Charles Spurgeon • Jun 1, 1905
IT is coming on dark and we are lost among the mountains. There is an awful precipice there, a quarter of a mile sharp down. There is a bog over yonder, and if a man once gets into it, he will never get out again. There is a forest yonder, and if one should be…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 30, 1909
THERE is one peculiarity about the life of our Lord Jesus Christ which everybody must have noticed who has carefully read the four Gospels, namely, that He was a man of much prayer. He was mighty as a preacher, for even the officers who were sent to arrest Him…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 11, 1881
ACCORDING to the context, this is spoken of kings. “All the kings of the earth shall praise You, O Lord, when they hear the words of Your mouth. Yes, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord.” It will be a novel spectacle to see kings singing in the ways of the…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 1, 1880
THIS Psalm is a burst of praise. It resounds with the joyful noise of hearty thanksgiving unto Jehovah and yet before it closes you hear the solemn tones of exhortation to men to hearken to the voice of their God. Alas that it should be true, but true it is, t…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 21, 1912
OUR text is one of many instances of the way in which words change their meanings. The word “prevent” as we now use it, has a very different meaning from that which it had when our translators used it. It now signifies to get before one, to stop up his path, t…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 9, 1898
IT seems then, that the best of men have a measure of foolishness in them, and that sometimes, that foolishness shows itself. How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves! How sincerely ought we…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 12, 1913
IT is very wise to look within ourselves to discover our own weakness and spiritual poverty, but it is very unwise to be always dwelling upon that weakness and poverty, and to forget that our strength does not lie there, nor are our riches to be found within o…
Charles Spurgeon • May 11, 1890
The hill of Zion had been taken out of the hand of the Jebusites. They had held it long after the rest of the country had been subdued, but David, at last, had taken it from them. This was the mountain ordained of Jehovah of old to be the place of the temple.…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 13, 1886
PENTECOST is repeated in the heart of every believer. Let me give you a little bit of historical analogy to illustrate the text. The Lord’s disciples were made to sorrow at His cross. Sore was the tribulation which came upon them as they thought upon His death…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 21, 1872
her. Paul puts her amongst the great worthies who by faith wrought wonders. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews is a triumphal arch to the soldiers of faith, and amongst the illustrious names inscribed thereon is the name of this harlot of Jericho.
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 21, 1907
THE church of God is an army marching through an enemy’s territory. She can never reckon upon a moment’s peace. If she were of the world, the world would love its own, but because true saints are not of the world, but Christ has chosen them out of the world, t…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 5, 1866
AND what of that? Was it not the most natural thing in all the world to do? Who among us would not have shown the strangers over our house, and our garden, and our library, and have pointed out to them any little treasures and curiosities which we might happen…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 14, 1877
THE occurrence of our text in the Psalm before us is an instance of the great rule that the Lord does nothing by halves. In this priceless Psalm, the Lord found His servant in the first verse liable to fretfulness and envy, and He exhorted him to cease from fr…
Charles Spurgeon • May 28, 1899
I EXPLAINED this morning, [Sermon #1644, “Our Lord’s First Appearance before Pilate”] why our Savior put that question to Pilate. The Roman governor had asked Him, “Art thou the King of the Jews?” And Jesus as good as said to him, “Have you, of your own knowle…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 20, 1889
BELOVED friends, it was an exceedingly encouraging thing to Solomon that the Lord should appear to him before the beginning of his great work of building the temple. See in the third chapter of this First Book of the Kings, at the fifth verse, “In Gibeon the L…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 21, 1883
THESE parables describe two classes of hearers, but they say nothing of those who are not hearers.
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 19, 1902
THIS passage refers in the first place to the Jews. If we read the whole verse, and the preceding one, we shall see that they describe the present sad condition of God’s ancient people, and inspire us with hope concerning their future, “For the children of Isr…
Charles Spurgeon
THE first remark arising out of the story of Manoah and his wife is this—that oftentimes we pray for blessings which will make us tremble when we receive them. Manoah had asked that he might see the angel, and he saw Him. In answer to his request, the wonderfu…
Charles Spurgeon • May 1, 1881
THOSE of you who read Scripture carefully will have noticed that the word, “better,” is one of the key words of the Epistle to the Hebrews. You are constantly meeting with it. In the opening chapter we read that our Lord Jesus Christ is “made so much better th…
Charles Spurgeon • May 29, 1881
NO doubt there is an error in our version, for where in the tenth verse we read, “The judgment seat of Christ,” it should be, “The judgment seat of God .” I suppose the word “Christ” slipped into certain manuscripts because Paul had been speaking of Christ and…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 4, 1866
THE word “Amen” is much more full of meaning than may be supposed, and as a title of our Lord Jesus Christ it is eminently suggestive. As you know the word is a Hebrew one which has been very properly conveyed not only into our language, but into most, if not…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 19, 1867
YOU will observe in reading this Psalm that David was in deep distress. These are the words of his lamentation, “My life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. I was a reproach a…
Charles Spurgeon
IT is very important that our preaching should sometimes give descriptions of Christians in an unhealthy and sickly state. So many are in this condition that, when we describe their symptoms, they may discover themselves, and by divine grace be led to desire e…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 27, 1893
THESE holy women, these consecrated Maries, shall be our instructors tonight. They werehighlyfavored to be the first witnesses for our risen Lord. Do you wonder why He chose them? Was it because their hearts were tender and they were very sad at His death, mor…