The sermon centers on Psalm 47:4, presenting Christ as the Redeemer who wisely chooses the believer’s inheritance. Spurgeon strongly emphasizes election, human depravity, and salvation by grace rather than autonomous human will. He applies providence to life circumstances, employment, ministry, anxiety, and prayer, urging believers to surrender their preferences and trust God’s loving wisdom. The closing warning distinguishes the invisible church of true believers from outward religious association and calls hearers to examine whether they are genuinely Christ’s.
Theological center: God’s sovereign grace and providence determine the believer’s inheritance and order every circumstance without making God the author of sin.
Applications: Surrender Every Circumstance · Pray for God’s Choice · Trust God in Anxiety · Examine Your Belonging to Christ
Primary texts: Psalm 47:4 · Jeremiah 10:23 · Matthew 6:33
“He shall choose our inheritance for us.” Psalm 47:4 THE Christian is always pleased and delighted when he can see Christ in the Scriptures. If he can but detect the footstep of his Lord and discover that the sacred writers are making some reference to Him, however indistinct or dark, he will rejoice there at. For all the Scriptures are nothing except as we find Christ in them. St. Austin says, “The Scriptures are the swaddling bands of the man-child—Christ Jesus, and were all intended to be hallowed garments in which to wrap Him.” So they are, and it is our pleasant duty to lift the veil, or remove the garment of Jesus, and so behold Him in His person, in His nature, or His offices. Now this text is concerning Jesus Christ—He it is who is to “choose our inheritance for us.” He in whom dw…