Charles Spurgeon • Apr 4, 1912
THESE words were spoken by the patriarch Jacob when he blessed his sons as he lay a-dying, but before he finished Judah’s blessing, the good old man seemed to forget his son, and to turn his thoughts to Jesus our Lord, of whom Judah was a very significant type…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 12, 1886
THIS was spoken by the prophet concerning Tyre, that great mercantile city where all the commerce of the East found its outlet towards the West. Tyre, when the Chaldeans invaded Palestine, had greatly rejoiced at the fall of Jerusalem. She said, “Aha, she is b…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 19, 1870
YOUR attention will be the more readily given to this passage, because Paul declares it to be a “faithful”—a most true and certain saying, and “worthy of all acceptation,” that is to say, worthy to be received and practiced by us all.
Charles Spurgeon
YOKE-BEARING is not pleasant, but it is good. It is not every pleasant thing that is good, nor every good thing that is pleasant; sometimes the goodness may be just in proportion to the unpleasantness.
Charles Spurgeon • Sep 4, 1887
BELOVED, when we get into God’s world of wonders, we have range enough. Which way shall I turn? On what subject shall I speak? If I turn to nature, it teems with wonders. Altering a little thelanguage of Coleridge I would say, “All true science begins with won…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 11, 1869
SUCH are the climate and soil of Palestine that all agricultural operations are most manifestly dependent upon the periodical rainfall. Hence the people speak of the weather and the crops with a more immediate reference to God than is usual with us. It is said…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 5, 1888
THE apostle says, “Let us run.” He has in his mind’s eye the Olympic games, where all the different tribes of Greece were gathered together in general assembly to display the prowess of the race. Among the athletic exercises were footraces. The apostle makes t…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 21, 1904
THIS declaration follows after Jeremiah’s lamentation over the Lord’s ancient people, who were about to be carried away captive into Babylon. The prophet speaks of a fact that was well known to him.
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 24, 1887
PAUL seems very much at home when he is writing to the church at Thessalonica. In his letters to that favored people he unveils his inmost feelings. He is rather apt to do so when he feels himself quite at ease, for Paul is by no means a man shut up within him…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 20, 1884
HOW very simple this all is! John had an eagle’s wings with which to soar aloft, and an eagle’s eyes with which to penetrate into great mysteries, and yet of all the writers of the Old or New Testament he is one of the simplest. He never endeavors to show you…
Charles Spurgeon
THIS is the fifth of November, a day notable in English history. The events which transpired on it ought never to be forgotten. On this memorable day, the Catholics, foiled in all their schemes for crushing our glorious Protestantism, devised a plot horrible a…
Charles Spurgeon • Aug 29, 1886
YOU are well aware, dear friends, that the division into chapters has only been made for convenience sake, and is not a matter of inspired arrangement. I may add that it has been clumsily made, and not with careful thoughtfulness, but as roughly as if a woodma…
Charles Spurgeon • Jan 7, 1872
LOW thoughts of the Lord Jesus Christ are exceedingly mischievous to believers. If you sink your estimate of Him you shift everything else in the same proportion. He who thinks lightly of the Savior thinks so much the less of the evil of sin . And consequently…
Charles Spurgeon • May 10, 1906
MOSES saw, with deep regret, that the great host which came out of Egypt would have to die in the wilderness. Every day there were many funerals, for a vast multitude of men, and women, and children, had to be buried in the wilderness, and tears of sorrow and…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 22, 1888
PETER had fallen terribly. He had denied his Master, denied Him repeatedly, denied Him with oaths, denied Him in His presence, while His Master was being smitten and falsely charged; he denied Him, though he was an apostle; denied him, though he had declared t…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 10, 1867
IN the previous chapters of the book of Leviticus, you read of the burnt offering, the peace offering, and the meat offering—all types of our Lord Jesus Christ, as seen from different points of view. Those three sacrifices were sweet savor offerings, and repre…
Charles Spurgeon • Apr 5, 1874
WE are just coming to the most beautiful season of the year—the spring—when everything around us is shaking off the chill grave clothes of winter and putting on the beautiful array of a new life. The church of God was in that condition at Pentecost, her winter…
Charles Spurgeon • Feb 15, 1912
WHEN the Lord seals up a man’s hand, he is unable to perform his labor. The Lord has an objective in this, namely, “that all men may know his work.” When they cannot do their own work, they are intended to observe the works of God. This is a fact which I fear…
Charles Spurgeon • Dec 13, 1906
WAS this a loving-hearted woman who had been moved by the dear Savior’s discourse? Many, doubtless, had listened to the same gracious words, some of them with wrath, and others with stern complacency, but it may be that her soul began to swell with holy wonder…
Charles Spurgeon • Jun 26, 1903
WITH Christian men it is not a matter of question as to whether God hears prayer or not. There is no fact in mathematics which has been more fully demonstrated than this fact in experience—that God hears prayer. About some other things in Christianity, young b…
Charles Spurgeon • Mar 11, 1915
John Bunyan pictures the pilgrims as passing at one time through Vanity Fair, and in Vanity Fair there were to be found all kinds of merchandise, consisting of the pomp and vanities, the lusts and pleasures of this present life and of the flesh. Now all the de…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 2, 1870
SOME of the richest comforts are lost to us for want of clear perception. What consolation could be greater to the tempest-tossed disciples than to know their Master was present, and to see Him manifestly revealed as Lord of sea as well as land? Yet because th…
Charles Spurgeon • Jul 10, 1898
WHEN you meet with a person in great distress, you feel at once a desire to comfort him, that is to say, if you have an ordinarily tender heart. You cannot bear to see another in trouble without trying to minister to that heart diseased. But supposing that the…
Charles Spurgeon • Oct 8, 1882
WHEN our Lord had been condemned to die, the execution of His sentence was hurried. The Jews were in great haste to shed His blood, so intense was the enmity of the chief priests and Pharisees that every moment of delay was wearisome to them. Besides, it was t…