Charles Spurgeon Sermon | “How To Please God” (1885) | Classic Historic Christian Preaching | No AI

🎤 All audio content on this channel is 100% authentically recorded by a human voice—never AI-generated! This is a reading of Charles Spurgeon's sermon, "How To Please God," delivered on August 20, 1885. Read by: Joel Griffis. “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” – Hebrews 11:6 –––––––––– 💙 If you feel led to donate to the work of this channel, feel free to do so through Venmo: https://www.venmo.com/u/historichomilies –––––––––– 🔊 Charles Spurgeon Sermons – Playlist 📖    • Charles Spurgeon Sermons | Historic Homilies   🔊 D. L. Moody Sermons – Playlist    • D. L. Moody Sermons | Historic Homilies   🔊 Historic Homilies – All Uploads    • Historic Homilies | All Uploads   –––––––––– Affiliate Links: If you make a purchase through the links below, I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting the channel! Spurgeon's Sermons Collection (5 volumes) https://amzn.to/4a0ybkZ Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotional https://amzn.to/4vJf2wa https://amzn.to/4oytm8I Spurgeon The Pastor: Recovering a Biblical and Theological Vision for Ministry, by Geoffrey Chang https://amzn.to/4yd8BDG Spurgeon's Sorrows, by Zack Eswine (about Spurgeon's battle with depression) https://amzn.to/4xnVUpi Shure MV7X (the microphone I record with) https://amzn.to/4giriiT –––––––––– Joel is a pastor at Grace Fellowship Church:    / @gracefellowshipchurch1948   https://www.gfcbaker.org Joel’s Other Channels: HeartStore Music – Bible memory songs    / @heartstore   JoelGriffis – Song performances, mostly covers, some originals    / @joelgriffis   Musings Under The Sun – Discussion/podcast channel, various topics    / @musingsunderthesun196   –––––––––– Sermon Excerpt: "Without faith," says the text, "it is impossible to please God." Yet all men have not faith. Even among those who have heard the Gospel, many have not obeyed it. Isaiah is not the only one who has had to cry, "Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?" If it is so, that, "without faith it is impossible to please God," what becomes of the multitude who have heard, but believed not, to whom the Word of this salvation has come, but who have rejected it? It is to be feared that God may again swear in His wrath, "They shall not enter into My rest." The Israelites could not enter into Canaan because of unbelief—and men in this day cannot enter into the privileges of the Gospel because of unbelief. Let us pity and pray for those who have not faith. Oh, that God would hear the cries of His children and work faith in men, for this, also, is the gift of God! Not only the blessing which He promises, but even the hand whereby we receive it must come from Him! There are some men who have a kind of faith, and these are, perhaps, in a more dangerous condition than those who have none at all because they are apt to deceive themselves and fancy that they are in a state of grace, whereas they are still in a state of nature. The faith which pleases God is no mock faith, no dead faith, no false faith, no faith in a lie! It is faith in the Truth of God, it is true faith, it is spiritual faith. The faith that saves the soul and makes it pleasing before God is real faith. Many say that they believe a thing, but they do not truly believe it—it is not real to them. They say, "Yes, such-and-such a doctrine is true," and they write it down in their creed and then put the creed away on the top shelf of their bookcase—and it lies there covered with dust. A man only believes that which affects his life. If it is an important Truth of God, if he has really believed it, it will touch every nerve of his being. It will often hold him back from one course and, with equal force, impel him to another. True faith is the most active motive power in the whole world! "Faith, which works by love," works all sorts of marvels, and where there is this true faith, it will prove its reality by its practicalness. The faith of God's elect is not a dead faith. "God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." Neither is He the God of dead faith, but He is the God of living faith. God grant that we may, each one of us, possess this real God-given blessing! But if we have merely a notional, nominal, historical faith which does not affect our lives at all, we are in the same condition as those who have no faith—and we come under the description of the text, "without faith"—and "without faith it is impossible to please God." Before I enter upon the consideration of the text, I should like to make a sort of search through this place to find out any who are without faith. Without faith, you are without God, for God is only apprehended by faith. . . .