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The sermon centers on Isaiah 46:4, presenting God as the same God of His people in youth, maturity, old age, and death. Christian assurance rests not on longevity, personal virtue, or accumulated service, but on Christ’s blood, righteousness, and unfailing covenant promises. Old age is portrayed as a season of remembered mercies, deepened joy, fruitful testimony, and preparation for heaven. The sermon also strongly proclaims that repentance and salvation remain available to sinners of every age, including the most serious transgressors, through faith in Christ alone.
Theological center: God is immutable and faithfully carries His people from birth to old age and death, while sinners of every age are justified solely through the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Applications: Build your life on Christ · Aged saints bear witness · Turn to Christ in repentance · Remember God’s faithfulness
Primary texts: Isaiah 46:4 · Psalm 37:25
THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH WAS ALSO DELIVERED AT STAMBOURNE, ESSEX, ON THE COMMEMORATION OF THE JUBILEE OF HIS GRANDFATHER, THE REV. JAMES SPURGEON TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1856 “Even to your old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.” Isaiah 46:4 THOSE will be peculiar circumstances under which I shall stand up to address the people next Tuesday, circumstances which perhaps seldom occur—possibly may never have occurred before. It might have been more in order that the aged minister should himself address the people, but nevertheless, as it is his own choice, so it must be. And I shall draw my consolation from the third verse, where it is declared, that though God be the God of the close of our life, yet He is also the God of its beginning. He carries us from the very womb, therefore the child may trust in God, as well as the grey head, and He who gives special blessings to the hoary hairs does also crown the head of the young with His perpetual favor, if they be His children “Even to your old age I am he; And even to hoar hairs will I carry you.” Will you allow me to expound the doctrine of this text and then to show you how it is carried out, especially in the time of old age? I. THE DOCTRINE OF THE TEXT I hold to be, the constancy of God’s promise, its perpetuity, and its unchangeable nature. God declares that He is not simply the God of the young saint, that He is not simply the God of the middle-aged saint, but that He is the God of the saints in all their ages from the cradle to the tomb. “Even to old age I am he,” or as Lowth beautifully and more properly translates it, “Even to old age I am the same, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you.” The doctrine, then, is twofold, that God Himself is the same, whatever may be our age. And that God’s dealings towards us, both in providence and in grace, His carryings and His deliverings, are alike unchanged. 1. As to the first part of the doctrine, that God Himself is unchanged when we come to old age, surely I have no need to prove that. Abundant testimonies of Scripture declare God to be an immutable being, upon whose brow there is no furrow of old age, and whose strength is not enfeebled by the lapse of ages. But if we need proofs, we might look even abroad on nature, and we should from nature guess that God would not change during the short period of our mortal life. Seems it unto me a hard thing that God should be the same for seventy years, when I find things in nature that have retained the same impress and image for many mo…