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.”
The heaviest sorrow that can wring a pastor’s heart is such as comes from the faithlessness of his most familiar friend.
Note well that David struck Goliath on the brow of his presumption, on the forehead of his pride.
You may think that you have been tried more than others; but it is only your lack of knowledge of the trials of others which leads you to imagine that your own are unique.
This turmoil and unrest of spirit will grow into a burdensomeness of heart, just as Bunyan describes Christian with a burden on his back.
None are more terrible in justice than those who are tender in mercy.
I want you, just now, to think of Jesus Christ as your Kinsman if you are really in him, for he is indeed the nearest akin to you of any.
Nothing has helped God’s Church so much as persecution; she has been increased and strengthened by it.
It is the Holy Spirit’s office to come between us and Christ, to lead us to Christ, even as the Son of God comes between us and the Father, to lead us to the Father.
I hope you see clearly that it is your duty to honour God, so let us enquire in what way that duty comes home to each one of us.
Glorify God, then, praise him, and let your whole soul extol him for this wonderful arrangement of grace.
Everything that God builds is built plumb, and straight, and square, and fair.
If anyone goes to sleep nowadays, it certainly ought not to be the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Holiness, in a regenerate heart, is only an infant; it is not matured, — it is perfect in all its parts, but not perfect in its development.
The Spirit of God must operate on the heart; otherwise, the natural conscience cannot rise to the heights of true repentance.
Suspense is worse than death; we seem to feel a thousand deaths while we are kept in suspense of one.
It may be that the Lord will remove the lampstand out of its place, and that the word of the gospel will be no longer sent to us.
Faith is the opposite of sight. It is to believe that we are saved when sin tells us we are lost.
When we think of Jesus as divine, nothing seems to be impossible for him. The strength of sin, which is the law, is not too great for him who made the law.
The Christian, as I have said, should be employed in sowing good seed; and doing so, he shall have a glorious harvest.
Our text is not meant for the men of the world, who have their portion in this life, but for the chosen, and called, and faithful.
If there is a God, he must punish men for sinning against him. How can any moral government exist if sin goes unpunished?
The free-agency of man is a self-evident truth; but, at the same time, God is omnipotent. He is still working out his wise designs in human sin.
Our Lord leading the blind man is of the most beautiful incidents in Scripture. It is not everyone who would undertake such a task as that.
Fine sermons never win souls. What does save souls, then? Why, the Word of the Lord, the truth as it is in Jesus.
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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