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Listen to a new sermon every day to encourage, equip, and inspire your walk with God. 

  1. 10h ago

    The Stony Heart Removed

    Spurgeon opens by insisting that humanity's spiritual ruin is so total that no repair is possible — the old house must come completely down, the old garment is too rotten to patch, the old wineskin too brittle for new wine — and then describes the stony heart in five aspects: it is cold toward God (warming briefly under a moving sermon only to cool the moment it ends), hard beyond the reach of the Law's heaviest hammer, dead and utterly without spiritual feeling, incapable of retaining any impression like wax against stone, and growing harder with every rejected mercy until the very fires of Hell, rather than melting it, only make the damned blaspheme God the louder. He then traces the specific dangers of the unremedied stony heart: the mounting probability of final impenitence for the long-time Gospel-hearer who has felt and forgotten many stirrings, the progressive hardening that makes every year of delay more dangerous, the fact that a hard heart is Satan's favored throne from which he sends its owner confidently into sermons, religious books, and even the Bible itself, knowing that without a softened heart every means of grace simply slides off — and he pictures this with the image of John Bunyan's armor of Diabolus, whose breastplate is precisely a hard heart, proof against all Gospel arrows. He closes by describing the heart of flesh in three dimensions — a tender conscience that recoils from sin before, during, and after the act; a pliable will that bends to every breath of the Spirit rather than digging itself in like a root; and warm affections that genuinely love God and ache over perishing neighbors — and urges every hearer to trust Christ now as the only heart-changer, since neither morality, nor resolve, nor outward religious effort can turn the stone to flesh any more than polishing a shilling turns it to gold. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on May 25, 1862.

  2. 1d ago

    The Love of Jesus—What it is—None But His Loved Ones Know

    Spurgeon builds the sermon as a ladder of six ascending stages by which believers grow in knowing Christ's love — beginning at the lowest rung of doctrinal knowledge (valuable but merely a threshold, not to be mistaken for the thing itself), rising to grateful, experiential knowledge (remembering the day of conversion and seeing every subsequent mercy as a fresh letter from Christ), then to practical knowledge (which comes only from obeying Christ's commands in the back streets and lodging houses, not from sitting in pews), then to contemplative knowledge (fixing the eyes of faith steadily on Christ's person, wounds, and love until the soul is flooded with a joy that makes even Puritan Flavel forget his supper and sit awake all night in a happiness greater than sleep), then to sympathetic knowledge (weeping over sinners as Christ wept over Jerusalem, longing to spend and be spent for souls as Paul could wish himself accursed for his brethren), and finally to absorptive knowledge — the highest rung — where the "I" is swallowed up in Christ so completely that it is no longer self that thinks and feels but Christ living in us. He threads through these stages two important warnings: first, that doctrinal knowledge must never become a dead end or be used as a sealed tomb for a living Christ; and second, that contemplative sweetness must never be used as an excuse for idleness, illustrated by the monk who heard the convent bell while in his vision and was told by Christ that if he had stayed, the vision would have fled, but because he went to serve the poor, Christ had waited. He closes by turning to unconverted hearers with the simplest possible gospel: not "go home and try to feel something" but simply "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ" — trust him, fall at the foot of the cross exactly as you are, and discover that salvation is not a process but an instant, complete exchange, your sin taken and Christ's righteousness given, the whole work already finished before you arrived. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on June 7, 1863.

  3. 2d ago

    The Portion of the Ungodly

    Spurgeon uses the ancient prophecy against Babylon — consumed as stubble, leaving not a single coal for warmth — to build a three-part portrait of eternal punishment: first, that it will be easily inflicted, because sinners carry the materials of their own destruction within themselves, in a conscience that will finally be fully awake, a memory that will replay every sin and every rejected warning in perfect detail, and a knowledge that will only grow stronger as eternity rolls on, so that God needs no external instruments of torment when memory, conscience, and guilt will serve as their own executioner. Second, that it will be most searching and terrible — the fire image chosen precisely because fire reaches every part, and the punishment described as a "second death" in which the soul is perpetually dying without ever being extinguished, a horror no human language can adequately describe, with the added misery that the companions of the lost will only torment each other further, and that the sight of Heaven's glory above will make Hell's darkness the darker by contrast. Third, and most relentlessly, that there will be not a single coal for warmth in any direction — not in looking up to Heaven, not in looking around at fellow sufferers who will curse rather than comfort, not in God whose justice will be visibly undeniable, not in past pleasures now revealed as worthless trade-offs for eternal misery, not in present presumption or future hope — and he closes by turning the text's word "Behold" into a double summons: to believers, to be filled with gratitude and urgency for perishing sinners; and to the unconverted, to face the terror now while tears of penitence are still possible and the gate of mercy remains open. A sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on April 13, 1862.

  4. 3d ago

    God or Self—Which?

    Spurgeon takes God's searching question to the Jews — "Did you at all fast unto Me, even to Me?" — as a scalpel for examining every form of religious activity, arguing that God accepts no worship and no deed that is not genuinely aimed at his glory rather than the worshipper's own benefit, and he surveys the many ways self quietly hijacks religion: careless churchgoers who sit in pews with wandering minds, those who worship the means rather than the God of the means, those who attend only out of social custom and would be just as sincere at a mosque in Mecca, those who use chapel attendance to polish their business reputations, and those who pile up prayers and ceremonies as merit toward earning Heaven — all of whom, however different their methods, are really eating and drinking to themselves. He then extends the test to all public religious service, indicting the donor who insists his name be printed at the head of the subscription list, the minister who polishes his sentences more than he drives the gospel home, the Sunday school teacher who comes for the social fellowship, the denomination that doubles its missions only to outpace a rival, and any congregation built by quarrel rather than by love — contrasting all of these with Whitfield who said "let my name perish" and with Milne who counted it honor to clean missionary boots, as models of doing all things truly unto God. He closes with the same question turned into a solemn personal test, first for believers to examine whether pride has smuggled itself even into their prayers and good works, and then with a thundering appeal to those who have never done anything for God at all — reminding them that God has nonetheless fed, protected, and preserved them through cholera and storms and sickbeds — and picturing a Roman judge untying one knot at a time from the bundle of rods, watching the criminal's face for repentance, with the plea that God is even now watching, the last knot may be near, and only turning to Christ can stay the axe of justice. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on March 9, 1862.

  5. 4d ago

    A Sight of Self

    Spurgeon opens by cataloging the many ways fallen human beings refuse to face their own sin — hiding it like Achan, making excuses like Aaron, blaming others like Adam and Eve, flatly denying it like Ananias, or covering it with religious performance like the Pharisees — and argues that until a person stops all these evasions and truly confesses their guilt, they will never seek a Savior, never value one if offered, and never receive pardon from a God who requires honest confession before he gives mercy. He then works through six marks of genuine self-knowledge that the Holy Spirit produces: first, seeing not just bad actions but the corruption of the whole nature — like a leper, polluted in every part and rightly excluded from God's presence; second, seeing that even one's best deeds and prayers are as filthy rags, tainted by pride, unbelief, and self-interest; third, seeing that all resolutions fade like a withered leaf, since no man can reform himself into a new creature; fourth, seeing that strong temptation will carry the unguarded soul away like a north wind carries dry leaves, apart from divine grace; fifth, seeing the inability even to pray rightly, let alone wrestle with God; and sixth, seeing that sin has hidden God's face and brought a consuming sense of just condemnation. He closes with two warnings and a gospel invitation: do not be satisfied with merely knowing you are lost, for that knowledge brings no comfort — the comfort is in the remedy, not the disease — and do not settle for a dry-eyed, cycle-of-sin-and-hollow-repentance Christianity; instead, bring your absolute emptiness to Christ using three pleas: the father's love, the potter's power over useless clay, and most powerfully, the faithful saying that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," which, simply believed, is all the qualification anyone needs to be immediately and fully saved.  Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on March 2, 1862.

  6. 5d ago

    Obtaining Promises

    Spurgeon opens with a long celebration of the promises of God as the believer's mine of wealth, armory, surgery, storehouse, and title deed to Heaven — arguing that since every single blessing in the Covenant of Grace comes not by earning but by promise, knowing how to actually obtain those promises is the most important practical skill a Christian can develop. He then distinguishes two meanings of "obtaining the promise": first, having a promise given freshly to the soul by the Spirit — illustrated by Abraham receiving the great charter after the offering of Isaac, Elijah receiving one promise that unlocked the next, and Spurgeon's own experiences of specific Scriptures coming to him at decisive moments with the force of a direct word from God — and second, obtaining its actual fulfillment, for which he gives six practical rules: take hold of easily grasped promises by simple faith; wrestle for others through persistent prayer; pursue others through active obedience to the conditions attached; meditate deeply on the promise until faith rises; patiently wait for the mulberry-tree promises that are slow to bloom; and match the right promise to your particular trial. He closes by urging two final duties — gratitude for promises already fulfilled, since an ungrateful beggar cannot expect to keep receiving — and encouragement drawn from the whole cloud of witnesses who tried God on the rack, in dungeons, in the arena, and at the stake, and not one of them ever found him untrue, so every present hearer should trust him with the same unstaggering faith as Abraham and find that he is able to perform what he has promised. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on February 16, 1862.

  7. 6d ago

    Threefold Sanctification

    Spurgeon opens by insisting that all three persons of the Trinity cooperate in sanctification — cautioning against the common errors of picturing the Father as harsh judge, or of magnifying Christ's work while despising the Spirit's — and works through three distinct biblical meanings of the word "sanctify": being set apart for holy use (as the tabernacle vessels were consecrated, and as believers have been set apart by the Father's election, Christ's purchase, and the Spirit's calling), being regarded and treated as holy (as God views believers through Christ's righteousness, not in themselves), and being actually made holy in nature (the inward work of the Spirit that begins at regeneration, continues through mortification of sin and cultivation of grace, and is completed in glory). He is especially sharp against the error of "imputed sanctification" — the idea that Christ's holiness is merely credited to believers without any real inward transformation — arguing that this heresy was so dangerous that his predecessor Dr. Gill immediately excluded from church fellowship any member who held it, and insisting that the Spirit's real, operative work of changing the heart, applied through the Word of God and the blood of Christ received by faith, is as necessary to salvation as the atonement itself. He closes with two practical calls: to believers, that since they are set apart as vessels for God's use they are never to be used for worldly or selfish ends — just as the temple cups were not to be used for ordinary drinking — and to the unconverted, that since Heaven's gates are barred to pollution and sin, their only hope is to first come humbly to Christ for forgiveness, after which the Spirit's sanctifying work can begin. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on February 9, 1862.

  8. Jul 19

    Life in Earnest

    Spurgeon opens with the observation that wholeheartedness is the universal law of success — in business, science, medicine, and law alike — and argues it is no less true in religion, illustrating this by pointing to how Islam spread by the sword-swinging zeal of its earliest followers and how Francis Xavier carried Roman Catholicism to India, Burma, China, and Japan through sheer burning energy, before pressing the question: if false religions have conquered the world through earnestness, what excuse does the true church have for its lukewarm half-heartedness? He then traces what whole-heartedness actually looks like in the life of a believer: it fills the mind constantly with Christ's cause rather than occasional fits of enthusiasm; it turns vague resolutions into definite, immovable purposes that cannot be shaken by opposition or failure; it shows itself in persevering effort — running when possible, walking when necessary, crawling when that is all that remains — and it drives the believer to fervent, wrestling, take-no-denial prayer as the source of all strength. He closes with a double appeal — urging the church not to squander the extraordinary mercy God has shown in pouring conversions upon them, since a congregation so favored will be held to a proportionally severe account if it sleeps; and turning to the unconverted with a warning that if they find religion unserious now, they will find death, judgment, and eternity to be in deadly earnest, while Christ's agony in the garden and blood at the cross are proof that heaven did not trifle over their souls — and he calls every careless hearer to trust Christ now with all the heart, since that is the only "earnestness" God requires of the sinner who has no goodness to offer but a willing surrender. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on March 9, 1862.

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