Urgent Call to Personal Accountability and Salvation

He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his blood shall be upon him. Ezekiel 33 and verse 5. The warning neglected a sermon delivered on Lord's Day morning November the 29, 1857 by CH Spurgeon at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall. In all worldly things men are always enough awake to understand their own interests. [00:00:01]

For surely every man must give an account for himself for the day of judgment. We must die alone we must rise at the day of Resurrection one by one and each one for himself must appear before the bar of God and each one must either have said to him as an individual Come Ye blessed or else he must be appalled with the Thundering sentence departure cursed. [00:02:13]

If men perish under an Unfaithful Ministry and have not been sufficiently warned to escape from the Wrath to come, the Christian May pity them, yea and me thinks even when they stand before the bar of God although the fact of their not having been warned will not fully excuse them yet it will go far to diminish their Eternal miseries which otherwise might have fallen upon their heads. [00:06:01]

If we have not attended to their message, if we have despised the voice of God, if we have turned a deaf ear to their earnest exhortations, if we perish we shall die warned, die under the sound of the Gospel, and our damnation must be an unpitted one, for our blood Must Fall Upon Our Own heads. [00:06:54]

The trumpet was not only heard but more than that its warning was understood. When the man supposed in the text heard the trumpet he understood by it that the enemy was at hand and yet he took not warning. Now my brethren in your case the sound of the Gospel warning has been understood. [00:09:35]

If I have preached to you in a style above comprehension then on my head must be your blood because I ought to have made you understand, but if I come down to Men of Lower State and pick even vulgar phrases to suit common people, then if you understood the warning and if you then risked it Mark you my hands are clean of your blood. [00:11:13]

If the man heard the trumpet sound once and did not regard it possibly we might excuse him, but how many of my audience have heard the trumpet sound of the Gospel very frequently, there you are young man you have heard many years of a Pious mother's teaching, many years of a Pious Minister's exhortations, wagon loads of sermons have been exhausted upon you. [00:14:06]

But cries another I did not like the trumpet I did not like the gospel that was preached, says one I did not like certain doctrines in the Bible I thought the minister preached two harsh doctrines sometimes I did not agree with the gospel I thought the gospel ought to have been altered and not to have been just what it was. [00:21:36]

And if any man in the world has a business which causes him to lose his own soul for want of time, let him lay this question to his heart what shall it profit a man if he gained the whole world and lose his own soul, but it is false it is false men have got time, in the want of will, not want of way. [00:27:34]

And now what are all my delays worth and what is all the time I gained for all the poultry Pleasures in the world, now I have lost my soul over them, we experience great vexation if we are unpunctual in many places but we cannot conceive what must be the horror and dismay of men who find themselves too late in the next world. [00:31:06]

The things we preach and that are taught in scripture are matters of solemn certainty, it may be that death is that born from which no traveler returns but it is not true that we know nothing of it, it is as certain as that there are men and a world in which they live that there is another world to come. [00:36:20]

Believe on the Lord Jesus and be baptized and thou shall be saved, this is the gospel we are told to preach to every creature, he that believeth and is immersed shall be saved, he that believeth not shall be damned. Amen. [00:44:33]