A quote from near the beginning of it:
One of the greatest preachers of all time was Charles H. Spurgeon.
Listen as he shares the testimony of his conversion: “I confess that I had
been tutored in piety, put into my cradle by prayerful hands, and lulled
to sleep by songs about Jesus. I had heard the Gospel continually. Yet,
when the Word of the Lord came to me with power, it was as new as if I
had lived among the unvisited tribes of Central Africa and had never
heard the tidings of the cleansing foundation filled with blood, drawn
from the Savior’s veins.
When for the first time I received the Gospel and my soul was
saved, I thought that I had never really heard it before. I began to think
that the preachers to whom I had listened had not truly preached it. But,
on looking back, I am inclined to believe that I had heard the Gospel
fully preached many hundreds of times before. This was the
difference: I then heard it as though I did not hear it. When I did hear it,
the message may not have been any clearer in itself than it had been at
former times, but the power of the Holy Spirit was present to open my
ears and to guide the message to my heart.
Then I thought I had never heard the truth preached before. Now I
am persuaded that the light shone often on my eyes, but I was blind;
therefore, I thought that the light had never come there. The light was
shining all the while, but there was no power to receive it. The eyeball
of the soul was not sensitive to the divine beams” (Spurgeon 26-28).
Spurgeon’s testimony is a powerful illustration of how ineffective
the gospel is to a mind that is blinded to it. Sharing the gospel with
those for whom no one has prayed is like encouraging a blind man to
view a beautiful sunset with you. It is a hopeless case, for he is blind.
He cannot see!
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