Declension from First Love (sermon 217)

This hard-hitting sermon seems to flow hot from the preacher's own heart. He brings to bear Christ's charge to the church in Ephesus from Revelation 2:4, that we have left our first love. There's nothing soft and cuddly about this sermon: it comes with real and necessary force. There is nothing half-hearted about this sermon: Spurgeon puts himself in the firing line first, and only then does he bring the gun to bear upon the congregation. But who would suggest that there has been no decline in our love for Christ? This is a sermon to bring us low, and then bring us back, God willing.