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.”
We are rather inclined to give Saul the credit for being really so modest that he concealed himself from honour, and must have greatness forced on him.
Holy men of old were accustomed to mix praise and prayer together: this is a happy mixture.
He was the only child of the whole family in whose heart there was “found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel.”
We are his: and we are his for the same reason that any other vineyard belongs to its owner. He made us a vineyard.
I have no right to expect that the Spirit will reveal truth to me without the use of a book when I can find it out for myself with the book.
Sons of men, rejoice that such a God has revealed himself to you! This should cause a universal Hallelujah, the whole world over, as soon as it is ever heard.
This natural voyage on the sea may be a very excellent type and picture of the spiritual voyage which all men undertake in their soul’s life.
The joy in harvest rightly consists in part in the reward of earnest labour: may such be the joy we find in serving our Lord!
There are two things in the psalm about which I am going to speak; the first is, a parallel intended; and the second, praise expressed.
Self-sacrifice is the soul of true religion; but we must not demand of others what would turn religion into slavery.
While others see in Christ everything to admire, these critics see no beauty in him, and just put him on the same level with others with whom they are acquainted.
Just as Adam fell asleep, and out of his side Eve was taken, so Jesus slept on the cross the sleep of death, and from his side, where the spear was thrust, his Church was taken.
There is no doubt that we have David speaking to us in this Psalm, but it is equally certain that we must not limit it to David.
The salvation of the lost was “the joy which was set before him,” for the sake of which he “endured the cross, despising the shame.”
There is a wonderful variety in the acts of God, and yet as well there is a most exceptional uniformity.
We are not always rejoicing, we are sometimes in heaviness through manifold trials.
I think the text suggests to us something about Satan, and something about self, and also something about sin and the Saviour.
It would be good for someone to run up to us, as Philip did to the eunuch, and say to us as Philip did to him, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
At last the banner of grace waved triumphantly over the battle-field, for “where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.”
The Old Testament is a divine light which has led multitudes of saints to the Lord’s right hand, and its lustre is not dimmed by the New Testament, but increased by it.
Many of us profess much more in our creeds than we believe in our hearts, and we hold a great deal more in theory than we do in reality.
Christ had spoken to his disciples of earthquakes in various places, famines, and pestilences; but these were only the beginning of sorrows.
We might often find comfort and relief from gloomy apprehensions by associating with those who are “beloved by the Lord.”
May we be longing and panting after our God in that sense until we shall be filled with his Spirit, and shall dwell in his presence to go no more out for ever!
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