Charles Spurgeon

Let the Christian feel that the teaching which lowers the work of Christ makes it dependent upon the will of man as to its efficacy, puts the cross on the ground, and saith, “That blood is shed, but it may be shed in vain, shed in vain for you.” – let us all feel that such teaching cometh not from the Spirit of God. That teaching it is which, pointing to the cross, saith, “He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied;” that teaching which makes the atonement a true atonement which puts away the vindictive justice of God for ever from every soul for whom that atonement was offered, exalts Christ, and therefore, it is a teaching which comes from the Spirit of God. When your heart is brought to rest upon what Christ has done, when, laying aside all confidence in your own works, knowledge, prayings, doings, or believings, you come to rest upon what Christ has done in its simplicity, then is Jesus Christ exalted in your heart, and it must have been the work of the Spirit of divine grace.