Charles Spurgeon
WHAT a golden sentence! But does it not begin with a hard word? A sad and sorrowful note is sounded in that word “sin.” ’Twas sin that blighted Eden and drove our first parents forth to toil in weariness outside its peaceful bowers. ’Twas sin that polluted all…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 12, 1880
Do you know I had laid this text by? I meant that this choice promise should be kept in store and stock till I came near the Jordan, and I hoped that then, in my last hours, I might be privileged to enjoy its sweetness and sing with joyful lips—
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 24, 1889
PORTRAIT painting is a great art. Many pretend to it, but the masters of the art are few. In the Word of God we have a gallery of portraits so accurate, so striking, that only the hand of the Lord could have drawn them! Most of us have been startled to see our…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 7, 1867
WHEN the conscience is unenlightened and the heart is rebellious, man is divided from his God by a false sense of personal righteousness. He imagines that God deals harshly with him, that He looks upon his sin in too severe a light, and that, although He may b…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 27, 1916
I DO not want you to feel at this time as if you were listening to a sermon, or to any sort of set discourse, but rather I should like, if it were possible, that you should feel as if you were alone with the Savior, and were engaged in calm and quiet meditatio…
Charles Spurgeon
UPON Zion there was erected an altar dedicated to God for the offering of sacrifices. Except when prophets were commanded by God to break through the rule, burnt offering was only to be offered there.
Charles Spurgeon
THE solitary champion who is here spoken of, who looked and “saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor,” and therefore His own arm brought salvation unto Him, and His righteousness it sustained Him. This conquering hero we cannot fa…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 2, 1905
OUR Lord did not begin His dealings with Peter in this emergency by asking him that question. He first stretched out His hand and saved him from his peril, and then He said to him, “O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?” When a man is in trouble,…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 12, 1885
THIS holy woman had displeased the disciples . She must have been very sorry to do that. She would not have willfully grieved the least servant of her Lord. But she did so without the slightest blame on her part. It was the unexpected consequence of a most ble…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 12, 1896
AS we noticed while reading the chapter, there were a great many pretenders in the times of Jeremiah, so that when the true prophet of God came forth and declared, “Thus saith the Lord,” he was met by false prophets who contradicted him, and said something the…
Charles Spurgeon • May 21, 1885
DURING the waiting period, the wise and foolish virgins seemed much alike, even as at this day one can hardly discern the false professor from the true. Everything turned upon the coming of the bridegroom. To the ten virgins, that was the chief event of the ni…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 11, 1880
THE apostle Paul was writing to a tried and afflicted people and one of his objectives was to remind them of the rivers of comfort which were flowing near at hand. He first of all stirred up their pure minds by way of remembrance as to their sonship, for says…
Charles Spurgeon • May 28, 1908
[Another sermon by Mr. Spurgeon upon the same text (together with verse 36) is #2102, “Pricked in Their Heart.] I DARESAY you have seen collections of celebrated sermons which have been chosen with more or less discretion. I suppose that the sermon of Peter, o…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 14, 1892
THIS man had been lying, with many others, round the pool, hoping that it would be stirred by the angel, and that he might be put into the water first, and so might be healed. There he waited long, and waited in vain. Why did he wait? Because Jesus was not the…
Charles Spurgeon
joy in the heart. I rejoice in that expression on my own account, for it gives me my share of the delight own mouth. Here also is a portion for you who are listening. It is melody in the ear. If my voice should be harsh and my words discordant, you will yet ha…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 14, 1866
MOST of us were astonished when looking out of our window the other morning we saw the whole earth robed in a white mantle. In a few short hours the earth had been covered to a considerable depth with snow. We were not much less astonished when looking forth a…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 14, 1883
TO understand this psalm you must observe its black border. Remember the sorrows of Moses, the man of God, who saw a whole generation die in the wilderness and was himself denied admission to the promised land. The man Moses was greatly afflicted. I might almo…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 12, 1898
NO. 2574 A SERMON INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD’S-DAY, JUNE 12, 1898 DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 22, 1899
I SUPPOSE that you never noticed any great literary excellence in Bradshaw’s Railway Guide.
Charles Spurgeon
WHEN God has distinct and definite purposes of mercy towards an individual, He often begins with stern discipline, and brings him low by affliction and sorrow. As the good husbandman cuts down the trees and makes a clearance of the soil before he sows the grai…
Charles Spurgeon
, 3. WE ought to have an intense longing for the salvation of all sorts of men, and especially for those, if there are any that treat us badly. We should never wish them ill, not for a moment, but in proportion to their malice should be our intense desire for…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 1, 1906
THESE two questions are evidently Oriental proverbial expressions. Proverbs have always been used by the wisest of men. Solomon not only spoke and wrote a great many, but he also made a considerable collection of those uttered by others. We find, in the writin…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 28, 1897
WE are told that God looked out of heaven to see if there were any who had understanding, that did seek after God. If there had been any, God would have seen them, for He sees all things and all persons.
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 31, 1904
EVEN down to the present day, the Jewish nation has not been destroyed. It has been made to pass through fire and through water. The story of the persecution of the Jews, both in earlier and later times, would fill many volumes with the most harrowing details.…