2660. Suffering Outside the Camp
| Answers in Genesis Does your conscience shut you out of the Church today? Remember, Christ shut himself out, too. He was “despised and rejected by men.” Do you feel, tonight, as if you could not come to his table, — as if your Master would spurn you from it?
647. Heart’s Ease
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses the fact that evil tidings may come upon any of us and he also explains how Christians should respond.
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94. Tomorrow
| Answers in Genesis I have always looked upon the book of Proverbs with pleasure, as being a book not only teaching us the highest spiritual wisdom.
2758. “Return To Your Rest”
| Answers in Genesis You, who have not believed in our Lord Jesus Christ, have no rest to which you can return, for you have never found any. May God grant to you the grace to come to Christ so that you may find rest for your souls! But we, who believe in him, enter into rest.
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2759. The Pleasures Of Piety
| Answers in Genesis Religion is a thing that can make the most melancholy joyful, at the same time that it can make the joyful ones even more joyful. It can make the gloomy bright, as it gives the oil of joy in the place of mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
303. Election And Holiness
| Answers in Genesis It has been my earnest endeavour ever since I have preached the Word, never to keep back a single doctrine which I believe to be taught by God.
387b. Effectual Calling
| Answers in Genesis We know that every wise intellect forms its plan before it provides its means, or attempts to carry out the idea conceived in the mind.
3152. The Lower Courts
| Answers in Genesis The fault of a very large number of people is that they will not lay
spiritual things to heart at all, but treat them in a very
superficial manner.
2891. A Sabbath Miracle
| Answers in Genesis Fine sermons never win souls; you may blaze away with your brilliant oratory, and your fine pieces of poetry and quotations from eminent authors, but that will not save souls. What does save souls, then? Why, the Word of the Lord, the truth as it is in Jesus.
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2892. The Free Agency Of Christ
| Answers in Genesis 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, but our Lord condescended to take by the hand this poor fellow who could not see anything, and lead him right away from the crowd that had gathered.
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2547. “Return! Return!”
| Answers in Genesis My text is all about repentance; it is an exhortation from God, very
brief and thought-provoking, but very earnest and plain: “Return now
everyone from his evil way.”
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2568. Sabbath Work
| Answers in Genesis Our divine Master healed men every day of the week; from the first
day even to the close of the seventh day, he went around doing good.
2605. Death And Its Sentence Abolished
| Answers in Genesis It tends to incite gratitude in our hearts if we remember what the Lord has done for us. It is not wrong for us to think of all that we still need from God, but it would be extremely ungrateful if we were to forget what we have already received.
89. Hatred without Cause
| Answers in Genesis No being was ever more lovely than the Saviour; it would seem almost impossible not to have affection for him. Certainly at first sight it would seem far more difficult to hate him than to love him.
2530. “A Special People.”
| Answers in Genesis If you read this Psalm through, you will notice that, when David
wrote it, he had been pestered and troubled by certain ungodly men
who mocked what was his greatest delight. They had turned his glory
into shame, and had proved that they loved folly and falsehood.
3160. The Call Of “Today”
| Answers in Genesis Now it is noteworthy that the Holy Spirit, neither that we may take comfort in it, nor despair about it, does not say “yesterday”—he says “today.”
3158. The Fifth Beatitude
| Answers in Genesis I have compared the Beatitudes to a ladder of light, and I have remarked that every one of them rises above and out of those which preceded it.
2690. Meditation On God
| Answers in Genesis Meditation is a word that more than half of you, I fear, do not know how to spell. You know how to repeat the letters of the word; but I mean to say, you cannot spell it in the reality of life. You do not occupy yourselves with any meditation.
2429. Converts, And Their Confession Of Faith
| Answers in Genesis You will perceive that there was an exhortation to John to “Write.” Why was he especially to write these words down? I conceive that it was, first, because the information recorded here was valuable: “Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
1061. Rahab
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon examines the faith of Rahab, a prostitute of Jericho who was spared in the destruction of the city because of her faith.
2489. Singing Saints
| Answers in Genesis The first thing to
do, when the throat is clear after an illness, is to sing praises to
God; the first thing to do, when the eyes are brightened again, is to
look up to the Lord with thankfulness and gratitude. Some people need
to be told this, but the psalmist did not, it came to him as a matter
of course.
2761. The Free-Agency Of Christ
| Answers in Genesis God’s ways are diverse; from the beginning to the end, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, and our Lord Jesus Christ, act sovereignly, and do not choose to follow one particular mode of action in every case. Neither must we, for a moment, try to tie the Lord Jesus Christ down to work in our particular manner.
2519. When Should We Pray?
| Answers in Genesis My mind alights with great joy on the simple truth which gleams on
the very surface of our text, — then, man may pray. If men ought to
pray, they may pray. It is clear that you may pray because men ought always to pray,
and what they ought to do they may do.
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2836. Prayerful Persistence
| Answers in Genesis And when a man is waiting for Christ, he is ready for Christ. But when they say they are waiting, and they fold their arms in unconcern, it is a gross falsehood; they are waiting for God to destroy them, and nothing else. When men really do wait for the Lord, they go where they hope to meet him.
Too Good To Be Saved!
| Answers in Genesis There are still in the world many people who, in their own opinion, are too good to be justified, too good to be saved; and they come to this condition because they compare themselves with others. The standard for any man who would be saved by his own righteousness is God’s holy law.
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"Good Judgement"
| Answers in Genesis Are we strangers to the goodness of God? Taking God’s dealings as a whole, he has dealt well with us. There are some points, in his dealings with us, which have been so special that the words of our text hardly appear emphatic enough to describe them.
2430. Christians, And Their Communion With God
| Answers in Genesis It is something when a man truly knows that there is a God. Behind the doubt of the existence of God, many men shield themselves, and permit themselves to indulge in iniquities of which they might be ashamed if they did not make a cloak of their atheism.
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2713. Walking In The Light Of The Lord
| Answers in Genesis “Come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.” What does this invitation mean? First, I think it means, let us make use of that light. Let us “walk in the light of the Lord” in order to have an absolute certainty about the things which we believe.
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2714. Those Who Desire
| Answers in Genesis True religion is always a matter of desire. If you do not desire to fear God, you do not fear him. If you do not feel any desire after what is right in God’s sight, you do not have anything at all right in your heart. Yet we must always remember that the religion of dread is not the religion of Christ.
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501. Grace Abounding
| Answers in Genesis This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a theologian, and he who can dive into its fulness is a true Master in divinity.
548. Forward! Forward! Forward!
| Answers in Genesis Spiritual men, in their distresses, turn at once to prayer, even as the stag when hunted takes to flight. Prayer is a never failing resort; it is sure to bring a blessing with it.
483. Life And Walk Of Faith
| Answers in Genesis Although man was made in the image of God at first, it is plain enough that any trace of immutability which he may once have possessed has long ago departed.
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474. Faith Omnipotent
| Answers in Genesis Lift up your eyes, then, to the hills, from where Jesus comes who is your help, and entreat him never to forsake his people, but to dwell with them, and walk among them for evermore.
644. God’s Witnesses
| Answers in Genesis Spurgeon Sermon 644. God’s Witnesses, delivered on Sunday Morning, August 13, 1865, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
2889. Christ Receiving Sinners
| Answers in Genesis The Christ whose gospel we preach is no unapproachable philosopher. The glory of his person reflects even a brighter lustre than the dignity of his office. He appeared among men, not as one who had been lifted up from the ranks to obtain a position for himself, but as one who bowed himself down from Heaven to save us.
2928. Sham Conversion
| Answers in Genesis If any man shall go through this world with his eyes shut, believing all that he hears, he will find himself the dupe of a thousand knaves.
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2760. A King Sent In Love
| Answers in Genesis What which the invasion of countries by the more powerful is perpetually being justified by the laws of politics which seem to be the very opposite of the laws of God? Oh, that better times might come, when kings would rule in righteousness! At any rate, there is a King coming who will rule in righteousness.
2508. “Beautiful For Ever.”
| Answers in Genesis God’s own people are
frequently made to mourn. They are
brought into severe straits, and burdened and surrounded with
difficulties; but, though “many are the afflictions of the
righteous,” “the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his
bones; not one of them is broken.”
3142. Established Work
| Answers in Genesis Some of us have been to the grave this afternoon, and the most forcible impression on our minds at this time is that of our mortality.
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3141. Women’s Rights—A Parable
| Answers in Genesis I would ask for your attention, and exhibit for your imitation, the faith which these five young women, the daughters of Zelophehad, possessed with regard to the promised inheritance.
2095. The Lamb In Glory
| Answers in Genesis The apostle John had long known the Lord Jesus as the Lamb. I pray that we may have on this earth a clear and constant sight of the sin-bearing Lamb.
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1970. Loving Persuasion
| Answers in Genesis Oh, that you and I, after having explained the gospel, may always be able to relate something from our own experience which will prove it!
2944. Hastening Lot
| Answers in Genesis Spurgeon Sermon 2944. Hastening Lot, delivered On Lord’s Day Evening, April 25, 1875, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
2421. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
| Answers in Genesis This morning, we were trying to extol our God, our King, and to magnify his holy name; and something seemed to say to me, “Hold on to that strain. Let us have the same note again tonight, and let us still laud and praise and magnify the name of the Most High.”
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416. The Shield of Faith
| Answers in Genesis Like the Spartans, every Christian is born a warrior. It is his destiny to be assaulted; it is his duty to attack. Part of his life will be occupied with defensive warfare.
1701. Gladness For Sadness
| Answers in Genesis As we are made to sympathise with Moses in this psalm, let us imitate his example. Like him in multiplied bereavements, let us be like him in grace and faith.
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1702. On Laying Foundations
| Answers in Genesis Our Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to tell us about the Father’s love, and never a man spoke as he spoke, and yet there are many who refuse to hear him.
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44. Repentance to Life
| Answers in Genesis One of the greatest obstacles which the Christian religion ever overcame, was the inveterate prejudice which possessed the minds of its earliest followers.
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513. The Young Man’s Prayer
| Answers in Genesis Amid a thousand miracles of mercy, what must have been the sorrows of a camp in which every halt was marked with many burials, until the whole track was a long cemetery?
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504. I Know that my Redeemer Lives
| Answers in Genesis Our text deserves our profound attention; its preface would hardly have been written had not the matter been of the utmost importance in the judgment of the patriarch who uttered it.
2898. The Search-Warrant
| Answers in Genesis Faith is the opposite of sight. It is to believe that we are saved when sin tells us we are lost. It is to believe that Christ has cleansed us when we still feel defilement within. It is to believe that we shall see his face in glory when clouds and darkness enshroud our path, and doubts and fears distress our heart.
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2623. How Faith Comes
| Answers in Genesis Wherever faith exists, it is the gift of God. It is a plant that
never sprang up spontaneously from the soil of corrupt human nature.
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2570. Jesus Sitting By The Well
| Answers in Genesis Treasure up in your mind and heart the assured fact that Christ
was most really and truly man; and though the Godhead was most
mysteriously united to his manhood, yet he was none the less
completely and intensely man.
2423. The Model Soul Winner
| Answers in Genesis Jesus said to the woman of Samaria, “Give me a drink.” I speak to many here who are wise to win souls. I hope that I also address many more who, although they have not yet learned this wisdom, are anxious, if possible, to be used by God to bless their fellow creatures.
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2424. The New Song On Earth
| Answers in Genesis This man who talks about his song, and seems to be very much struck with the fact that he has become a singer, was formerly a man of prayer. I do not doubt that he was still praying while he was praising; but he began to pray before he began to praise.
2377. Love Stronger Than Death
| Answers in Genesis It is important to know how a man feels when he comes to the real crisis of his life. At the time of his departure we shall see what power really ruled him.
2141. The Question Of Questions
| Answers in Genesis If we, at any time, should seem cast off from Christ as well as cast out by proud religionists, he will find us when we cannot find him. Blessed be his name!
2667. A Conscripted Man Yielding To Christ
| Answers in Genesis Saving faith does not always come suddenly. Some men are saved, as Saul of Tarsus was; they are struck down in the midst of their sins, and converted in a remarkable and unusual way; but with many others there is, first, a faint twilight; then, eventually, a little more; and, at last, the sun has fully risen on them.
2657. All the Promises
| Answers in Genesis Kindly observe the position of the promise, which is a very exceptional one. It is a kind of link between the divine thought and the divine act. It is not at all a necessary link so far as God is concerned, but it is often a most necessary and consoling link to us.
1978. Trust
| Answers in Genesis We are not ordained to be saved apart from faith, but those who are predestinated to eternal life are ordained to receive it through faith in Christ Jesus.
3126. Pictures Of Life
| Answers in Genesis If you would picture life, you must turn to the Bible, and this evening we will walk through the Bible-gallery of old paintings.
3116. Preparing To Depart
| Answers in Genesis Taking Elijah’s case as a guide, we propose tonight to say a few words—and may God make them to edification—about preparing for our departure.
2455. A Cure For A Weak Heart
| Answers in Genesis You
perceive, dear friends, that David had trusted in the Lord; in very
severe and exceptional trouble God had delivered him; and at the
close of that deliverance he wrote this Psalm, to be sung by the
faithful of all time and every clime, and then he gave this
exhortation which grew out of his own experience.
1241. The Priest Dispensed With
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon answers three questions: How did we come to be believers? How do we know that believers are saved? And how do we know that we are believers?
257. The Scales of Judgement
| Answers in Genesis There is a weighing time for kings and emperors, and all the monarchs of earth. Though some of them do not appear to be accountable to man, they must surely be tried at the judgment bar of God.
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250. War! War! War!
| Answers in Genesis If this exhortation is not found in the very same words, coming from the lips of Jesus, nevertheless the whole tenor of the Word of God is to the same effect—“Fight the Lord’s battles.”
218. Self-Examination
| Answers in Genesis 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.
2890. Unbelievers Rebuked
| Answers in Genesis Please consider, dear friends, how many times some of us have doubted our Lord. The sin of unbelief becomes all the greater because it is so frequently committed. God be thanked that it is not so with all Christians: for there are some who walk in faith and dwell in faith.
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2993. “That King Ahaz”
| Answers in Genesis It is absolutely certain, dear friends, that whatever our personal
characters may be, we shall have to know, by practical experience,
the meaning of the word trouble.
1131. Let Him Alone
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon warns about the danger of listening to a sermon on Sunday while living no differently every other day of the week.
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823. Noah’s Flood
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon explains that just as there was no escape from the Flood except for the Ark, there will be no escape from future judgment unless one is in Christ.
3102. The Forerunner
| Answers in Genesis The Jewish high priest went within the veil once a year, and
represented the people there, but he was never their forerunner.
3094. Heart Piercing
| Answers in Genesis Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and
said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren,
what shall we do?"
3091. Pedigree
| Answers in Genesis Paul was proud of his extraction as a Jew. Taking this expression in
its literal sense, I feel that he had much to be proud of.
3086. Marvellous Things
| Answers in Genesis The invitations of the gospel are invitations to happiness. In delivering God’s message, we do not ask men to come to a funeral, but to a wedding feast.
2272. Longing To Find God
| Answers in Genesis This is one reason why the man who is earnestly seeking after God is often misunderstood. He does not speak as one would speak who was cool and calm.
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2526. “Speak, Lord!”
| Answers in Genesis The child Samuel was favoured more than all the family in which he
lived. Do you seem to be very insignificant? Yet you can hardly be more so than
was this child of Hannah’s love. Do you have many troubles? Yet you
have no more, I daresay, than rested on young Samuel
2134. The Rough Hewer
| Answers in Genesis Alas! too many of our hearers complicate this sweet simplicity. They will not be content to take the plain way; they love more winding paths.
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401. Jacob’s Waking Exclamation
| Answers in Genesis Through his own foolish wisdom Jacob had been compelled to leave his father’s house. Perhaps we are scarcely able to judge the sorrowful feelings which this banishment would create in his soul.
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392. Trust in God—True Wisdom
| Answers in Genesis Wisdom is man’s true path—that which enables him to accomplish best the end of his being, and which, therefore, gives to him the richest enjoyment, and the greatest scope for all his powers.
418. Bread for the Hungry
| Answers in Genesis This notable text shall teach us two lessons this morning. Its first utterance shall be concerning providence, and its second, concerning the life of grace in the heart.
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2435. The Everlasting Arms
| Answers in Genesis If you are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, you may take these precious words home for yourself, and you may live on them; you may eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and rejoice in all the refreshment that they bring to your spirit.
1268. Trial By The Word
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon talks about the importance of trial, the peculiarity of the believer’s trial, and the continuance and the conclusion of the trial.
1527. Perfect Sanctification
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses the eternal will, the effective sacrifice, and the everlasting result accomplished by that will through the sacrifice of the body of Christ.
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91. Christ Exalted
| Answers in Genesis At the Lord’s table we wish to have no subject for contemplation except our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, and we have been usually considering him as the crucified One.
1423. Divine Interpositions
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses God’s miraculous interpositions in the affairs of this life, His providential interpositions of another kind, and His gracious interpositions given for the salvation of men.
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2712. Bonds Which Could Not Hold
| Answers in Genesis Do not think, beloved, that the most learned fools can be a match for him who overcame death itself. There is a truth on which I wish to insist with great earnestness; it is this. Since Christ could not be held by the bonds of death, it is not possible to keep in bondage anything that belongs to him.
496. The New Song
| Answers in Genesis There must be new songs on new occasions of triumph. It would have been absurd for Miriam with her timbrel to conduct the music of the daughters of Israel to some old sonnet learned in Egypt.
2437. Prayer, The Proof Of Godliness
| Answers in Genesis All men are not godly. Alas! the ungodly are the great majority of
the human race. And all men who are to some extent godly are not
equally godly. The man who fears God, and desires to truly know him,
has some little measure of godliness.
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2468. Solitude, Silence, Submission
| Answers in Genesis Some are feeling the crushing
weight and heavy burden of their guilt. If you cannot do anything
else, dear friends, do what these two verses say, in order that,
afterwards, you may be able to take that grand gospel step of faith
in Jesus Christ which will certainly bring you into peace and joy.
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2469. The Incomparable Bridegroom And His Bride
| Answers in Genesis If we should, with very much earnestness, urge believers to good
works, let no one suppose that, therefore, we imagine that men are
saved by works. Let no one for a moment dream that, in urging the
believer to produce righteous fruit, we are at all teaching that
salvation is the work of man.
3082. Here I Am
| Answers in Genesis May our dear children all grow up as Samuel did; and, so that they may do so, may they in their early life be such children as Samuel was!
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3079. A Searching Question
| Answers in Genesis This is a question of universal pertinence. We may most honestly ask it of any man, because there is an owner both of the Church and of the world.
3077. Death, A Sleep
| Answers in Genesis For the most part, ignorance is the mother of misery, and if we had more knowledge, we should find it a tower of strength against many fears and alarms.
3059. The Poor Man's Friend
| Answers in Genesis God is the poor man's Friend; the poor man, in his helplessness and
despair, leaves his case in the hands of God, and God undertakes to
care for him.
2456. The Lamb Our Leader
| Answers in Genesis This is characteristic of saints: “These are those who follow the Lamb
wherever he goes.” This has always been the way of the saints; this
is the way the holy prophets went, the way of the martyrs, the way of
the reformers and confessors, the way of all who shall meet above
around the throne of God and of the Lamb.
577. Let Us Go Forth
| Answers in Genesis Spurgeon Sermon 577. Let Us Go Forth, delivered on Sunday Morning, June 26, 1864, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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2527. David’s Five-Stringed Harp
| Answers in Genesis This Psalm was written by David when he was severely vexed by many
adversaries. These adversaries were bent on his destruction; they
could not bear that the son of Jesse should be favoured by God, and
that he should come to the throne; so they set their wits to work to
invent all kinds of slander against him.
506. Solid Food
| Answers in Genesis In most large houses we shall find humanity in all its stages. We shall see the infant, in his cradle; children laughing in their play, young men working with vigour, and the old man resting in peace.
2723. God’s Dealings With Egypt And Israel
| Answers in Genesis In this congregation, though no human eye can read all our characters, there is a clear division among us who are here. If some infallible “teller” could now divide the house into Ayes and Nays, separating those who are on God’s side from those who are not, the spectacle would be a very striking one.
2724. The Dew Of Christ’s Youth
| Answers in Genesis Everything has its dew in the morning, its burning heat at noon; we too, beloved, — those of us who have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, — is this not the case even with us? When we were first converted, we could not sing God’s praises loudly enough; we could not sufficiently leap for joy before the Lord.
543. Once a Curse but Now a Blessing
| Answers in Genesis The Jews have for many a generation been cursed by all people. For ages no one had a good word or a kind look for the Jew. In every nation they have been persecuted, and hunted like beasts of prey.
1793. The Glory In The Rear
| Answers in Genesis When the Israelites left the place of their bondage and came to the wilderness, a visible sign of the Lord’s presence and leadership was granted to them.
3004. The Christian’s Unveiling
| Answers in Genesis It is to that other and better land that I would, for a little while,
bear away your thoughts. We shall borrow the wings of our text; and,
like the eagle, soar towards heaven.
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2999. Battlements
| Answers in Genesis When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house, if any man falls from it.
2996. Enquiring Of God
| Answers in Genesis Although David knew that he was anointed to be king over Israel, he would not take a step towards his rightful position without first asking guidance from God.
2986. One Aspect of Christ’s Death
| Answers in Genesis 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.
2972. Forgiveness
| Answers in Genesis Not one redeemed soul would ever have seen the everlasting glory unless it had been for the pardoning mercy of God.
2962. Diamond Hinges — “As” And “So”
| Answers in Genesis Of our Lord Jesus Christ we can truly say, “He is our peace.” It is through him that “the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,” keeps our heart and mind always at rest.
2956. A Handkerchief
| Answers in Genesis It is often the wisest way to relieve minds that are swollen through grief to allow them to find the natural conclusion of their sorrow by asking them why they are weeping.
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2950. True and Not True
| Answers in Genesis Shut your ear to God, and he will shut his ear to you; but incline your ear, and come to him, and, sinner as you are, your soul shall live, for God will hear you.
2923. The Singing Army
| Answers in Genesis If we begin by doubting, our prayer will limp. Faith is the tendon of Achilles, and if that is cut it is not possible for us to wrestle with God, but as long as we have that strong sinew, that mighty tendon uninjured, we can prevail with God in prayer.
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2918. Facing The Wind
| Answers in Genesis First, then, brethren, our text contains a summary of Christian life. It is “well doing.” This is all you have to do — you who have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus and renewed in the spirit of your minds. You have to spend your lives in well doing.
2913. David’s First Victory
| Answers in Genesis Note well that David struck Goliath, and he struck him effectively not in the loins, or on the hand, or on the foot — but in a vital point he delivered the stroke that laid him low. He struck him on the brow of his presumption, on the forehead of his pride.
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2909. Job’s Sure Knowledge
| Answers in Genesis Job, in the midst of his false friends, had One whom he called his kinsman. “I know,” he said, “that my Kinsman lives.” We interpret that word “Kinsman” as meaning our Lord Jesus Christ. I want you 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.
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2906. Honour For Honour
| Answers in Genesis 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. First, I think that we are to honour God by confessing his Deity in all our prayers, and praises, and, indeed, at all times.
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2905. The Father And The Son
| Answers in Genesis I do truly believe that, when Christ bore the sins of his people up to the tree, and away from the tree, the justice of God was more honoured than it would have been if all the elect had been sent to hell for ever. Glorify God, then, praise him, and let your whole soul extol him for this wonderful arrangement of grace.
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2901. Mourning At The Cross
| Answers in Genesis True evangelical repentance is not produced by mere conscience, however much the conscience may be aroused and instructed. The Spirit of God must operate on the heart; otherwise, the natural conscience cannot rise to the heights of true repentance.
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2893. An Instructive Truth
| Answers in Genesis The free-agency of man is a self-evident truth; but, at the same time, God is omnipotent, and he is still working out his wise designs in the whirlwind of human wrath, in the tempest of human sin, and even in the dark mines of human ambition and tyranny.
409. Fellowship with God
| Answers in Genesis Fellowship with God was one of the richest privileges of unfallen man. The Lord God walked in the garden, and talked with Adam as a man talks with his friend.
The Bitterness of the Cross
| Answers in Genesis If you have never felt the mournful effect of the sorrowful spectacle of the bleeding Saviour, you have still need to stand, and to look, and look, and look again until you do feel it, for so it will always be: “They shall look on me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn.”
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2695. Christian Conversation
| Answers in Genesis Beloved, engender controversy rather than have wrong conversation; better dispute over truth than agree about lies. Better, I say, it is to dispute concerning good doctrine, it is far more profitable to talk about the Word of God, even in a controversial manner, than to turn utterly away from it, and neglect it.
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2879. The Wide-Open Mouth Filled
| Answers in Genesis Brethren, if we had more sense of our need, prayer would be more of an instinct with us; we should pray because we could not help praying; we should pray more truly, if we prayed because there were groanings within us, caused by intense pain, and longings that came out of the consciousness of our dire necessities.
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2878. Good Cheer For The Needy
| Answers in Genesis Possibly, some of you think that you have been forgotten in the arrangements of providence. Listen, troubled one. If you can only wait with patience, and stand still, and see the salvation of God, you will find that the needy shall not always be forgotten.
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2871. Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision
| Answers in Genesis Children of God, do not be anxious. Do not be tossed up and down by your outward circumstances. If God does not prosper you, do not sink down as the vessel does when the tide ebbs away. Do not be so affected by external things as to get into a state of worry, and fretfulness, and care, and anxiety, and distress.
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2868. “Ready, Aye, Ready!”
| Answers in Genesis Again, the word “ready” frequently means promptly or quickly. In this sense also, God is ready to forgive. I know that some of you imagine that you must endure months of sorrow before you can be forgiven. It is not necessary that you should wait even another hour for this great blessing.
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2869. Prayer Found In The Heart
| Answers in Genesis Ah, dear friend, it is no worse to find a prayer in a book than to find it in your head! It is very much the same thing whether the prayer is printed or is extemporized; unless it comes from the heart, it is equally dead in either case.
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2867. The Life-Look
| Answers in Genesis I do not find fault with prayer or the reading of the Scriptures; God forbid! But I do complain of putting prayer and the reading of the Scriptures into the place of getting to God; for it is looking to him as he is revealed in Jesus Christ that will save the soul, and nothing short of that will do.
2380. Encouragements To Prayer
| Answers in Genesis Your nature requires you to have a god of some kind; and, to prevent your having a strange god, you must love Jehovah, the one and only living and true God.
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2811. Removal
| Answers in Genesis Throughout the history of the Church of Christ, there have been particular places where men of God have been compelled to fall on their knees, and pray this prayer of Moses. "If your presence does not go with me, do not carry us up there."
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2815. Good Cheer For Many Who Fear
| Answers in Genesis A hasty man is never a wise man; and it is equally true that a “fearful” man is never prudent. Fearful men are always hasty; they jump to conclusions. They say, with Jacob, “All these things are against me,” because they cannot see to the end of the Lord’s plans.
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2864. God Has Spoken! — Rejoice!
| Answers in Genesis Our text says, “God has spoken in his holiness.” Now, it sometimes happens that our greatest difficulty in believing a promise of God lies in his holiness. There is, for example, a promise of pardon to the soul that believes in Jesus.
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2851. Unseasonable Prayer
| Answers in Genesis There is a time for praying, but there is also a time for holy activity. Prayer is adapted for almost every season, yet not prayer alone, for there comes, every now and then, a time when even prayer must take a secondary place, and faith must come in, and lead us not to cry to God but to act as he tells us to.
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2850. The New Song And The Old Story
| Answers in Genesis A Christian man ought to be like a horse that has bells on his head, so that he cannot go anywhere without ringing them, and making music. His whole life should be a psalm; every step should be in harmony; every thought should constitute a note; every word he utters should be a component part of the joyful strain.
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2847. Barriers Obliterated
| Answers in Genesis When the Lord takes away his people’s sins, they are gone, and gone for ever. They shall not be remembered against them any more for ever. The glorious forgiving love of God is an indescribable theme, and it is altogether inexhaustible.
2835. Patients For The Great Physician
| Answers in Genesis Even though you are unworthy, have you not a need of a saviour? Being conscious of such a need is all the fitness and worthiness he requires. If you need Christ, you are fit to come to Christ. If you need to have sin forgiven, you are a fit subject for Christ to deal with.
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2830. A Good Man In An Evil Case
| Answers in Genesis It shall be our joy to take up our cross daily, and follow Jesus; but there are certain burdens of care and sorrow, of which the text speaks, especially the burdens which come from the slander, and reproach, and oppression of ungodly men, which we need not carry.
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2816. Invitation To A Conference
| Answers in Genesis I am addressing all who have not yet believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. I have to say that your condition is a very sad one, and a very sinful one; you are standing up against the God of love, refusing to submit to him whose service is perfect freedom and joy.
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2813. Life, And The Path To It
| Answers in Genesis One great part of the joy of the glorified will be the perfection of their characters, for he who is holy must be happy. Perfection of holiness must mean perfection of happiness, the two things must go together. Sin and sorrow cannot be divorced, and holiness and happiness cannot be separated.
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2808. The Disowned
| Answers in Genesis Prayer is a vital evidence of Christianity, but prophecy is not. A thousand sermons would not prove a man to be a Christian, but one genuine prayer would. It is easy enough to speak to men, but quite another thing, from our innermost soul, to speak into the ear of God.
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2802. Lukewarmness
| Answers in Genesis If you have lived lukewarmly, the things of God will then, even though you are a child of his, darken your dying hour, and weigh down your spirit with a fearful load of sad reflections. Oh God, grant, I beseech you that your servant may always be free from that great sin of being lukewarm in your cause!
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2800. “Pray, Always Pray”
| Answers in Genesis A prayerless soul must be a Christless soul; but if we are really in Christ, we must have practised the sacred art of asking, and we ought to go on continually with it. If there is any difficulty in our minds, let us ask, for the Holy Spirit can solve it.
2794. A Refreshing Canticle
| Answers in Genesis The impression the love of Christ makes on the true believer is far greater than the impression made by anything earthly. Mere mortal joys write their record on the sand, and their memory is soon erased; but Christ’s love is like an inscription cut deeply into marble, its memory is deeply inscribed on our hearts.
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2793. Five Divine Declarations
| Answers in Genesis It is true that there are two ways in which men shall be made to bow the knee before God. Some of them will bow unwillingly when they shall feel the weight of his iron rod. Others shall bow joyfully before him when they shall feel the power of his grace.
2789. Perfect Justification And Perfect Pardon
| Answers in Genesis It is amazing, my brethren, how soon our unbelief finds a reason for fear lest we should be lost. It seems to find such a reason, often, when there is none. It will catch at any little circumstance in our daily life to make us imagine that God has forgotten us.
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2785. Christ’s Love For His Vineyard
| Answers in Genesis The Church is of no use whatever unless she produces the fruits of holiness and of gratitude to her Lord, her Divine Vinedresser. Better that she be not called a church at all than that she should pretend to be the Church of Christ, and yet produce no fruit for his praise.
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2784. “Non Nobis, Domine!”
| Answers in Genesis Sometimes, there come dark experiences, when there seems to be no reason that can suggest itself to us why God should give us deliverance, or bestow a blessing on us, except this one, — that he would be pleased to do it in order to glorify his own name.
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2782. Love’s Lamentation
| Answers in Genesis First, here is the lamentation of love:“ ‘ I have loved you,’ says the Lord.” Secondly, here is base ingratitude:“ Yet you say, ‘How have you loved us?’ ” They would not see any signs and tokens of God’s love, for they did not believe in it.
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2774. Love Promising Faithfulness
| Answers in Genesis I am going to speak of the greatest love that ever was, — the love of Jesus Christ for his chosen, and I want you to notice how the love of Christ for his people made him desire to bind himself to them. Think of this amazing theme with all your hearts, so the ardour of your imagination will put life into my poor words.
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2773. For Or Against
| Answers in Genesis The believer in God is informed that he shall be in league with the stones of the field, and that the beasts of the field shall be at peace with him. To a rebel against God, nothing is working for good. The great wheels of divine providence are revolving, and the day is coming in which they will grind you to powder.
2772. The Minister’s Trumpet Blast And Church Member’s Warning
| Answers in Genesis You know some preachers who put their congregations to sleep; not only because of their monotonous style of address, but because their matter itself is sleepy. The people seem to say, “Well, if that is all the man has to talk about, we may as well be asleep as awake.”
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2771. Peter’s Fall And Restoration
| Answers in Genesis Peter’s fall, as we noticed in our reading, is recorded four times, at considerable length; but it is not once excused. There is not, in any one of the records, a single word said by way of palliation of his great guilt. John pictures Peter’s sin in colours of an almost neutral tint, yet he does not lessen its gravity.
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2532. God’s Love Shamefully Questioned
| Answers in Genesis The charge of ingratitude can be made against
all of us as we are by nature; it is not merely of some base, mean,
grovelling spirits that we are now speaking, but of mankind in
general, looking at it on a broad scale.
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18. The Tomb of Jesus
| Answers in Genesis All his weary pilgrimage, from Bethlehem’s manger to Calvary’s cross, is in my eyes, paved with glory. Each spot upon which he trod, is to our souls consecrated at once.
2754. Strange Workings And Matchless Consolations
| Answers in Genesis Poor soul, if you are brought into the wilderness, God will effectively comfort you. He has effectively convicted you, and he will effectively console you. If he has brought you into the wilderness of humility and severe distress, he will as surely bring you into the Canaan of faith and joy.
2746. The Nature And Purpose Of Divine Chastenings
| Answers in Genesis If there is not a future state of rewards and punishments, if the just man shall not reap the full reward of all his sufferings and griefs, and if the wicked shall not receive punishment for all his sins, how can God be just, and how can the Judge of all the earth do right?
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2737. Who Should Be Baptized?
| Answers in Genesis Whatever opinions different men may hold concerning it, the Word of God must stand, and it is our duty to preach all that is revealed to us there. One point that is very plain is that no one has a right to baptism until he is a believer in Christ.
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2736. The Great Miracle Worker
| Answers in Genesis If the gospel had to wait until men came to it, there would be poor results from it; but it is a dew from the Lord that does not wait for men, neither tarries for the sons of men, but it falls when he pleases.
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2735. Fountains Of Repentant Tears
| Answers in Genesis That repentance which a man works in himself, without the Spirit of God, will turn out to be a repentance that needs to be repented of; but that godly sorrow for sin, which the Spirit of God produces in the heart, is a sure indication of spiritual life, and the constant attendant of saving faith.
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2734. Out Of Nothing Comes Nothing
| Answers in Genesis It is always a bad sign when a man begins to think extremely well of himself. I would rather, a great deal, hear a man complain, and cry out before God, under a deep sense of humiliation, than hear him utter a single word that reveals a spirit of satisfaction with his own condition.
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2732. Believers Tested By Trials
| Answers in Genesis “Many are the afflictions of the righteous”; so let this be some comfort to you, — that you are one of the Lord’s suffering children, one of those who has to pass through rough roads and fiery places in the course of their pilgrimage to heaven.
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2728. The High Rock
| Answers in Genesis There is no place so safe in the time of a flood as a high rock, so climb to the Rock Christ, and then, though the waves of the sea roar, and the mountains shake with their swelling, you will be secure if you are on the Rock that is higher than you are.
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2722. The Education Of Sons Of God
| Answers in Genesis I will try to point out the footprints of Jesus in the sands of sorrow, so that others of the children of God may have their hearts lifted up within them while they observe that “although he was a Son, yet he,” as well as the rest of us who are in the Lord’s family, “learned obedience by the things which he suffered.”
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2719. True Learning
| Answers in Genesis If a man becomes Christ’s disciple, he must remain Christ’s disciple, throughout the rest of his life, by sitting at his Master’s feet, and receiving instruction from him. It is only as we are taught by God that we shall be able to keep up the high spiritual distinction between ourselves and the rest of mankind.
2546. A Message To The Glad And The Sad
| Answers in Genesis If a man is truly converted, the
influence of his conversion will spread to others; it is an act of
mercy from God to him with a view also to his children, his friends,
his neighbours, his dependents. It is the same with the light in the
believer’s heart.
2689. The Ever-living Christ
| Answers in Genesis Christ in glory is exactly the same person that he was here. No man ever loses anything by going to heaven, so I am sure my Lord is none the worse for entering into his glory; he is no less tender, no less zealous, no less mighty to save; so we may gladly go to him now, for he is just the same.
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2718. The Tenses
| Answers in Genesis When children are learning their grammar, they have to pay particular attention to the tenses of the verbs; and it is important for Christians also to remember their tenses, — to remember the past, the present, and the future. God has delivered, does deliver, and will still deliver.
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2715. Christian Resignation
| Answers in Genesis We must be conformed to our Lord in his humiliation if we would be made like him also in his glory. I have to discourse to you on this lesson, which some of us have begun to learn, but of which as yet we know so little, — this lesson of saying, “Not as I will, but as you will.”
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2711. The Sight Of Iniquity
| Answers in Genesis What is the reason for the revelations, which the Holy Spirit sometimes makes to us, of the evil of our hearts? It is well known, to all who love the Lord, that there are times when the Holy Spirit takes us into the darkest recesses of our being, and there reveals to us evils which, perhaps we had never suspected.
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2710. Christ The Cause Of Division
| Answers in Genesis Christ is the cause of the greatest division, but he is also the medium of the greatest union. Remember that the greatest force in the world is love; it is invincible. You can love a man to Christ, but you cannot bully him into salvation.
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2696. Wordless Prayers Heard In Heaven
| Answers in Genesis If we were called on to state their own feelings and convictions before the living God, it may be that they we become so mournful and sad that we could not describe ourselves. Indeed, this is one of the painful parts of some men’s condition, that it is indescribable.
2694. Grace Preferred To Gifts
| Answers in Genesis The spiritual gifts are those about which there can be no question that they do remain and are to be had by those who earnestly covet them, and diligently seek them. You who are beginners in the school of Christ, seek after more knowledge of the Word of God, and seek it very earnestly.
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2691. Sorrow and Sorrow
| Answers in Genesis There can never be such a thing as repentance without sorrow for sin. Sorrow for sin is a perpetual rain, a sweet, soft shower which, to a truly gracious man, lasts all his life. He is continually grieved that there should still be any sin remaining in him, and he will never stop grieving until all that sin has gone.
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The Deceived Heart
| Answers in Genesis There are many people who are deceived in their religion; they are professing a wrong religion, or they are holding the right religion in a wrong way. There are many people who are entirely deceived in their religion. We shall, also, notice that their religion is unsatisfactory to them.
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Two Arguments Against Sin
| Answers in Genesis What God has to say to unconverted men is stated here in a very few words: “Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.” This short sentence contains the two arguments against sin. The first the nature of sin itself: “abominable”; and the second is from the feeling of God towards sin: “that I hate.”
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A Song And A Solace
| Answers in Genesis Here is a song for bright days: “You have granted me life and favour, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.” Secondly, here is a solace for dark nights: “And you have hidden these things in your heart: I know that this is with you.”
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Ruth Deciding For God
| Answers in Genesis I should think that Naomi was greatly cheered by hearing this declaration from Ruth, especially the last part of it: “Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” There ought to have been more joy in her heart at the conversion of Ruth’s soul than grief over the death of her husband and her sons.
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2678. The Lesson of the Almond Tree
| Answers in Genesis Before you can make an impression on another person’s heart, you must have an impression made on your own soul. You must be able to say, concerning the truth, “I see it,” before you can speak it so that your hearers also shall see it.
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2677. Spiritual Religion
| Answers in Genesis In order to meet our cases, the great work of God in us must be a spiritual thing; but in order that I may be able to talk about it to you, and that you may be able to hear it with your ears, that spiritual thing must be encased in a body.
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2676. Comfort From The Future
| Answers in Genesis . Do we ever learn much without the rod? I fear we do not; most of us are the quickest learners, I think, when we smart most. Well, then, if affliction has been profitable in the past, let us rest assured that it will be so in the future.
2671. A Sincere Summary, And A Searching Scrutiny
| Answers in Genesis Christ says much in praise of faith because faith says so much in praise of Christ; and faith is used, in the covenant of grace, as a means of blessing, because it excludes boasting, and gives all the glory to God, who works all that is good within us.
2661. A Marvellous Change
| Answers in Genesis We have a sentence excluding the guilty and unrepentant from the kingdom of God. Secondly, here is a reminder to some of us: “and such were some of you.” Thirdly, here is a change spoken of: “but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
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2652. Seeing Christ’s Day
| Answers in Genesis Very much might be spoken in honour and commendation of Abraham. He was a princely man, well worthy to be called “the father of the faithful.”
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2648. Sacred Memories
| Answers in Genesis This message from the Lord was written by the prophet Jeremiah to the
Jews who were carried away to Babylon or even to more distant places.
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2643. The Honoured Servant
| Answers in Genesis There are some people, who permit others to minister to their
comfort, but it never occurs to them to provide for the comfort of
their servants.
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2642. The Flight To Zoar
| Answers in Genesis The destruction of Sodom was, undoubtedly, a literal fact; and the
record of it in Genesis is as true a piece of history as any event
that is recorded.
2629. God’s Work In Man
| Answers in Genesis It is evident that God has such a power over men, that he can work in their hearts just what
he pleases, apart from their willingness or unwillingness.
2615. The Anxious Enquirer
| Answers in Genesis In many cases, God begins by breaking
the stony heart in pieces, and often makes a delay of days, of weeks,
and of even months, before he heals the soul.
457. Religion — Reality!
| Answers in Genesis They had visibly before their eyes proofs that God rewarded virtue; and yet, notwithstanding this, there were some so besotted against God, that they said, “It is a vain thing to serve the Lord.”
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2565. Ruins
| Answers in Genesis I have a little to say about the condition of Judah under Ahaz,
before I come to personal dealing with souls from this text.
2559. Co-Workers With God
| Answers in Genesis When David knew
that Solomon was to build the house of the Lord, he thought it
necessary before he began the temple to remind him that “unless the
Lord builds the house, they labour in vain who build it.”
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2558. Songs in the Night
| Answers in Genesis The great cause of a Christian’s distress, the reason for the depths of sorrow into which many believers are plunged, is simply this — they forget to look to the hills from where all real help comes; they do not say, “Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night?”
2549. Luminous Words
| Answers in Genesis Our Lord Jesus Christ has suffered for sin, and he has suffered to
the utmost extent, for he has paid the death-penalty on his people’s
behalf.
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2540. Declaring The Works Of The Lord
| Answers in Genesis Are not all things his workmanship, from the heights of heaven down
to the deep places of the earth? From the most remote star blazing in
magnificence of light, down to the gnat which dances in the beams of
the evening’s sun, the Lord’s hand is seen everywhere.
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2536. The Ethiopian
| Answers in Genesis If those of us who are teachers of
others will only go around with our eyes open, we shall find plenty
of illustrations of the truths we have to proclaim. Every black man
who crosses our path will teach us something or other.
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2531. A Boundless Blessing
| Answers in Genesis The blessing which Jacob pronounced on Joseph
was infinite in extent; he seemed to ransack heaven and earth in
order to express the desire of his soul, and what he knew as a
prophet to be the purpose of God.
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1821. Cords And Cart Ropes
| Answers in Genesis God intends man’s good, and only sets evil before him so he may turn from the dangers of a mistaken way, and so may escape the evil which lies at the end of it.
2524. Fearing And Hoping
| Answers in Genesis The psalmist does not dwell here on those
attributes which usually call for our praise, or the praises of men
in general; but he touches some special strings of the harp, from
which he brings out joyful music for the children of Zion, so that
they may be glad in their King.
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2523. Abraham’s Double Blessing
| Answers in Genesis Abraham is called the father
of the faithful; that is, of all such as believe in God;
so that, if we truly believe in God, we shall do what Abraham as a
believer did. Children are like their father; believers are like the
father of all believers, so that there will be a going out for them
as there was for him.
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2512. Hearing With Heed
| Answers in Genesis In these days we have many instructions concerning preaching; but our
Lord principally gave directions concerning hearing. Dear friends, with sealed ears pass
by those who have nothing to communicate that can tend to your
spiritual edification, and so carry out our Saviour’s words, “Take
heed what you hear.”
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2505. Deliverance From The Pit
| Answers in Genesis There is always a reason
for every act of grace which God performs for man. He acts
sovereignly, and therefore he is not bound to give any reason for his
actions; but he always acts wisely, and therefore he has a reason for
so acting.
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2504. Jonah’s Object Lessons
| Answers in Genesis Leave God out, and you cannot write the story of anyone’s
career. If you attempt it, it will be so poorly written that it shall
be clearly perceived that you have tried to make bricks without
straw, and that you have sought to form a potter’s vessel without
clay.
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2503. The Question Between The Plagues
| Answers in Genesis It is not so very amazing that
Pharaoh should have thought that, in the God of the Hebrews, he had
merely met just another one of the same stamp as himself, against
whom he could carry on war, and whom he might even subdue.
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2497. A New Leaf For The New Year
| Answers in Genesis Personal affliction or bereavement, or trial of
one kind or another, may be most useful to us, by making us think
about our own condition in the sight of God, and our actions toward
him as well as with regard to our fellow men.
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2491. Shame Leading To Salvation
| Answers in Genesis You know that we are told to love our enemies, but we
are never commanded to love God’s enemies. We may not hate any men as
men; but as they are opposed to God, to truth, to righteousness, to
purity, we may, and we must, if we are ourselves right-minded, feel a
burning indignation against them.
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2490. The Danger Of Carnal Security
| Answers in Genesis I am simply going to use this incident as
the picture of a very common condition which is to be found among the
sons of men, which condition is a very dangerous and false one, and
will end, unless the grace of God prevents it, in the destruction of
those who are carnally secure.
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2487. Ordered Steps
| Answers in Genesis There was a time when you would have
been willing that he should make you one of his hired servants; but
you have seen the mistake of such a desire as that, and now your
prayer is, “Deal with me, oh Lord, as one of your children; treat me
according to your use and custom with your redeemed!”
2473. An Awful Contrast
| Answers in Genesis Guided by our text in Matthew’s Gospel, let us first go in thought to
the palace of Caiaphas the high priest, and there let us, in deepest
sorrow, experience the meaning of these terrible words: “Then they
spat in his face.”
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2472. The Best Of The Best
| Answers in Genesis The time of flowers has come, and since they are in some faint degree
emblems of our Lord, it is good, when God calls like this, that we
should seek to learn what he desires to teach us by them. Let
us try, not only to see them, but to see Christ as he is foreshadowed
in them.
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2467. Christ And His Co-Workers
| Answers in Genesis It
was expedient for his disciples that he should go away, and he had
gone to the best place for helping them in their work. He could
survey the field better from an eminence, so the Captain ascends on
high. He could best send to them help from the throne, so the Lord
ascends to his glory.
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2466. Unpurchasable Love
| Answers in Genesis Many a marriage would have been a very happy one if there had
been a tithe as much love as there was wealth; and, sometimes, love
will come in at the cottage door, and make the home bright and blest,
when it refuses to recline on the downy pillows of the palace.
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2462. The Known And The Unknown
| Answers in Genesis Whoever has lived, and however wise and good and
great he may have been, he has been only man. Sum him up, add
everything together, — the beauties of his body, the skill of his mind,
even the virtues of his spirit; and what is he then but man?
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2460. God’s Fire And Hammer
| Answers in Genesis There were a great many
pretenders in the times of Jeremiah, so that, when the true prophet
of God came out, and declared, “Thus says the Lord,” he was met by
false prophets who contradicted him, and said something the very
opposite of what he had to say, and yet prefaced their utterance with
the same declaration.
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2453. A Hard Case
| Answers in Genesis God spoke to us again and again; but we did not regard his voice. There are none so
deaf as those who will not hear; and we were among those who would
not hear even that voice to which heaven and earth attend, that voice
which even the dead will one day hear, when those who hear shall live.
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2445. The Last Sermon For The Year
| Answers in Genesis Being the Lord’s
children, and being saved, they become his servants, and as his
servants they are under responsibility to God, and they will all have
to give to him an account of their stewardship.
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2441. The Lord’s Knowledge, Our Safeguard
| Answers in Genesis There are very narrow limits to our knowledge. There is a great
breadth to our conceit; but the things that we really know are very
few, after all. He who is wisest will be the first to confess his own
ignorance. Our faith in the superior knowledge of God is a great
source of comfort to us.
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2434. “A Man Under Authority.”
| Answers in Genesis The centurion did not ask Jesus to come down and heal him, but the Saviour at once replied, “I will come and heal him.” This was more than the centurion had asked for; he had pleaded for the healing of his slave, but he had not expected the personal presence of the glorious Master.
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2433. Heman’s Sorrowful Psalm
| Answers in Genesis What misery of soul some people endure before they find peace with God! There is no need that it should be so with them; their anguish often arises from a mistake. The gospel is very simple; it is just, — “Believe and live.” He who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ is not condemned.
2426. A Prayer For Revival
| Answers in Genesis Godly men, when they prayed of old, meant it. They did not pray for form’s sake, neither were they very particular about uttering goodly words and fine-sounding sentences; but they came to close grips with God. They interrogated him, they questioned him, they pleaded with him.
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2407. Feeding On A Whole Christ
| Answers in Genesis There is no one but Jesus for each one of us; there is no unique way for this man because of his righteous life, and no unique way for that person because of his ungodliness; but for the most moral and the most immoral there is the same Saviour, to be received by the same precious faith.
2392. The Birth Of Christ
| Answers in Genesis ‘Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son.’ It is an unheard-of thing, it is a miraculous thing, and therefore it must be a Godlike thing.
2390. A Royal Funeral
| Answers in Genesis The burial was Pilate’s certificate that Christ had not pretended to die, but that it was a real death, and that his body had no life remaining in it.
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1462. A Refreshing Promise
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses the necessity of our being watered, the manner in which the Lord promises to supply our need, and the certainty that he will do so.
2303. Three Arrows, Or Six?
| Answers in Genesis Things are often left to the will of men; yet everything does come to pass in the end according to the will of God. Can you not believe them both?
2258. Where Is The Lord?
| Answers in Genesis The people went astray from the true God into the ritualism of the golden calf. They must have something visible, something that they could see and worship.
2224. “If You Can.”
| Answers in Genesis If you go to Jesus Christ for anything, the Saviour will earnestly desire that you should know what it is that you are asking from him.
2195. The Obedience Of Faith
| Answers in Genesis Obedience — what a blessing it would be if we were all trained to it by the Holy Spirit! How fully should we be restored if we were perfect in it!
2185. Our Manifesto
| Answers in Genesis When the devil is not troubled by us, he does not trouble us. If his kingdom is not shaken, he will let us enjoy inglorious ease.
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2184. A Private Enquiry
| Answers in Genesis The Lord would not speak directly to Eli, although he was the High Priest. Eli had grieved the Lord, and so had lost his honourable standing.
2180. A Mediator
| Answers in Genesis What is a mediator? A mediator is a middleman, a go-between; one who comes in between two parties who otherwise could not commune with each other.
2177. Camp Law And Camp Life
| Answers in Genesis Saintly souls should not be lodged in filthy bodies. God takes notice of matters which people who are falsely spiritual speak of as beneath their observation.
2175. “So It Is.”
| Answers in Genesis Eliphaz persuades Job to consider what he had said, for it was no hasty opinion, but the ripe fruit of experience.
2156. Robbers Of God
| Answers in Genesis God’s truth is to be handled with vigorous plainness; for the Lord has said, “He who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully.”
2146. Joy, Joy For Ever
| Answers in Genesis The servants of the Lord should wear the royal livery: that livery is made from the fine cloth of holiness, trimmed with the lace of joy.
2140. A Homily For Humble Folks
| Answers in Genesis A sign of a man’s wisdom is his knowledge of his ignorance. Notice the clean heart always mourns its uncleanness, and the wise man always laments his folly?
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2139. The Prince Of Life
| Answers in Genesis When we know our death, we have in measure begun to live; we should be eager that our life should leave the sepulchre of doubt and enjoy the light of joy.
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2136. Possessing Possessions
| Answers in Genesis Through their sins, Israel carried into captivity, the land was taken from them by their conquerors, and they could no longer possess their possessions.
2127. Love’s Competition
| Answers in Genesis Love certainly is a duty, but it does not come to us that way: it comes to us like a roe or a young hart, over every mountain and hill, leaping and bounding.
2125. Hope For Your Future
| Answers in Genesis Though the ancient people have been scattered, yet every Israelite may put down his foot with joyful tread, and say, “No, Israel, you shall never perish!”
2113. By The Fountain
| Answers in Genesis We earnestly pray to have a company of believers added to the church who shall be like fruitful trees growing by the well, whose branches ran over the wall.
2053. Concerning Prayer
| Answers in Genesis Psalm 86 savours of David—the man of sincerity, of ardour, of trials, of faults, and of great heart, who pleads, sobs, and trusts throughout the psalm.
1860. “Behold, He Prays.”
| Answers in Genesis “Behold, he prays” is a better witness of a man’s conversion than, “Behold, he sings,” or, “Behold, he reads the Scripture,” or, “Behold, he preaches.”
2045. Further Afield
| Answers in Genesis It has been a very solemn business for the Jewish nation. The history of the Jews, since their rejection of our Lord, may be written in blood and tears.
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2044. All At It
| Answers in Genesis Scarcely anything has been more injurious to the kingdom of Christ than the distinction between clergy and laity.
2029. “Let Him Deliver Him Now.”
| Answers in Genesis Our Lord loved us so much that he even condescended to bear scorn of the most cruel kind, so that he might take away our shame and enable us to look up to God.
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2026. To The Saddest Of The Sad
| Answers in Genesis If you are in a sad condition, your best hopes may lie this way. What if God has entered into covenant with you that he will bless you for Jesus Christ’s sake?
2015. The Torn Veil
| Answers in Genesis The death of Jesus is the marvel of time and eternity, which, as Aaron’s rod swallowed up all the rest, takes up into itself all lesser marvels.
1979. Three Sights Worth Seeing
| Answers in Genesis I feel as if we were interviewing Paul tonight—as if we were sitting in a room with him, and Silas, and Timothy, and were hearing their private conversation.
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1973. God’s Nearness To Us
| Answers in Genesis Christ Jesus is God and man in one person, and thus the closest union is formed between God and man. God is not far from each one of us in his own dear Son.
1969. Pleading Prayer
| Answers in Genesis All human books grow stale after a time: but with the Word of God the desire to know increases, and the more you know about it the less you think you know.
1966. The Death Of Moses
| Answers in Genesis Moses’ reverence for the Lord’s name was deep; his devotion to the Lord’s cause was complete, and his confidence in the Lord’s word was constant.
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1962. The Friend Of God
| Answers in Genesis The Father of the faithful was beyond all men “the Friend of God,” and the head of that chosen race of believers whom Jesus calls his friends.
1947. Who Is This?
| Answers in Genesis What astonishment there will be among the sons of men when he shall appear in his vesture dipped in blood, striking the nations with his iron rod.
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1945. Christ’s Work No Failure
| Answers in Genesis Our Lord has come to save his own elect, and he will save every one of them. No soul for whom he stood as surety and substitute shall ever be cast away.
1930. Is It True?
| Answers in Genesis Dear friends who are not yet decided, if you would become followers of the Lord Jesus Christ it will be good for you to count the cost.
1923. The Annual Atonement
| Answers in Genesis We cannot draw near to the Most High except along the blood-sprinkled way of sacrifice. Our way to God lies only through the sacrifice of his Son.
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1919. The Very Bold Prophecy
| Answers in Genesis Free will by itself ruins men; but free will guided by free grace is another matter. Lead free will captive to free grace and then it is freer than ever; and yet the will of the Lord is done.
1912. The Holy Road
| Answers in Genesis I feel it more than ever necessary to keep close to the simplicities of the gospel, following the beaten road of the first principles of the faith.
1885. The Problem Of The Age
| Answers in Genesis The church will be false to her heavenly Bridegroom if she does not sympathise with the tenderness of his heart, and enter into his gracious labour of love.
1883. Prospect — “He Will Keep.”
| Answers in Genesis The same hand that bought you must keep you; and the same Father, who has begotten you again to a lively hope, must keep you to his eternal kingdom and glory.
1870. Only A Step
| Answers in Genesis This was David’s description of his own condition. King Saul was seeking to destroy him. Now, it was by knowing his danger that David escaped.
1861. The Lowly King
| Answers in Genesis Our chief source of rejoicing is the presence of King Jesus in the midst of us. Whether it is his first or his second advent, his very shadow is delight.
1839. Delight in the Almighty
| Answers in Genesis We delight to see God in the shadow of every passing cloud, in the colouring of every flower, in the glitter of every dewdrop, in the twinkle of every star.
1832. Elijah’s Plea
| Answers in Genesis If you read the life of Elijah through, you will see that whenever he takes a step it is preceded by, “the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite.”
1770. Recruits For King Jesus
| Answers in Genesis Oh my friend, over there, I speak to you personally, I wish that you would at once put on the livery of my Lord Jesus, and become his sworn servant for ever!
1796. Concerning Saints
| Answers in Genesis Do not throw yourselves back in your seats, and say, “This will be a sermon for saints, and therefore we may be excused from attending to it.”
1791. Helps To Full Assurance
| Answers in Genesis It is infinitely more to our benefit to know that we have eternal life than to be able to predict the future of empires or to forecast the destiny of kings.
1789. Joseph Of Arimathaea
| Answers in Genesis Joseph was the very man needed for the occasion, a man of influence, a man possessing that kind of influence which was most potent with Pilate.
1746. The Devil’s Last Throw
| Answers in Genesis It would seem that Satan was let loose while Christ was here below that the serpent might come into personal conflict with the appointed seed of the woman.
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1736. The King’s Weighings
| Answers in Genesis You have a possession unfading, a promise unfailing, a protector unchanging. Though you live in a faithless world, you also reside in a faithful God.
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1734. A Gospel Worth Dying For
| Answers in Genesis All the energies of his spirit were consecrated to the pursuit of one object—namely, that he might everywhere bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.
1710. Incense And Light
| Answers in Genesis Learn from this that to the door of the inner chamber of communion with God we must approach by the perfect merit of our redeeming Lord.
1680. Bochim; Or, The Weepers
| Answers in Genesis The Canaanites were a race that had become so loathsome in God’s sight that he decreed their destruction and appointed Israel to be their executioners.
1673. Who Is This?
| Answers in Genesis The people are first made to tremble and fear on account of sin, and all faces are turned into paleness; and then the Lord declares his immeasurable grace.
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1672. The Voice Behind You
| Answers in Genesis God calls to the rebellious, and by his gentle word they are brought to his feet with repentance, turned from their wandering, and led in the way of obedience.
1694. The Use Of The Bow
| Answers in Genesis Have you suffered a supreme loss? Do not be tempted to brood over your affliction, and to think that you ought to be excused from further service.
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1693. That Horrible East Wind!
| Answers in Genesis We have a prescription in this verse which will deliver you out of all troubles, make you sing all your lives long, and help you to travel from earth to heaven.
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1692. Without Carefulness
| Answers in Genesis This is the mind of the Holy Spirit as well as the mind of the apostle Paul. This is a text, not for Paul’s time only, but for our time, and for all time.
1640. The Touch
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon speaks about a wonderful person and a very able touch, and then he asks a very personal question.
1636. Chastened Happiness
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon notices the toning down of our joy, the feelings by which this chastened effect is produced, and the measure in which most of us can enter into this experience.
1631. The Main Matter
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses faith, the great object of true faith, which is Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, and the true life of the soul which is linked and wrapped up with the name of Jesus Christ.
1618. Holiness, The Law Of God’s House
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon expounds the law of the house, examines whether we have observed this law of the house, sees the bearings of this law, and takes orders for having this law of the house obeyed.
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1617. Love’s Labours
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon notices the multitude of love’s difficulties, the triumph of love’s labour, and the sources of love’s energy.
1611. The Word Of The Cross
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses the word of the cross, the word of its despisers concerning it, and the word applied to the cross by those who believe it.
1602. Farm Labourers
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses how the church is God’s farm, that he employs labourers on the farm, and that God himself is the great worker.
1586. Holy Longings
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon notices the saint’s absorbing object, the saint’s ardent longing, and the saint’s cheering reflections.
1578. Taught That We May Teach
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon speaks on the revelations with which God favours certain of his servants, their responsibility, and the object which God has in giving these revelations.
1572. Alive
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon considers a prayer in its simplicity, tris to open it up more fully, and searches into the argument upon which the prayer is founded.
1559. Signs For Good
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon notices that the psalmist while he thus looks to God, and is driven to him by his troubles, obviously looks to God alone.
1538. Divine Surprises
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon talks about how the presence of God is the one hope of his people, it creates surprises, and it achieves wonders.
1525. The Lily Among Thorns
| Answers in Genesis Spurgeon Sermon 1525. The Lily Among Thorns, delivered On Sunday Morning, February 29, 1880, By C. H. Spurgeon. At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
1510. The Hunger-Bite
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses a curse which will be fulfilled upon the ungodly, a discipline which God often exercises upon the self-righteous, and a form of chastisement upon believers.
1507. Soul Saving Our One Business
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon talks about Paul’s great purpose in life, the reasons which made him think it so important that some at least should be saved, and the methods which the apostle used to that end.
1495. The King-Priest
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon consideres the glorious combination of offices in the person of Christ, the happy result of it, and the action on our part which is harmonious to it.
1487. The Prophet Like Moses
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses the necessity for a Mediator, the person of the Prophet Mediator whom God has chosen, and the authority with which this Mediator is invested.
1465. The Three Whats
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses what things are to be seen and known according to the text and why it is our anxious desire that every person should see and know these things.
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1464. The Royal Prerogative
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon observes that no one except the Lord can wound or heal, that the Lord can wound and heal, and that the Lord does wound and heal.
1448. The Poor Man’s Prayer
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses a suitable prayer for the humble believer, a very suitable petition for a penitent backslider, and a very sweet gospel prayer for a seeker.
1437. The Best Beloved
| Answers in Genesis Spurgeon Sermon 1437. The Best Beloved, delivered On Sunday Evening, April 10, 1870, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
1388. The Peace Of God
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses the unspeakable privilege, how this peace is obtained, the power of its operation, and the sphere of its action.
1364. Our Last Journey
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon calls us to experience our inevitable journey, contemplate its nearness, consider our non-return from the journey, and enquire where we are going.
1361. Sheep Among Wolves
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses the prominent vocation of the people of God, their imminent peril, their eminent authority, and their permanent instructions.
1341. Enlivening And Invigorating
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon assigns some reasons why you need quickening, points out some motives to seek it, mentions some ways in which it is accomplished, and suggests pleas for obtaining it.
1304. A Second Word To Seekers
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses the quality required in every true seeker, the reasons why whole-heartedness is required, and one or two of the main hindrances to it, which we pray the Lord to remove.
1273. Conversions Desired
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon talks about the purpose that many may believe and turn to the Lord, the power by which this can be attained, the desirableness of our goal, and how we may promote its attainment.