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.”
All that men have they must trace to the Great Fountain, the Giver of all good.
My hearer, are you a believer, or not? For according to your answer to that question must be the manner in which I shall address you tonight.
There is one great event, which every day attracts more admiration than does the sun, and moon, and stars, when they march in their courses. That event is, the death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When men will not receive the Scripture testimony concerning God’s creation, they immediately begin to form theories that are a thousand times more ridiculous...
The power of the gospel appears in marvellous grandeur when we see its hold upon hearts devoted to it, when subjected to trouble, persecution, and sorrow.
It is good that there is one person who is always the same. It is good that there is one stable rock amid the changing billows of this sea of life.
God is represented in Scripture as waiting to be gracious. He is so attentive to everything that is good, even in the poor sinner’s heart, that to him there is music in a sigh, and beauty in a tear.
He who contemplates the character of angels, and notes their many deeds of sympathy with men, and kindness towards them, cannot resist the impulse of his nature—the impulse of love towards them.
We wish Christ’s church to be as large as possible. God forbid that by any of our winnowing, we should ever cast away one of the precious sons of Zion.
In God’s original empire everything was happiness, and joy, and peace. If there is any evil, any suffering and pain, that is not God’s work.
In all worldly things men are always enough awake to understand their own interests.
The dealings of God towards the sons of men have always puzzled the wise men of the earth who have tried to understand them.
It is strange to say, but it is strangely true, that the very best gifts of God have by the sin of men become the worst pictures of man’s guilt.
Before there was a necessity for any other command this was written upon the very tablets of his heart—“You shall love the Lord your God.”
The changes of society may well illustrate the immutability of God.
Whenever philosophers wish to establish a general law, they think it necessary to collect a considerable number of individual instances; these being put together, they then infer from them a general r
We have here the description of a true Christian, and a declaration of that Christian’s blessedness.
Perfect stability has ceased from the world since the day when Adam fell.
And why does it say, “and your Redeemer?” What was the use of appending the Redeemer’s name to this precious exhortation?
I shall speak this morning to those who are discouraged, depressed in spirit, and extremely troubled in the Christian life.
This world is not the place of punishment for sin; not the place; it may sometimes be a place, but not usually.
When we would teach children to speak, we are accustomed to call things, not exactly by the names by which they are known to us, but by some name which represents.
I have taken the words rather by accommodation than otherwise, and shall make use of them as a kind of heading to the discourse which I hope to be enabled to deliver.
Oh Christian, whenever you are inclined to an avaricious withholding from the church of God, think of your Saviour giving up all that he had to serve you.
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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