“Poor houseless soul, dost thou want a home? I have a house to let this morning for every sinner who feels his misery. Do you want a house for your soul? Then I will condescend to men of low estate and tell you in homely language that I have a house to let. Do you ask me what is the purchase? I will tell you; it is something less than proud human nature will like to give. It is without money and without price…will you take my Master’s house on lease for all eternity with nothing to pay for it, nothing but the ground-rent of loving and serving him forever? Will you take Jesus, and dwell in him throughout eternity? Or will you be content to be a houseless soul? Come inside, sir; see it is furnished from top to bottom with all you want. I t has cellars filled with gold, more than you will spend as long as you live; it hath a parlor where you can entertain yourself with Christ and feast on his love; it hath a drawing-room of brotherly love where you can receive your friends. You will find a resting room up there where you can rest with Jesus; and on the top there is a look-out whence you can see heaven itself. Will you have the house, or will you not? Ah! If you are houseless you will say, ‘I should like to have the house; but may I have it?’ Yes, there is the key. The key is, ‘Come to Jesus.’ But, you say, ‘I am too shabby for such a house.’ Never mind; there are garments inside. As Rowland Hill once said –
‘Come naked, come filthy, come ragged, come poor,
come wretched, come dirty, come just as you are’
If you feel guilty and condemned, come, and though the house is to good for you, Christ will make you good enough for it by and by. He will wash you, and cleanse you and you will be able to sing with Moses, with the same unfaltering voice, ‘Lord, thou hast been my dwelling place throughout all generations.’”
– Charles Spurgeon, Spurgeons Sermons Vol. II, The Glorious Habitation
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