(Charles Spurgeon, \u201cThe Blood of the Everlasting Covenant!\u201d 1859)<\/p>\n
\u201cThe blood of the everlasting covenant!\u201d Hebrews 13:20<\/p>\n
Long before the day-star knew its place,
\nlong before God had spoken existence out of nothing,
\nlong before angel\u2019s wing had stirred the unnavigated ether,
\nlong before a solitary song had disturbed the solemnity of the silence in which God reigned supreme
\n\u2014 the Father had entered into solemn counsel with Himself, with His Son, and with His Spirit \u2014 and had in that council decreed, determined, purposed, and predestined the salvation of His people!<\/p>\n
On the Father\u2019s <\/strong>part \u2014 thus ran the covenant. I cannot tell it to you in the glorious celestial tongue in which it was written. I am glad to bring it down to the speech which suits to the ear of flesh, and to the heart of a mortal. Thus, I say, ran the covenant in lines like these: The Holy Spirit <\/strong>also, as one of the contracting parties of the covenant, gave His declaration, \u201cI hereby covenant, that all whom the Father gives to the Son \u2014 The Lord Jesus <\/strong>also, as one of the contracting parties of the covenant, gave His declaration, \u201cMy Father, on My part, I covenant that in the fullness of time, I will become man. I will live in their wretched world \u2014 and for My people, I keep the law perfectly. I will work out a spotless righteousness for them, which shall be acceptable to the demands of Your just and holy law. In due time, I will bear the sins of all My people. You shall exact all their debts upon Me. By My stripes \u2014 they shall be healed. My Father, I covenant and promise that I will be obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. I will magnify Your law, and make it honorable. I will suffer all that My people ought to have suffered. I will endure the curse of Your law \u2014 and all the vials of Your wrath shall be emptied and spent upon My head! I will then rise again, and ascend into Heaven. I will intercede for them at Your right hand. I will make Myself responsible for every one of them \u2014 that not one of those whom You have given me, shall ever be lost! I will bring all My sheep of whom, by My blood, you have constituted Me the Shepherd \u2014 I will bring every one safe to You at last!\u201d<\/p>\n Christ <\/strong>can say of what He promised to do, \u201cIt is finished!\u201d He has paid the debts of all the elect. He has, for His people and for their redemption \u2014 suffered the whole of wrath divine. Nothing remains now, except that He shall continue to intercede for them \u2014 that He may safely bring all His redeemed to glory. All for whom Christ died, shall be pardoned \u2014 all justified \u2014 all adopted.<\/p>\n The Spirit <\/strong>shall quicken them all, shall give them all faith, shall bring them all to Heaven. And they shall, every one of them, without hindrance, stand accepted in the Beloved.<\/p>\n The antiquity of the covenant of grace demands our grateful attention. It is a truth which tends to elevate the mind. I know of no doctrine more grand than this! It is the very soul and essence of all Scripture! In sitting down and meditating upon it \u2014 I confess my spirit has sometimes been ravished with delight!<\/p>\n Can you conceive of the idea, that before all things \u2014 God thought of you? That when as yet He had not made His mountains \u2014 He had thought of you; you, a poor puny worm? 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\n\u201cI, the Most High Jehovah, do hereby give unto My only begotten and well-beloved Son \u2014 a people, countless beyond the number of the stars . . .
\nwho shall be washed from sin by Him;
\nwho shall be preserved, and kept, and led by Him; and
\nat last, who shall be presented before My throne without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing by Him.
\nI covenant by oath, and swear by Myself, because I can swear by no one greater, that these whom I now give to Christ \u2014 shall forever be the objects of My eternal love!
\nThese, I will forgive through the merit of my Son\u2019s blood.
\nTo these, I will give a perfect righteousness.
\nThese, I will I adopt and make My sons and daughters.
\nAnd these shall reign with Me through Christ eternally!\u201d<\/p>\n
\nI will in due time quicken.
\nI will show them their need of redemption.
\nI will cut off all their groundless hopes, and destroy their refuges of lies.
\nI will bring them to the blood of sprinkling.
\nI will give them faith whereby this blood shall be applied to them.
\nI will work in them every grace.
\nI will keep their faith alive.
\nI will cleanse them and drive out depravity from them.
\nAnd they shall be presented at last, spotless and faultless in Heaven!\u201d
\nThis was the one side of the covenant, which is at this very day being fulfilled and scrupulously kept.<\/p>\n