FROM THE DEPTHS

VIEWS FROM THE DEEP

During his forty-year ministry, C.H. Spurgeon published 3,600 sermons. Of those, I have recorded less than a hundred for this website (and pray to add many more!) Now, if I have regret, I could not dive deeply into his massive ocean of wonderful writings and bring to the surface all of the riches to be found in his preaching from God’s Word. For me to record a sermon is merely to troll the surface. However, there are some sermons that God so impressed upon me that I wanted to dive deeply and release the life-giving oxygen to float up by you. 

A Millpond Ink Production
Side-by-Side Survey

based on the sermons of Charles Haddon Spurgeon 

FROM THE DEPTHS is a side-by-side survey of personally selected Charles Haddon Spurgeon sermons that have had a particular impact on me. Free to you, these sermons present answers to questions that I have long had, and I believe that you too may have asked.  

What do we mean by a side-by-side survey? As with our purchasable side-by-side products, each sermon offers you the following:

  • Basic Sermon title and Scripture referenced,
  • My opening prayer for us in our understanding and application of the sermon,
  • The audio of the sermon, read by me, David Marchuck Barbour,
  • Full text of the sermon (without editing) for your reading edification (left-hand-side), and
  • A personal journal or text section (right-hand-side) for you to write and preserve your own thoughts. 

The King James Version of the Bible is used in our survey for consistency in hearing, reading and applying C.H. Spurgeon’s sermons to his text. 

 

 

GOD’S ESTIMATE OF TIME

Preached April 27, 1862

Personal Appeal: I have always felt alone in my thoughts about time and eternity. What was time to God? When I read certain Scriptures about God and time; such as 2 Peter 3:8, Isaiah 57:15, and Psalm 90:4, I sensed that God’s habitation was timeless… eternal… yesterday, today, and tomorrow coming together to form ‘Today.’ Then, when I hear people talk about the promised return of the Lord Jesus to earth, I would hear naysayers say, ‘People have been saying that for hundreds of years.’ Some would scoff and mutter, ‘Yeah, right.’ My thought on Christ’s coming and when? What is a day? A year? Ten thousands years to God? In C.H. Spurgeon’s sermon, God’s Estimate of Time, he explains, and we should take the time to heed. 

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God’s Will and Man’s Will

Preached March 30, 1862

Personal Appeal: I have occasionally become frustrated in my understanding of the doctrines of the sovereignty of God, and man’s responsibility when those doctrines affected my view of others. Not that I questioned my responsibility to trust and obey God. I am accountable. However, when others did not follow through with their commitments to me, I would say, ‘well, clearly God did not will their interest and support of my outreach.’ In effect, I excused their actions (or inaction) as God’s will for me even though they said they prayed for God’s blessing and use of my labor here at Millpond Ink. Not surprisingly, my excuse brought no solace. Thus, I became increasingly frustrated when I excused their saying one thing and doing another. Clearly, I needed a correction in the way I thought about God’s will and man’s will working together. Father used C.H. Spurgeon’s sermon to disciple me on the question.  

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The Death of the Christian

Preached September 9, 1855

This sermon by C.H. Spurgeon is by far the best sermon that I have read and had the opportunity to record on the subject of death. Considering that he preached this sermon in the midst of the Cholera pandemic (1846 – 1860,) this sermon was especially meaningful in light of Pastor Spurgeon’s noted ministry to the affected. He went into the homes of those caught in death’s grip to minister to them. Thus, when he preached this sermon, you can imagine that his faith and hope in Christ was real, and he walked the walk.     

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