The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Inspired by reports of a massive revival sweeping America where a quarter million people had professed faith in just a few months, Spurgeon preaches on the absolute necessity of the Holy Spirit, explaining that the Spirit works in two ways: first by reordering and restoring the broken powers of the human mind, and second by implanting an entirely new spiritual capacity that no person is born with. He argues forcefully that neither physical force nor persuasive preaching can convert a single soul, since conversion is like a resurrection from the dead — something only God can accomplish — and that the real agent of every genuine conversion is the Holy Spirit, not any minister or method. Spurgeon closes with a passionate call to prayer, urging his congregation to honor the Holy Spirit above all human instruments and to gather daily for earnest corporate prayer, promising that if they seek God in this way, revival in England is just as certain as God's faithfulness to his own promises.Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on June 20, 1858.