Majesty In Misery, Volume 1, Dark Gethsemane

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In this first volume of the three volume set of Spurgeon's sermons on the passion and death of our Lord, Spurgeon takes the reader to Gethsemane, to remind us of the matchless love of Jesus.

'...That for your sakes and mine he would not merely suffer in body, but consented to bear the horror of being accounted a sinner, and coming under the wrath of God because of our though it cost him suffering unto death and sore amazement… Can we not cheerfully endure persecution for his sake? Can we not labour earnestly for him? I charge you by Gethsemane, my brethren, if you have a part and lot in the passion of your Saviour, love him much who loved you so immeasurably, and spend and be spent for him.' -- Charles H. Spurgeon

288 pages, Hardcover

First published April 30, 2005

About the author

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian, John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues, Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861, the congregation moved permanently to the newly constructed Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Reviews

[Alexander Peck · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collected Spurgeon sermons on Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. A bit jarring at times from chapter to chapter as sermons are preached years apart from each other. So there is a little redundancy and sometimes he gets carried away with minutes but that Spurgeon Spurgeoning along with his great poetics and feeling which abound.