Charles Spurgeon • Oct 10, 1869
THERE seems to have been in the olden times, among the petty sovereigns of the East, regular seasons for warfare. Perhaps they marched forth in the spring, when the grass would afford food for their horses, or possibly in the autumn, when the troops could fora…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 17, 1901
THE apostle Paul was an inspired man when he wrote this epistle, so there was no necessity on the part of the Holy Spirit, when guiding his mind and pen, to employ words which had been used before in the Scriptures, for His language is unlimited. Yet Paul, ins…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 25, 1915
THE apostle Paul was about to be placed in imminent peril. He was to be brought before the Roman governor, Gallio. The Jews, rank and rabble, were hopeful that they would get him condemned to death.
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 26, 1879
OVER against amazing mercy, the Holy Spirit sets awakening judgment. The acceptable year of the Lord is also the day of vengeance of our God and the sentence which shall confirm the righteous in his righteousness is attended by another which says, “He that is…
Charles Spurgeon • May 4, 1879
SOME words serve diverse uses and have many meanings. We are very apt to make mistakes if we give the same sense in all places to the same word. The word “world” throughout Scripture is used with a very remarkable variety of meaning and one had need to have hi…
Charles Spurgeon
WE know that the Savior spoke of spiritual, not carnal things, and He spoke of Himself not as being in any sense meat for our bodies—that could not be—but as being food for our souls. This statement is very plain to us, but those who heard it at the first foun…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 13, 1905
I WILL not spend even a minute in considering whether these were divine persons veiled in angelic form or whether they were actually angels. In either case, I should make the same remark and lead to the same practical result. Let us learn from these angels how…
Charles Spurgeon
THIS prayer is full of meaning and is the outflow of a well-instructed mind. It is no parrot cry, but the upleaping of a living desire from a grace-taught and thoughtful heart. The man knows something of himself who sincerely offers this plaintive petition to…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 29, 1917
HOSEA uses a great many figures taken from farming. He describes the seeking of the Lord in the former part of this verse as ploughing, and sowing, and breaking up fallow ground. I suppose he intends by this to describe conviction of sin, humiliation of soul a…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 5, 1878
THIS was said by David after a great battle in which many had been slain and the hosts led by Absalom had fallen to the number of twenty thousand, perishing not only by the sword, but among the thick oaks and tangled briers of the forest which concealed fearfu…
Charles Spurgeon • May 20, 1888
TWO Sabbath mornings ago I preached from this parable, and I trust many were encouraged by it, but I noticed among inquirers who came to see me afterwards, a desire to know about the wedding garment, for they feared lest, in coming to join the church, they sho…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 31, 1908
IT is a very natural thing that man should fear to die, for man was not originally created to die. When Adam and Eve were first placed in the garden of Eden, they were in such a condition that they might have remained there for a myriad years if they had kept…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 15, 1880
ALL ways of justification by human works and outward forms are set aside by the apostle. In one sentence he closes up every road which is cast up by man and opens up the way of the Lord, even the way of salvation by grace through faith in Christ Jesus. Some ho…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 29, 1894
I DO not know whether you generally read the daily newspaper. I think we might get up a “Society for the Suppression of Useless Knowledge.” A great deal that appears in the newspapers amounts only to that, and much time is wasted thereon, but sometimes we get…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 3, 1867
THE ancient people of God were most vexatiously stolid, and although the Lord taught them very plainly and repeatedly, line upon line and precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, yet they would not understand His will. More especially, in order…
Charles Spurgeon • May 10, 1883
I HAVE frequently expounded to you the type of the brazen serpent as our Lord interprets it in the third of John. I thought it meet tonight to take that type in its connection and look at the original circumstances which led to the setting of it up. For while…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 17, 1889
UNDER the old covenant the Lord was set forth to the people as dwelling apart, within the veil. A thick tapestry hung before the most holy place and thus concealed the light which symbolized the presence of God. Within the inner sanctuary JEHOVAH dwelt apart a…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 11, 1892
SOMETIMES nobody appeared to come to Christ. He preached, but no followers appeared as the result of His preaching. At another time, we see that many came, and desired to be numbered with His disciples, but they were not all of the right kind. Luke has collect…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 26, 1890
THE Lord has blessed His people, and He would have them know it. He has blessed them with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and it is His wish that they should experience the fullness of this blessing. Are any of the Lord’s people wit…
Charles Spurgeon
OUR text leads us to speak upon historical matters, and for this I shall by no means apologize, although I have sometimes heard very foolish professors speak slightingly of the historical part of Scripture. Remember that the historical books were almost the on…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 23, 1862
-11 THE universe of God is one, heaven and earth are not so separate as unbelief has dreamed. As the Lord has but one family, written in one register, redeemed with one blood, quickened by one Spirit, so this whole household abides in one habitation evermore.…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 18, 1906
BUT did not John say that “fear hath torment”? Then, how can he be happy who has fear, and especially he who has it alway? Did not John also say that “perfect love casteth out fear”? How is it then, that he is happy in whom love is not made perfect, if so be t…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 29, 1882
THE words “Verily, verily,” as they were solemnly used by our divine Lord, indicate an utterance of special importance. If Jesus says, “Verily, verily,” there is something coming to which we should attend with all our hearts. The subject which He thus introduc…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 13, 1872
THE prophet is speaking of the Messiah. He declares of Him, “He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.” It is marve…