From the Heart of Spurgeon

Making Light of Christ (Sermon 98)

This is a more evangelistic sermon, and as such serves a good purpose for self-examination, as well as helping us to pray for those who preach and hear the gospel, and instructing us as to how we might ourselves press the claims of Christ upon those whom we love. Of course, almost incidentally but substantially, Spurgeon holds up the beauty and the glory of the Christ who is so often slighted and neglected, reminding those who believe of who and why we trust him with our souls.

 

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The Benefits and Dangers of Reading Old Books (Special episode with John Snyder)

Jeremy sat down with John Snyder, cohost of The Whole Counsel podcast to discuss why we enjoy and benefit from reading old writers. The duo also share some of the dangers and abuses of reading old books and sermons.

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God in the Covenants (Sermon 93)

Spurgeon is a Particular Baptist, following in the footsteps of those who held fast to the God of the covenant. Here he holds up and holds out the crowning jewel of the blessing of the new covenant: that God becomes our God. Setting this jewel in the context of his covenant theology, he traces out and presses home what it means for God to be the God of his people in the deepest and richest sense.

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Omniscience (Sermon 85)

Omniscience refers to the perfect and complete knowledge of God. From the simple reminder that God is the all-seeing God, Spurgeon develops not only a general doctrine of God’s knowledge, but also brings it to bear on the heart of every one of his hearers (and readers), before pressing it home with sweet comforts to the godly and faithful warnings to the unbeliever. 

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The Character of Christ's People (Sermon 78)

Spurgeon’s simplicity and spiritual sweetness are on delightful display in this sermon on John 17:16, that Christ’s people are not of the world, just as Christ was not of the world. With some surprisingly straightforward insights and a crisp structure, Spurgeon looks at the doctrinal, experiental and practical implications and applications of our union and communion with Christ in this regard.

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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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