If some of you plume yourselves with the notion that you are righteous, I pray God to pluck those fine feathers off you and make you see yourselves, for if you never see your own nothingness, you will never understand Christ’s all-sufficiency. Unless you are pulled down, Christ will never lift you up.
So begins Spurgeon bluntly reminding us about justification, and my the essay looking at the exchange Christ made on the cross to our good, and the devastating exchange pagans make when they fail to acknowledge God