His Name—the Mighty God

Spurgeon opens with a sharp defense of Christ's full divinity, arguing that those who deny it have implicitly accused every Christian of idolatry, that Christ himself spoke and acted in ways that make him either truly God or a deceiver deserving his condemnation, and that if he is merely a man then his crucifixion was a just execution for blasphemy and the entire Christian faith collapses into delusion. He then turns to show how believers already call Christ "the mighty God" in practice rather than just in words — by ascribing to him eternity, immutability, omnipresence, and omniscience in their hymns, prayers, and daily trust, and by treating him as Mediator and Savior, both of which roles require deity since no mere creature can bridge the infinite gap between God and man or be the legitimate object of eternal faith. He closes by tracing how Christ has proved his Godhead through history and experience: by standing sinless through temptations that felled angels and Adam, by bearing the entire accumulated weight of his people's sins without being destroyed, by shattering death's chains on the third day, and by doing for individual souls what no creature could — forgiving freely, bearing patiently, enriching infinitely — so that the only fitting crown for such a Savior is the one the prophet gave him: "the mighty God."Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on June 19th, 1859.