He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. – John 3:36.
John the Baptist was evidently a preacher who knew how to discriminate—a point in which so many fail—he separated between the precious and the vile, and therefore he was as God’s mouth to the people. He does not address them as all lost nor as all saved, but he shows the two classes. He keeps up the line of demarcation between him that fears God and him that fears Him not. We have not many sermons by that mighty preacher, but we have just sufficient to prove that he knew how to lay the axe at the root of the tree by preaching the law of God most unflinchingly; and also that he knew how to declare the gospel, for no one could have uttered sentences which more clearly contain the way of salvation than those in the text before us.
He plainly declares the privileges of the believer, he says he has even now eternal life, and with equal decision he testifies to the sad state of the unbeliever, “He shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” John the Baptist might usefully instruct many professedly Christian preachers. Although he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John the Baptist, and ought, therefore, more clearly to bear witness to the truth, yet there are many who muddle the Gospel, who teach philosophy, who preach a mingle-mangle, which is neither law nor Gospel, and these might well go to the school of this rough preacher of the wilderness, and learn from him how to cry, “Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon
https://www.blueletterbible.org/comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/1012.cfm
He Hath Said 
These words are powerful, and certainly they represent God’s word very well. But in so stating, they also should bring grief. For if our preachers are to be greater than John the Baptist and thus more impactful; then we must only have a very low percent, who will find themselves actually in the Kingdom, and what must that say of the congregant?
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“…who preach a mingle-mangle…”
I like how Spurgeon put it. And it is sad. All of us must present the Gospel to the unsaved with seriousness about the broken Law and the remedy which our Redeemer paid in full for us. May God bless the seed we sow for His glory, amen.
Have a blessed day, Jerry, amen! 🤗
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