Though it does not lack gentleness, this is not a sermon to please the dull and sullen Christian, and there are too many such. People who are happy sleeping in a warm and comfortable bed are not often appreciative of the blast of the trumpet and the call to arms. Spurgeon is concerned at his own sleepiness, and the sleepiness of others. He does a masterful job of portraying the nature and the cause of Christian drowsiness, spending the bulk of the sermon on this point. The he turns to the call and the promise of Christ to the sleeper, to awake, and to receive the light of Christ. As so often, this is not a comfortable sermon, especially to believers. You might easily resent it, evade it, dismiss it, but we ought instead to humble ourselves under it, not excuse ourselves from it, but hear it and heed it.
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Faith Illustrated (S271)
The Tabernacle of the Most High (S267)
A Home Mission Sermon (S 259)
The Necessity of the Spirit‘s Work (S251)
Mr. Fearing Comforted (S 246)
Prayer Answered, Love Nourished (S 240)
“Compel them to come in” (S227)
Lively Reading: Compel them to come in (Luke 14:23)
The Christian's Heaviness and Rejoicing (S 222)
Declension from First Love (S 217)
“As thy days, so shall thy strength be” (S210)
The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit (S201)
The Heavenly Race (S 198)
The Great Revival (S 185)
Particular Redemption (S 181)
The Two Talents (S 175)
The Warning Neglected (S 165)
The First and Greatest Commandment (S162)
Things that Accompany Salvation (S 152)
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