Charles Spurgeon • Feb 27, 1898
ELIHU was a wise man, exceedingly wise, though not as wise as the all-wise JEHOVAH, who sees light in the clouds, and finds order in confusion, hence Elihu, being much puzzled at beholding Job so afflicted, cast about him to find the cause of it, and he very w…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 9, 1901
THIS morning [Sermon #1553, Faith Working by Love], those of us who were here meditated upon the connection between faith and love, so I thought we had better pursue the same subject somewhat further, hoping that we might still receive divine instruction upon…
Charles Spurgeon
I MUST confess that I have frequently read this verse with but a vague sense of its profound impressiveness, and I have passed it over rapidly because I did not understand it clearly. Though well acquainted with the usual interpretations, none of them had ever…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 2, 1891
THIS young man waited upon a prophet. He could not have had a more instructive occupation, yet his eyes needed to be opened. He was well-disposed towards good things, for the tone of his language to his master shows that he was heartily at one with him, but hi…
Charles Spurgeon
THE scribes and Pharisees were great readers of the law of God. They studied the sacred books continually, poring over each word and letter. They made notes of very little importance, but still very curious notes as to which was the middle verse of the entire…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 6, 1913
When it pleases God by His judgments to humble men, He is never at a loss for means—He can use lions or lice, famines or flies. In the armory of God there are weapons of every kind, from the stars in their courses down to caterpillars in their hosts. The dust…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 30, 1901
THIS was the first appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ after His resurrection. In sundry places and at divers times, during the ensuing forty days, He appeared to different disciples, showing Himself openly to them when they were assembled for worship and at o…
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NATHANAEL was by nature a man free from cunning and deceit. He was a specimen of that “honest and good ground” of which our Savior speaks in the parable, upon which, when the seed fell, a hundredfold harvest was produced. We have some such men about us, thank…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 18, 1914
SOME persons are always trying to prove what is customary in the Christian church. They are always seeking after instances and precedents. The worst of it is that many of these people look for old things that are not old enough—the old things of the Church of…
Charles Spurgeon • May 8, 1892
THE seed of Israel had great privileges even before the coming of Christ. God had promised by covenant that they should have those privileges, and they enjoyed them. They had a revelation and a light divine, while all the world beside sat in heathen darkness.…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 15, 1915
MAN appears to the most superficial observer to have, at any rate, two parts—his outward bodily form and constitution—and his inward, invisible, but essential self. There are some persons who care nothing for the inner man, who think that to educate the body a…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 4, 1898
WE learn from the text a fact worth remembering, namely, that in the first stage of the Christian ministry, the thing to be aimed at is that men should be pricked in the heart. Then, in the second stage, the thing to be desired is that they should gladly recei…
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IN the fullness of the promised days, when the Jews shall be restored from their wanderings and all the seed of Jacob shall again meet in their own land, God in His mighty providence will speak to all the nations, saying, “To the north, Give up; and to the sou…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 15, 1901
WHAT is this “world” that we have to overcome? Did not God make the world and did He not see “everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good”? Yes, He did. But after sin entered this world, men came under its power and now, by “the world” is meant a…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 8, 1899
IT is a very grievous thing, to one who worships the only living and true God, to see others engaged in idolatrous worship. It stirs one’s indignation to see a man worship—not his own hands, but what is even worse than that—the thing which he has made with his…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 23, 1904
HOW strangely different was our Lord Jesus Christ from the philosophers of Greece! They were reserved in their demeanor, eclectic, or studiously choice, in their tastes, and jealous of contact with their fellow creatures. Retiring from the busy haunts of men,…
Charles Spurgeon • May 12, 1872
THE Israelites were commanded to remember all the way which the Lord their God had led them in the wilderness. That precept was not given without reason. The remembrance of God’s mercy in the past is helpful to us in many ways. To look back upon our past condi…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 17, 1905
OUR Lord Jesus, having spoiled the grave and so proved His power over things that are under the earth, tarried for forty days among men and so claimed His power over the earth itself, and then ascended through the air to show that the dominion of the prince of…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 4, 1864
WE frequently hear the question discussed as to which are the best times. Some are perpetually singing the praises of the “good old times.” Though, if one reads the pages of history, it does not appear that the old times deserve any very special praise, unless…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 27, 1906
GOD’S ancient people were very prone to forget Him, and to worship the false deities of the neighboring heathen. Other nations were faithful to their blocks of wood and of stone, and adhered as closely to their graven images as though they really had helped th…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 25, 1897
OBSERVE, dear friends, that our Lord, in order to impress a great practical truth upon His twelve apostles, refers them to Himself. He very often does so, quoting His own doings as an example to His servants. Does not this fact give us a hint that there is som…
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“GATHER out the stones”—that is to say, out of the King’s Highway. Clear the road, make room for coming sinners, take away all stumbling-blocks, make the Gospel plain and simple, and come to the help of those who find hindrances and impediments in their progre…
Charles Spurgeon • May 5, 1901
WHEN we read the Scriptures in our youth, we are often astonished at the peculiar conditions in which we find even good men. It is difficult for us to understand why David could be in such sore distress and why such a man as Elijah could be so dreadfully downc…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 8, 1904
A CAREFUL perusal of the whole chapter will well repay your pains. I have selected a verse for convenience, but I want the entire narrative for a text. If you are well versed in the history, we shall have no need of any preface or exordium. So we shall proceed…