The sermon centers on Psalm 90:1 and portrays God as the stable home of His people amid wilderness, change, weakness, and death. Assurance is not grounded merely in religious emotion but is tested through love for believers and evidence of the Holy Spirit’s presence. Spurgeon sharply contrasts this secure habitation with the eternal homelessness of those who reject Christ. He invites sinners to receive Christ without money or merit and to dwell in Him forever through grace.
Theological center: God’s unchanging grace in Christ provides the believer’s secure habitation, confirmed by faith, love for God’s people, and the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Applications: Make God Your Dwelling · Examine Your Spiritual State · Receive Christ Without Merit · Choose Christ as Your Eternal Home
Primary texts: Psalm 90:1 · 1 John 4:13-16 · Hebrews 4:9
“LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.” Psalm 90:1 MOSES was the inspired author of three devotional compositions. We first of all find him as Moses the poet, singing the song which is aptly joined with that of Jesus, in the Revelation, where it says, “The song of Moses and of the Lamb.” He was a poet on the occasion when Pharaoh and his hosts were cast into the Red Sea, “His chosen captains also were drowned in the Red Sea.” Further on in his life we discover him in the character of a preacher, and then his doctrine distilled as the dew, and his speech dropped like the rain, in those chapters which are full of glorious imagery and rich with poetry, which you will find in the Book of Deuteronomy. And now in the Psalms, we find him the author of a prayer, “A prayer of…