“The divine Spirit wounds
before He heals, He kills before He makes alive. We usually draw
a distinction between law-work and Gospel-work; but law-work
is the work of the Spirit of God, and is so far a true Gospel-work
that it is a frequent preliminary to the joy and peace of the
Gospel. The Law is the needle which draws after it the silken
thread of blessing, and you cannot get the thread into the stuff
without the needle: Men do not receive the liberty wherewith
Christ makes them free till, first of all, they have felt bondage
within their own spirit driving them to cry for liberty to the
great Emancipator, the Lord Jesus Christ. This sense or spirit
of bondage works for our salvation by leading us to cry for mercy.”—C.
H. Spurgeon
The Book of Acts
Does Not Give All the Details
of What the Apostles
Preached!