The best sermons are the sermons, which are fullest of Christ. A sermon without Christ, it is an awful, a horrible thing. It is an empty well; it is a cloud without rain; it is a tree twice dead, plucked by the roots. It is an abominable thing to give men stones for bread, and scorpions for eggs, and yet they do so who preach not Jesus. A sermon without Christ! As well talk of a loaf of bread without any flour in it. How can it feed the soul? Men die and perish because Christ is not there, and yet his glorious gospel is the easiest thing to preach, and the sweetest thing to preach; there is most variety in it, there is more attractiveness in it than in all the world besides;[1]
[1] Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon’s Sermons: Volume 14, Christ the Glory of His People.
That sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell to laugh, but might make the angels of God to weep, if they were capable of such emotion. You remember the story I told you of the Welshman who heard a young man preach a very fine sermon, a grand sermon, a highfalutin, spread-eagle sermon; and when he had done, he asked the Welshman what he thought of it. The man replied that he did not think anything of it. ‘And why not?’ ‘Because there was no Jesus Christ in it.’ ‘Well,’ said he, ‘but my text did not seem to run that way.’ ‘Never mind,’ said the Welshman, ‘your sermon ought to run that way.’ ‘I do not see that, however,’ said the young man. ‘No,’ said the other, ‘you do not see how to preach yet. This is the way to preach. From every little village in England—it does not matter where it is—there is sure to be a road to London. Though there may not be a road to certain other places, there is certain to be a road to London. Now, from every text in the Bible there is a road to Jesus Christ, and the way to preach is just to say, “How can I get from this text to Jesus Christ?” and then go preaching all the way along it.’ ‘Well, but,’ said the young man, ‘suppose I find a text that has not got a road to Jesus Christ.’ ‘I have preached for forty years,’ said the old man, ‘and I have never found such a Scripture, but if I ever do find one I will go over hedge and ditch to get to him, for I will never finish without bringing in my Master.’ – Charles H. Spurgeon. How to Read the Bible
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