Charles Spurgeon • Dec 9, 1915
ZECHARIAH was engaged in the building of the temple. When its foundations were laid, it struck everybody as being a very small edifice compared with the former glorious structure of Solomon. The friends of the enterprise lamented that it should be so small—the…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 24, 1893
PLEASE notice, dear friends, that in the thirteenth verse, we have the way of salvation set before us in the plainest terms—“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” I remember well when I lived on that verse for many months. I longed fo…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 13, 1916
IF any one of us, lovers of the Lord Jesus Christ, had been anywhere near the cross when He uttered those words, I am sure our hearts would have burst with anguish, and one thing is certain—we should have heard the tones of that dying cry as long as we ever li…
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THE facts of the case were these. Under Zerubbabel, the Jews, who had returned from Babylon, commenced to rebuild Jerusalem. There were in the land certain half-and-half persons, somewhat like the Samaritans, who were neither Jews nor Gentiles. And they asked…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 26, 1898
A SELFISH man in trouble is exceedingly hard to comfort, because the source of his joy lies entirely within himself, and when he is sad, all his springs are dry. But a large hearted man, a man of benevolence and Christian philanthropy, has other springs from w…
Charles Spurgeon
I AM not going to dwell, at this time, upon the special items of the text as to what Paul was before his conversion, because none of us have been exactly as he was. We have all gone astray like lost sheep, but each one of us has taken a distinct course from al…
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ONE notices, in reading such a chapter as this fourth of Jeremiah, that the change which God required in the Jewish people was a very deep and thorough one. It was not only the washing of their hands, nor the cleansing of their outward lives, but the washing o…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 6, 1913
IT is very clear to everyone who reads this Psalm that these are not so much the words of David as they are the words of David’s Son and David’s Lord, our blessed Master. He prayed with strong crying and tears. He came before His Father’s throne with supplicat…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 13, 1911
KINDLING with strong emotion, constrained by the love of Christ, and animated by the fellowship of all spiritual blessing, the apostle here strikes out an exhortation in which he appeals to the noblest passions of the children of God—to their sense of a divine…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 16, 1910
WE will read the whole verse from which our text is taken, “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace.” You will perceive, I think, in these words, that the divine plan of salvation is very clearly laid down. I…
Charles Spurgeon • May 5, 1889
IN this psalm our text stands in contrast with the evil of the age. The Psalmist complains that the “godly man ceases. The faithful fail from among the children of men.” It was a great grief to him and he found no consolation except in the words of the Lord. W…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 17, 1892
ISRAEL was out of gear with God. The people had forgotten the Most High, and had gone aside to the worship of Baal. They had neglected the things of God, therefore, they were given up to their enemies. When JEHOVAH had brought them out of Egypt, He instructed…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 22, 1899
GOD here calls the Jews by the name of Jacob. These were His people in a very special sense, for He had chosen them from among all the nations of the earth and had brought them near Him that they might be His own portion, His inheritance. Yet upon these people…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 12, 1888
BELOVED, we saw in the reading, that our Lord had been engaged in special prayer. He had gone alone on the mountainside to have communion with God. Simon and the rest search for Him, and He comes away in the early morning with the burrs from the hillside upon…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 19, 1907
THIS is the conclusion of one of the most mysterious, most simple and yet most sublime, of all the divinely-inspired Books, and we may naturally expect that the closing verse of the epistle will have great weight in it. This seems to be the practical conclusio…
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WE shall take these words as referring to heaven. Certainly it is most true of the celestial city as well as of the millennial city, that the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. This theme of surpassing interest intimately concerns all of us who are…
Charles Spurgeon
WHAT a wonderful intercommunion and fellowship exists between the Father and the Son in the matter of redemption! It is the Father who gave the Son; it is the Son who gave Himself. It is the Father who gave us to the Son; it is the Son who has bought us with a…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 23, 1874
THIS sentence expresses the true turning point in the Prodigal Son Son’s life story. Many other matters led up to it, and before he came to it there was much in him that was very hopeful; But this was the point, itself, and had he never reached it, he would ha…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 15, 1875
IT is a part of the theory of Ritualism, that is to say, Anglicized Popery, that no man can know his sins forgiven unless he be assured thereof by a priest. They tell us that to know ourselves saved we must either have a revelation from heaven, which we may no…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 4, 1917
A VERY beautiful spectacle it is to see the Lord Jesus marching in front and His followers eagerly following on behind. They were going up to Jerusalem, where it is true He would receive some honor, but where also He would be betrayed into the hands of cruel m…
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NO. 634 A SERMON DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 7, 1912
[Another sermon by Mr. Spurgeon upon verse five is #3039, The King’s Sharp Arrows] THIS psalm has been thought by some to be a marriage song for Solomon on the occasion of his wedding with the daughter of Pharaoh. It may be so, though I should be very loth to…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 19, 1887
YOUR streets will ring with joyous acclamations when the Queen and court pass through them to the Abbey, and well they may! The jubilee of a good and great Queen is an event to be celebrated with enthusiasm. Our hearts are fully in accord with those who bless…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 19, 1900
WHEN the psalmist wrote these words, he was contemplating the goodness of God. In the verse preceding our text, the sixty-fourth, he sang, “The earth, O JEHOVAH, is full of thy mercy!” as if he could not walk abroad without seeing evidences of it, or look upwa…