Mark you, wherever the Holy Spirit does really come, He always leads the soul to look to Christ. Never yet did a man receive the Spirit of God unto salvation, unless he received Him to the bringing of him to look to Christ and mourn for sin. Faith and repentance are born together, live together and thrive together. Let no man put asunder what God has joined together. No man can repent of sin without believing in Jesus, nor believe in Jesus without repenting of sin. Look, then, lovingly to Him that bled upon the Cross for you, for in that look you shall find pardon and receive softening. How wonderful that all our evils should be remedied by that one sole prescription—"Look unto Me and be you saved, all the ends of the earth"! Yet none will look until the Spirit of God inclines them so to do. And He works on none to their salvation unless they yield to His influences and turn their eyes to Jesus.
- CH Spurgeon
How Hearts Are Softened
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 33
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