We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the certainty of salvation through Christ's death for countless individuals.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon conveys the theological belief that Christ's sacrificial death guarantees the salvation of a vast multitude of people. It asserts not only the possibility of salvation through Christ but also the necessity and inevitability of being saved for those who believe, reflecting the deep assurance found in the Christian faith regarding redemption and eternal life.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the assurance of salvation, this quote can be used to illustrate the promise of faith in Christ.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Remembrance is a form of meeting.
Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.
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