Hold the Hot Sauce!
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
“There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished or to improve that in which the Lord Jehovah finds perfect satisfaction.” – C.H. Spurgeon
“Can you please taste it first?” Deanna said for the thousandth time as she shook her head and rolled her eyes at me.
After 40 years of marriage, Deanna knows me like the inside of a book. And so, she knows that when she serves dinner, I instinctively reach for the pepper, hot sauce, or some other condiment.
To please my long-suffering wife, I usually abide by her wishes and more often than not, I realize that she is right. The food is so delicious that it doesn’t need a single additive!
That is the point that Charles Spurgeon, the “Prince of Preachers”, is trying to make in today’s quote. Jesus’s sacrificial and atoning death on the cross was so perfect and so all-sufficient that nothing more needed to be added.
No good deeds, no human works, and no time spent in a fictitious place called Purgatory.
“It is finished,” Jesus cried… and He wasn’t talking about His life. On the contrary, He was referring to His payment for the sins of all mankind. Our only responsibility is to set aside our pride, repent of our sins, and accept Jesus as our Savior.
As the hymnwriter said…
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
“For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 (BSB)
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
