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.”
No one truth of the gospel is ever truly known and really learned, until we have tested and tried and proven it, and its power has been exercised upon us.
Can there be in the same heart great rejoicing, and yet a temporary heaviness? Most assuredly.
What a sweet title: “My people!” What a cheering revelation: “Your God!” How much of meaning is couched in those two words, “My people!”
The majesty of God, as displayed in creation and providence, ought to stir up our hearts in adoring wonder and melt them down in willing obedience to his commands.
It was a singular group which had gathered around our Saviour, when these words were uttered, “This man receives sinners.”
The Corinthians took to themselves great credit for skill in learning and in language, and as most men do who are wise in their own esteem, they made a wrong use of their wisdom and learning.
It is a great thing to have as much said in our commendation as was said concerning the church at Ephesus.
Ah! beloved, it was fitting that the world should have a Counsellor to restore it, if it had a Counsellor to destroy it.
The world has been passing through these clouds of darkness, and the light is gleaming on us now, like the glintings of the first rays of morning.
I think there is room for very great doubt, whether our Saviour intended the prayer to be used in the manner in which it is commonly employed among professing Christians.
Is not this a wonder of divine sovereignty and of infinite grace, that mighty angels should be cast into the fire for ever, and yet God has made a covenant with man that he will renew and restore him?
Of all substances blood is the most mysterious, and in some senses the most sacred.
Our sins make room for a Saviour; our frailties make room for the Holy Spirit to correct them; all our wanderings make room for the good Shepherd, that he may seek us and bring us back.
Salvation is the total restoration of man from his fallen estate; and yet it is something more than that, for God’s salvation fixes our standing more securely than it was before we fell.
When you hate a man’s sins, you are not to hate him, but to love the sinner, even as Christ loved sinners and came to seek and save them.
Just as God chose the people who did not know him, so has he chosen, in the abundance of his grace, to grant his salvation to men who were not looking for it.
When the Lord wished to wean his people Israel from their iniquities, he did not leave any stone unturned, but gave them precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little.
Whether we shall praise God or not, is not left to our opinion.
How fond our Master was of the sweet title, the “Son of Man!”
Man’s heart is never large enough to hold either its joys or its sorrows. You never heard of a man whose heart was exactly full of sorrow; for no sooner is it full, than it overflows.
How marvellous the condescension which induced the Saviour to take notice of such a wretch as Saul!
The Bible is a book of the Revelation of God. The doctrine of the Trinity is especially taught in Holy Scripture.
Whatever harm may come to the body by walking through the vault and the catacomb, the soul can find much food for contemplation there, and much material for thought.
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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