Christ Is the Sum and Substance

I recently came across a sermon by Charles Spurgeon which dwells upon the place of the Lord Jesus in God’s covenant of salvation (Isaiah 49:8). Spurgeon’s point was that Christ is the sum and substance of that covenant. There was one portion of the sermon that is definitely worth remembering and I want to leave with you. Spurgeon said,

In fact, if you take Christ out of the covenant, you have just done the same as if you should break the string of a necklace; all the jewels, or beads, or corals, drop off and separate from each other. Christ is the golden string whereon the mercies of the covenant are threaded, and when you lay hold of him, you have obtained the whole string of pearls. But if Christ be taken out, true there will be the pearls, but we can not wear them, we cannot grasp them; they are separated, and poor faith can never know how to get hold of them. O! it is a mercy worth worlds, that Christ is in the covenant.