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The sermon presents God as sovereign over creation and righteous in demanding human obedience, while emphasizing the profound rebellion and guilt of sinners. Spurgeon teaches that external restraints, religious ordinances, moral resolutions, and providential warnings cannot produce true holiness because the human heart must be regenerated. Christ’s death is proclaimed as sufficient to forgive even chief sinners, and His invitation is extended to all who come. The hearer is pressed to repent, believe in Christ, and refuse delay, with salvation promised to believers and judgment warned for those who persist in unbelief.
Theological center: Because humanity is radically corrupted and unable to transform itself, salvation depends on God’s regenerating grace and Christ’s atoning death, received through faith.
Applications: Confess your rebellion · Ask God for a new heart · Come to Christ for salvation · Believe without delay
Primary texts: Jeremiah 5:22-23 · 1 Timothy 1:15 · Mark 16:16
“Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.” Jeremiah 5:22-23 [BELOVED FRIENDS AND KINDRED IN CHRIST, The days seem like weeks and the weeks seem like months since I went up to the house of the Lord. My heart and my flesh are crying out for the assembly of the saints. Oh, how I long to hear once more the solemn shout of the festal throng who with the voice of joy and praise keep holy day. I am slowly rallying. My great struggle now is with weakness. I feel as if my frail bark had weathered a heavy storm which has made every timber creak. Do not attribute this illness to my having labored too hard for my Master. For His dear sake, I would that I may yet be able to labor more. Such toils as might be hardly noticed in the camp for the service of one’s country, would excite astonishment in the church for the service of our God. And now, I entreat you for love’s sake to continue in prayer for me. When you find access to God, remember me. Mind it is not by the words of your mouth, nor yet by the cravings of your heart, but it is by the precious blood of Christ you must draw nigh to God. And when you find His sweet presence and are bedewed with His holy anointing, then pour out your souls before Him, and make mention of me in your supplications. Yours to love and serve in the Gospel, C. H. SPURGEON Clapham, Tuesday Evening, 26th October, 1858] THE majesty of God, as displayed in creation and providence, ought to stir up our hearts in adoring wonder and melt them down in willing obedience to His commands. The Almighty power of JEHOVAH, so clearly manifest in the works of His hands, should constrain us, His creatures, to fear His name and prostrate ourselves in humble reverence before His throne. When we know that the sea, however tempestuous, is entirely submissive to the behests of God, that when He says, “Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further,” it dares not encroach—“the pride of its waves is stayed.” When we know that God bridles the tempest, though “nature rocks beneath his tread,” and curbs the boisterous storm—He ought to be feared—verily, He is a God before whom it is no dishonor for us to bow ourselves in the very dust. The contemplation of the marvelous works which He does upon “the great and wide sea,” where He tosses the wa…