# “Preach the full, free, glorious gospel of the living Christ always and everywhere” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2008-03-24T15:59:20-05:00
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“I believe that those sermons which are fullest of Christ are the most likely to
be blessed to the conversion of the hearers. Let your sermons be full of Christ,
from beginning to end crammed full of the gospel. As for myself, brethren, I cannot
preach anything else but Christ and His cross, for I know nothing else, and long
ago, like the apostle Paul, I determined not to know anything else save Jesus Christ
and Him crucified.

People have often asked me, ‘What is the secret of your success?’ I always answer
that I have no other secret but this, that I have preached the gospel,—not about
the gospel, but the gospel,—the full, free, glorious gospel of the living Christ
who is the incarnation of the good news. Preach Jesus Christ, brethren, always and
everywhere; and every time you preach be sure to have much of Jesus Christ in the
sermon.

You remember the story of the old minister who heard a sermon by a young man, and
when he was asked by the preacher what he thought of it he was rather slow to answer,
but at last he said, ‘If I must tell you, I did not like it at all; there was no
Christ in your sermon.’ ‘No,’ answered the young man, ‘because I did not see that
Christ was in the text.’ ‘Oh!’ said the old minister, ‘but do you not know that 
from every little town and village and tiny hamlet in England there is a road leading
to London? Whenever I get hold of a text, I say to myself, ‘There is a road from
here to Jesus Christ, and I mean to keep on His track till I get to Him.’

‘Well,’ said the young man, ‘but suppose you are preaching from a text that says
nothing about Christ?’ ‘Then I will go over hedge and ditch but what I will get 
at Him.’ So must we do, brethren; we must have Christ in all our discourses, whatever
else is in or not in them.

There ought to be enough of the gospel in every sermon to save a soul. Take care
that it is so when you are called to preach before Her Majesty the Queen, and if
you have to preach to chairwomen or chairmen, still always take care that there 
is the real gospel in every sermon.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “[Sermons Likely to Win Souls](http://www.spurgeon.org/misc/sw04.htm)”
in _The Soul Winner_.

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