Charles Spurgeon • Sep 2, 1860
THE ministry of our most blessed Lord bears upon its own countenance the stamp of truth. “He taught as one having authority, and not as the scribes.” Whatever His enemies might lay to His door, I do not find they were ever able to summon audacity enough to imp…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 5, 1858
I FEEL in such a haste to go out and obey this commandment this morning, by compelling those to come in who are now tarrying in the highways and hedges, that I cannot wait for an introduction, but must at once set about my business.
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 20, 1857
IT is superstitious to worship angels—it is but proper to love them. Although it would be a high sin and an act of misdemeanor against the Sovereign Court of heaven to pay the slightest adoration to the mightiest angel, yet it would be unkind and unseemly if w…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 21, 1860
WE have attentively read the passage which contains the account of this transaction. The authority of Moses and Aaron had been disputed by an ambitious man belonging to an elder branch of the family of Levi, who had craftily joined with himself certain factiou…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 17, 1855
POWER is the special and peculiar prerogative of God, and God alone. “Twice have I heard this:
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 28, 1858
WHEN first it was my duty to occupy this pulpit and preach in this hall, my congregation assumed the appearance of an irregular mass of persons collected from all the streets of this city to listen to the Word. ’Twas then simply an evangelist, preaching to man…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 26, 1864
MODERN professors have discovered a very easy way of religion. There is a method by which a man may attain to great reputation as a Christian, and yet avoid all the trials of the believer’s estate. He may go through the world finding his path as smoothly turfe…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 29, 1857
IF Moses wrote this Psalm, he might represent the fowler as being in his case the king of Egypt, who sought to slay him, or the Amalekites, who pounced upon Israel in the plain when they little expected it.
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 31, 1858
“EVERY good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.” All that men have they must trace to the Great Fountain, the giver of all good. Have you talents?
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 14, 1859
UNDER the old Mosaic dispensation God had a visible dwelling place among men. The bright Shekinah was seen between the wings of the cherubim which overshadowed the mercy seat, and in the tabernacle while Israel journeyed in the wilderness, and in the temple af…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 1, 1857
IN looking upon the works of God in creation, there are two questions which at once occur to the thoughtful mind and which must be answered before we can procure a clue to the philosophy and science of creation itself. The first one is the question of authorsh…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 3, 1856
WHAT a glorious covenant the second covenant is! Well might it be called a “better covenant, which was established upon better promises” (Heb 8:6). It is so glorious that the very thought of it is enough to overwhelm the soul, when it discerns the amazing cond…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 24, 1856
THIS child possessed with an evil spirit is a most fitting emblem of every ungodly and unconverted man. Though we are not possessed with devils, yet by nature we are possessed with devilish vices and lusts, which if they do not distress and vex our bodies, wil…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 6, 1858
THE unbelief of the children of Israel prompted them to send spies into Canaan. God had told them that it was a good land and He had promised to drive out their enemies—they ought therefore to have marched forward with all confidence to possess the promised he…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 25, 1860
THE preaching of the Word has exceeding power. John commenced his ministry as an obscure individual, a man who led an almost hermit life. He begins to preach in the wilderness of Judea, but his cry is so powerful, that ere he has spoken many days, multitudes w…
Charles Spurgeon • May 27, 1855
THESE are the words of Paul, speaking on the behalf of himself and his brethren, the apostles, and they are true concerning all those who by the Spirit are chosen, qualified, and thrust into the vineyard to preach God’s Gospel. I have often admired the fourtee…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 4, 1857
I SHALL speak this morning to those that are discouraged, depressed in spirit, and sore troubled in the Christian life. There are certain nights of exceedingly great darkness through which the spirit has to grope in much pain and misery, and during which much…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 13, 1863
PHILIPPI is famous in classic history as the spot where the world’s future trembled in the balance when Octavius met Brutus and Cassius in terrible conflict. The two republican generals here ended their stormy career and universal empire crouched at the feet o…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 21, 1855
GOOD old Simeon called Jesus the consolation of Israel, and so He was. Before His actual appearance, His name was the Day-Star—cheering the darkness and prophetic of the rising sun. To Him they looked with the same hope which cheers the nightly watcher, when f…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 13, 1859
IT is a pleasant sight to behold the thousands assembled together for the worship of God, but it is lamentable to reflect, how often the reverence which is exhibited in the sanctuary is lost when the threshold is passed. How frequently the most earnest address…
Charles Spurgeon • May 23, 1858
FROM the connection we are to understand the pronoun “him,” as referring to the word “LORD,” in the preceding verse. “They looked unto the Lord JEHOVAH and were lightened.” But no man ever yet looked to JEHOVAH God, as He is in Himself, and found any comfort i…
Charles Spurgeon • May 13, 1855
WHILE the Bible is one of the most poetical of books, though its language is unutterably sublime, yet we must remark how constantly it is true to nature. There is no straining of a fact, no glossing over a truth. However dark may be the subject, while it light…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 27, 1857
PERHAPS no figure represents God in a more gracious light than those figures of speech which represent Him as stooping from His throne, and as coming down from heaven to attend to the wants and to behold the woes of mankind. We must have love for that God, who…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 16, 1856
WE shall not be afraid of leading any of you into a legal spirit this morning through what we shall say, for after our frequent exhortations to avoid anything like trusting in your works, attended as they have been, we trust, by the Holy Spirit, we are not afr…