Spurgeon's Sermons The Unrivalled Friend
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Mar 23, 2026 A sermon contrasts fleeting human friendships with the steadfast, everlasting friendship of Jesus. It explores Christ’s eternal love, sacrificial life, and active role in drawing and saving sinners. Practical proofs of that love are listed, and adversity is shown to deepen awareness of Christ’s presence. Listeners are urged to reflect that unwavering love in their own lives.
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Christ's Love Is Unchanging In Every Circumstance
- Christ's love remains constant through prosperity, poverty, sickness, slander, and death.
- Spurgeon cites examples: riches that tempt forgetfulness, bare cupboards, sickness, and Jonathan Edwards' dying question to show constancy.
Christ's Love Acts, Not Merely Professes
- Christ's love is practical and proved by mighty deeds like ransom, advocacy, and freeing sinners.
- Spurgeon highlights redemption paid in blood, Christ standing in our place, and believers' deliverance from condemnation.
Divine Love Is Self-Originating And Stable
- Christ's love springs from himself, not from anything in us, so it doesn't depend on our merit.
- Spurgeon argues the love is self-sustaining like a throne's grandeur, explaining its permanence despite human flaws.
