
Spurgeon's Sermons Footsteps of Mercy
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Mar 29, 2026 A sermon about how suffering and affliction can prepare hearts to receive mercy. Discussion of the messenger of mercy and the unique role of Christ as mediator and interpreter. Exploration of how preaching, Scripture, and the Spirit bring Christ to sinners. Reflections on ransom, atonement, and the assurance found in God’s acceptance of Christ.
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Affliction Prepares The Heart For Grace
- God often uses affliction like sickness, storms, or financial loss to break the heart's pride and prepare it for spiritual seed.
- Spurgeon compares God to a farmer clearing soil before sowing, making suffering a preparatory mercy for conversion.
Christ As Messenger And Interpreter
- Jesus is both messenger and interpreter, bridging God's language and human experience to make divine mercy felt, not just understood.
- Spurgeon emphasizes Christ's dual nature: co-equal with God and sympathetic as man to translate God's heart into our hearts.
Look To Christ With One Believing Glance
- Accept Christ in the preaching, scriptures, or Holy Spirit's motion by looking to the crucified Savior now.
- Spurgeon urges an immediate believing glance at Christ as the simple act that brings life and salvation.







