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.”
Man is always altering what God has ordained. Although God’s order is always the best, yet man will never agree with it.
An assurance of our safety in Christ will be found useful to us in all states of experience.
Our Father and our God, we ask for your blessing upon us at this time. Oh may we feel your presence to be in our midst.
Precisely at 2:00 in the afternoon, Mr. Spurgeon and friends, ascended the temporary platform erected around the stone; and the proceedings shortly after commenced by singing the hundredth Psalm.
Under the old Mosaic dispensation God had a visible dwellingplace among men.
When we see a blind man in poverty, and following the beggar’s trade in the frequented streets, we can hardly forbear stopping to assist him.
The single sentence which I have selected for my text consists of these words:—“I am meek and lowly in heart.” These words might be taken to have three distinct bearings upon the context.
It is not a comfortable state to be at enmity with God, and the sinner knows this.
Perhaps there are no stories that we remember so long as those which we hear in our childhood, those tales which are told to us by our fathers, and in our nurseries.
Pride is the inherent sin of man, and yet it is of all sins the most foolish. A thousand arguments might be used to show its absurdity; but none of these would be sufficient to quench its vitality.
Abraham’s faith was of the most eminent order, for he is called the Father of the Faithful.
Now it has sometimes been disputed among most earnest and zealous ministers, which is the most likely means of bringing souls to Christ.
If God had willed it each one of us might have entered heaven at the moment of our conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our preparation for immortality that we should tarry here.
The term here used for God, El, is taken from a Hebrew root, which, as I take it, signifies strength; and perhaps a literal translation even of that title might be, “The Strong One,” the strong God.
There is a weighing time for kings and emperors, and all the monarchs of earth. Though some of them do not appear to be accountable to man, they must surely be tried at the judgment bar of God.
The protest of an innocent man against the charge of an accuser may well be strong and vehement. But here we have a more uncommon and a more sublime theme.
When the soul is seriously impressed with the conviction of its guilt, when terror and alarm get hold upon it concerning the inevitable consequences of its sin, the soul is afraid of God.
I have selected this sentence as the text, although I shall not strictly adhere to it. What was to be seen on Christ’s hands and feet?
It is very pleasant to read descriptions of the Holy Land from observant travellers, who, in glowing language, have depicted its interesting scenes.
When God has begun the work in the soul, the constant effect of God’s work in us is to set us working; and where God’s Spirit is really striving with us, we shall begin to strive too.
The miracles of Christ are remarkable for one fact, namely that they are all necessary.
If this exhortation is not found in the very same words, coming from the lips of Jesus, nevertheless the whole tenor of the Word of God is to the same effect—“Fight the Lord’s battles.”
The prophet saw two things in the vision. He saw the mountain exalted, and he beheld the nations flowing into it.
The great Father of Lies has multitudes of devices by which he seeks to ruin 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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