Charles Spurgeon • Apr 7, 1904
WE count those people blessed indeed who lived in our Savior’s day and saw Him when He dwelt here among men. And truly blessed were their eyes, for they saw, and their ears, for they heard, what kings and prophets had long desired to see and to hear, yet were…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 18, 1875
JOSHUA knew that the people who surrounded him, while ostensibly serving JEHOVAH, were many of them secretly worshipping the ancient idols of their Mesopotamian fathers—those teraphim which were once hidden in Rachel’s tent, and were never quite purged from Ja…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 1, 1871
THESE words occur at least three times in the book of Psalms and therefore we may regard them as especially important. When God speaks once, twice, thrice, He does as it were awaken us to peculiar attention and call for prompt obedience to what He says. Let us…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 10, 1882
BEHOLD our Lord and Master with divinely skillful art seeking after a single soul! We must have large congregations or we are disinclined for soul-winning. The habit of the age is to do nothing but what is ostentatious; every work must be with beat of drum or…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 22, 1895
THE Savior was about to leave His disciples and this was the hardest trial which they had ever experienced. As there could be no trial to them like the loss of the Savior’s presence, it was at this time Jesus brought forth His richest consolation. He seems to…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 20, 1896
I HAVE already said that I conceive our Lord Jesus Christ to have regarded the destruction of Jerusalem as “the beginning of the end.” Although some eighteen hundred years have rolled away since that terrible event, we with Him may make but small account of th…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 9, 1885
PAUL had met with many difficulties in his earnest career, but his most painful trials came from false brethren. It is battle enough for the church to contend with the world, but what is she to do when she has to contend with herself? To go forth weeping, bear…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 11, 1897
IN these days we have many instructions as to preaching, but our Lord principally gave directions as to hearing. The first part of our text, “Take heed what ye hear,” may be viewed as a note of discrimination. Be careful what you hear—hear the truth and only t…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 3, 1909
THE Lord Himself must “build up Zion” or it will never be built up. He first planned it. He is the Architect of His own church. He digged the foundations, He has supplied the great Cornerstone. He Himself, by His own power, creates each living stone, polishes…
Charles Spurgeon • May 11, 1911
[Another Sermon by Mr. Spurgeon upon the same text is #1120, The Apple Tree in The Woods] CHRIST known should be Christ used. The spouse knew her Beloved to be like a fruit-bearing tree, and at once she sat down under his shadow, and fed upon His fruit. It is…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 14, 1889
THE Apostle John had long known the Lord Jesus as the Lamb. That was his first view of Him, when the Baptist, pointing to Jesus, said, “Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.” He had been very familiar with this blessed personage, havin…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 26, 1903
I SUPPOSE that none of us can doubt that Hazael acted with perfect freedom when he became the murderer of his master. No one, surely, would dare to suggest that any constraint was put upon him. The glittering prospect of wearing the crown of Syria was before h…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 18, 1913
THE work of God at Philippi went on very quietly and successfully in the hands of Paul and Silas. It was the commencement of the Gospel in Europe and very auspicious were its circumstances. The good work was intimately connected with prayer meetings, which for…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 16, 1865
SIMON, called Zelotes, has apparently two surnames in Scripture, but they mean the same thing. He is called Simon the Canaanite in Hebrew—not because he was an inhabitant of Cana or a Canaanite, but that word, when interpreted, means precisely the same as the…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 16, 1870
JESUS spoke to the impotent man who had been afflicted for thirty-eight years, and inquired of him, “Wilt thou be made whole?” It seems a very strange question to ask. Who would not be made whole?
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 22, 1861
WE must begin by noticing the parallel which the apostle here draws. The words “as” and “so” suggest a comparison between two truths the correspondence of which he designed to set forth, the one a fact generally allowed, the other a fact he was anxious to incu…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 5, 1914
“AS we have heard, so have we seen.” This is not always the case, but frequently it is the very reverse. Things are exaggerated, the imagination is largely drawn upon, and we hear great things, but when we come to look at them, or try practically to enjoy them…
Charles Spurgeon • May 27, 1877
THE Holy Spirit is to be admired, not only for the great truths which He teaches us in Holy Scripture, but also for the wonderful manner in which those truths are balanced. The Word of God never gives us too much of one thing or too little of another. It never…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 28, 1869
AS the holy women went towards the sepulchre in the twilight of the morning, desirous to embalm the body of Jesus, they recollected that the huge stone at the door of the tomb would be a great impediment in their way, and they said one to another, “Who shall r…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 21, 1902
SOME years ago [Sermon #1195, Abundant Pardon], I preached from the last four words of this verse, laying special stress upon the abundant pardon which is given to repenting sinners through the rich mercy of our God. On this occasion, I am going to put the emp…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 24, 1883
, 7. IT is exceedingly important to have clear evidences of the truth of our holy religion. Sometimes, I dare say, you have wished that God would speak out of heaven in your hearing, or that He would work some extraordinary marvel before your eyes, that you mi…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 2, 1861
MAN by the fall sustained an infinite loss in the matter of righteousness. He suffered the loss of a righteous nature and then a two-fold loss of legal righteousness in the sight of God. Man sinned, he was therefore no longer innocent of transgression. Man did…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 24, 1889
PAUL went to Thessalonica from Philippi with a sore back but with a sound heart. He went resolved to spend and to be spent for his Lord in that city. On the first three Sabbaths he spoke to the Jews in the synagogue but he soon found that they were obstinately…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 25, 1909
[Other sermons by Mr. Spurgeon upon the same text are sermons #1020, “The Sun of Righteousness” and #1463, The Rising Sun] THIS great promise was fulfilled at the coming of our Lord. There were many waiting for it, like Anna and Simeon, mourning the darkness i…