The ninth book in the Finney and Spurgeon Face to Face series is "The Way to See God," which follows "The Cause and Cure of Spiritual Blindness:" (Spiritual Blindness can lead to Moral Insanity and Judicial Blindness). In his sermon on "The Way to See God," Charles Spurgeon declared, “Impurity of heart is the cause of spiritual blindness;” then, he showed the way to see God. "The Way to See God" teaches the meaning of and practically applies Jesus’ beatitude: “Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

You may have asked yourself why the Finney and Spurgeon Face to Face series? Perhaps one answer can be given by Spurgeon himself when he spoke of Charles Finney and his preaching in one of his lectures to his students who were preparing for the ministry:

“While giving instruction it is wise to appeal to the understanding. True religion is as logical as if it were not emotional. I am not an admirer of the peculiar views of Mr. Finney, but I have no doubt that he was useful to many; and his power lay in his use of clear arguments. Many who knew his fame were greatly disappointed at first hearing him, because he used few beauties of speech and was as calm and dry as a book of Euclid; but he was exactly adapted to a certain order of minds, and they were convinced and convicted by his forcible reasoning. Should not persons of an argumentative cast of mind be provided for? We are to be all things to all men, and to these men we must become argumentative and push them into a corner with plain deductions and necessary inferences. Of carnal reasoning we would have none, but of fair, honest pondering, considering, judging, and arguing the more the better.

“The class requiring logical argument is small compared with the number of those who need to be pleaded with, by way of emotional persuasion. They require not so much reasoning as heart-argument — which is logic set on fire. You must argue with them as a mother pleads with her boy that he will not grieve her, or as a fond sister entreats a brother to return to their father’s home and seek reconciliation: argument must be quickened into persuasion by the living warmth of love. Cold logic has its force, but when made red hot with affection the power of tender argument is inconceivable. The power which one mind can gain over others is enormous, but it is often best developed when the leading mind has ceased to have power over itself. When passionate zeal has carried the man himself away his speech becomes an irresistible torrent, sweeping all before it. A man known to be godly and devout, and felt to be large-hearted and self-sacrificing, has a power in his very person, and his advice and recommendation carry weight because of his character; but when he comes to plead and to persuade, even to tears, his influence is wonderful, and God the Holy Spirit yokes it into his service. Brethren, we must plead. Entreaties and beseechings must blend with our instructions. Any and every appeal which will reach the conscience and move men to fly to Jesus we must perpetually employ, if by any means we may save some.”

Charles Finney was trained as a lawyer and worked as a lawyer before he came to trust in Jesus Christ as his Lord. After he was converted, he gave up his law practice and became an evangelist. As a revivalist, he often preached and pled the cause of Jesus Christ as a lawyer would in a court of law. He particularly wanted to reach lawyers for Christ, and he often did (as his autobiography reveals). In the sermons by Finney and Spurgeon below, both Finney and Spurgeon talk about lawyers and why some come to believe in Jesus Christ through preaching similar to what might be testified to in a court of law.