The sermon centers on Revelation 5:10 and attributes the saints’ salvation and dignity entirely to Christ, the Lamb who fulfilled the covenant through His suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension. Those redeemed by Christ are described as kings and priests: they possess access to God, offer prayer and praise, and serve the expansion of the Gospel. Spurgeon distinguishes Christ’s once-for-all propitiation from the believer’s continuing sacrifices of thanksgiving, service, and material generosity. The sermon concludes with confidence that Christ’s kingdom will ultimately prevail and that His saints will reign with Him.
Theological center: Christ’s atoning death and completed redemptive work establish believers as kings and priests unto God.
Applications: Give Christ all saving glory · Take the Gospel to sinners · Offer holy thanksgiving · Give generously to God
Primary texts: Revelation 5:10 · Revelation 5:1-14
“And hath made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:10 “MUSIC has charms.” I am sure sacred music has, for I have felt something of its charms whilst we have been singing that glorious hymn just now. There is a potency in harmony. There is a magic power in melody, which either melts the soul to pity or lifts it up to joy unspeakable. I do not know how it may be with some minds, they possibly may resist the influence of singing, but I cannot. When the saints of God, in full chorus, “chaunt the solemn lay,” and when I hear sweet syllables fall from their lips, keeping measure and time, then I feel elevated, and forgetting for a time everything terrestrial, I soar aloft towards heaven. If such be the sweetness of the music of the saints below, whe…