Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Quote on Lent
Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon spoke of Lent. Here are excerpts from some of his sermons. No wonder why Roman Catholics find him offensive when they read the REST of his works because they are SO STUCK in the love of their legalistic system ran by sexually immoral Pharisees who are mostly either seducing women or raping altar boys:
The Christ-Given Rest, Volume 39, Sermon #2298:
Colossians 2:16. 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. 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 nothing to this one Foundation which is once and for all laid in Him!
A Door Of Hope, Volume 47, Sermon #2750
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’s children have is quite enough to make them forget all this and go fasting more forty days and yet not hunger! There are some days when God’s children are satisfied with fatness—and 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—content 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—it may be that you have acquired this falsehood from the hypocrite—but from the real Christian, I know that you have had very little that will lead to such a conclusion as that!
Rejoicing And Remembering, Volume 42, Sermon #2461
Come, then, and for your own good hang up the sackbut and take down the psaltery—put away the ashes! What if men call this season, “Lent”? We will keep no Lent, tonight—this 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—and I hope many of you will join with me in the happy occupation which will be helpful to yourselves.
Simply, Christians are saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ but true faith is not alone, it is not a dead faith but a living faith. Ephesians 2:8-10 is clear saying Christians are not saved by works by themselves and by faith, but this faith has created them to do good works not for their salvation but because as a result of salvation. Titus 2:11-14 teaches God's grace creates good works for the Christian not self-glory but rather for the glory of God.