The Gospel for The People
by Charles H. Spurgeon
compiled by Thomas Spurgeon,
Solid Ground Christian Books, 2013
Charles Spurgeon died in 1892. Over the 57 years he was allotted he and his sermons had become famous. Most had been published, and people were reading them to their families and friends. One difficulty in doing that was their length. With that in mind, Spurgeon's son Thomas selected 60 of the shorter sermons and published them in 1895 as this book, "for reading in the bush, and on the sea, and at the fire-side."
Let's sample two of them from the book of Hebrews. First we have the sermon on "But we see Jesus," Heb. 2:19.
compiled by Thomas Spurgeon,
Solid Ground Christian Books, 2013
Charles Spurgeon died in 1892. Over the 57 years he was allotted he and his sermons had become famous. Most had been published, and people were reading them to their families and friends. One difficulty in doing that was their length. With that in mind, Spurgeon's son Thomas selected 60 of the shorter sermons and published them in 1895 as this book, "for reading in the bush, and on the sea, and at the fire-side."
Let's sample two of them from the book of Hebrews. First we have the sermon on "But we see Jesus," Heb. 2:19.
The text begins with "but", because it refers to some things which we do not yet see, which are the objects of strong desire. "We see not yet all things put under him." We do not as yet see Jesus acknowledged as King of kings by all mankind, and this causes us great sorrow. ... "But," saith the apostle, "we see Jesus," and this sight compensates for all others, for we see him now, no longer made a little lower than the angels, and tasting the bitterness of death, but "crowned with glory and honour." ...
Sin once doomed us to eternal despair, but not now, for he who hath put away sin by the sacrifice of himself hath justified his people by his resurrection. The debt no longer burdens us, for there in eternal glory is the Man who paid it once for all. A sight of Jesus kills each guilty fear, silences each threat of conscience ...
Second we have the sermon on Hebrews 11: 13-14. "These all died in faith ... and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
There is a distinction which men think little of, which is greatly observed of God; and that is the distinction between them that believe and those that believe not. Faith puts you across the border most effectually, for it brings you out of darkness into marvelous light, from death to life, and from the dominion of Satan into the kingdom of God's dear son. ... The Lord seems to erect a mausoleum in which lie asleep the bodies of his people, and he writes this epitaph across the front, "These all died in faith." As for those who died without faith, they died indeed. ...
How do we live if we live by faith? The answer is, they "confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." So we are. We are strangers by nature. Born from above, our life differs from those about us. ... We are strangers as to citizenship. Here we are aliens and foreigners. ... We are strangers as to pursuits. We are wayfaring men hurrying through this Vanity Fair. The men of the fair cry, "Buy! Buy!, but they have no wares we care to purchase. We buy the truth, and they do not trade in that commodity.
I hope that in this book you help yourself to these smaller doses of Spurgeon's strong Gospel medicine.