Charles Spurgeon • Jul 8, 1866
ONE of the sweetest and most attractive titles of our Lord Jesus Christ, is, “the Friend of sinners.” He was in His manners so gentle towards offenders, so graciously did He seek out the lost, and so tenderly did He invite the erring to pardon and reconciliati…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 16, 1908
THE experience of the saints is the treasure of the church. Every child of God who has tried and proved the promises of God, when he bears his testimony to their truth, does as it were hang up his sword and spear on the temple walls, and thus the house of the…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 23, 1895
AT the commencement of our discourse, it will be most fit and proper for us to inquire whether we have any interest in the truths mentioned in the text. The apostle here speaks of those who are sanctified and of the great Sanctifier. Come, my hearer, do you be…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 8, 1869
ISRAEL had greatly revolted from her God, and in consequence she had brought upon herself great sorrow. Still, instead of repenting of their faults and returning to their allegiance to JEHOVAH, the nation continued to be duped by false prophets and presumptuou…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 13, 1880
THE Thessalonian saints had been much persecuted and afflicted, and they had exhibited great faith, so much so that Paul says, “We ourselves glory in you in the church of God for your patience and faith.” As if they had not enough trouble coming from the outsi…
Charles Spurgeon • May 17, 1883
“HE that says he abides in him”—that is exactly what every Christian does say. He cannot be a Christian unless this be true of him, and he cannot fully enjoy his religion unless he assuredly knows that he is in Christ, and can boldly say as much. We must be in…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 16, 1873
PETER, in this chapter, exhorted Christians to holiness, and dwelt upon that branch of holiness which consists in the patient endurance of wrong. He could find no better argument with which to plead with the saints than the life and example of their Lord, and…
Charles Spurgeon • May 7, 1899
YOU are aware that the principle of blood-revenge is a deep-seated one in the Eastern mind. From the earliest ages it was always the custom with the Orientals, when a man was murdered, or slain without malice aforethought, for the nearest relative, his heir, o…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 23, 1893
YOU notice how much David is at home with God. He talks about Him. He does better, he talks to Him. He hears God speaking to him and he keeps up a dialog with God. Whence came this holy familiarity? It sprang from long acquaintance. David as a boy had known Go…
Charles Spurgeon • May 13, 1984
THE Song of Songs describes the love of Jesus Christ to His people, and it ends with an intense desire on the part of the church that the Lord Jesus should come back to her. The last word of the lover to the beloved one is, “Speed Thy return; make haste and co…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 2, 1877
VERY often must the great truth expressed by this Scripture have forced itself upon every thoughtful mind. Though we think and are so far like to God because, being intelligent beings, we have thoughts of our own, yet our thoughts must forever be weak and frag…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 12, 1887
OUR Lord Jesus Christ, in John’s gospel, in the forty-sixth verse of the fifth chapter, says, “Moses wrote of Me.” Hence we may safely interpret much that Moses said, not only of the law, but also of the gospel; indeed, the law itself was given primarily to dr…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 4, 1886
UPON reading this text one sees at a glance that Paul believed in a Divine Savior. He did not preach a Savior who was a mere man. He believed the Lord Jesus Christ to be truly man, but he also believed Him to be God over all, and he therefore uses the striking…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 1, 1901
I THINK this is the only instance in which our Lord invited Himself to anybody’s house. He often went when He was bidden, but this time, if I may use the expression, He did the bidding Himself.
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 18, 1869
REST! A dainty word indeed! Too rich a syllable for this unstable earth! Is it not a stray word from the language of the celestials? REST! Is it obtainable? Is it possible? Can there ever be rest for the race who were driven out of Paradise, to till the ground…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 25, 1872
CONCERNING the souls of our believing friends who have departed this life we suffer no distress, we feel sure that they are where Jesus is, and behold His glory, according to our Lord’s own memorable prayer. We know but very little of the disembodied state, bu…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 3, 1872
IT is not our intention to preach alone from this verse, but from the combined narrative of our Savior’s triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem as contained in the four evangelists.
Charles Spurgeon
MAN, especially since the fall, is a very unspiritual creature. His animus is animal. He is made up, as the old writers used to say, of soul and soil. Alas, the soil terribly soils his soul! “My soul cleaves to the dust” might be the confession of every man in…
Charles Spurgeon
SINCE God is immutable, He acts always upon the same principles, and hence His course of action in the olden times to a man of a certain sort will be a guide as to what others may expect who are of like character. God does not act by caprice, nor by fits and s…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 24, 1916
IN THESE two texts we have man’s covering, which is worthless and culpable, and God’s covering, which is profitable, and worthy of all acceptation. No sooner had man disobeyed his Maker’s will in the garden of Eden than he discovered, to his surprise and disma…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 8, 1872
MANY persons have a morbid desire to roll up the curtain, and gaze upon the secret lives of eminent persons. Paragraphs detailing the private habits of public men are delicacies for such minds. Books stuffed with idle gossip and mere trash are sure of a wide c…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 14, 1867
THE apostle Paul felt it to be a great privilege to be allowed to preach the Gospel. He did not look upon his calling as a drudgery or a servitude, but he entered upon it with intense delight. All God’s truly-sent servants have experienced much delight in the…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 5, 1870
GOD, by the mouth of His prophet, is here expostulating with His people for their ungrateful rebellion against Him. He had not treated them in a harsh, tyrannical, overbearing manner else there might have been some excuse for their revolt. But His rule had alw…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 12, 1862
NO one precept contains the whole of a believer’s duty, but usually in Scripture the precepts rise one above the other, like those stone steps by which the traveler in Egypt ascends to the pinnacle of the pyramid. You must first plant your feet firmly upon the…