Charles Spurgeon • Sep 7, 1856
HOW very much like to Christ before His crucifixion was Christ after His resurrection! Although He had lain in the grave, and descended into the regions of the dead, and had retraced his steps to the land of the living, yet how marvelously similar He was in Hi…
Charles Spurgeon
BOTH Jews and Gentiles knew pretty well what an offering for sin meant. The Gentiles had been in the habit of offering sacrifices. The Jews however, had by far the clearer idea of it. And what was meant by a sin offering? Undoubtedly, it was taken for granted…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 10, 1856
RIGHT truly did Paul say, “Whereby he hath given unto us exceeding great and precious promises,” for surely this promise is exceeding great indeed. In the entire compass of God’s Holy Word, there is not to be found a precious declaration which can excel this i…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 7, 1857
ALL sins are great sins, but yet some sins are greater than others. Every sin has in it the very venom of rebellion and is full of the essential marrow of traitorous rejection of God. But there are some sins which have in them a greater development of the esse…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 11, 1858
How fond our Master was of the sweet title, the “Son of man”! If He had chosen, He might always have spoken of Himself as the Son of God, the Everlasting Father, the Wonderful, the Counselor, the Prince of Peace. He has a thousand gorgeous titles, resplendent…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 29, 1857
IN all worldly things men are always enough awake to understand their own interests. There is scarce a merchant who reads the paper who does not read it in some way or other with a view to his own personal concerns. If he finds that by the rise or fall of the…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 26, 1863
WE shall not attempt to discuss the question as to whether these magicians actually did turn their rods into serpents or no. It is probable that they, by dexterous sleight of hand, substituted living serpents for dry rods, and so deceived the eye of Pharaoh. O…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 24, 1864
THE two most important things in our holy religion are faith and life . He who shall rightly understand these two words is not far from being a master in experiential theology. Faith and life! these are vital points to a Christian. They possess so intimate a c…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 16, 1855
WE have been talking very freely during this last week of “glorious victories,” of “brilliant successes,” of “sieges,” and of “stormings.” We little know what the dread reality is of which we boast.
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 25, 1856
POVERTY is no virtue. Wealth is no sin. On the other hand, wealth is not morally good and poverty is not morally evil. A man may be a good man and a rich man. It is quite certain that very frequently good men are poor men. Virtue is a plant which depends not u…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 19, 1858
DURING the last two Sabbath days I have been preaching the Gospel to the unconverted. I have earnestly exhorted the very chief of sinners to look to Jesus Christ, and have assured them that as a preparation for coming to Christ, they need no good works, or goo…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 12, 1858
GOD’S people are always safe. “All the saints are in His hands,” and the hand of God is a place of safety, as well as a place of honor. Nothing can hurt the man who has made his refuge God. “Thou hast given commandment to save me,” said David and every believi…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 8, 1861
JESUS CHRIST had spoken certain truths which were highly objectionable to the Pharisees. Some of His loving disciples were in great fright, and they came to Him and said, “Knowest thou not that the Pharisees are offended?” Now, our Savior, instead of making an…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 18, 1858
WHEN the high priest of old entered into the most holy place, he kindled the incense in his censer, and waving it before him, he perfumed the air with its sweet fragrance and veiled the mercy seat with the denseness of its smoke. Thus was it written concerning…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 1, 1860
THE apostle Peter turns from exhortation to prayer. He knew that if praying be the end of preaching in the hearer, preaching should always be accompanied by prayer in the minister. Having exhorted believers to walk steadfastly, he bends his knee and commends t…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 15, 1860
IN our country when a sower goes forth with his seed, he enters into an enclosed field and begins at once with due order and precision to scatter the seed from his basket along every ridge and furrow, but in the East, the corn-growing country, hard by a small…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 26, 1857
THERE was a time when this prayer would have been unnecessary. A period, in fact, when it could not have been offered, seeing the thing to be asked for was already in being. A time there was when the word rebellion had not been uttered against the great magist…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 12, 1863
THE hand of God has been upon us heavily this week. An aged deacon, who has been for more than fifty years a member of this church, has been removed from our midst. And a sister, the beloved wife of another of our church officers, a member for nearly the same…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 28, 1861
THE apostle has proceeded through a simple but exceedingly forcible train of reasoning till he gains this glorious point—“Joint-heirs with Christ.” He begins thus—“Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of ado…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 13, 1859
AND will God contend with man? If God be angry, can He not take away the breath of his nostrils, and lay him low in the dust of earth? If the heart of the Almighty is moved unto hot displeasure, can He not speak in His anger, and will not the soul of man sink…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 3, 1856
AS the spiritual guide of the flock of God along the intricate mazes of experience, it is the duty of the Gospel minister to point out every turning of the road to heaven, to speak concerning its dangers or its privileges, and to warn any whom he may suspect t…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 11, 1858
YOU see, I have something to sell this evening. I have to invite you to come and buy that which in the Gospel will this night be proclaimed. Now, it is usual when persons have anything to sell, to exhibit the article , to describe its character and speak of it…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 26, 1859
IF God had willed it we might each one of us have entered heaven at the moment of our conversion.
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 4, 1858
MAN’S heart is never big enough to hold either its joys or its sorrows. You never heard of a man whose heart was exactly full of sorrow, for no sooner is it full than it overflows. The first prompting of the soul is to tell its sorrow to another. The reason is…