Charles Spurgeon • Apr 28, 1901
WHEN you have walked in the garden, early in the morning, you must have remarked the singular freshness and beauty which a summer’s morning always seems to give to the earth. The dewdrops, like tears standing in the eyes of the flowers, as if they wept for joy…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 22, 1882
YOU see these texts are all alike in their declaration that the Lord will not remember His people’s sins. I have taken four of them to make the basis of my sermon firm as adamant. It is written, “In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be estab…
Charles Spurgeon
I NEED not say to you, beloved, who are conversant with Scripture, that there is scarcely any personal type in the Old Testament which is more clearly and fully a portrait of our Lord Jesus Christ than is the type of Joseph. You may run the parallel between Jo…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 13, 1871
THIS Psalm is all through a song of nature, the adoration of God in the great outward temple of the universe. Some in these modern times have thought it to be a mark of high spirituality never to observe nature. And I remember sorrowfully reading the expressio…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 13, 1910
THERE can be no mistake as to the person concerning whom Paul is writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, it is Jesus of Nazareth, the incarnate Son of God, who was crucified on Calvary, for, writing concerning the same person in the fourteenth verse,…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 6, 1887
BRETHREN, you know the story of God’s dealing with Israel, and Israel’s dealing with God. The Lord chose their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; He made them a race separated unto Himself, He brought them out of Egypt from under the iron yoke, He led them th…
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 17, 1871
IF Job here refers to the temporal prosperity which he had lost, we cannot condemn him for his complaint, neither can we commend him. It is but the expression of a natural regret, which would be felt by any man who had experienced such great reverses. But ther…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 22, 1885
“NOT so, Lord.” This is a very curious expression. I do not mind how you turn it into English from the original, but it is a very strange compound. If Peter had said, “Not so,” there would have been a clear consistency in his language and tone. But “Not so, Lo…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 24, 1865
EVERY season has its own proper fruit—apples for autumn, holly berries for Christmas. The earth brings forth according to the period of the year, and with man there is a time for every purpose under heaven. At this season, the world is engaged in congratulatin…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 10, 1887
JOSEPH was one by himself. In Jacob’s family he was like a swan in a duck’s nest, he seemed to be of a different race from the rest, even from his childhood. He was the son of old age, the son of the elders, that is, a child who was old when he was young, in t…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 27, 1892
WHAT a blessing it is to the country if at certain seasons, we have a time of clear shining after the rain! Under some circumstances nothing but sunshine will save the crops that are ready to be reaped, and there will be great loss to the farming interest, and…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 17, 1900
THAT is a very beautiful name for Holy Scripture. I hardly remember to have met with it anywhere else, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you.” Remember, dear friends, that Christ Himself is the Word of God, and recollect also that the Scriptures are the word of…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 18, 1882
FROM this verse it is clear that Paul fully expected the gospel of the grace of God to be preached in the ages to come. He had no notion of a temporary gospel to develop into a better, but he was assured that the same gospel would be preached to the end of the…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 15, 1862
THERE are two teachings in our text which must be very surprising to those who are strangers to vital godliness, to sincere believers these marvels are recognized facts, but to the outside world they will appear very strange. We have here first of all, the lif…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 6, 1902
ALL life here below needs to be sustained from without by food of some kind or other. We know not how the angels live, yet the psalmist’s expression, “Man did eat angels’ food,” might lead us to imagine that even they need to be supplied with nourishment from…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 16, 1866
“O LORD, I have heard thy speech!” This is the language of reverent obedience, and is a fit preface to a fervent prayer. If we are not willing to hear God’s voice, we cannot expect Him to hear our voice. It is an admirable preparation for prayer, first to hear…
Charles Spurgeon
THE hundredth Psalm is perhaps the best known song of praise in the Word of God. To sing the “Old Hundredth” has been a habit of worshippers from generation to generation—the custom of every succeeding age, as it is our custom still. “Make a joyful noise unto…
Charles Spurgeon • May 21, 1893
NEVER attribute any special sorrow endured by men to some special sin. There is a tendency to consider that those on whom the tower in Siloam fell must have been sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem. And if any have met with a very sudden death, we ar…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 22, 1897
YOU must have noticed, when reading Jacob’s prophecies concerning his sons, that the good old man, when he came to talk about Joseph, suddenly seemed to be freer of speech than while he was addressing any of the others. The dying flame of life within him appea…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 21, 1912
THESE are the words of JEHOVAH Himself concerning the hill of Zion, but it is clear that He did not intend us to understand them merely in their literal reference to Zion, because Zion could not be a fitting place for His eternal rest. Nor has He made it liter…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 27, 1879
JOB’S dire distress was aggravated by the remarks of his friends. Eliphaz the Temanite opened fire against him in such words as these, “Behold, you have instructed many and you have strengthened the weak hands. Your words have upheld him that was falling and y…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 10, 1895
DURING this last summer, I took a little journey into the country, as I had an opportunity of preaching and visiting in the region where I lived as a little child, and where I afterwards spent some of my school-boy days. Everything was very vividly interesting…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 24, 1894
WE know from this quotation made by the apostle Paul in his address at Antioch, that he was alluding not only to David, but to the Lord Jesus also. “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fath…
Charles Spurgeon • Nov 7, 1886
LAST Lord’s-day morning we considered the humiliation of our divine Lord, and I think, if one may speak for the rest, that we consciously and deeply felt how very near He came to us in His suffering condition, and how very near He still is to us as truly man.…