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.”
Often tears are the index of strength. There are periods when they are the noblest things in the world.
God’s first and greatest object is his own glory. There was a time, before all time, when there was no day but the Ancient of days, when God was all alone in the magnificence of his sublime solitude.
God does not condemn men for the use of the powers he has given them; he condemns them for the misuse of those powers.
David had just fought the Philistines in this very valley, and gained a signal victory, so that he said, “the Lord has broken forth upon my enemies before me as the breach of waters.”
How brief the distance between life and death! In fact there is none. Life is only death’s vestibule, and our pilgrimage on earth is only a journey to the grave.
Many of the sermons of Christ—and what sermons shall compare with them—have not what is now currently called “the gospel” in them at all.
Rest calm and undisturbed. Your enemies are around you, and have sorely surrounded you; your troubles do surround you like strong bulls of Bashan; but rest, my soul, in God.
Man is very loath to think ill of himself. The most of mankind are very prone to indulge in apologies for sin.
A book is the expression of the thoughts of the writer. The book of nature is an expression of the thoughts of God.
It has been said by an eminent divine that many of us in preaching the word suppose too great a knowledge in our hearers.
We very often speak of the “present crisis of affairs,” and it is very common for people of every period to believe their own age to be the crisis and turning point of the whole world’s history.
God in this verse declares, that though the promise was made, and though he would fulfil it, yet he would not fulfil it until his people asked him to do so.
By reason of failures in our character and faults in our life, we are not capable of understanding all the separate beauties, and the united perfection of the character of Christ, or of God, his Fathe
At the outset, let us remark the carefulness of the Holy Spirit in guarding the honour of our blessed Lord.
There are some sins which have in them a greater development of the essential mischief of rebellion, and which wear upon their faces more of the brazen pride which defies the Most High.
We have upon that hill of Carmel and along the plain three kinds of people.
The Apostle proved, in the former part of this and the latter part of the preceding chapter, that there was a rest promised in Scripture called the rest of God.
The reason which the unbeliever gives for his unbelief is fairly answered by the character and constitution of the Gospel of Christ.
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
In daily life our thoughts are most occupied with things that are most necessary for our existence.
There was a time when this prayer would have been unnecessary; a period, in fact, when it could not have been offered, seeing the thing to be asked for was already existed.
The apostle, by a highly ingenious and powerful argument, had proven that the law was never intended by God for the justification and salvation of man.
I have had pressed on my mind a subject which is not the resurrection of Christ, but is in some measure connected with it—the resurrection of lost and ruined man by the Spirit of God in this life.
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary.
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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