Sermon Excerpts by George Whitefield
We read this to our congregation this month on Sunday nights, and it really caused me to ponder how I will spend my time and energy this Christmas. Enjoy!
"What, shall we not remember the birth of our Jesus? Shall we yearly celebrate the birth of our temporal king, and shall that of the King of kings be quite forgotten? God forbid! No, my dear brethren, let us celebrate and keep this festival of our church with joy in our hearts: let the birth of the Redeemer, which redeemed us from sin, from wrath, from death, from hell, be always remembered; may this Savior’s love never be forgotten! But may we sing forth all His love and glory as long as life shall last here, and through an endless eternity in the world above! May we chant forth the wonders of redeeming love and the riches of His grace, without intermission, forever and ever! And as, my brethren, the time for keeping this festival is approaching, let us consider our duty in the true observation thereof, of the right way for the glory of God, and the good of immortal souls, to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ; an event which ought to be had in eternal remembrance."
"What can we do to employ our time to a more noble purpose than reading of what our dear Redeemer has done and suffered; to read that the King of kings and the Lord of lords came from His throne and took upon Him the form of the lowest of His servants; and what great things He underwent. This, this is a history worth reading, this is worth employing our time about: and surely, when we read of the sufferings of our Savior, it should excite us to prayer, that we might have an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ; that the blood which He spilt upon Mount Calvary, and His death and crucifixion, has made an atonement for our sins, that we might be made holy; that we might be enabled to put off the old man with His deeds, and put on the new man, even the Lord Jesus Christ; that we may throw away the heavy yoke of sin, and put on the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ."
"O do not, I beseech you, trust unto yourselves for justification; you cannot, indeed, you cannot be justified by the works of the law. I entreat that your time may be thus spent; and if you are in company, let your time be spent in that conversation which profits eternally: let it not be about your profits or your worldly concerns, but let it be the wonders of redeeming love. O tell, tell to each other what great things the Lord has done for your souls; declare unto one another how you were delivered from the hands of your common enemy, Satan, and how the Lord has brought your feet from the clay and has set them upon the rock of ages, the Lord Jesus Christ; there, my brethren, is no slipping. So let Jesus be the subject, my brethren, of all your conversation. Let your time be spent on Him!"
"O my dear brethren, be found in the ways of God; let us not bring shame to our dear Redeemer by how we bear His Name and proclaim His Gospel. Let me beseech you to strive to love, fear, honor, and obey Him, more than ever you have done yet. O do not be so ungrateful to Him who has been so kind to you! What could the Lord Jesus Christ have done for you more than he has? Then do not abuse His mercy, but let your time be spent in thinking and talking of the love of Jesus, who was incarnate for us, who was born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem us from the wrath to come!"
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