“Oh, how I thank you [my God], that you have given me
a Savior! Without him, I confess, oh, my God, that I would be irrevocably lost
and in the most awful despair today. But I have a Savior! He has freely saved
me through his shed blood, and I want it to be known that I lean uniquely on
that poured-out blood. All my righteous acts, all my works that have been
praised, all my preaching that has been appreciated and sought after — all that
is in my eyes only filthy rags.
I want it to be known that there is nothing in me capable of surviving for one
moment before the brightness of your face and before the light of your
holiness. But now it is not I who will be judged, it is Christ in me; and I
know, I know that He will enter, and I with Him, and He and I are so fully
united that He would never enter and leave me outside.”
— Adolphe Monod, renowned
pastor in the Reformed Church of France. This is his last sermon that he
preached a week before his death.
— taken
from Living in the Hope of Glory (originally titled Les Adieux, or Farewells)
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