The works of Charles Spurgeon have inspired millions of Christians around the world for over a hundred years. His wisdom and insight into God’s Word and world have helped others discover the richness of Scripture. Answers in Genesis is pleased to present the text of a large collection of sermons from this 19th century “Prince of Preachers.”
Joy is the normal condition of a believer. His proper state, his healthy state, is that of happiness and gladness.
This is one of the notes of the Psalm, — that, although God, himself is so high, he has a very tender regard towards those who are lowly.
Abraham is called the father of the faithful; that is, the father of all such as believe in God; so that, if we truly believe in God, we shall do what Abraham as a believer did.
The Master said to his disciples, “You know that after two days is the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.”
Dear friends, you know as well as I do that there are many kinds of Christians. I am sorry to say that there are some nominal Christians who are no credit to Christianity.
If souls are won, we shall care little how the great work was done instrumentally, for God will have all the glory for it.
Men may always pray. Your knee may be bent before the altar of God, though it is stained through many a fall into sin.
Mark is best pleased when he can record something which no one else seems to have described, or when he can take a description by someone else.
This parable represents the great God as a householder going out to find men to work for him; but let no man imagine that God needs any of us.
I am going to show you how, in making himself known to his brothers, Joseph was a type of our Lord revealing himself to us.
Fretful care is very apt to enter into the hearts of believers; and our Lord admonishes us to be rid of such care, for carking care is not becoming in a child of God.
Dear brethren, this is a matter of fact in our holy faith, that the best lesson for a Christian to learn is to be learned from Christ himself.
“Without faith,” says the text, “it is impossible to please God.” Yet all men do not have faith; even among those who have heard the gospel, many have not obeyed it.
In these days we have many instructions concerning preaching; but our Lord principally gave directions concerning hearing.
Fathers and mothers are the most natural agents for God to use in the salvation of their children.
There must be for yourself a personal sense of sin, a personal seeking to Christ, a personal acceptance of pardon through the precious blood.
The fatherhood of God is towards as many as he has begotten again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; these are his children.
God’s own people are frequently made to mourn. Their Lord takes pleasure in them, but yet for their good he often sends them grief.
When a sinner is running to Christ, and the Father is running to the sinner, there shall be a happy meeting before very long, and there shall be joy in heaven and joy on earth, too.
When God gave to Israel his law, — the law of the first covenant, — it was such a holy law that it ought to have been kept by the people.
Let it never be forgotten that, in all that God does, he acts from good reasons.
The life of Jonah cannot be written without God; take God out of the prophet’s history, and there is no history to write. This is equally true of each one of us.
Pharaoh is the type and image of proud men. God permitted him to be left to the natural hardness of his heart, and he defied Jehovah in a very remarkable way.
Who else could give either grace or glory? But God is full of grace; his very name is love, it is his nature to freely dispense his goodness to others.
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