The sermon teaches that the believer’s highest future joy is to behold God’s face and be satisfied in him. This hope includes bodily resurrection, when believers will awaken in the likeness of Christ and enter final glory, surpassing every earthly comfort or distinction. Present suffering is portrayed as meaningful testing rather than evidence of God’s abandonment. Spurgeon concludes that sinners should not wait to solve the mystery of election, but should come to Christ, trust his mercy, and receive salvation.
Theological center: The believer’s future salvation culminates in the beatific vision and bodily resurrection, accomplished through Christ and received by faith.
Applications: Cast yourself upon Christ · Consider the resurrection hope · Long for God’s presence · God satisfies his people
Primary texts: Psalm 17:15 · Matthew 25:34
“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake with thy likeness.” Psalm 17:15 IT would be difficult to say to which the Gospel owes most to its friends or to its enemies. It is true that by the help of God, its friends have done much for it. They have preached it in foreign lands, they have dared death, they have laughed to scorn the terrors of the grave, they have ventured all things for Christ, and so have glorified the doctrine they believed. But the enemies of Christ, unwittingly, have done no little, for when they have persecuted Christ’s servants, they have scattered them abroad, so that they have gone everywhere preaching the Word. Yea, when they have trampled upon the Gospel, like a certain herb we read of in medicine, it has grown all the…