Charles Spurgeon • Nov 23, 1916
HOW gracious a thing it is on God’s part to make prayers for us! He puts them into our mouths. No one need say, “I cannot pray because I am unable to compose a sentence.” Here is a prayer already composed, which would be suitable for the lip of any one here pr…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 2, 1865
THE sending forth of the raven and of the dove, have furnished ready materials for numerous allegories with which divines in different ages have sometimes edified, and more frequently amused their hearers. We cannot afford time to mention many of them, but one…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 13, 1885
THE text is a Beatitude. It begins with BLESSED. We should all like to be blessed. What a more than golden word that “blessed” is! It begins the Psalms of David; there is sweetest poetry in it. It begins the sermon of the Son of David; it is the end of all hol…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 27, 1907
OF course the Master was right, but He appeared to speak unreasonably. It seemed self-evident that the people very much needed to depart. They had been all day long hearing the Preacher, the most of them had not broken their fast, and they were ready to faint…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 8, 1915
THERE is an allusion here to the prize which was offered to the runners in the Olympic games, and at the outset it is well for us to remark how very frequently the apostle Paul conducts us by his metaphors to the racecourse. Over and over again he is telling u…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 8, 1903
JACOB is the type of a believer who has too much planning and scheming about him, he is a wise man according to the judgment of the world. Put him down by the side of Laban, and if his relative tries to stint him in his wages, and to cheat him in all manner of…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 26, 1911
THIS season of depression in trade has brought great care to many a house and heart, especially to village pastors and their flocks. Their troubles have been heavy and I am afraid their cares have not been light. Few have escaped the pinch of these hard times—…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 4, 1868
I RECEIVED, one day this week, a short communication worded on this wise, “Wanted, a cure for a weak and doubting faith, especially when Satan disinclines to pray.” Anxiously desirous to prescribe cures for such maladies and for any others which may vex the Lo…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 18, 1907
IT was my pleasure and my privilege, some time ago, to address you from the whole of this verse, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 27, 1867
WE cannot too often insist upon it that religion is a matter of the heart. It is the besetting sin of man to forget that God is a Spirit, and that worship rendered to God must be of a spiritual kind. Idolatry is the full carrying out of this mischievous propen…
Charles Spurgeon
THE word “conversation” does not merely mean our talk and converse one with another, but the whole course of our life and behavior in the world. The Greek word signifies the actions and the privileges of citizenship, and we are to let our whole citizenship—our…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 31, 1907
OR as some read it, “The LORD giveth, and the LORD taketh away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” So that the text is not only concerning the past, but it may rightly be considered as relating to the present also. Some of the rarest pearls have been found in t…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 31, 1916
THIS was originally spoken of the Kingdom of Israel. For many years they had been under a king who commanded the worship of Baal and persecuted the worshippers of JEHOVAH. God chastened the people very sorely for this, but He did not utterly destroy them. At l…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 4, 1897
THIS Psalm, I think, was intended to set forth the singularity of God. In it we are exhorted to praise Him who is our God, and to give honor and glory to Him alone. The psalmist does not dwell here upon those attributes which usually call forth our praise, or…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 2, 1899
WITHOUT any preface or prelude, we shall draw from these words three on four lessons.
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 26, 1902
IF this had been an utterance of mine it would have been accounted vulgar, as a sentence of Scripture, I suppose it may be permitted to escape the censure of fastidious modern critics. The vernacular tongue and the homely figure may be decried as vulgarities,…
Charles Spurgeon • May 2, 1897
THERE is just as much need of this exhortation today as there was when our Savior first uttered it.
Charles Spurgeon • May 8, 1898
A FORTNIGHT ago, you will remember that we considered the very terrible description which the prophet gave of the sin of God’s ancient people [See sermon #2564, Strange Ways of Love]. They were described even coarsely, because only such imagery could set forth…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 5, 1873
I ANTICIPATE an objection to my preaching from this text and using it in reference to any persons in this congregation. “The words were spoken to Daniel and we are not Daniels”—that is probably the shape which the objection will take in certain minds, and my r…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 29, 1888
TRUE knowledge of God is a covenant blessing. To know Jehovah as the only living and true God, to know Him personally and intimately, so as to say with David, “You are my God”—this is one of the choice blessings of the covenant of grace which grace bestows upo…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 14, 1878
I BELIEVE that the infirmity of this woman was not only physical but spiritual. Her outward appearance was the index of her deep and long-continued depression of mind. She was bent double as to her body, and she was bowed down by sadness as to her mind. There…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 24, 1875
HUSBANDMEN are now devoting their attention to putting the seed into the ground. They know right well that without sowing in the present they cannot expect a reaping in the future. Seed-time has many lessons. That which we shall learn this morning is very pers…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 25, 1896
WHILE we were reading this chapter you must all have been struck with the melting of one man’s life into another. Here is David most anxious about the building of the temple at Jerusalem, he is not permitted to erect it himself, and therefore he sets to work w…
Charles Spurgeon
THE Lord’s transactions with the patriarch Abraham are frequently used in Scripture as types of His dealings with all the heirs of promise. The Lord found him in an idolatrous household, even as He finds all His people far off from Him and strangers to Him. Bu…