Charles Spurgeon • Apr 7, 1904
THESE words will fall upon different ears with quite different effects. If any of you are, in the Scriptural sense, “poor and needy,” God the Holy Spirit will enable you to see much in these gracious sentences, but if you fancy that you are “rich, and increase…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 5, 1892
EVERYTHING here is simple, everything is sublime. Here is that simple Gospel by which the most ignorant may be saved. Here are profundities, in which the best instructed may find themselves beyond their depth. Here are those everlasting hills of divine truth w…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 15, 1884
, 14. THIS book of Jeremiah is a very thorny one; it might be called, like his smaller work, “The Book of Lamentations.” Our text is as a lily among thorns, as a rose in the wilderness, the solitary place shall be glad for it, and the desert shall rejoice. The…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 8, 1867
HERE are sweet flowers blooming serenely in this wintry weather. In the garden of the soul you may gather fragrant flowerets at all seasons of the year. And although the soul’s garden, like every other, has its winter, yet strange to say, no sooner do the rose…
Charles Spurgeon • May 11, 1879
THIS chapter presents the remarkable spectacle of a minister of the gospel of peace going forth to war. At first sight we wonder how the meek and gentle Paul should speak about warring and talk ofpulling down strongholds and “having a readiness to revenge all…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 17, 1895
JOHN was the herald of Christ—he was to prepare the way for the coming King, but from this text it appears that he was to do more than that. He was not only to make the road ready for the Lord, but he was also “to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Th…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 22, 1895
WHEN you read a letter, it is well to notice the date upon it—you may make mistakes if you do not.
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 21, 1872
IT is difficult to make men understand that the salvation of the Gospel is not by works but entirely by grace. That it is not presented to men as the reward of their own endeavors, but is given to them freely upon their accepting it by an act of simple faith o…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 17, 1879
The high and holy One that inhabits eternity is here speaking with Himself concerning Israel. The Lord is holding high soliloquy. He is not so much addressing the sons of men, bidding them do this or that, as speaking to Himself of what He intends to do among…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 16, 1882
THE first text tells us of the renown of Job, and of the way in which the providence of God continued to maintain the glory of his estate, his bodily health, and his prosperity. He was for many days, months, years, continuously prospered of God. Everything to…
Charles Spurgeon • May 4, 1902
THESE scribes and Pharisees might easily have ascertained that Jesus was the promised Messiah if they had only taken the trouble to examine His credentials. They had the law and the testimony at their fingers’ ends, and they might also have made an appeal to t…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 1, 1889
NOTICE in this passage the two names which are mentioned. “Israel took his journey, and God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob.” “Jacob” was the name of his weakness—“Israel” was the title of his strength. “Jacob” was the nam…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 15, 1866
IN Job’s uttermost extremity he cried after the Lord. The longing desire of an afflicted child of God is once more to see his Father’s face. His first prayer is not, “Oh that I might be healed of the disease which now festers in every part of my body!” Nor eve…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 6, 1881
OBSERVE, “The fruit of the Spirit,” for the product of the Spirit of God is one. As some fruits are easily divisible into several parts, so you perceive that the fruit of the Spirit, though it is but one, is threefold, no, it makes three times three—“love, joy…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 2, 1901
WHILE our Lord Jesus Christ was upon this earth, He was as much divine as before He left His Father’s court in heaven. He never ceased to be God, nor was the Godhead for a single moment separated from His humanity. He was, therefore, always glorious. Yet there…
Charles Spurgeon • May 9, 1912
CHRIST had spoken to his disciples of earthquakes in divers places, famines, and pestilences, but these were only the beginning of sorrows. Such things as these need not trouble Christians, for though the earth be removed, and the mountains be carried into the…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 24, 1893
THIS is a time of feasting and we may as well have our feast as other people have theirs. Let us see whether there is not something for our spiritual palate, something to satisfy our spiritual appetite, that we may eat, and be content, and rejoice before the L…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 17, 1877
OUR text is the whole story of the Samaritan, but as that is very long, suppose, for our memories’ sake, consider the exhortation in the thirty-seventh verse to be our text. “ Go, and do thou likewise. ” There are certain persons in the world who will not allo…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 28, 1900
THE way of God with men is to go from good to better, and from better to best. In the creation, “the evening and the morning were the first day,” “and the evening and the morning were the second day,” and so on to the sixth day. God often gives us darkness bef…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 24, 1901
THIS is one of the many instances in the Word of God of His free, rich, sovereign grace. The Lord has set the children of Israel before us as a great model. They are our beacons with regard to sin, but they are a pattern to us when we see in them the gracious…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 7, 1883
YOU see by this mourning that our church has been bereaved. I have lost a friend (William Higgs, Esq., for many years a beloved deacon of the church in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, fell asleep on January 3, 1883, in his fifty- ninth year), tender and true to m…
Charles Spurgeon • May 30, 1886
LOST years can never be restored literally. Time once past is gone forever. Let no man make any mistake about this or trifle with the present moment under any notion that the flying hour will ever wing its way back to him. As well call back the north wind or f…
Charles Spurgeon • May 14, 1899
I KNOW that, on Thursday nights, there is a large number of friends here who are engaged in the work of the Lord, and sometimes it is meet to address them, mainly, because, if the bread be put into the hands of the disciples, they will pass it on to the multit…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 28, 1886
-IN the former part of this sermon the text grew upon me so largely that it was quite impossible to express all its meaning. In as condensed a manner as possible I explained what was meant by “the blood of sprinkling,” and I also enlarged upon the high positio…