Charles Spurgeon • Mar 6, 1864
CERTAIN divines have doubted the inspiration of Solomon’s Song. Others have conceived it to be nothing more than a specimen of ancient love songs, and some have been afraid to preach from it because of its highly poetical character.
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 25, 1855
FOR the most part the gracious Shepherd leads His people beside the still waters and makes them to lie down in green pastures. But at times they wander through a wilderness, where there is no water and they find no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their s…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 14, 1858
I SHALL have two texts this morning—the evil and its remedy. “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great,” and “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” We can learn nothing of the Gospel except by feeling its truths—…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 24, 1856
PAUL was the very model of what a Christian minister should be. He was a watchful shepherd over the flock. He did not simply preach to them and consider that he had done all his duty when he had delivered his message. But his eyes were always upon the churches…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 11, 1855
THE next verse finely declares the power of God. “He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.” Perhaps there is nothing which gives us a nobler view of the greatness of God than a contemplation of the starry heavens. When by night w…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 14, 1860
Many of God’s people live as if their God were dead. Their conduct would be quite consistent if the promises were not yea and amen, if God were a faithless God. If Christ were not a perfect Redeemer, if the Word of God might after all turn out to be untrue, if…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 8, 1858
THE Christian religion is a golden chain with which the hands of men are fettered from all hatred.
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 30, 1860
THIS is a singular paradox, but not a paradox to him who understands the Gospel. We have great reason to thank God that the terrible disease, leprosy, which was one of the demons of the East, is so little known in our own land. And even in the few cases where…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 19, 1860
IT seems from these two texts that repentance was the first subject upon which the Redeemer dwelt and that it was the last which, with His departing breath, He commended to the earnestness of His disciples. He begins His mission crying, “Repent,” He ends it by…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 15, 1855
THESE be the last words of David, so we read at the commencement of the chapter. Many have been the precious sentences which have fallen from his inspired lips. Seraphic has been the music which has dropped from his fingers when they flew along the strings of…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 22, 1857
I WILL show you three fools. One is yonder soldier, who has been wounded on the field of battle, grievously wounded, well nigh unto death. The surgeon is by his side and the soldier asks him a question. Listen and judge of his folly. What question does he ask?…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 1, 1858
DOUBTLESS these words primarily refer to the casting away of the Jews and to the choosing of the Gentiles. The Gentiles were a people who sought not after God, but lived in idolatry. Nevertheless, JEHOVAH was pleased in these latter times to send the Gospel of…
Charles Spurgeon • May 27, 1860
AND how think you the prophet proceed in order to accomplish the solemn commission which had been thus entrusted to him? Did he begin by reminding the people of the law which was delivered to Moses on the top of Sinai? Did he picture to them the exceeding fear…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 2, 1860
THE language of man has received a new coinage of words since the time of his perfection in Eden.
Charles Spurgeon • May 8, 1864
TRUTH once reigned supreme upon our globe, and then earth was paradise. Man knew no sorrow while he was ignorant of falsehood. The Father of Lies invaded the garden of bliss, and with one foul lie he blighted Eden into a wilderness, and made man a traitor to h…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 14, 1861
TENDER fathers seek first to win their children by gentle means. The Lord, in His longsuffering, dealt very kindly with His erring Israel, sending them favor after favor, and blessing after blessing, saying by His acts, “I have given them their corn, and their…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 24, 1861
THE chief of sinners are objects of the choicest mercy. Christ is a great Savior to meet the great transgressions of great rebels. The vast machinery of redemption was never undertaken for a mean or little purpose. There must be a great end in so great a plan,…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 19, 1860
OUR Lord was now about to die, to depart from this world, and to ascend to His Father, He therefore makes His will, and this is the blessed legacy which He leaves to the faithful—“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.” We may rest well assured that…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 8, 1861
THIS is the seventh of the Beatitudes. There is a mystery always connected with the number seven.
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 8, 1857
MY hearer, are you a believer, or no? According to your answer to that question must be the style in which I shall address you tonight. I would ask you as a great favor to your own soul this evening to divest yourself of the thought that you are sitting in a c…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 27, 1858
HOW marvelous the condescension which induced the Savior to take notice of such a wretch as Saul! Enthroned in the highest heavens, amidst the eternal melodies of the redeemed, and the seraphic sonnets of the cherubim and all the angelic hosts, it was strange…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 16, 1855
HOW very frequently verses of Scripture are misquoted! Instead of turning to the Bible, to see how it is written, and saying, “How readest thou?” we quote from one another, and thus a passage of Scripture is handed down misquoted, by a kind of tradition, from…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 18, 1859
IN the midst of wrath God remembers mercy. Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunderclouds, bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand, so…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 5, 1863
THE apostles never traveled far from the simple facts of Christ’s life, death, resurrection, ascension, exaltation, and second advent. These things, of which they were the witnesses, constituted the staple of all their discourses. Newton has very properly said…