A SERMON INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD’S DAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1895. DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1887.
“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Ephesians 5:11.
Dear friends, we have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness by personally committing the sins so described. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked.” After all, a man must be judged by his life. If you do that which is holy and righteous and gracious, you have fellowship with the holy and the righteous and the gracious.
But if you do that which is unclean and dishonest, you have fellowship with the unclean and the dishonest. The Lord will, at the last, put us among those whom we are most like; in that day when He shall separate the people gathered before Him, as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats; the sheep will be put with the sheep and the goats with the goats.
If you have lived like the wicked, you will die like the wicked and be damned like the wicked!
Only those who live the life of the righteous can hope that they shall die the death of the righteous.
I, who preach to you with all my heart the doctrines of the grace of God, do, nevertheless, just as boldly remind you that the grace of God brings forth fruit in life and, where it is really in the heart, there will be in the life that which tokens its presence. If you and I are drunks, if we can do a dishonest action if we are guilty of falsehood if we are covetous, (I need not go over the list of all those evil things), then we belong to the class of men who delight in such practices; and with them, we must go forever!
We are having fellowship with them by doing as they do and we shall have an awful fellowship with them at last by suffering as they shall suffer!
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