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.”
I think I shall scarcely attempt a sermon, but rather give a sort of declaration of the truths from which future sermons shall be made.
More than 1,000 people assembled at 7 in the morning on Monday, March 18th, to offer solemn prayer.
While we always seek the guidance of God in providence, yet we may frequently find direction and guidance in the use of our own common sense, our own discretion with which the Lord has endowed us.
Our God is one God. He is none other than the infinite Jehovah, who of old spoke to his people, and revealed himself by that marvellous incommunicable name—the name Jehovah!
The chief of sinners are the objects of the choicest mercy. Christ is a great Saviour to meet the great transgressions of great rebels.
Humble men are mostly conscious of great pride, while those who are boastful of humility have nothing but false pretence, and really lack and need it.
We are longing for his coming; we are saying in the language of the last verse of this song of songs, “Make haste, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.”
God had made a positive promise to Moses that for the time of a whole month he would feed the vast host in the wilderness with meat.
In the morning sermon, our time was mainly taken up with the description of Faith—what it is. We had only a few minutes left at its close to describe what it leads to—the privilege of justification.
The way of salvation is stated in Scripture in the very plainest forms, and yet, perhaps, there is no truth about which more errors have been uttered, than concerning the faith which saves the soul.
It is at once a doctrine of Scripture and of common sense, that whatever God does in time he predestined to do in eternity.
They who seek the Lord must go out from the camp and from the congregation; and if they wish to commune with the Most High they cannot do it in the camps of even the religious and professing world.
So then, heaven, with all its glories, is an inheritance! Now, an inheritance is not a thing which is bought with money, earned by labour, or won by conquest.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and for ever. Having neither beginning of days, nor end of years, he is a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
The Jews had been chosen by God to be a special people separated for himself for ever.
It is not so much predestination which will occupy our attention this morning, as the fact that believers are predestinated to be conformed to the image of God’s dear Son.
How greatly I rejoice that the Churches are aroused to prayer.
This is a singular paradox, but not a paradox to him who understands the gospel.
Job was an exceedingly happy man before his great trial. He was as much blessed in the fruit of his body as in his material wealth.
Redemption is a word which has gladdened many ears, when there was no heavenly sound in its blessed chime.
Ever since man became a sinner he has been self-righteous. When he had a righteousness of his own he never gloried in it, but ever since he has lost it, he has pretended to be the possessor of it.
A great and present burden from the Lord is weighing so heavily upon our hearts this morning, that we cannot spare so much as a moment for sympathy with the griefs of past ages.
True consolation, such as can reach the heart, must be one of the choicest gifts of divine mercy; and surely we are not erring from sacred Scripture when we avow that in its full meaning.
The preaching of the Word has extraordinary power.
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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