Spurgeon Saturday

Preacher, Hammer Away with Gospel

On Saturdays, I’ll do my best to share an encouraging quote from my dead mentor, Charles Spurgeon. This week’s comes from a sermon on the Song of Songs.

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Love Christ and live Christ; think of Christ and speak of Christ.

When people go away from hearing you preach, may they have to say, “He kept to his subject: he knew nothing but Jesus.” It is ill when a man has to say of preachers, “They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.” Yet in certain sermons you meet with a little about everything except the one thing. They offer us what we do not need—the need of the soul is not supplied. Oh, my brethren, cause Christ to be heard. Hammer on that anvil always. If you make no music but that of the harmonious blacksmith it will suffice. Ring it out with sturdy blows—“Jesus, Jesus, Jesus crucified.” Hammer away at that.

— C. H. Spurgeon, “The Bridegroom’s Parting Word,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 29 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1883), 228.