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they differed in secondary matters of theology, they stood shoulder to shoulder in championing the doctrines that magnify the sovereign grace of God in His saving purposes in the world.
arise with wings like eagles and soar
used their God-given gifts and abilities to further the kingdom of heaven.
God is sovereign in salvation, why preach the gospel?
How could one be both staunchly Calvinistic and passionately evangelistic?
extremes—the dead orthodoxy of Hyper-Calvinism or the shallow inconsistencies of Arminianism.
If John Calvin
the greatest theologian of the church, Jonathan Edwards the greatest philosopher, and George Whitefield the greatest evangelist, Spurgeon surely ranks as its greatest preacher.
Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, Calvin, and countless others have committed themselves to preaching in a verse-by-verse style through entire books of the Bible.
Spurgeon drew his message each week from a different book in the Bible. This free style distinguished Spurgeon from these other great preachers, positioning him, first and foremost, as an evangelistic expositor.
I take my text and make a beeline to the cross.
I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unpick all the mysteries of the divine Word.
win a soul from going down into the pit, is a more glorious achievement than to be crowned in the arena of theological controversy … to have faithfully unveiled the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ will be, in the final judgment, accounted worthier service than to have solved the problems of the religious Sphinx, or to have cut the Gordian knot of Apocalyptic difficulty.
and I know that I shall not enjoy my Heaven alone.
45:22: “Look unto Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth.
John Gill (1697–1771),
advocates of Arminian theology assailed him with what they regarded as the worst derision of all, calling him a dreaded Calvinist.
Spurgeon had no university degree and had not attended seminary, he founded the Pastors’ College
Through the printed page, Spurgeon’s congregation was estimated to be no less than a million people.21
“The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant” (Heb. 13:20).
Nightingale, and Gen. James Garfield, later president of the United States. Throughout the
Spurgeon found strength in preaching.
that baptism is necessary for the remission of sins.
This controversy so grieved him that it contributed to his premature death just four years later.
kidney disease and gout.
the end of the nineteenth century, more than a hundred million sermons had been sold in twenty-three languages,
print, his sermons comprise the largest bound collection of one man’s writings in the English language.
the very Word of God to break the heart and bring the soul before the throne of God, thus bringing them to a redemptive knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ
I believe nothing merely because [John] Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.
Augustine obtained his views, without doubt, through the Spirit of God, from the diligent study of the writings of Paul, and Paul received them of the Holy Ghost, from Jesus Christ.”3
Spurgeon’s beliefs were founded exclusively on what he saw plainly taught
the embodiment of sola Scriptura—Scr...
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we deny that we have anything to do with these men as authorities in the church of God, for there nothing has any authority, but “Thus saith the Lord of hosts.”
if you shall bring us the concurrent consent of all tradition—if you shall quote precedents venerable with fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen centuries of antiquity, we burn the whole as so much worthless lumber, unless you put your finger upon the passage of Holy Writ which warrants the matter to be of God.
man will preach the gospel aright who does not wholly believe it.
This volume is the writing of the living God;
I have heard men in prayer instead of saying, “
“I hold one single sentence out of God’s Word to be of more certainty and of more power than all the discoveries
I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of scriptural teaching, as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing, as one who never thought invention to be any part of his calling, but who concluded that he was simply to be a mouth for God to the people, mourning that anything of his own should come between.
must have great faith in the Word of God if you are to be winners of souls to those who hear it.
Lord?’ What are you resting upon? … Are you building upon your works? Are you depending upon your own feelings? Do you rely upon sacraments? Are you placing your trust upon the word of man? … Build upon the Word of my Lord and Master; trust your soul with Jesus.
masters of your Bibles, brethren. Whatever other works you have not searched, be at home with the writings of the prophets and apostles. ‘Let the Word of God dwell in you richly.’”29 As
understand the Bible should be our ambition; we should be familiar with it, as familiar as the housewife with her needle, the merchant with his ledger, the mariner with his ship.
ministry demands brain labor. The preacher must throw his thought into his teaching, and read and study to keep his mind in good trim.”32 In
“An idler has no right in the pulpit. He is an instrument of Satan in damning the souls of men.”34
who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.
“a Puritan
twelve thousand volumes of Bible commentaries, systematic theologies, linguistic aids, church histories, and Christian biographies.
the English Puritans widely and perceptively. The
I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this—does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?
