From the Heart of Spurgeon

The Resurrection of the Dead (Sermon 66-67)

When the Apostles preached, they always emphasized the necessity of the resurrection of the dead. Spurgeon challenged his church as to whether or not they really believed in the resurrection. Using a battery of texts, Spurgeon shows us not only the importance of believing in the life to come after death, but the comfort it offers every Christian.

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The Enchanted Ground (Sermon 64)

You may know of Spurgeon’s affection for the great allegory of Christian experience by John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. Here we see something of the debt Spurgeon owed to Bunyan in his imagination. While he hangs it all on the Word of God, Spurgeon uses an illustration or image from Bunyan as the central theme of his sermon, calling God’s people to avoid spiritual sleepiness, and be wakeful and watchful, vital and vigorous, in our Christian labour. It is no toothless homily, no soft and sleep-inducing sermon, but one calculated to probe and prod the dull soul.

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Christ Our Passover (Sermon 54)

An instructive example of Spurgeon reading his Bible with the expectation of finding Christ. Looking at the Old Testament through the lens of the new, here Spurgeon draws out parallels between the Passover lamb and Christ as the Lamb of God. Having drawn out those connections, he then emphasizes the needs not only to come to Christ but also to keep in Christ, to live by him and in him. Not only does this sermon hold out a sweet and sufficient Saviour, it is a good prompt to us to expect to see Christ in all our Bibles.

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The Holy Ghost: The Great Teacher (Sermon 50)

The person and work of the Holy Spirit looms large in Spurgeon’s ministry. While the Holy Spirit’s ministry is implicit in many of his declaration so confidence, here is a wonderful declaration—clear and warm—of the operations of the Holy Ghost in leading us into all truth. Here is some of the blessed supernaturalism of true Christianity, and here is an insight into Spurgeon’s own expectant dependence on the third person of the Godhead.

Election (Sermon 41-42)

Perhaps not the smoothest of Spurgeon’s sermons, but nonetheless direct and earnest for that. Contending from church history and revealed truth for the fact that God chooses sinners, in sovereign mercy, for salvation, he turns the doctrine in different directions to challenge, comfort, encourage, exhort and invite. The outcome is a sweet and potent testimony to God’s grace in redemption. 

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Preach the Gospel (Sermon 34)

Combining both a study of the thing with the thing itself, Spurgeon shows us what it means to preach the gospel. His sense of this is properly broad and yet rightly narrow, and at once exposes human pride and imposes a real duty, to be pursued in all humility and dependence on the Holy Ghost. If we want to exalt Christ in our preaching, we would do well to learn what is spoken here.

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Lively Reading: Preach the Gospel (Sermon 34)

This sermon shows Spurgeon's gospel heart and burns with gospel heat: it gives us a window into the conviction, intensity, and fervency of a man taken up with the truth and laboring under a sense of it. It illuminates the mind and warms the affections in equal measure, as Spurgeon lays out the importance not only of preaching, but also of understanding and receiving God's gospel.

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Forgiveness (Sermon 24)

Spurgeon calls Isaiah 43:25 a “salvation text”—a portion of God’s Word that seems particularly suited by God for calling and bringing sinners to himself. With this eager confidence, he labours to speak plainly to the his congregation as sinners who need mercy, delights in the blotting out of transgression in a demonstration of mercy, traces mercy back to its root in the sovereign love of a gracious God, and then holds out the promise of mercy to all who come to Christ.

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Imitators of Christ

Such simplicity, such straightforwardness! Taking Acts 4:13 as his starting point, Spurgeon asks whether or not we show that we have been with Jesus.

He asks what a Christian should be, when a Christian should be so, why he should be so, and how he can be so. Then he holds Christ before us as we see him in the Scriptures, urging principled obedience in the power of the Spirit at all times and in all places, for the sake of our own souls, the honor of true religion, and the glory of Christ himself.

 

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The Bible

Based on Hosea 8:12, preached very early in his ministry, Spurgeon plants a flag that emphasizes the clarity and sufficiency of God's revelation of Himself.

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