Who are elected?

‘And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him, for this is he.’

 1 Samuel 16:12

Suggested Further Reading:
 Psalm 23:1–6

I have laboured in your presence to preach up the privilege of strong faith; I have urged you to strive after full assurance of faith; but never let these lips say a word or a syllable against that holy carefulness which makes a broad distinction between presumption and assurance. 

Depend upon it, privilege preached always without precept will breed a surfeit and lethargy in God’s people: what we want at certain seasons is, not a promise, but a telling, burning word of self-examination, the flavour of which we may not like, but which shall work in our souls spiritual good of a more lasting sort than sweet comforts would bring to us.

 Examine yourselves, dear friends, then, by this. 

I do not ask you whether your hearts are perfect—they are not; I do not ask you whether your hearts never go astray, for they are prone to wander; but I do ask you: 

Is your heart resting upon Jesus Christ? 

Is it a believing heart? 

Does your heart meditate upon divine things? 

Does it find its best solace there? 

Is your heart a humble heart? 

Are you constrained to ascribe all to sovereign grace?

 Is your heart a holy heart? 

Do you desire holiness? 

Do you find your pleasure in it? 

Is your heart bold for God? 

Does your heart ascribe praises to God?

 Is it a grateful heart? 

And is it a heart that is wholly fixed upon God, desiring never to go astray?

 If it be, then you have marks of election. 

Search for these, and add to all your searching this prayer, ‘Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.’

For meditation: 

Earlier in this sermon, Spurgeon illustrated the marks of election from 

Psalm 23: 

meditative (v 2),

 humble (vv 2–3a), holy (v 3b), 

brave (v 4), 

contented and grateful (v 5), 

constant (v 6). 

Can you see these marks in yourself?a heart that is believing (v 1), 


Sermon no. 638
9 July (1865)

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“The true minister of Christ knows that the true value of a sermon must lie, not in its fashion and manner, but in the truth which it contains.”

Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Copyright Statement, This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore is considered in the "Public Domain".

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