Charles Spurgeon
JOSHUA was very highly favored in the matter of promises. The promises given him by God were broadly comprehensive and exceedingly encouraging. But Joshua was not therefore to say within himself, “These covenant engagements will surely be fulfilled, and I may…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 3, 1893
I REMARKED in the reading that the Gospel of Matthew is especially the Gospel of the kingdom and of the King. All through Matthew’s writing, the title of King constantly occurs in connection with Christ, and His kingliness is prominent from the opening chapter…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 16, 1890
THIS is the declaration of one of God’s servants; “by them is Your servant warned.” Only for men made obedient by divine grace is this passage written. My hearer, are you God’s servant? Let us begin with that question. Remember that if you are not God’s servan…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 15, 1910
IT was at the grave of Lazarus that Jesus wept, and His grief was so manifest to the onlookers that they said, “Behold how he loved him!” Most of us here, I trust, are not mere onlookers, but we have a share in the special love of Jesus. We see evidences of th…
Charles Spurgeon • May 4, 1862
ALL the world has been talking during the last three days of the splendid pageant which adorned the opening of the International Exhibition. Crowds have congregated in the palace of universal art, representatives of all the nations of the earth have journeyed…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 17, 1903
GOD’S works are, of course, wonderful because they are His works, but they are not “a nine days’ wonder.” They are not intended to be admired for a little while, and then to be forgotten. The psalmist says, “He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered.”…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 16, 1902
LAZINESS is the crying sin of Eastern nations. I believe that the peculiar genius of the Anglo-Saxon character prevents our being, as a nation, guilty of that sin. Perhaps we have many other vices more rife in our midst than that, but in the East, almost every…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 4, 1880
SALVATION is no small thing. It filled the heart and hands of the Son of God and therefore it ought not to be neglected by us. The precious promise before us concerns the gift of eternal salvation and it is set forth as the personal word of the Lord Jesus Chri…
Charles Spurgeon • May 9, 1875
WE have in the twenty-first and twenty-second chapters of the Book of Revelation a very wonderful description of heaven upon earth. I shall not attempt to go into any prophetical explanations as to when this will be fulfilled, but we know this for certain, for…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 2, 1879
THE great battle in the heavenlies has been fought—our glorious Michael has forever overthrown the dragon and cast him down. In the highest regions, the great principle of evil has received a total defeat through the life and death of our Lord Jesus. For human…
Charles Spurgeon • May 1, 1870
THE “principalities and powers in heavenly places” to whom the apostle here refers, are, no doubt, the angels. These bright and glorious spirits, never having fallen into sin, did not need to be redeemed, and therefore, in the sense of being cleansed from guil…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 7, 1895
DAVID was a great king and a good king, but his character was compromised by the conduct of Joab, who had been one of his chief friends and supporters. Abner came to David in Hebron, and proposed terms of peace, which David accepted. But Joab could not bear th…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 17, 1907
THIS little episode in the narrative of the evangelist is very singular. One wonders why it is introduced, but a moment’s reflection will, I think, suggest a plausible reason. It strikes me that this “certain young man” was none other than Mark himself. He was…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 14, 1896
THIS morning [See sermon #694, Sin Laid on Jesus], we had the great privilege of preaching the doctrine of substitution, and of directing the minds of God’s people to the solid rock of the meritorious sacrifice of Christ whereon all their hopes of heaven must…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 23, 1873
I THOUGHT of addressing you this morning upon the importance of prayer, and I designed earnestly to stir you up to pray for me and for the Lord’s work in this place. Truly, I do not think I could have had a more weighty subject or one which weighs more upon my…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 6, 1906
WE were favored with very much of God’s goodness last Sabbath evening, when we considered the rule of grace in guiding a believer’s life, namely, that instead of seeing in order to believe, he has learned to believe in order to see [Sermon #766, Believing To S…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 3, 1901
MY real text is not in the Bible—it is one of those Christian proverbs which are not inspired in words, but the spirit of which is inspired, “Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.” You have often heard that sentence. It is familiar in your mouths a…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 6, 1898
HAVE you read this chapter through? It is a very terrible one, it is like the rushing of a mighty river when it is nearing a cataract. It boils, and seethes, and flows with overwhelming force, bearing everything before it, yet right in the middle of the surgin…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 13, 1907
FOR many centuries, the Holy Land has been covered with thorns and briers. Travelers tell us it is so exceedingly barren that, except upon the dreary desert of Sahara, you cannot find a more absolute sterility than in many parts of Judea and Israel. But the la…
Charles Spurgeon
I DO not hesitate to say that this is one of the most wonderful texts in the whole compass of revelation. It sets forth the mystery of mysteries, the very pith and marrow of the loftiest divinity. It is fitted rather to be the theme for a hundred elaborate dis…
Charles Spurgeon • May 5, 1910
[Another sermon by Mr. Spurgeon upon verses 1 and 7 is #1336, A Family Sermon.] GOD keeps His eyes upon the sons of men, and He searches among them for certain individuals upon whom He delights to fix His gaze. These are not the kings and princes, these are no…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 29, 1888
WE cannot help looking for the restoration of the scattered Israelites to the land which God has given to them by a covenant of salt; we also look for the time when they shall believe in the Messiah whom they have rejected, and shall rejoice in Jesus of Nazare…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 25, 1887
THIS is the language of the great prophet Moses, “My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.” We read of Moses that he was a prophet mighty in word and deed;…
Charles Spurgeon • May 6, 1866
THE clearest and most important exposition of the revelation of God in the inspired Book is the revelation of God in the renewed man. Every Christian will discover, in proportion to his advances in divine knowledge, that the very things which are written in th…