In this sermon on John 12:28, CH Spurgeon meditates on Jesus’ prayer, “Father, glorify thy name,” spoken just before His arrest and crucifixion. Though His soul was troubled, Christ’s chief desire was not deliverance but that God be glorified through it all.
Spurgeon presents this as the believer’s highest aim—to echo Christ’s golden prayer in every circumstance, even in trial or death. He exhorts his hearers to live not for comfort or self fulfillment, but with a consuming passion that the Father’s name be magnified in and through their lives.
This sermon was preached on December 30, 1877 and is found in Volume 24 of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit.
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"If I must lose my property, glorify thy name by my poverty; if I must be bereaved, glorify thy name in my sorrows; if I must die, glorify thy name in my departure."
"Our Lord was called to bear the enormous load of man’s transgressions; over his holy soul the dark shadow of human guilt must pass, and on his sensitive spirit must be made to meet the iniquity of us all."
"Jesus wept, and we may weep. Jesus told out his sorrow to his friends, and you may do the same."
"God’s birds often sing best in cages"
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