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.”
The spouse sings, “Until the day breaks, and the shadows flee away,” that the beloved of the Lord may be in the dark.
It is very delightful to read a history in which God is made prominent. How sadly deficient we are of such histories of our own English nation!
What a difference there is between what the believer was by nature and what the grace of God has made him!
What a change the grace of God works in the heart! It reverses the action of the entire machinery of our being. It puts, “No,” for “Yes,” and “Yes,” for “No.”
Let us go in thought to the palace of Caiaphas the high priest, and there let us, in deepest sorrow, experience the meaning of these terrible words: “Then they spat in his face.”
If nature now spreads out her roses and her lilies, or prepares to do so, let us try, not only to see them, but to see Christ as he is foreshadowed in them.
Did David live in vain? Can it be truly said that he failed in the grandest project of his life? Assuredly not.
Jacob may well serve as the type and emblem of a doubting soul, one who has been told the good news of salvation, the gospel of God’s grace, but who cannot bring his mind to believe it.
If we should, with very much earnestness, urge believers to good works, let no one suppose that, therefore, we imagine that men are saved by works.
I must, surely, be speaking right into the heart of some who are feeling the crushing weight and heavy burden of their guilt.
We think that a Christian man should “glory in tribulations also,” and rise superior to all outward afflictions; but it is not always so with us.
Christ is best up there, but it is expedient for us and for God’s glory that we should remain here for a while.
Men may give all the wealth of their house, and form a marriage bond; the bond may be there, but not what will make it sweet to wear.
Our Saviour was always with his disciples until the time of his death. After his resurrection, he was with them often, but not always.
My subject on this occasion leads me to speak to those who are in personal trouble, and to say something concerning God’s gracious dealings towards them.
Many who do not receive Christ must give unreasonable reasons for their unreasonable conduct.
Since man is as light as vanity itself, Solomon urges that it is idle and vain for him to attempt to contend with God.
It is a very blessed habit of saints who have grown in grace to enter into actual conversation with the Well-Beloved.
There were a great many pretenders in the times of Jeremiah who prefaced their utterance with the same declaration, “Thus says the Lord.”
The scriptural emblem of wine, which is intended to be the symbol of the richest earthly joy, has become desecrated in the process of time by the sin of man.
The great Son of David knew that the man who cried to him, “Have mercy on me,” really meant by that plea, “Lord, give me my sight.”
Job was very much troubled, and he did not try to hide the outward signs of his sorrow.
This is characteristic of saints: “These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes.” This has always been the way of the saints.
You perceive, dear friends, that David had trusted in the Lord; in very severe and exceptional trouble God had delivered him; and at the close of that deliverance he wrote this Psalm, to be sung by the faithful of all time and every clime, and then he gave this exhortation which grew out of his own experience.
These sermons from Charles Spurgeon are a series that is for reference and not necessarily a position of Answers in Genesis. Spurgeon did not entirely agree with six days of creation and dives into subjects that are beyond the AiG focus (e.g., Calvinism vs. Arminianism, modes of baptism, and so on).
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