Westminster Pulpit-G Campbell Morgan

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The Old Testament Sermons Of G. Campbell Morgan 1915

Who Was G. Campbell Morgan?

G. Campbell Morgan was a preacher of the Gospel and teacher of the Bible. Preaching Magazine ranked him # 6 on their list of the Ten Greatest Preachers of the Twentieth Century. Dr. Timothy Warren wrote of him, “G. Campbell Morgan helped influence the shape of evangelical preaching on both sides of the Atlantic.” Though born in England and best known for his two tenures as pastor of Westminster Chapel in London, Campbell Morgan crossed the Atlantic Ocean 54 times in his ministry. He was often called the “Prince of Expositors” for his Bible based preaching. He was without question the most famous evangelical preacher in England, and probably the world, during the first 40 years of the 20th Century.

Morgan was an educator when God called him to preach. He applied to become a Methodist preacher in 1888, but was turned down. After preaching his trial sermon to the Methodist Board of Ministry, his examiners rejected his application, saying that his preaching showed no promise. The rejection stung deeply, and Campbell Morgan nearly gave up his calling. That very night he telegraphed his father one word, “Rejected”. But his father replied, “Rejected on earth; Accepted in heaven”. Encouraged Morgan became a Congregationalist preacher. He would go on to preach and pastor for some 55 years.

G. Campbell Morgan was a close friend of many of the spiritual giants of his times. He was a close friend of D. L. Moody who invited him to lecture to the students at the Moody Bible Institute in 1896. That was his first trip to America. Campbell Morgan named one of his children after D. L. Moody, and after Moody died in 1899, Morgan assumed the position of director of the Northfield Bible Conference.

He was friends with F. B. Meyer, Gypsy Smith, and so many others. Campbell Morgan was a mentor to Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

He is best known as the pastor of Westminster Chapel. Morgan became pastor of Westminster Chapel in 1904. When he assumed his role as pastor, the church was practically dead. It was called the “white elephant of Congregationalism.” The Holy Spirit worked through Campbell Morgan to transform Westminister Chapel into one of the great active churches in England. He worked very hard and very diligently to build Westminster into a strong congregation. In 1916, G. Campbell Morgan left Westminster Chapel to give full time to evangelism and Bible teaching throughout England and America. The sermons of this collection come from his 1904-1916 ministry at Westminster Chapel.

In addition to intnerate preaching, Campbell taught on the faculty of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and at Gordon College of Theology and Missions in Boston. He served as pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1929-1932.

In 1935 at 72 years of age, Campbell Morgan was asked to return to pastor Westminster Chapel in London. He actively led Westminster for another eight years.

In 1937, Dr. Campbell Morgan spoke of his confidence that when God’s workers have to lay down their work then God is there, and there is the next man coming on. He did not then know that soon Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was to join him as his assistant. Morgan heard the young physician turned minister preach in 1939, and wanted him to join his staff at Westminster Chapel. They would minister together in a close partnership until G. Campbell Morgan retired in 1943, and Martyn Lloyd-Jones became lead pastor at Westminster Chapel. How blessed Westminster Chapel was to have two such powerful expositors of God’s Word as pastor back to back!

It is interesting that G. Campbell Morgan was Arminian - Methodist in his theology, while Martyn Lloyd-Jones was of the Calvinist – Methodist tradition. But they had no conflict whatsoever, and greatly admired each other’s preaching. They were united by their unwavering commitment to Jesus Christ, the Gospel, and the Word of God. Lloyd-Jones said, “I am a conservative evangelical, as Dr. Campbell Morgan himself was.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones said of Campbell Morgan that "preaching was the supreme passion of his life." Lloyd-Jones said this about G. Campbell Morgan at Morgan’s memorial service: “But the point I want to make about him as a preacher is this . . . that we are all agreed that he was God’s gift to His Church. He surely was the supreme illustration of the fact that God always gives His gifts at the right time . . . When did he come upon the scene? It was immediately after those wonderful campaigns of D. L. Moody and Sankey in this country. There had been those great visitations of the Spirit. Men and women had been converted by the thousand. This great evangelistic movement had come into the whole life of the Church, and what was needed above everything else at that point was someone who could teach these converts. And ‘a man came from God’ whose name was George Campbell Morgan; and he came at the critical moment, at the very right time when all those spiritual emotions and experiences needed to be harnessed and deepened and fostered. The evangelists had done their work; it was time for the teacher; and God sent him.”

G. Campbell Morgan died in 1945. In one of his last letters, Campbell Morgan wrote, “I have found through all the…years that grace is sufficient, and I am quite sure it’s never-failing grace, whatever life may bring, until earthly service merges into that of the life of the life Beyond.”

Introduction

For forty years, beginning in the first decade of our century, the entire Christian world acknowledged that the greatest Biblical expositor known in the pulpits of both England and America was Dr. G. Campbell Morgan. As far back as 1896, when Dr. Morgan was only thirty-three years old, D. L. Moody, who knew most of the great preachers of the Western world, brought him to the Moody Bible Institute to lecture. In 1904, at the age of forty-one, Dr. Morgan went to London to begin the most epochal ministry of Biblical exposition, covering a thirteen-year period, that London had witnessed for a century. I am speaking here strictly of Biblical exposition, not simply preaching or Gospel preaching, though Dr. Morgan could preach the Gospel with tremendous power. I am fully aware that for many years Charles H. Spurgeon drew larger crowds and that Canon Liddon was recognized as the greatest preacher of London in his day (his ministry at St. Paul's having closed a few years before Dr. Morgan came) and that there was a certain brilliance about Joseph Parker (whose ministry at City Temple also closed just before Dr. Morgan came to Westminster Chapel); but I must say that for sheer Biblical exposition Dr. Morgan stood above all of his contemporaries.

It was not long before Westminster Chapel, seating some 2,500 persons, was filled to the second gallery. Soon after coming to London Dr. Morgan began his famous Friday night Bible class, probably the largest and most fruitful Bible class London had ever seen, when, week after week, with note-books and Bibles, from 1,500 to 1,700 people moved across that great city to sit for an hour at the feet of this master teacher.

Dr. Morgan began to publish books as early as 1897, when thirty-four years of age, with his little book, Discipleship. In 1903 appeared what is probably his greatest work, The Crises of the Christ—a volume that every minister should read and study early in his life as a preacher. Altogether, more than seventy volumes came from his pen. The greatest series of pulpit messages for which he was responsible are those which appeared in what was entitled, "The Westminster Pulpit." These appeared annually for about forty Sundays each year from 1906 to 1916. Here are the foundations of many of Dr. Morgan's books. These volumes contain some of the greatest Biblical preaching of the twentieth century. Now they are exceedingly scarce. In twenty years I have known only one volume of the series to appear in any catalogue of secondhand books. The set just cannot be purchased. The Fleming H. Revell Company, therefore, deserves the deepest gratitude of all ministers of our generation for making these glorious messages available once again.

In rereading these messages and remembering the unique ministry of Dr. Morgan, one cannot help but ask, "What made G. Campbell Morgan the greatest Bible expositor of his day? Why was it that in his prime he could draw more people with sheer Biblical exposition than any other man in the Western world?" In the first place, he gave himself utterly to the Word of God day and night. He himself said in 1937, "I began to read and study the Bible in 1883, and I have been a student ever since, and I still am." Once he told a close friend that when he was asked by young ministers what was the secret of his success, he replied, "I always say to them the same thing—work, hard work, work." The title of one of his greatest books, The Ministry of the Word, might be taken as the clue to all he did.

I have always felt that of all the various gifts named in the New Testament Dr. Morgan possessed two: he was both teacher and prophet. In addition, there was something about his public ministry that we can only call magnetic, which Jill Morgan (Mrs. K. J. Morgan), in the truly great life of her father-in-law, A Man of the Word, refers to as "the intangible atmosphere of union between teacher and taught." Still vivid in my mind are those winter afternoons in Baltimore, now a quarter of a century past, when I heard Dr. Morgan unfold the opening chapters of Luke's Gospel: we felt a tenseness, a magnetic pull, a lift, an atmosphere saturated with terrific intensity; our souls were confronted with eternal and transforming truths that sent us out of that sanctuary cleansed, ennobled and determined to go back to the Book. I have been moved by others, in one way or another, but no Bible teacher in the world, in the twentieth century, could cast over his audience, without flash, without show, that mystic spell that Campbell Morgan cast when he was at his best. In reverence, I think it can be truly said that after attending one of Dr. Campbell Morgan's meetings, a most appropriate comment would have been to quote the words of the two disciples returning to Jerusalem from the walk to Emmaus with our Lord, "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way and while he opened to us the scriptures?"

This very day in which I am writing this introduction a letter came to my desk from a faithful Christian worker of years of service in our country who had gone to a Bible Conference for greatly needed spiritual refreshing, but had found only a deadness in the meetings and the poorest kind of spiritual food, which led this servant to ask, "What is happening in the Christian Church today?" How wonderful it would be if the republication of Campbell Morgan's masterly, moving, Biblical, passion-born messages should be used of God to lead hundreds of ministers into a new life of the study of the Word of God, if they could be led to say, with the Apostles of old, "We will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word." - Wilbur Smith

Sermons on Genesis through Nehemiah

Sermons on Psalms through Song of Solomon

Psalm 4:6. Restlessness And Its Remedy.
Psalm 25:14. The Secret Of The Lord.
Psalm 27:13. The Tragedy Of Life Without Faith.
Psalm 32. Sin, Sorrow, Silence.
Psalm 32:9; Ephesians 5:17. Understanding, Or Bit And Bridle.
Psalm 37:7. The Secrets Of Rest.
Psalm 46:7, 11. Jehovah Of Hosts--The God Of Jacob.
Psalm 77:10 The True Focus
Psalm 96:9. Worship, Beauty, Holiness.
Psalm 102:13-14. The Set Time.
Psalm 112:7. The Fixed Heart In The Day Of Frightfulness.
Psalm 115:8; 1 John 3:2. Like Gods Or Godlike.
Proverbs 3:6. How To Succeed In Life.
Proverbs 9:10. The Problem Of How To Begin.
Proverbs 11:30. Winning Souls.
Proverbs 18:10. The Strength Of The Name.
Proverbs 18:24. My Friend.
Proverbs 22:6. The Training Of Our Children.
Proverbs 29:18. The Value Of Vision.
Song of Solomon 6:10. The Fourfold Glory Of The Church.

Sermons on Isaiah through Zechariah

Isaiah 6:1-9a. Preparation For Service.
Isaiah 9:6; Matthew 10:34; James 3:17. Peace
Isaiah 28:20 Short Beds And Narrow Coverings
Isaiah 33:14. Dwellers In Fire.
Isaiah 40:3. Preparing The Highway.
Isaiah 43:7. The Purpose Of Life.
Isaiah 46:13. Salvation In Zion.
Isaiah 45:22. Center And Circumference.
Isaiah 52:11. Clean, For Service.
Isaiah 55:10-11. The Harvests Of The Word Of God.
Isaiah 64:4; 1 Corinthians 2:9. Waiting For God.
Jeremiah 17:12. Sanctuary.
Jeremiah 18:3. The Potter's Work On The Wheels.
Jeremiah 31:29-30; Ezekiel 18:2-4 Sour Grapes.
Ezekiel 18:4. Individuality In Religion.
Daniel 6:3. Daniel, A Man Of Excellent Spirit.
Hosea 12:3, 4. The Healing Of Life.
Amos 8:11-13. Famine For The Word Of God.
Amos 3:3. How Can A Man Walk With God?
Habakkuk 3:17, 18. Jubilation In Desolation.
Haggai 2:4. Be Strong--And Work!
Zechariah 4:6. The Divine Worker.
Zechariah 8:5. The Children's Playground In The City Of God.

Sermons on Matthew

Matthew 1:21. The Name Jesus.
Matthew 3:15. The Way Of Righteousness.
Matthew 3:17. God's Thought Of The King.
Matthew 4:4. The King's Thought Of Man.
Matthew 4:17. The First Message Of Jesus.
Matthew 5:20. The Righteousness Which Exceeds.
Matthew 5:23, 24. The Way To The Altar.
Matthew 5:48. Ethical Perfection.
Matthew 5:48; Luke 19:10. The Ethic And Evangel Of Jesus.
Matthew 6:10. The Kingdom: "Thy Kingdom."
Matthew 6:24. Righteousness Or Revenue.
Matthew 7:28-29. The Authority Of Jesus.
Matthew 8:9. Submission And Responsibility.
Matthew 9:2; 9:22; 14:27; John 16:33; Acts 23:11. Christ's Call To Courage
Matthew 11:27-30. Burdens: False And True.
Matthew 12:50. Christ's Next Of Kin.
Matthew 13:51-52. Things New And Old.
Matthew 14:28-33. High Purpose, Failing And Fulfilled.
Matthew 16:16. The Sifting Of Peter.
Matthew 16:16-17. The Great Confession.
Matthew 16:21-22; John 21:18-19. The Turning Again Of Peter.
Matthew 16:21. The Pathway Of The Passion.
Matthew 16:21-24. "Spare Thyself!"
Matthew 16:24; Luke 14:33 The Terms Of Discipleship.
Matthew 18:3. The Kingdom: "Of Such Is The Kingdom."
Matthew 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 5. Church Ideals: The Church Disciplined.
Matthew 18:18-21. The Powers Of The Presence.
Matthew 20:20-23. The Pathway To Power.
Matthew 22:35-40. The Great Commandments.
Matthew 22:42. A Profound Question.
Matthew 26:2. The Son Of Man--Delivered Up.
Matthew 26:36. Gethsemane: The Garden Of Spices.
Matthew 27:22. The Verdict.
Matthew 27:45. The Darkness Of Golgotha.

Sermons on Mark through John

Mark 3:4. The Sanctions Of Ordinances.
Mark 3:5. Ability For Disability.
Mark 3:21. The Madness Of Jesus.
Mark 3:28-29. Unpardonable Sin.
Mark 6:3; 6:14; John 6:15; Mark 6:49. Four Mistakes About Christ.
Mark 8:34. The Shock Which The Spell Of Jesus Brings To The Soul.
Mark 8:34. The Spell Which Jesus Casts On Men.
Mark 10:14. Suffer The Children.
Mark 11:11. The Looking Of Jesus.
Mark 10:21. The Young Ruler.
Luke 1:74, 75. Holiness: Definition.
Luke 2:7; Colossians 1:15; 1:18; Romans 8:29. The Firstborn.
Luke 2:14. Peace Among Men Of God's Pleasure.
Luke 8:45. The Touch Of Faith.
Luke 9:51. Christ's Vision Of Jerusalem.
Luke 9:51-62. But!.
Luke 12:35, 36. Men Looking For Their Lord.
Luke 12:49, 50. The Passion-Baptism.
Luke 13:6-9. The Rights Of God.
Luke 14:15, 27. The Kingdom: The Oath Of Allegiance.
Luke 15:2. Jesus And Sinners.
Luke 18:1. Prayer Or Fainting.
Luke 18:14. Exaltation And Humbling.
Luke 22:37; Hebrews 7:26 Christ And Sinners--Identified And Separate.
Luke 24:32. The Burning Of Heart.
Luke 24:50. Led Out--Led In.
John 1:4. Light And Darkness.
John 1:11, 13. The Coming Of The Word.
John 1:13. Regeneration.
John 1:14. The Word Became Flesh.
John 1:43. Follow Me.
John 2:23-25. Christ's Knowledge Of Men.
John 3:36. Eternal Life.
John 6:29. The Work Of Faith.
John 9:1-5. Born Blind: The Disciples' Problem--The Master's Answer.
John 10:11. Life Through Death.
John 12:12, 13. The Triumphal Entry.
John 12:36. Life In The Light.
John 14:9. The Purpose Of The Advent: 3. To Reveal the Father.
John 14:21. Love's Proof And Prize.
John 15:5. The Vine.
John 15:15, 16. The Fruit-Bearing Friends Of Jesus.
John 16:7-11. The Spirit's Testimony To The World.
John 16:12. Progressive Revelation.
John 19:30. The Accomplished Mystery.
John 20:28. Was Thomas Mistaken?.
John 21:1. Manifestations Of The Risen Lord.
John 21:15, 16, 17. My Lambs--My Sheep.

Sermons on Acts through Colossians

Acts 1:1. The Unstraitened Christ.
Acts 1:8. Power For Service.
Acts 2:3. Tongues Like As Of Fire.
Acts 2:4. The Filling Of The Spirit.
Acts 2:24. The Resurrection.
Acts 2:32. The Teaching Of The Resurrection.
Acts 2:33. The Holy Spirit Through Christ, In The Church, For The World.
Acts 5:32. Witnesses.
Acts 10:34, 35. Divine Selection.
Acts 16:25, 26. Songs In Prison.
Acts 17:29. Humanity And Deity.
Acts 19:2. The Lack Of The Spirit.
Acts 20:21. The Conditions Of Renewal.
Acts 20:24. The Evangel Of Grace.
Acts 20:28. Church Ideals: The Church Instituted.
Romans 1:4. Horizoned By Resurrection.
Romans 1:14. The Church's Debt To The World.
Romans 1:16, 17. The Power Of The Gospel.
Romans 3:26. The Justification Of The Sinner.
Romans 5:8. Amazing Love!
Romans 6:23. The Wages Of Sin--The Gift Of God.
Romans 8:2. The Spirit Of Life.
Romans 8:9. Life; In Flesh, Or In Spirit.
Romans 8:9. The Spirit Of Christ; The Supreme Test.
Romans 8:24. Hope.
Romans 8:32. Promise At The Cross.
1 Corinthians 1:18. Power By The Cross.
1 Corinthians 1:30. Wisdom: The False And The True.
1 Corinthians 2:16. We Have The Mind Of Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:12; 10:13. The Limitations Of Liberty.
1 Corinthians 12:31; 14:1. Ambitions.
1 Corinthians 15:14, 17, 19. If Christ Did Not Rise--What Then?.
1 Corinthians 15:14. The Value And Proof Of The Resurrection.
1 Corinthians 16:22. Maran Atha!
2 Corinthians 4:5. Christ Jesus, The Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:17, 18. Holiness: Its Fruit.
2 Corinthians 5:19. God In Christ.
2 Corinthians 7:1. Holiness: Conditions.
2 Corinthians 8:7. The Grace Of Giving A Million Shillings!
2 Corinthians 11:5. The Great Apostle.
2 Corinthians 12:9. The All-Sufficient Grace.
Galatians 5:7. Holiness: Hindrances.
Galatians 5:11. The Stumbling-Block Of The Cross.
Galatians 5:22-23. The Fruit Of The Spirit.
Galatians 6:9. The Well-Doing That Brings Harvest.
Ephesians 1:1; 5:3 Saints.
Ephesians 1:7. Pardon By The Cross.
Ephesians 2:10. His Workmanship.
Ephesians 4:9, 10. The Ascension.
Ephesians 5:16. The Opportunity Of Calamity.
Ephesians 6:13. The Victorious Christian Life.
Philippians 2:5. The Mind Of Christ.
Philippians 2:9-11; Ephesians 1:20-23 The Exalted Christ.
Philippians 2:15. Holiness: A Present Possibility.
Philippians 3:10. A Good Friday Meditation.
Colossians 1:14. Forgiveness.
Colossians 1:18. Church Ideals: The Church Governed.
Colossians 1:20. Peace By The Cross.
Colossians 1:21-22. The Atonement.
Colossians 1:27. Christ In You, The Hope Of Glory.
Colossians 2:6. How God Has Made Possible What He Requires.
Colossians 2:9. The Deity Of Jesus.

Sermons on 1 Thessalonians through Revelation - - Series on "Problems"

1 Thessalonians 1:8. Church Ideals: The Church At Work.
2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2 Sanctification.
1 Timothy 3:15. The Church The Pillar And Ground Of The Truth.
1 Timothy 6:5-6. Godliness And Gain.
1 Timothy 6:12 The Fight Of Faith
2 Timothy 1:10. Death Abolished.
2 Timothy 2:8. The Supreme Inspiration Of Faith.
2 Timothy 3:2, 4, 5. The Kingdom: Traitors.
2 Timothy 4:22; 2 Peter 3:18; Rev 22:1 Final Words.
Hebrews 2:3. The Responsibilities Of Salvation.
Hebrews 3:7-8. The Perils Of Procrastination.
Hebrews 3:13. Hardened.
Hebrews 9:14. Purity By The Cross.
Hebrews 9:28. The Purpose Of The Advent: 4. To Prepare for a Second Advent.
Hebrews 10:14. The One Offering.
Hebrews 11:1. The Optimism Of Faith.
Hebrews 11:6. The Conditions Of Coming To God.
Hebrews 11:10. Christian Citizenship: The Building Of The City.
Hebrews 12:1-2. The Cities Of Men And The City Of God.
Hebrews 12:27. Things Shaken--Things Not Shaken.
Hebrews 13:8. The Unchanging One.
Hebrews 13:10. Our Altar.
Hebrews 13:13. Christian Citizenship: Co-Operation In The Building.
Hebrews 13:14. Christian Citizenship: No Abiding City.
Hebrews 13:14. Christian Citizenship: The Search For The City.
Hebrews 13:17. Watching For Souls.
1 Peter 1:3. An Easter Meditation.
1 Peter 1:3-5. Our Hope And Inheritance.
1 John 2:3. Fellowship With God.
1 John 3:4; James 1:15 Sin.
1 John 3:5. The Purpose Of The Advent: 2. To Take Away Sins.
1 John 3:8. The Purpose Of The Advent: 1. To Destroy the Works of the Devil.
Jude 1:21. "Keep Yourselves In The Love Of God."
Revelation 1:9. Tribulation, Kingdom, And Patience.
Revelation 3:20. The King At The Door.
Revelation 19:16. The Kingdom: The King.
How Can A Man Walk With God? Conscience.
The Coming Of The Word. The Beginning Of Sin.
The Problems Of The Religious Life: Can A Just God Forgive Sins?
The Problems Of The Religious Life: Can A Just God Forgive Sins?
The Problems Of The Religious Life: What Does God Require Of Man?
The Problems Of The Religious Life: The Opposing Forces Of The Religious Life--The World
The Problems Of The Religious Life: The Opposing Forces Of The Religious Life--The Flesh.
The Problems Of The Religious Life: The Opposing Forces Of The Religious Life--The Devil.
The Problems Of The Religious Life: Is The Religious Life Possible?
The Problems Of The Religious Life: Is The Religious Life Necessary?

The Problems Of The Religious Life: Is The Religious Life Worth While?
The Problems Of The Religious Life: The All-Sufficient Solution.

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