Sermon #2114 Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit 1 Volume 35 spurgeongems.org 1 THE BURDEN OF THE WORD OF THE LORD NO. 2114 DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. ‘‘The burden of the Word of the Lord.’’ Malachi 1:1. THE Prophets of old were no triflers. They did not run about as idle tellers of tales, but they carried a burden. Those who at this time speak in the name of th e Lord, if they are, indeed, sent of God, dare not sport with their ministry or play w i t h t h e i r m e s s a g e . T h e y h a v e a b u r d e n t o b e a r ---- -‘‘The burden of the Wo rd of the Lord.’’ And this burden puts it out of their power to indulge in levity of life. I am often astounded at the way in which some who pr ofess to be the servants of G o d m a k e l i g h t o f t h e i r w o r k ---- -they jest about their sermons as if they were so many comedies or farces. I read of one who said, ‘‘I got on very well for a year or tw o in my pulpit, for my great-uncle had left me a large store of manuscripts, which I read to my congregation.’’ The Lord have mercy on his guilty soul! Did the Lord send him a sa- cred call to bring to light his uncle’s mo ldy manuscripts? Something less than a Divine call might have achieved that pur- pose. Another is able to get on well with his preaching because he pays so much a quarter to a bookseller and is regularly supplied with manuscript sermons. They co st more or less according to the space wi thin which they will not be sold to another clerical cripple. I have seen the things and have felt sick at the sorry spectacle. What must God think of such Prophets as these? In the old times, those whom God sent di d not borrow their messages. They had their message directly from God Himself, and th at message was weighty ---- -so weighty that they called it, ‘‘the burden of the Lord.’’ He that does not find his ministry a burden now will find it a burden hereafter, which w ill sink him lower than the lowest Hell. A ministry that never burdens th e heart and the conscience in this life will be like a millstone about a man’s neck in the world to come. The servants of God mean business.
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