Spurgeon often addresses the kind of Christian despondency that breeds a shameful passivity. He opens this sermon with a lengthy introduction bemoaning the low expectations of God’s people—people who yearn for a lively past and have vague hopes for a brighter future, but have given up all present hopes: “Not here, not now, not us!” This is the attitude that calls inaction, patience, and labels unbelief as realism. To counteract this ugly spirit, Spurgeon presses upon us the signs of harvest (and yes, we might long for more of those in our day!); he points out the wants or needs of harvest, the way in which we should engage in a day when there is work to be done; he warns us of the fears of harvest, reminding all his hearers, both converted and otherwise, that time passes and the work undone might be left undone forever. I can imagine the same despondent Christians today saying that Spurgeon’s circumstances allow him to hope in a way that we cannot; in fact, though we may face particular challenges, the very scope of the work ought to rouse our spirits for labour.
Purging Out the Leaven (S965)
Right Replies to Right Requests (S959)
A String of Pearls (S948)
The Way (S942)
The Winnowing Fan (S940)
Martha and Mary (S927)
Nathanael and the Fig Tree (S921)
Work In Us and Work By Us (S914)
Overwhelming Obligations (S910)
The Upper Hand (S901) Rom 6:14
A Word With Those Who Wait for Signs and Wonders (S898)
Serving the Lord (S885)
A Well-Ordered Life (S878)
The Unwearied Runner (S876)
Tearful Sowing and Joyful Reaping (S867)
The Fulness of Jesus the Treasury of the Saints (S858)
Fire—The Want of the Times (S854)
Justification by Faith—Illustrated by Abram’s Righteousness (S844)
Sins of Omission (S838)
Grey Hairs (S830)
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