Colossians 2:16.\u00a0<\/strong>Let no man, therefore, judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sab- bath.\u00a0<\/em>Do not let anybody come in and tell you that it is necessary for your salvation that you should abstain from this meat or that drink, that there is a merit in fasting for 40 days in Lent, or that you cannot be saved without observing such and such a holy day. Your salvation is in Christ! Keep to that and add\u00a0nothing\u00a0to this one Foundation which is once and for all laid in Him!<\/em><\/p>\nThe Christ-Given Rest<\/strong>,\u00a0Volume 39, Sermon #2298<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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For Christians, though they have long Lents, do have happy Easters! They may sometimes have forty days of fasting, but one day of such feasting as God\u2019s children have is quite enough to make them forget all this and go fasting more forty days and yet not hunger!<\/em> There are some days when God\u2019s children are satisfied with fatness\u2014and so satisfied that they have not only all that heart could wish, but their cup runs over and they can do nothing but sit down in astonishment, in a very repletion of satisfaction\u2014content to sing and so to pour out their souls in gratitude before God! Oh, you who think that religion is a dull, dry, dreary thing, from where did you get this idea? Perhaps you have derived it from the Pharisee\u2014it may be that you have acquired this falsehood from the hypocrite\u2014but from the real Christian, I know that you have had very little that will lead to such a conclusion as that!<\/p>\nA Door Of Hope<\/strong>,\u00a0Volume 47, Sermon #2750<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Come, then, and for your own good hang up the sackbut and take down the psaltery\u2014put away the ashes! What if men call this season, \u201cLent\u201d? We will keep no Lent, tonight\u2014this is our Eastertide! Our Lord has risen from the dead and He is among us, and we will rejoice in Him! Come, Beloved, surely it is time that we did, for a while, at least, forget our pain, griefs and all the worries of this weary world and, for one, I must, I will, be glad and rejoice in my Lord\u2014and I hope many of you will join with me in the happy occupation which will be helpful to yourselves.<\/p>\n
Rejoicing And Remembering<\/strong>,\u00a0Volume 42, Sermon #2461<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
I found a few more occasions where Spurgeon mentioned Lent, but these are the best. The short of it is this: No where that I\u2019ve found says that Spurgeon said Lent was blasphemy, by any sort. Rather, Spurgeon will consistently emphasize that it\u2019s not the legalistic(it might not be, but that\u2019s how it\u2019s often seen) act of Lent that produces salvation or any merit, but Jesus Christ. We should never add anything to that foundation, and if we do we are probably compromising the gospel. It\u2019s not about Lent, it\u2019s not about the 40 days, it\u2019s about the risen Jesus Christ. That was his message he preached 150 years ago and it\u2019s the same message we should preach today.<\/p>\n
With that said, I think we can \u201cdo\u201d the season of lent. More than that, I think pursuing holiness should be something we are always chasing after. We strive, work, pursue and obey from our position in Christ, rather than for our position in Christ. We are not saved by works (Lent), rather we are saved to good works. To quote the Reformation formula, \u201cWe are saved by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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