The Redeemer’s Prayer

In this sermon, Charles Spurgeon focuses on Jesus's prayer the night before his crucifixion, where Jesus boldly asks God the Father to bring all those given to him into heaven to be with him forever — a prayer Spurgeon says carries the certainty of a promise because Jesus spoke it with divine authority. He explains that the people Jesus prayed for are those who have surrendered their hearts to him, and that if you genuinely trust in Christ today, you can be confident your name was written in that prayer. Spurgeon then paints a breathtaking picture of heaven — not as a place of golden streets, but as an eternity of seeing Jesus face to face, watching him reign in glory, and ultimately sharing in his triumph — and urges anyone without this hope to stop and consider what they are trading away for the temporary pleasures of this world.Sermon delivered on April 18th, 1858.