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.”
This view of Christ dying as the great substitutionary sacrifice for sinners cannot be dispensed with for a single moment; it seems to us to be the very essence of the gospel.
You will be ill just as long as God appoints; but if anything could help to heal you, it would be quietness and confidence of heart.
Be as full of love as you can, but take care that you mix iron with your constitution. Silly are the doves that have no bold heart for God.
Unfelt trial is no trial; certainly, it would be an unsanctified trial. Christ never meant Christians to be stoics.
Our glorious Jesus plays the man beyond all other men. Boldest of the sons of men, he does not quail in the hour of battle, but tunes his voice to loftiest psalmody.
Pardon is free to you, but it cost him his all; and, because of what it cost him, you feel that you must not sin again.
No man has any right to salvation. We have all forfeited all claim of merit; so, when the Lord gives his mercy, he gives it wherever he pleases.
Christ is the point of union for all the soldiers of the cross. I know of no other place where all Christians can meet.
There is far more power with God in the humble acknowledgment of sinfulness than in a boastful claim of cleanliness.
Self-righteousness is a great cheat. The man who gets most comfort out of it simply gets that comfort because he is ignorant.
From the most minute to the most magnificent, all creatures feel the sway of order, and they well observe the laws imposed by their Creator.
I wonder whether there is any man here, who once declared, and probably believed, that he was a Christian, but who has now given up even the name of Christian.
Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.
Do not let provision for your temporal needs be the chief end of your life, for this is what the heathen do.
Not one redeemed soul would ever have seen the everlasting glory unless it had been for the pardoning mercy of God.
Above all, no Christian ought to have any fear which would bring dishonour on the truthfulness, the goodness, the immutability, or the power of God.
A little heat of persecution, and the man-made Christian, — where is he? But the genuine Christian, the choice jewel of God, will survive the fires of time.
Oh dear friends, beware of tempting the devil to tempt you! We must take care that we never go in the ways of presumption.
I do not know when God, in his rich mercy, ever seems so lovely in our eyes as when we have just gazed on our own abundant sins.
I think we can say, looking back on our lives, those of us who are in Christ Jesus, that the Lord has tested our sincerity.
Deathlike slumber is the condition of those who are dead in sin; but to be aroused to action is the sure result of the gospel coming with power to anyone.
The disciples wanted to know how the man came to be blind, but the Master intended to deliver the man from his blindness.
If we are inclined to grieve because everything around us changes, our consolation will be found in turning to our unchanging God.
It may be that the devil thought that the death of Christ was the defeat of Christ. If so, how greatly was he mistaken; for when Christ yielded up the ghost, he won an everlasting victory.
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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