Sword & Trowel 2018: Issue 1


SPURGEON’S SERMON NOTES


Pulpit notes by C H Spurgeon, preached Sunday March 22nd 1874. Readers can see the whole sermon as preached in Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (‘The Christian’s Motto’, sermon 1165).


‘I do always those things that please him.’


JOHN 8.29


Our Lord was the lone advocate of right and truth, those who followed him were rather his care than his help. His enemies were many and powerful yet he went calmly on for God was with him. We need the same blessing and therefore let us gaze upon him and learn from him how to secure it.


I Let us admire our Mediator 1. His Incarnation, ‘Lo, I come &c’


2. His obscure life. ‘This is my belov- ed Son.’ Father’s business. He grew in favour with God and man.


3. Pleased with him at baptism when he began his public ministry, in the wilderness angels came.


4. With his life of veiled glory, at Tabor, it thundered, Isaiah 42.21. He kept the ceremonial, moral, and me- diatorial law.


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5. His death. It pleased the Lord to bruise him. Voluntary, submissive, believing, triumphant. Now is the Father pleased to place in him all ful- ness and he is pleased that he should give it out to sinners and to all his saints. All the works of Jesus please the Father. His intercession and forerunning. His reign and his judge- ment. The Father is with the work of Jesus now. What encouragement to workers! What hope for sinners!


II Let us imitate our Model


1. This will imply that we are our- selves pleasing to him. This can only be in Jesus and we are there only by faith. If we act by self, we are in the flesh, and cannot please God.


2. There must be an absence of that which does not please. Pride, sloth, unwatchfulness, anger, murmuring, being cumbered, unbelief &c must be eschewed.


3. There must be an intent, a study, an anxiety to please. Much lies in the spirit of our acts. In obedience to the Holy Spirit we must consult, yield to and delight in the will of the Father.


4. There must be a copying of the Lord Jesus whose life was permanent- ly a life of


Prayer and fellowship with God.


Love, gentleness, and goodness to men.


Doing good zealously.


Self-denial, and seeking God’s glory.


Going without the camp.


Complete absorption in the divine will.


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