Making friends with your brother's assassin

Consorting With the Enemy
Few sermons are easy to remember. But illustrations are easy to remember. It is a rare gravity of some preacher's to paint such pictures of biblical truth, we cannot but think of them constantly.

Below is one of the most gripping illustrations about sin from Charles Spurgeon: 

​Let us abhor the sin which brought such agony upon our beloved Lord. What an accursed thing is sin, which crucified the Lord Jesus! Do you laugh at it? Will you go and spend an evening to see a mimic performance of it? Do you roll sin under your tongue as a sweet morsel, and then come to God’s house, on the Lord’s-day morning, and think to worship him? Worship him! Worship him, with sin indulged in your breast! Worship him, with sin loved and pampered in your life!

O sirs, if I had a dear brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I valued the knife which had been crimsoned with his blood? —if I made a friend of the murderer, and daily consorted with the assassin, who drove the dagger into my brother’s heart? Surely I, too, must be an accomplice in the crime! Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it? Oh, that there was an abyss as deep as Christ’s misery, that I might at once hurl this dagger of sin into its depths, whence it might never be brought to light again! 

(Taken from Lama Sabacthani?, a sermon on Matthew 27:46, preached on March 2nd, 1890, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London.)