The Treasury of David
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
3. Let usbreak their bands asunder. “Let us be free to commit all manner of abominations. Let us be our own
gods. Let us rid ourselves of all restraint.” Gathering impudence by the traitorous proposition of rebellion, they
add let us cast away as if it were an easy matter—“let us fling off their cords from us.” What! O ye kings, do ye think think yourselves Samsons? Are the bands
of Omnipotence like green twigs before you? Do you dream that you will snap to
pieces and destroy the mandates of God—the decrees of the Most High—as if they
were but threads? And do you say, “Let us
cast away their cords from us”? Yes!
There are monarchs who have spoken thus, and there are still rebels on thrones.
However mad the resolution to revolt from God, it is one in which man has
persevered ever since his creation, and he continues in it to this very day.
The glorious reign of Jesus in the latter day will not be consummated until a
terrible struggle has convulsed the nations. His coming will be as a refiner’s
fire, and like fuller’s soap, and the day thereof shall burn as an oven. Earth
loves not her rightful monarch, but clings to the usurper’s sway: the terrible
conflicts of the last days will illustrate both the world’s love of sin and
Jehovah’s power to give the kingdom to his only begotten. To a graceless neck
the yoke of Christ is intolerable, but to the saved sinner it is easy and
light. We may judge ourselves by this: do we love that yoke, or do we wish to
cast it off?
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