“I have nothing to do tonight but to preach Jesus Christ” by Charles Spurgeon

“I have nothing to do tonight but to preach Jesus Christ.

This was the old subject of the first Christian ministers: “Daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.” (Acts 5:42)

When Philip went down to the city of Samaria, he “preached Christ unto them.”

When he sat with the Ethiopian eunuch in his chariot, he “preached unto him Jesus.”

As soon as Paul was converted, “straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues.”

For once, we count the venerableness of our subject well worthy of mentioning.

We shall not be ashamed to preach what the apostles preached, and what martyrs and confessors preached.

We hope to proclaim this glorious gospel of the blessed God as long as we live.

And we hope that, when this generation of preachers shall have passed away, unless the Lord shall come, there will be ever found a succession of men who shall determine to preach nothing “save Jesus Christ and him crucified.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “Depths and Heights,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 45 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1899), 45: 385.