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.”
Well now, this picture is designed to teach us some wholesome lesson. I want you to look at it.
The apostle Paul was a very learned man, but not the least among his various acquisitions in science was this—he had learned to be content.
We lack the power to grasp and the time to discuss that volume of truths which is here condensed into a few short sentences.
I would have you look on this text as being a summary of all the things which we have preached to you these years.
Oh my brethren in Christ! when our biographies shall come to be written at last, God grant that they may not be all sayings, but that they may be a history of our sayings and doings!
Oh, what a joyous thing it is to have a ray of heavenly sunlight in the soul, and to hear the very voice of God saying to us, “Son your sins which are many, are all forgiven you.”
There are many choice gifts comprehended in the Covenant of Grace, but the first and richest of them are these two—the gift of Jesus Christ for us and the gift of the Holy Spirit to us.
The Psalmist is here describing the prosperity of Jerusalem, and he connects that prosperity with the progress and diffusion of the Word of God.
Strange perversity of human nature, that when God sends the terrors we doubt, and when he withholds them we doubt none the less.
In the fullest and widest sense therefore, the believer may cry, “You have loosened my bonds.”
Evil things may seem to begin well, but they end badly; there is the flash and the glare, but afterwards the darkness and the black ash.
The design of punishment should be amendment, but the ground of punishment lies in the positive guilt of the offender.
The controversy between Jehovah, the God of the whole earth, and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, was intended to be remembered, and spoken of throughout all generations.
The preacher of the gospel is like the sower. He does not make his seed; the seed is given to him by his Master.
God’s judgment of sin must differ exceedingly from ours.
We preach with words; God preaches to us in acts and deeds. If we would only perceive it, creation and providence are two continual sermons, streaming from the mouth of God.
The difference between the Egyptians and Israel was exceedingly obvious.
Man is unwilling to consider the subject of death. He labours to keep continually out of sight the shroud, the mattock and the grave.
It has been my earnest endeavour ever since I have preached the Word, never to keep back a single doctrine which I believe to be taught by God.
It is peculiarly pleasing to the Christian to observe the interest which God the Father takes in the work of salvation.
Ministers are fearfully guilty if they intentionally build up men in a false peace.
Our Lord was now about to die, to depart from this world, and to ascend to his Father; he therefore makes his will; and this is the blessed legacy which he leaves to the faithful.
What we know is as nothing when compared with what we do not know. The sea of wisdom has cast up a shell or two upon our shore, but its vast depths have never known the footstep of the searcher.
Proud Self and Evil Questioning are two of Satan’s firmest allies, and two of the chief destroyers of the souls of men.
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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