This is not Spurgeon’s usual approach to a sermon. He opens with a sort of rolling consideration of his text, Philippians 4:11, teasing out some leading thoughts concerning Paul’s learning of this holy art of contentment, and the experience that it encompassed, and the faith that lay behind it. Having completed this survey, Spurgeon applies the text to the rich, to the poor, and to the sufferer. It shows something of the variety of the preacher’s skill to handle the text in a different way, and also shows something of the preacher’s heart for the variety of people under his care, that the different classes of experience should all be addressed, and that we might learn, like Christ, and then like Paul, to be content with the Lord’s dispensations toward us.

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