Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit · Sermon No. 3000
“Him that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out.” John 6:37.
[This Sermon is the 3000th that has been published in regular weekly succession since No. 1, “The Immutability of God,” was issued in January, 1856. The Lord’s-Day morning Sermons, with many of those preached in the evening, were published during Mr. Spurgeon’s lifetime. The rest of the evening Sermons are now being issued and there are still sufficient unpublished manuscripts to last for some years. The whole of the 3000 Sermons are kept in stock, and any quantity of any of them can be obtained of the publishers, Messrs. Passmore a Alabaster, Paternoster Buildings, London, EC. No. 3000 has been especially selected in harmony with Mr. Spurgeon’s custom of issuing, on such memorable occasions, a striking and simple Sermon that might be even more widely distributed than the ordinary issues. Those previously published have been as follows: Volume 17, NUMBER ONE THOUSAND—OR, “BREAD ENOUGH AND TO SPARE”; Volume 25, NUMBER 1500—OR, “LIFTING UP THE BRONZE SERPENT”; Volume 33, NUMBER 2000—OR, “HEALING BY THE STRIPES OF JESUS”; Volume 43, NUMBER 2500—OR, “ENTRANCE AND EXCLUSION.” The publishers are always pleased to quote special terms for quantities, and to send post free to all applicants their Textual Index of over 2900 Sermons, and a full List of C. H. Spurgeon’s books at reduced prices. It is almost needless to say that in the whole history of religious literature, there has never before been such an event as the issue of 3000 of one Preacher’s Sermons in weekly numbers for nearly 52 years! It is a remarkable fact that more than 750 of these Sermons have been published since Dr. Spurgeon was “called Home” on January 31, 1892. Will all believing readers pray for the Lord’s blessing upon the whole of the 3000 Sermons now issued?] [Thought you might enjoy this quote of the publishers—EOD]
WHILE I was trying to prepare a sermon for this evening, someone called at my door—I daresay the friend is here tonight, (I hope so)—and left this little note—“I entreat you to pray, especially this evening, for a most unhappy case— for one who is in great agony of mind, that God, in His Infinite Mercy, would send one ray of light into the dark soul. Please ask all the converted ones in your congregation to pray for me, that Grace may be restored to a most unhappy soul.” Well, I am sure that all Christians here will earnestly pray that the light may break into the thick darkness and that the troubled spirit may find rest, but, after all, there is a very strong temptation to a heart in trouble to rest in the prayers of others rather than to go immediately to Christ for relief. Yet all the prayers in the world cannot, by themselves, help a man who is in despair. The light can never come into that dungeon except through one window—and that is a window through which the tearful eyes may always look—the window of everlasting love as revealed in the atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ!
I thought that the text which I have selected might, by the blessing of the Spirit of God, be made the means of comfort, not only to that person who wrote to me, but to many others who may be seeking the Savior. There was also another circumstance which led me to select this text. A gentleman who pressed my hand very earnestly one day, said to me, “Do you remember preaching at the sawmills in the Old Kent Road?” I replied, “Yes.” “I also remember it,” he said, “indeed, I can never forget it. You preached from this text, ‘There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defiles.’ My comfort was that towards the close of the sermon, you said, ‘I have preached upon this terrible no wise. Now, before I have done, I will preach upon a blessed no wise,’ and then you began to talk to us about that text, ‘Him that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out,’ and that message yielded me comfort which I have never lost.”
Well, medicine that has worked so well in one case may, perhaps, be just as efficacious in another. And if the Holy Spirit blessed the text when it was only brought in at the end of a sermon, perhaps He will bless it even more, now that we set it in the very forefront of our discourse. No, we know that He will, for we have asked His blessing upon it and, therefore, we expectthe blessing to come. Dear Friend in trouble of soul, I hope it will come to you!
I. I am going to make five brief observations upon this passage, “Him that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out.” The first observation is that OUR TEXT IS FROM THE LIPS OF JESUS HIMSELF.
And because Christ Himself said it, we dare not doubt that it is absolutely true. Imagine that you see Him standing here just now—that same Jesus who fed the multitude and loved the souls of men even unto death. And then imagine that you hear these words from His lips which are like lilies dropping sweet-smelling myrrh. Oh, with what wondrous accents would He say, “Him that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out!” I can but feebly repeat what He must have uttered in the purest heavenly tones, yet I still pray you to remember that it is Jesus who still speaks to you, from His Word, even from Heaven! Do not dare to doubt this, or to question the truth of what He said. It was true before He died, but now that He has sealed His testimony with His most precious blood and proved His love to sinners by laying down His life for them, oh, do not doubt the truth of His utterance, but confide fully in Him who thus speaks to you from Heaven!