Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin

and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

Today we're wrapping up our discussion of the sermon entitled

Compel Them to Come In by the Extraordinary Charles Spurgeon. The focus of that sermon is Jesus'

parable of the great banquet that we see in Luke 14 verses 12 through 24. In it, Jesus describes

a banquet host, God, who invites people to a great banquet only for them to come up with excuses when it's time for the event.

The host then sends out his servants to gather the dregs of society to bring them in to the banquet instead.

All week, we've been talking about this parable.

We talked about how even the poor, maimed, halt, and blind get an invitation.

We talked about doing everything up to and including

threatening people so that they come to Christ and call him Lord. And we talked about how some people

profess Christianity, but how it's essentially a lie. And now we're here, the end of the week,

and what better way to end it than with Charles Spurgeon preaching a clear and blistering gospel to us all. One last time,

Charles Spurgeon. Here then, oh ye that are strangers to the truth as it is in Jesus. Here then the

message that I have to bring you. Ye have fallen, fallen in your father, Adam. Ye have fallen also in

yourselves by your daily sin and your constant iniquity.

You have provoked the anger of the most high, and as assuredly as you have sinned, so certainly

must God punish you if you persevere in your iniquity. For the Lord is a God of justice,

and will by no means spare the guilty. But have you not heard, Hath it not long been spoken in your ears that

God in his infinite mercy has devised a way whereby, without any infringement upon his honor,

he can have mercy upon you, the guilty and the undeserving? To you, I speak, and my voice

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