Jewelers can only prepare and polish the choicest diamonds. But Jesus Christ polishes a common pebble, and makes a jewel of it! Jewelers make their precious treasures, out of precious materials. Christ makes His precious things, out of dross!
He always begins with bad material. Christ takes the despicable, the vilest, the scum, the off-scouring, the filth, the garbage of the world, and out of such stuff and matter as that, He builds up a holy temple, and gathers to Himself trophies for His honor and praise!
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 … Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.❤
