Charles Spurgeon • Dec 4, 1913
UNLESS they are cultivated, fields yield us nothing but briars and thistles. In this we may see ourselves. Unless the great Husbandman shall till us by His grace, we shall produce nothing that is good, but everything that is evil. If one of these days I shall…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 2, 1909
[Two other sermons by Mr. Spurgeon upon the same text are sermons #483, life and Walk of Faith and #3030, A Consistent Walk for Time to Come] THIS is a very simple text, yet no human being has ever discovered its full meaning. It is a great deep—happy are they…
Charles Spurgeon • May 15, 1881
You will always understand a passage of Scripture better if you carefully attend to its connection.
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 25, 1909
IN the very opening of this subject one feels inexpressibly delighted to see the wondrous love of our Savior towards His people. He here promises that He will intercede for each of them before His Father’s throne and He declares that this intercession also ris…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 6, 1870
IN this chapter, there is an evident progress. It opens by the disciples asking the Lord to teach them to pray. To that He gave a full and sufficient reply. He prepared them an outline of what complete prayer should be. Brethren, we have need, some of us, to b…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 14, 1898
JOB was an admirable man, but the Lord meant to make him still better. The best of men are but men at the best, and though Job was in a certain sense perfect, yet he was not perfectly perfect, there was a further stage beyond that which he had reached, else he…
Charles Spurgeon
WHEN Job resumes his address in this chapter, he appeals to God in a very solemn matter as to the truth of all that he had spoken. No less vehemently does he assert his innocence of any signal crime, or his consciousness of any secret guile, which could accoun…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 10, 1893
I AM not going to expound the whole passage that I have read as a text, but I desire to help you to gather some lessons from this familiar narrative.
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 8, 1889
BECAUSE man had perfect righteousness before the Fall, he enjoyed perfect blessedness. If you and I shall, by divine grace, attain to blessedness hereafter, it will be because God has restored us to righteousness. As it was in the first paradise, so must it be…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 24, 1905
I HAVE taken my text out of its connection for a certain purpose. Part of the purpose will be answered immediately if I say how wrong it is to take any passage of Scripture away from that which comes before it, and that which follows after it—for you may, if y…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 24, 1887
WE are told the reason for the Savior’s delivering this parable at this particular time. He was going up to Jerusalem, and the ignorant and enthusiastic crowd hoped that He might now set up a temporal sovereignty. “They thought that the kingdom of God should i…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 20, 1873
DAVID is very positive. He does not say, “I hope I shall be anointed with fresh oil, and I have a pleasing expectation that it may be so,” but he speaks of his future as absolutely certain—“I shall be anointed with fresh oil.” Nor will it appear at all wonderf…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 1, 1900
THIS verse occurs in one of the Hallelujah Psalms, that is, those commencing with “Praise ye the LORD.” We often find the psalmist praising and extolling God, let us imitate his example. Let us do so, because we shall find it very pleasant and profitable, and…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 19, 1873
JAMES is pre-eminently practical. If he were, indeed, the James who was called, “The Just,” I can understand how he earned the title, for that distinguishing trait in his character shows itself in his epistle.
Charles Spurgeon • May 29, 1887
I HAVE already explained to you, while expounding the twenty-fourth and twenty-ninth chapters of this prophet that these words were written by Jeremiah in a letter to the captives in Babylon. A considerable part of the people of Israel was carried away by Nebu…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 7, 1901
JOB considered himself to be unclean in the sight of God. Yet, if we speak the plain truth about him, we must say that he was as clean as any man who lived in that age or indeed in any other. We have the witness of the Holy Spirit, in this very Book, that he “…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 31, 1862
OUR Lord Jesus was tempted in all points like we are. With some reserve we might almost say the same of David. Of all the worthies whose lives are written out at length in Holy Writ, David possesses an experience of the most striking, varied, and instructive c…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 11, 1898
THE first great message of mercy to a sinner is put into four short words in the eighth verse of this chapter, “Christ died for us.” A preacher can never be wrong in lifting up Christ crucified, it is the glory of a congregation if it can be truly said, “Befor…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 13, 1897
DAVID, when he wrote these words, was in downright earnest. There were times with him when he grew lukewarm and cold, and then we remember that he soon fell into grievous sin. But at the time when he was penning this verse, his spirit was lively, and active, a…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 14, 1872
IT is a very great fault in any ministry if the doctrine of justification by faith alone be not most clearly taught. I will go further, and add, that it is not only a great fault, but a fatal one, for souls will never find their way to heaven by a ministry tha…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 9, 1864
THIS verse is not addressed to the church in her doubting state, nor while seeking her absent Lord, but it refers to her in her very best condition, when she has lately come from the enjoyment of fellowship with her divine spouse and when her soul in consequen…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 7, 1887
YOU will observe, if you read the verse which precedes, which indeed it would be wrong to sever from the text that the doctrine of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ was the sheet anchor of Paul’s comfort, as it was the great substance of his preaching.…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 24, 1892
GOD blesses us, let us bless Him. I pray that every heart here may take its own part in this service of praise.
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 14, 1878
IT was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved.