Charles Spurgeon
THIS verse has something to do with the faith of miracles, but I think it has far more reference to the miracle of faith. We shall at any rate, this morning, consider it in that light. I believe that this text is the inheritance not only of the apostles, but o…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 17, 1861
IN the morning sermon, our time was mainly taken up with the description of faith—what it is. We had only a few minutes left at its close to describe what it leads to—the privilege of justification, which is a gift to the soul as the result of faith. Let this…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 16, 1860
EVER since man became a sinner he has been self-righteous. When he had a righteousness of his own he never gloried of it, but ever since he has lost it, he has pretended to be the possessor of it. Those proud words which our father Adam uttered, when he sought…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 11, 1855
SEEK you rest from your distresses, you children of woe and sorrow? This is the place where you may lighten your burden and lose your cares. Oh, son of affliction and misery, would you forget for a time your pains and griefs? This is the Bethesda, the house of…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 17, 1864
BLESSED is that word “free,” and blessed is he who spends himself to make men so. You did well to crowd your streets and to welcome with your joyous acclamations the man who has broken the yoke from off the neck of the oppressed. Many sons of Italy have done v…
Charles Spurgeon • May 3, 1857
IN daily life our thoughts are most occupied with things that are most necessary for our existence.
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 4, 1858
THESE men made a great mistake—what they wanted was the Lord in their midst. Whereas they imagined that the symbol of God’s presence, the ark of the covenant, would be amply sufficient to bestow upon them the assistance which they required in the day of battle…
Charles Spurgeon • May 1, 1864
THESE mariners manifested most commendable humanity. They were not willing, even though it were to preserve their own lives, to cast overboard an innocent man. Therefore they first used their best endeavors. And when these failed they made a solemn appeal to G…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 10, 1859
ABRAHAM’S faith was of the most eminent order, for he is called the Father of the Faithful. Let us rest assured that nothing but repeated and fiery trials could have trained his faith to so great a strength as that which it exhibited in his preparation to slay…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 7, 1860
MY brethren, what a contrast there is between the present and future estate of the child of God! The believer is here the brother to the worm, in heaven he shall be next of kin to the angels. Here he is covered with the sweat and dust which he acquired by Adam…
Charles Spurgeon • May 24, 1857
THE apostle proved, in the former part of this and the latter part of the preceding chapter, that there was a rest promised in Scripture called the rest of God. He proved that Israel did not attain that rest, for God swore in His wrath, saying, “They shall not…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 15, 1863
THE people of God are most fitly compared to sheep. The excellences of their moral and spiritual character furnish one side of the picture, for like sheep they are gentle in their lives, and are wellaccepted, whether living or dying, as a sacrifice unto God; t…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 14, 1855
MOSES was the inspired author of three devotional compositions. We first of all find him as Moses the poet, singing the song which is aptly joined with that of Jesus, in the Revelation, where it says, “The song of Moses and of the Lamb.” He was a poet on the o…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 6, 1859
OR as it is in the Greek, “For who distinguisheth thee?” “Who giveth thee distinguishing and discriminating mercy?” “Who maketh thee to differ from another?” Pride is the inherent sin of man, and yet it is of all sins the most foolish. A thousand arguments mig…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 26, 1858
IT is a great thing to have as much said in our commendation as was said concerning the church at Ephesus. Just read what “Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness,” said of them—“I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou cast not bear…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 2, 1859
I HAVE selected this text, or rather it has been given to me to furnish a motto for the whole year to all the believing family of God now present. It was brought under my notice from a very dear friend, a venerable minister of the Church of England, and an ear…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 26, 1858
LAST Sabbath morning we considered the first title, “His name shall be called Wonderful.” This morning we take the second word, “Counsellor.” I need not repeat the remark that, of course, these titles belong only to the Lord Jesus Christ, and that we cannot un…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 1, 1855
IT MUST have been a fine sight to see the hoary-headed Jacob sitting up in his bed whilst he bestowed his parting benediction upon his twelve sons. He had been noble in many instances during his life—at the sleeping place of Bethel, the brook of Jabbok, and th…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 28, 1855
GOD’S people can never, by any possibility, be punished for their sins. God has punished them already in the person of Christ. Christ, their substitute, has endured the full penalty for all their guilt, and neither the justice nor the love of God can ever exac…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 6, 1857
SOMETIMES tears are base things—the offspring of a cowardly spirit. Some men weep when they should knit their brows and many a woman weeps when she should resign herself to the will of God.
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 10, 1855
WHAT a blessed Master Jesus Christ was! How familiar did He allow His disciples to make themselves with Him! Though He was the Lord of life and glory, the great and mighty one, as well as the man of Nazareth, yet see how He talks with His poor disciples, the f…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 26, 1858
THE church of Christ is continually represented under the figure of an army, yet its Captain is the Prince of Peace, its object is the establishment of peace, and its soldiers are men of a peaceful disposition. The spirit of war is at the extremely opposite po…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 2, 1864
MANY sincerely-seeking souls are in great trouble because they have not yet attained to an assurance of their interest in Christ Jesus. They dare not take any comfort from their faith because they suppose that it has not attained to a sufficient strength. They…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 9, 1860
THE sorrow of the weeping prophet was exceeding heavy when he uttered these words of bitter lamentation. A great and present burden from the Lord is weighing so heavily upon our hearts this morning, that we cannot spare so much as a moment for sympathy with th…