hearer, you have heard his fame, you have witnessed the
miracles he has wrought upon others, and now it remains that you
receive him yourself to ensure your own well-being. He stands at the
door and knocks; you must open to him. The promise is, "If any man will
open unto me, I will come in and sup with him." "To as many as
received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God." Not
upon all who heard was the privilege conferred, for many, when they
heard, did not believe. Alas! they provoked him, and so they perished in
their sins. But those who hail Jesus as a friend salute him as an honoured
guest, sit at his feet, and hang on his lips, find how he lights every
chamber of their soul with joy, satisfies every craving of their better
nature, and enriches them with all the endowments of adopted children.
In many respects Zaccheus supplies us with a noble example. He shows
us how to receive the Saviour. You will observe that he received him
speedily. "He made haste and came down." It is not always easy to come
down from a tree with great speed. He came down, however, as fast as he
could. There was no demur or hesitancy in his manner. I daresay his
heart was down before his feet. In like manner they who would receive
Christ must receive him now. This is not a call or a counsel to be trifled
with. The procrastination of Felix, which led him to say, "When I have a
more convenient season I will send for thee," is a very dangerous spirit.
Let those who talked as Felix talked beware lest they perish as Felix
perished. "Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."
Zaccheus made haste. They who receive Christ heartily must receive
Christ immediately.
We notice, too, that Zaccheus received the Lord obediently. When the
Master said, "Make haste," he made haste. Hardly had he said, "Come
down," when down he came. If thou, my hearer, be likewise willing and
obedient, thou shalt eat of the good of the land. Christ likes us to be
obedient to him, though he speaks to us less as a Lawgiver than as a
Saviour and a Friend. If we refuse to take his yoke upon us, and learn of
him, how can we reasonably expect to find rest unto our souls? The
words of Jesus must be deeply respected and diligently observed by those
who would have him for their Rock, their Refuge, and their Hiding
Place. Let him be your Councillor if you want to partake of his
redemption. Render allegiance to him as your King, if you would enjoy
all the grace of his priestly mediation and intercession.
There was also a thorough heartiness on the part of Zaccheus in
receiving Christ. He made a great feast for him. He did not admit him as
one who intruded. It was not with cold civility, but with cordial
hospitality that he greeted him. I think I see the satisfaction that sparkled
in his face! I think I hear the salutation that leaped from his tongue,
"Come in-- come in, my gracious Lord; never did my house enter-tain so
welcome a guest as thou art!" Would you receive Christ, you must throw
the doors of your heart wide open; then your eyes, your lips, every
muscle of your body will express your earnestness. Your whole spirit,
soul and strength will be stirred to enthusiasm if you know his worth,
and feel the honour he confers on you. A man who findeth a treasure hid
in a field will congratulate himself on his good fortune. A woman, when
she embraceth her first-born child, will dote on him with exquisite
fondness. Shall no strong emotions prove our sincerity when we receive
the Lord of life and glory?
And mark you, too, this Chief of the Publicans received Christ
spiritually. His convictions were in keeping with his conduct. When he
distributed his goods to the poor, and made a bold confession of his faith
before his fellow-men, there was proof positive that Christ had not only
crossed the threshold of Zaccheus's house, but had also penetrated the
chambers of his heart. Ah! beloved, it is useless to receive Christ
nominally, professionally, ceremonially, or with rites and ceremonies, to
do him empty homage. By a sincere reception of him who was sent of
God, your nature, your disposition, and your habits will be transformed
from what they were, and conformed to what he is; and the change will
be conspicuous, for if ye be in Christ, and Christ be in you, all things
will become new.
A prominent feature, however, so distinctly stated that it should not be
carelessly overlooked was this, that he received him joyfully. This was
crowning evidence of the purity of his motives, and the artlessness of his
actions. In such mirth there could be no guile. Ask now, Why do not all
men thus receive Jesus Christ joyfully? How is it that some men receive
him with such exuberant joy? In what ways do those show their joy who
have thus received the Master?
I. Why Is It That All Men Do Not Receive Christ Joyfully?
This is our first question. They need him, all of them. There is no
difference in this respect. Whether Jews or Gentiles, they are all sold
under sin. God has concluded the whole race of man in unbelief. He has
shut them all up in condemnation. There is no escape from the universal
doom except by the way of the cross. Jesus Christ comes to save; comes
with pardon in his hands, with messages of love, with tokens of favour;
yet most men bar the doors of their hearts against him. There is no cry
heard in their souls, "Lift up your heads, O ye gates! and be ye lifted up,
ye everlasting doors, that the King of Glory may come in!" Instead
thereof, there is a sullen cry, "Come prejudice; come unbelief; come
hardness of heart; come love of sin; bar ye the doors and barricade the
gates lest, perhaps, the King of Glory should force an entrance!" Men
treat the Saviour as they would treat an invader who attacked their
country. They seek to drive him away; they would fain be rid of him.
They cannot endure his presence. Nay, they can scarce endure, some of
them, to hear about him in the street. Why is this? The chief reason lies
in the depravity of man's nature. You never know how bad man is till he
comes in contact with the Cross.
Although the crimes of savage, uncivilized men may appear to you far
more heinous than any that are committed in our favoured country,
where just laws are for the most part enacted, and opportunities of
education generally enjoyed, yet the propensity to do that which is evil in
the teeth of a knowledge of that which is good, the subtlety of perverting
truth in the clear light of divine revelation, the perfidiousness of that foul
ingratitude which can betray the tenderest friendship, are never so
painfully illustrated as in view of the Crucified. To despise the grace of
Jesus, to reject the love of God, to conspire against the Ambassador of
peace, to take the inhuman, devilish counsel--"This is the heir; let us kill
him!"--this was the last offence of the wicked husbandmen in the
parable. Nor does the parable exaggerate the treachery. For this is the
greatest offence of human nature, when it says, in effect, "This is the
Incarnate God, let us reject him; this is the Word made flesh, let us
traduce him; this is the Father's beloved Son--let us betray him!" Oh!
Human Nature, how blind must be thy heart, how seared thy conscience,
not to see the beauties of Christ! How base must thou be to despise the
love and tenderness of such a Saviour!
Were we to select secondary causes, however, which spring out of this
deep-seated depravity, and discriminate between the various classes of
offenders, we should say that many men reject Christ instead of receiving
him joyfully out of sheer ignorance. For this ignorance there is not much
valid excuse. There are thousands of persons, even in this highly-
favoured greatly- enlightened country, who really do not know what the
gospel means. The knowledge of salvation is within their reach, but they
have no desire to acquaint themselves with this best of all the sciences.
We are all sinners, they say; but they do not know what they mean. In
the jargon of general confession they lose sight of their own personal
transgressions. The plan of salvation by a Substitute, which is the gist of
the whole matter, never dawned on their understanding. They do not
know the great truth that Jesus took our sins and suffered for us in our
room, and in our stead, that justice might be satisfied, that mercy might
be magnified, and that we sinners might be liberated. Hence it comes to
pass that whosoever trusteth in Christ is saved. Being ignorant of this,
they are still depending upon their own works, merits, and professions,
or they are relying upon their baptism, their confirmation, or their
identification with some ecclesiastical system by means of some outward
ceremony, instead of understanding that salvation is by faith, a thing of
the heart in the spirit, and not in the letter. This ignorance of the blessed
Saviour prevents many from receiving him joyfully. So was it with the
woman of Samaria; hence the Saviour said to her, "If thou hadst known
the gift of God, and who it is that speaks to thee, thou wouldst have
asked, and he would have given thee living water." Lest ye perish
through lack of knowledge, brethren, do entreat the Lord so to guide you
in the reading of Scripture, and in listening to the exposition of Scripture
that you may get a clear understanding of the way of the Lord. "That the
soul should be without knowledge is not good," for ignorance is the
parent of many infatuations.
To refuse attention, to resist evidence, to rebut exhortation, in the
instance of full many exhibits a spirit of gross unbelief. They will not
believe in Jesus; they will not acknowledge him to be the Son of God;
they will scarcely believe that the man ever lived who had a right to the
homage which his few disciples offered him. The Atonement they look
upon as an old wives' fable, and they account the resurrection from the
dead as an idle dream. I will say but little of their excuse. They are not
open to conviction. They live in darkness because they have barred every
window of their soul against the light. The precious doctrine of Christ
bears on its face the genuine stamp. Its authenticity is graven upon its
very forefront. Their stolid disputations cannot diminish its value or its
virtue. They wrong themselves when they denounce or disparage the
truth as it is in Christ.
Others are actuated by a positive aversion to the Saviour. They have no
sinister reflections to cast on the story of his life, the purity of his
manners, the holiness of his character, or the benevolence of his mission,
but they do not desire to be saved from their sins; they rather enjoy
revelling, unrebuked and undisturbed, in the gratification of their own
sensual propensities. They do not want to be saved from drunkenness;
they would rather go on with the drink. They do not want to be saved
from the lusts of the flesh; they would sooner pamper its gross appetites.
They do not want to be saved from pride or self-confidence; they would
rather indulge their towering ambition. They do not want, in fact, to
have a divorce proclaimed between them and their sins; they would
sooner discard the high obligations of the divine law, and act upon the
expedience of the life that now is, than forego a pursuit or a pleasure in
hope of eternal life. Hence they cannot bear the name of Jesus! they
recoil from it, unable to conceal their antipathy. Religion is not merely
insipid; it is positively nauseous to them. The singing of a hymn in the
house would put them out of temper. Did their wife or their child
mention the Cross of Christ, or faith in his precious blood, they would
either sneer and ridicule with unseemly jest, or else their temper would
boil over with malice and wrath. The Lord pluck that black heart out of
thee, man! The Lord give thee a new heart and a right spirit. Thou wilt
have to bend or else to break. If thou wilt not turn, thou must burn. If
thou dost not repent of this hatred of Christ now, thou wilt feel remorse
enough for it hereafter. In the day when he cometh in the clouds of
heaven to judge the quick and the dead, thou wilt seek in vain to elude
his eye, or escape from his wrath.
You will find that the reason for not receiving Christ in many others is
the fact that they are worldly, and eaten up with too many cares. A pitiful
apology and very perilous! Such paltry forgets will bring poignant
regrets. The hour of death can do little to rectify the years of life
misspent. Not then can you seek God, if you have never sought him
before. Oh! you are taken up with the farm and the merchandise, with
your daily labours and diversions, your losses, and your gains, heaping
up, not knowing who shall inherit. These canker-worms eat up your
souls. Would that men were not such fools as to be always providing for
this poor tenement of the body, while they neglect the precious jewel it
encloses--their immortal soul; occupied with trivial personalities, while
reckless of their real estate. They are crying, "Buy, buy," in Vanity Fair,
while the Lord of life and glory passeth by. Yet they heed not. Talk of
the main chance, but they miss the wise choice. They sell gold for dross;
they lose their souls and get perdition.
Still more inexcusable, methinks, are those who reject Christ, because
they are taken up with the world's frivolities. Some people live in a whirl
of fashion, where repentance would be accounted vulgar. Not in sportive
gaieties, but in pensive solitudes do penitence and contrition find room
for exercise. Ridiculous as it may sound, some people are far too genteel,
to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is fit company, in their esteem, for
publicans and sinners, but into their drawing-rooms were he to enter he
would soon be expelled. They want him not in the upper circle of the
haut ton; neither would he be kindly received in the lower circles, among
the frequenters of music-halls and dancing saloons. Ah! no; as of old, so
now: "There is no room for him in the inn." The world is ready enough
to welcome actor, singer, dancer, punster, anyone who can amuse them;
but as for Christ, who stands with bleeding hands, and cries, "Come unto
me and I will give you rest," they despise him. They miss the soul of
beauty for meretricious charms; they turn from the source of joy to
indulge in giggling laughter; they spurn the real, and leap after the
shadow; they forsake the overflowing fountain, and fly to the broken
cisterns that can hold no water.
Ah! brethren, this is a miserable spectacle. It is a dreary sight to see a
sinner despising mercy, a drowning man rejecting the life-belt, a sick
man declining the physician, a man entering the gates of death refusing
life and immortality. Oh! sin, how thou hast befooled men! How thou
hast made them hate themselves, and act cruelly to their own souls!
What suicides they commit! What a sacrifice of their noblest nature!
They go down to hell with a verdict of felo de se. O Israel, thou hast
destroyed thyself! Thou hast destroyed thyself! They reject him
shamefully whom they should have received joyfully. They carry out
their own will, and they perish in their wilfulness. And now we ask in
the next place:
II. Why Do Some Men Receive Him Joyfully?
The answer simply is because grace has made them to differ. Grace has
subdued their stubborn will, illuminated their darkened understanding,
changed their depraved affections, and made their whole mind to judge
of things after a different fashion. Do not suppose that we who have
received Christ were naturally any better disposed to him than others.
Oh! no. If, when the seed was sown, we were like the honest and good
ground in which it took root, there had been a previous tillage upon our
hearts to make them ready, we should not have been found willing had it
not been the day of God's power. I think we all unite in saying:--
"Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly forced us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin."
As for the reasons and inducements which prompted us to receive Christ
joyfully, I may speak very plainly for myself. I received Christ because I
could not help it. I was at my wits' end. Methinks no man ever flees to
Christ for refuge, or seeks shelter in the port of gospel peace, until he is
quite certain that every other harbour is shut up. We make Christ our last
resource. We try everything else--grand resolutions to do good works, or
to attend gorgeous ceremonies, trivial formalities, or paltry superstitions;
anything, the silliest conceit or the emptiest quackery. We go the round
of folly before we discover the path of wisdom. At length I must go to
Christ, or else woe is unto me if I win him not. Helpless and hopeless, in
sheer distress we cry out, "Give me Christ, or else I die." Henceforth he
is not merely our choice, but a positive necessity to us to have him as our
hourly, daily, and eternal portion. Oh! the strait unto which I was
brought when I received Christ. It was Christ or death; salvation by
Christ, or damnation without him. I received him because I could not
help it. I had no alternative. How many of you are in the like dilemma?
How many of you will fly to him in similar destitution? Driven before the
tempest, catching a glimpse of the lighthouse, you cry out:--
"Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly."
Well may we receive Christ joyfully since he works such wonderful
changes in us, and so beneficent. He cheers the grievous past. It was all
black and threatening with the memory of our provocations. He sprinkles
his blood upon it, and now it becomes bright and beaming with
mementoes of the loving-kindnesses and tender mercies of the Lord. He
illuminates the present. There was nought but gloom and blank despair
till he shone as the light of life in our dwelling. Then life and salvation
dawn upon us like the dayspring from on high. He disperses the clouds
that hung over the future. The outlook was dark and threatening till
Jesus came, bright and glorious, and discovered a hereafter. Beyond the
black river of death we now discern the gleaming of the spirit-land, and
the place of meeting where we shall see his face. Thus, when Jesus
comes into the heart, the three realms of the past, the present, and the
future, all glow with light. When the sun rises, the hills, and valleys, and
rivers, above and beneath, are all sown with orient pearl.
Right joyfully do we receive Christ because he comes into our hearts
with such gracious offices. He came as a priest to put away sin; who
could but be glad? He came as a king; who would not receive such a
monarch with sound of trumpets and flaunting of banners? He came to
us as a shepherd; shall not the flock of his pasture be glad of the sight of
him? He came as a dear and tender friend; does not his sweet sympathy
excite any joy? Think, too, of the yet more endearing relationship in
which he came. He came as a husband, and our souls are married unto
him. Blessed bridegroom! Thou adorable Saviour! Thou hast engrossed
our heart and won our love. Does not the bride rejoice when the husband
comes home? Is there not gladness in her heart when the nuptial day
approaches? Oh! well, well might we welcome Christ when he comes,
dressed in such robes and wearing such offices as these! When he came,
he came with such wondrous blessings--pardon and peace, justification
and acceptance, sanctification and honour, wisdom and righteousness--
all these; and now he proclaims himself to be our protector; his paths
drop fatness; he maketh rich and addeth no sorrow; such as find him
find in him such wealth of goodness--deep, mysterious, unknown--as far
exceeds all earthly pleasure, all worldly fortune. Surely on the lowest
ground we might afford him the loftiest welcome. Even churlish Laban
received Eliezer with courtesy when he saw the presents he brought--the
bracelets, and the earrings, and the jewels, and should not we receive
Jesus when we mark those costly gifts in his hand, the purchase of his
own blood, which he freely gives to those who receive him?
And shall we not receive him joyfully because he comes in such a blessed
spirit? He upbraideth not. He was all gentleness, meekness, grace, when
here below; though of divine pedigree, the Only-begotten of the Father
full of grace and truth. Should we not then receive him with sound of the
trumpet, with the psalter and harp, yea, and with joy of heart
unspeakable? Let me add that the better we know him the more joyfully
we should receive him for his own sake. Oh! I could stand here and weep
to think that I do not speak better of my Lord and Master. Truly I know
more of his grace and goodness than I should ever be able to tell. I trust
you can say the same. It is one thing to know the sweetness of his savour,
and quite another thing to have to tell that savour to others. There is no
exaggeration in the language of the spouse when she says, "Yea, he is
altogether lovely." Such as receive him with their hearts will find that
the most rapturous expressions that saints have ever used do not exceed,
but fall infinitely short of the delight, the heavenly joys, which he brings
into the soul. If one might choose a heaven upon earth, it would be to
rest for ever in quiet meditation upon the beauties of his person, the
perfection of his character, the power of his blood, the prevalence of his
plea, the glory of his resurrection, the majesty of his Second Advent.
Everything about Christ is delightful. There is not a truth he ever teaches
but is fragrant with choice perfume. There is not a word he utters but
smelleth of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces from
which he came. If you have not received Christ, my dear hearer, you
have missed the brightest feature of divine revelation. For a foreigner to
visit England and never see the Metropolis of London; for a man to have
lived in the world without ever seeing the sun; for one to have beheld
tables spread with the most sumptuous provisions, but never to have
tasted any of them--in any such case there would be little cause for
congratulation. So you do not know what life is; you are dead to all its
charms; you do not know what light is; you have only dwelt in the shade,
or in the twilight at the best, if you have not beheld the Saviour,
entertained him, and tasted that he is gracious. You have missed the
cream. You have been stopping outside in the farmyard feeding with the
swine. You do not know what the fatted calf is, upon which the children
feed at the Father's table. You have been a dog, satisfied with the bones,
not knowing the fatness and the marrow of true life. But the Christian,
dear friends, finds Christ to be so inconceivably precious, such a fountain
of delight, such a river of mercy, that when he receives him, he receives
him joyfully, and the longer he knows him the more joyful he is to think
that he ever received him at all. And now, such being the reasons why
some receive Christ joyfully, let us ask:--
III. How Do They Show It? In What Ways and by What Means Do They Express
Their Joy?
I have known some who have taken very strange ways of showing their
joy. They have been inclined to stand up and shout in the very place
where they found the Saviour, while others could only sit still and water
the floor with their tears, feeling as if for the next week or two they did
not want to look anybody in the face, but just in solemn silence of the
mind to revel in the company of their adorable Lord. We do not wonder
that some people show a little strange enthusiasm when they first come
to know Christ. It is no marvel. When a man has been in prison for
months he may well be a little demonstrative in his joy on obtaining his
liberty; so when a soul has been under the burden of sin, and bound with
its galling chain, he may well leap, as Bunyan tells us his pilgrim did,
when the burden was loosed off him and rolled away.
Yet there are other and better ways of expressing satisfaction and
pleasure than these which have much of the flesh, much of the natural
disposition about them. Though not to be condemned, still they are not to
be commended. A better way of showing that you have received Christ
joyfully is by turning out his enemies. When you receive Christ in at the
front door, you must not keep the devil in the back parlour. Every traitor
sin must be ejected when the Great King takes up his residence in your
heart. The thorough cleansing of your house from every defilement is the
smallest tribute we can expect you to pay in deference to your royal
guest. The soul that receives Christ joyfully sighs and groans because it
cannot make, as it would, a clean sweep of its sin. I know you do not
love Christ if you cling to your sins; if you love Christ heartily, you will
put away your iniquities:--
"The dearest idol I have known,
Whate'er that idol be;
Help me to tear it from its throne,
And worship only thee."
And when you do receive Christ joyfully, you will be eager to obey his
instructions. Like Zaccheus, you will ask, "Lord, what wouldst thou have
me to do?" Christ was going to Zaccheus's house; and you know what
people say when they have a guest they are anxious to please. They
entreat him thus, "Now just do as you like; consider yourself at home;
whatever you want, ask for; only tell us what we can do to make you
happy, and we shall be glad to do it." This is how every cheerful holy
soul dealeth with Christ. He says, "Lord, tell us what thou wouldest have
me to do; only let me know thy will; tell me by thy Word, by thy
minister, by thy Holy Spirit; work in my own heart personally; teach me
thy way, and oh! my God, my heart shall be glad to conform to thy
wishes." Have you all done this? Have you been obedient to all the
Saviour's commands, or have you sought to observe them? If you have,
this should be an evidence of your receiving him joyfully.
Another proof of our joy in receiving Christ is receiving his people. This,
in more ways than one, he has made the test of attachment to himself.
"Love one another." "Feed my lambs." "If ye have done it unto one of the
least of my brethren, ye have done it unto me". Just as Laban said when
he took in Eliezer, "There is room for thee, and room for the camels," so
let there be room in our hearts for Jesus. There will be room for some of
these poor troubled ones, these burdened saints. They may not always be
pleasant company, but we shall be willing to receive them, and to join
with them, because of their Master. Now, dear friend, if you are a
Christian, and have received Christ, unite yourselves with his people;
make a profession of your faith; come out and join the people of God,
and do not be ashamed with them to suffer the reproach of Christ.
And if you have received Christ joyfully, you will love his cross. I mean
not only the cross which he had to carry, but the cross which you now
have to carry for him. You will count it a great privilege to suffer
reproach for his sake. You will love the cross. "No cross no crown," is an
ancient motto; but it is just as true today as it was a thousand years ago.
The faith that Moses illustrated you will follow, counting the reproach of
Christ to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. If you receive the
Master in good part, you will say, "Come in, my Master; come in, and
bring thy cross, too, and I will bear it cheerfully, for thy sake."
Moreover, you will prove the grateful welcome you give him by wishing
that other people may receive him joyfully too. I cannot believe thou
knowest my Master if thou doest not wish to make him known. Were you
cured of some sad disease, and met with a sufferer as bad as you once
were, your tongue would be quick to tell him of the medicine that can
cure him. And surely, if you have been saved from the damning power of
sin by Christ, you will want to be telling it to the sons of men that there
is balm in Gilead, and that there is a physician there. Perhaps you cannot
preach. Possibly not half a dozen people might be edified were you to try.
But you can talk to a neighbour. You can speak with your children. I was
pleased today, in reading the life of John Wesley's mother, to notice how
she set apart Monday to speak to one of her daughters; Tuesday to speak
to another; Wednesday to speak, as she says, "to Jack," meaning John
Wesley; and Thursday to speak to Charles; so that they each had a day,
and there was an hour each day given to speak to each child about the
affairs of the soul. That is the way to win the children for God. Depend
upon it, reader, the blessing of God, the Holy Spirit, if we experimentally
know the joy of religion ourselves, will be the means of much good to
others, if we make it a point to "tell to sinners round what a dear Saviour
we have found."
May the Lord, in his mercy, call you as he called Zaccheus. May many of
you receive him joyfully as Zaccheus did. Seek him, and he shall be
found of you. Trust him; he will not deceive you. Cast your soul upon
him; he will be as good as his Word. Mark his promise, "Him that
cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out." Faithful is he that gives you
this grateful encouragement. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ now, and
through countless ages you will look back upon this fleeting hour with
joy unspeakable, perennial--with gratitude that eternity cannot exhaust.
Amen.
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