Spurgeon on the sum and substance of the New Covenant

Spurgeon wrote that Christ is the sum and substance of the New Covenant that we are in. This is quite cliche, but what is familiar to us is often overlooked coz we thought there is nothing new to know anymore. But the Word of God is smoothing to the battered soul struggling in the our everyday affair. It's a pillar which our very being depend upon to stand up and be strong. It's food to the improvished soul, it's water to the fish washed ashore, it's breath to a drowning man. Don't take God's word and His grace for granted. Let's thirst and run after it like our life depended upon it. Feed us O God!

"I will give thee for a covenant of the people."
- Isa_49:8

Jesus Christ is himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts. He is the property of every believer. Believer, can you estimate what you have received in Christ? "In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Consider that word "God" and its infinity, and then meditate upon "perfect man" and all his beauty; for all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is yours-out of pure free favour, passed over to be your inheritance forever. Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. Will it not console you to know that all these great and glorious attributes are altogether yours? Does He have power? That power is yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to preserve you even to the end. Does He have love? Well, there is not a drop of love in his heart which is not yours; you may dive into the immense ocean of his love, and you may say of it all, "It is mine." Does He have justice? It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours, for he will by his justice see to it that all which is promised to you in the covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you. And all that he has as perfect man is yours. As a perfect man the Father’s delight was upon him. He stood accepted by the Most High. O believer, God’s acceptance of Christ is your acceptance. Don't you realise that the love which the Father set on a perfect Christ, He now sets 0n you? For all that Christ did is yours. That perfect righteousness which Jesus worked out, when through his stainless life He kept the law and made it honourable, is yours, and is imputed to you. Christ is in the covenant.

"My God, I am thine-what a comfort divine!

What a blessing to know that the Saviour is mine!

In the heavenly Lamb thrice happy I am,

And my heart it doth dance at the sound of his name."