Book Review: All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon

The Gospel has never been only for the perishing. It is also for the living, for the justified, for the believer. The Gospel will ever, only, and always will be our single hope and the bedrock of our salvation. Why? Because the Gospel saves, and Christians, more than anyone else – for they can do so truly – must cling to the assurance of their salvation.

Clinging to this assurance can become very difficult at times.

Once we are saved, we become acutely aware of our own depravity. Once we are saved, we are spiritually enlightened to our own guilt in the eyes of the Holy Judge. Once we are saved, we realize how much we deserve to be condemned. Once we are saved from sin, we at once understand what it means to be a sinner.

And that’s why Christians need the Gospel as much as the unbeliever – because we must remember the Gospel God called us to believe – that it is God who has called us out of darkness, who has saved us solely by His grace through the blood of Christ, and who will preserve us to the end by His faithfulness.

This is not done by our works (John 6:28-29), by our filthy rags of righteousness (Isaiah 64:6), by our moral upstanding (John 3:19-21), civil service (Matthew 7:21-23), or personal sacrifice (Luke 9:23). Our salvation is only wrought through God’s grace (Ephesians 2:8-9).

All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon, is a book written specifically to be used by God in opening the eyes of an unbeliever to the way of salvation in Christ, addressing many of the common obstacles to faith. It also reaffirms the beauty of grace in the heart of the believer, shedding new warmth and light on a heart already throbbing through the blood of the Lamb.

This book explores the bountiful riches at the heart of Christianity: “Who knows how many will find their way to peace by what they read here? A more important question…..will you be one of them?”

Why Should I Read It?

Because this book points the unbeliever to his only hope of salvation. “The grandest fact under heaven is this – that Christ by His precious blood does actually put away sin, and that God, for Christ’s sake, dealing with men on terms of divine mercy, forgives the guilty and justifies them, not according to anything that He sees in them, or foresees will be in them, but according to the riches of His mercy which lie in His own heart.”

Because this book addresses our objections to the Gospel of Grace. This book stifles self-righteousness at its core, strikes dumb the wisdom of the world, humbles the proud and gives hope to the condemned. “The sinner is the gospel’s reason for existence…If you are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, you are the sort of man for whom the gospel is ordained, and arranged, and proclaimed. God justifieth the ungodly, not because they are good, but because He is good.”

This book reassures the heart of the struggling believer. “I have been certain of my condemnation because the Word of God declared it, and my conscience bore witness to it; but when the Lord justified me I was made equally certain by the same witnesses.

This book exalts the glory of God in salvation so that we can better marvel at His worthiness. “I, who am altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving. I am loved with as much love as if I had always been godly, wheras aforetime I was ungodly…Gratitude for such favor stands dressed in robes of wonder.”

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