Sword & Trowel 2016: Issue 2
SPURGEON’S SERMON NOTES
Pulpit notes by C H Spurgeon, preached Sunday March 29th 1874. Readers can see the whole sermon as preached in Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (‘Marrow and Fatness’, sermon 1166).
‘Then went king David in, and sat
before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God? And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant. For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them. Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.’
2 SAMUEL 7.18-22 D
AVID was overwhelmed with the mercy which the Lord heaped upon him. He went into the place of access and sat resting, wait- ing, and adoring in the immediate presence of the Lord his God. There he mused and saw further into the covenant, (see Acts 2.30) and saw that Jesus was promised to be of his race. In like manner let all the saved
have boldness of access and sit down, and feel as he did. We note –
page 28 Spurgeon’s Sermon Notes I. His humility
In the presence of the mercy of God he remembered –
1. The lowliness of his origin. ‘I took thee from the sheepcote.’
2. The littleness of himself. ‘Who am I?’ He saw in himself no natural qualifications, or excellencies.
3. The lack of all desert. Even after he had been a ruler, much less before.
4. His utter nothingness before the Lord God. Nothing humbles us like a sense of divine love.
II. His wondering gratitude
1. At what had been done. Preserva- tion while in sin, calling out of sin, renewal of heart, pardon, justification, sanctification, adoption &c &c.
2. At what was promised. Laid up as well as laid out. Preservation, provi- sion, preparation, aid in death, eternal glory. ‘A great while to come.’ He speaks as if each mercy eclipsed all preceding.
3. At the manner of it all. Not after the law of man, or the custom of man: but after the law of THE MAN. Grace so free, so forgiving, so con- stant, so bounteous, so divine is amazing.
III. His love
1. Love struck dumb by an unspeak- able gift. What shall we say to these things?
2. Love in childlike accents mention- ing its own name, ‘What can David say more?’
3. Love communing, wishing to speak, ‘unto thee’, and glad to appeal to him who knows its heart.
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