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  1. 14h ago

    A Desperate Case—How To Meet It

    Spurgeon opens by contrasting Moses and Christ descending from their respective mountaintops — Moses repelling the people with the Law's dazzling terror, Christ drawing them with the attraction of grace — before introducing the desperate case at the mountain's foot: a boy possessed from childhood by the most violent kind of evil spirit, deaf, dumb, suicidal, given to frantic convulsions, utterly baffling the disciples, and used by Spurgeon as a picture of the real desperate cases he sees in his own congregation — the decades-long drunkard who knows he is destroying himself yet cannot stop, the man who crosses seas to indulge his vice and returns broken only to repeat it, the hardened young thief whose parents have tried twenty situations and whose rages make his own mother fear him. He surveys the five groups gathered around the helpless boy — the sneering scribes who use the disciples' failure as proof the whole gospel is a fraud, the anguished father half-believing yet drowning in unbelief, the defeated disciples who cannot explain why what worked everywhere else has failed here, the watching crowd who have made this case a condition of their own faith, and the devil himself gloating from his entrenched position — before describing the decisive moment when Christ arrives, comprehends the situation in an instant, and with a single word of command drives out what every human effort could not touch. He closes by pressing the disciples' private question — "Why could not we cast him out?" — with Christ's two-part answer: first, want of faith, since God honors preaching proportional to the preacher's confidence that even the worst sinner can be saved (illustrated by Whitfield and Rowland Hill winning the cases others wrote off), and second, insufficient prayer, since some cases require the church to move beyond ordinary petition to concentrated, fasting-accompanied, wrestling prayer that will not let God go until it receives the answer — and he closes with a practical challenge, inviting half a dozen believers to take some specific desperate sinner before God in exactly this way and prove whether Christ's prescription is true. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on January 10, 1864.

  2. 1d ago

    Forward! Forward! Forward!

    Spurgeon takes God's word to Moses at the Red Sea — "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward" — as a single trumpet-blast aimed at five different groups in his congregation: to trembling sinners pursued by the law, he insists "Forward!" means stop praying for readiness and go to the cross now, since Hell behind them and God's wrath before them leave only one safe direction and that is toward the wounds of Christ, where the sea of wrath has already been divided by the very Savior walking through it in their place. To newly converted believers facing ruin for Christ's sake, he shouts "Forward!" regardless of cost — whether it means losing a dishonest business, being turned out of the family home, or submitting to an unpopular ordinance like baptism — comparing them to soldiers ordered to charge who have no right to ask whether the ground is inconvenient; and to mature Christians settling into spiritual stagnation, he turns the same word with equal force: forward in biblical knowledge, forward in faith past the doubting-and-fearing of decades, forward in nearness to Christ's person, and above all forward in active labor for souls. He closes with an extraordinary personal appeal rooted in the history of his own congregation — tracing God's faithfulness from a half-empty chapel through Exeter Hall, the Surrey Music Hall disaster, the building of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, and the training of seventy young preachers — insisting that a church so lavishly favored will face an "Ichabod" if it turns comfortable, and calling every member to give money, rooms, prayers, and effort for London's perishing thousands, with the final note that when death comes the same word will carry them through Jordan's waters: "Forward!" Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on October 18, 1863.

  3. 2d ago

    Suffering and Reigning With Jesus

    Spurgeon opens by placing his text within the four "faithful sayings" of Paul — tracing how the first gives the root of salvation in free grace, the second gives its double blessings in time and eternity, the third (his text) gives the duty of suffering with Christ, and the fourth gives the duty of active service — before working carefully to show what genuine "suffering with Christ" is not: it is not the common suffering every human being bears as a result of Adam's fall, not self-inflicted religious austerity nobody commanded, not trouble brought on by one's own rashness or sin, not public-opinion martyrdom performed to earn a reputation, and not pain endured without Christ's own spirit of love and forgiveness running through it. He then surveys the real forms of suffering for Christ in his own day — loss of business and income for closing on Sundays, loss of employment for refusing sinful tasks, the daily contempt and mockery of workshop and street, slander and misrepresentation of every motive, toilsome labor in difficult and distant places, and perhaps the hardest of all, persecution from one's own family — before insisting that even all of this, compared with the reward of reigning with Christ in his full imperial glory forever, is so disproportionately small that the very imbalance proves the whole thing is of grace. He closes with a solemn and extended treatment of the warning — "if we deny him, he also will deny us" — cataloging the forms denial takes (open scoffing, doctrinal heresy, silent cowardice in the company of enemies, neglect of Christ's ordinances, and the loudest denial of all, an inconsistent life), illustrating the dreadful fates of historical apostates like Francis Spira, and dramatizing the final judgment scene where the denier discovers that Christ's words "I know you not" are the exact mirror of their own lifelong refusal to acknowledge him — before closing with an urgent cry that every hearer pray, "Lord, hold me fast, that I may suffer with You and reign with You, and never deny You." Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on January 3, 1864.

  4. 3d ago

    Alpha and Omega

    Spurgeon opens by tracing Christ as Alpha and Omega through four areas not strictly stated in the text but closely connected to it — in rank (infinitely above angels in every title and role), in his sweeping descent from the highest throne in glory down to the lowest shame of the cross and tomb, in Scripture (where he appears on the first page of Genesis as Creator and Co-Author of the Fall's remedy and on the last line of Revelation as the coming King, with every page between saturated in types and prophecies that resolve only in him), and in the Law of God (which finds not a single letter fulfilled in sinful human nature, but finds its every precept and spirit perfectly and infinitely satisfied in Christ's life). He then works through the truths he finds genuinely in the text: Christ is Alpha and Omega in the alphabet of being — existing before creation and surviving its final dissolution as the only Eternal — in all creation (every world made by him, sustained by him, and to be dissolved at his word), in the eternal Covenant (where from election to final glorification every link in the chain is Christ's doing and Christ's glory), in individual salvation (where he is the first breath of new life and the last shout of victory), and in the whole history of the Church from Abel's sacrifice at Eden's gate to the final judgment where the lips that once wept "Come to Me" will thunder "Depart, you cursed." He closes with three urgent applications: to the sinner, begin with Christ as your Alpha and never delay by first accumulating qualifications of feeling or preparation, since every salvation that does not start with Christ has to start over; to the believer, keep Christ as the Omega by never drifting from simple trust in him toward trust in experiences, prayers, or evidences; and to preachers, let Christ crucified be Alpha and Omega of every sermon, since to leave Christ out is to leave the sun out of the day — and there is no Gospel without him. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on December 27, 1863.

  5. 4d ago

    Paul—His Cloak and His Books

    Spurgeon takes Paul's simple request for his cloak and books as an occasion to draw six lessons from the cloak alone — the completeness of Paul's self-sacrifice (once a rising star among the Jewish rulers, now shivering in a dungeon six hundred miles from his only garment, with no church generous enough to lend him one), his independence of spirit (preferring to wait for his own cloak rather than beg), his resistance of temptation (who, having the power to work miracles, refused to use any of it for his own comfort), and his example that saints across every era share the same ordinary human trials — and then turns to the books with equal force, arguing that even an Apostle who had been to the third Heaven and written most of the New Testament still studied, which demolishes every excuse for lazy, unread ministry or unread Christianity, before pressing "especially the parchments" as the supreme lesson: all human books are wells, but Scripture is the Fountain, and to leave it unread while consuming religious literature is to choose puddles over the crystal stream. He then takes the congregation inside the dungeon to meet Paul himself — not crushed, but radiant with four qualities: unshaken confidence in Christ ("I know Whom I have believed," spoken from rags, not velvet), sweet present communion with a companion invisible to the guards, complete resignation to martyrdom as a freewill offering already on the altar, and triumphant backward glance at a faith-shield kept bright through every battle. He closes by holding Paul's consuming, focused love for Christ against the scattered, divided hearts of his hearers — most people give Christ a little love along with many other objects, as the sun scatters its rays, but Paul was a magnifying glass that gathered every thought, word, passion, and act onto Christ and burned through the world with a fire no emperor in his palace could match — and urges every hearer to trust Christ fully now, since the same Lord who did not forsake a shivering prisoner in Nero's dungeon will not forsake any soul that casts itself on him. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on November 29, 1863.

  6. 5d ago

    The Lambs and Their Shepherd

    Spurgeon opens with an extended portrait of the "lambs" of Christ's flock — not all young in age, but all young in grace — cataloging their common weaknesses: shallow doctrinal knowledge easily upset by opponents, limited experience that has not yet proved the promises under fire, emotional tenderness that loses sleep over slanders mature saints would smile at, timidity about open confession, and a recurring fog of doubt that makes them wonder whether they are saved at all — while insisting throughout that these same lambs are genuine sheep, fully bought by Christ's blood, as dear to him in eternity past and future as the strongest believer, and as truly possessing the spiritual nature of harmlessness, cleanliness, guilelessness, and tractability as any veteran saint. He then traces the dangers surrounding these lambs — persecuting mockery that may drive them to seek comfort in the world's warm side, doctrinal wolves in Antinomian or Arminian sheep's clothing, the particular peril of ungodly marriages (which far more often drag the godly down than pull the ungodly up), the direct assault of Satan, and the more treacherous hugging of a world that has learned to flatter rather than threaten — before turning with relief to the text's great promise: the same infinite God who measures the oceans in his palm and weighs the mountains in a balance also gathers these feeble lambs with his arm and carries them in his bosom, keeping them near by providential shelter, godly human helpers, unusual joy, and above all a simple childlike faith that runs straight to the Father with every trouble. He closes with three voices from the Shepherd: to the lambs, "Follow Me" — keep close to Jesus and you will realize the comfort of the promise; to the unconverted, "Come unto Me" — the same gentle Shepherd who stoops to carry lambs will not break the bruised reed; and to the strong sheep, "Feed My lambs" — the surest proof of love for Christ is to spend oneself watching over, warming, and strengthening the feeble ones he has gathered in his arms. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on November 15, 1863.

  7. 6d ago

    Encourage Your Minister!

    Spurgeon opens with a brief exposition of why Moses could never lead Israel into Canaan — because the Law can convict but never save, and only Joshua (whose name is the Hebrew form of Jesus) could give the people their inheritance — before settling on the surface lesson: that God is genuinely and tenderly considerate of his servants' courage, charging Moses to encourage Joshua because a discouraged leader cannot do the work, and drawing out three reasons why God takes this so seriously — his fatherly love for his children, his honor which is bound up in their success, and the fact that a leader's despondency spreads like an epidemic through an entire congregation, undermining prayer, making Satan's attacks easier, robbing the people of the infectious courage that carries them through trial. He then insists that God uses people rather than angels for this encouraging work, and catalogs who should be doing it: elderly saints whose decades of proved faithfulness make their testimony worth more than any argument (illustrated by Spurgeon's own grandfather calmly declaring that God had been faithful to him for seventy years), doctrinally knowledgeable members who should use their understanding to apply promises rather than cavil at sermons, naturally cheerful believers who should pursue and lift their despondent brothers rather than letting them sink in their marsh, and materially blessed members who should let generosity prevent poorer brothers from feeling beneath notice. He closes with an unusually personal appeal, delivered on behalf of his own biological brother who was beginning a new ministry in that building, explaining that ministers feel the weight of lost souls at all hours, are ambushed by Satan the moment they leave the pulpit, and are uniquely vulnerable to anonymous cowardly attacks — and calling the congregation to encourage their minister by consistent attendance, fervent prayer-meeting presence, open confession of conversion, consistency of life in the workplace, and active assistance in reaching the poverty-stricken neighborhood outside their doors, closing with a word to the unconverted that the single greatest encouragement they could offer would be to repent and trust Christ now. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on October 18, 1863.

  8. Aug 13

    The Mighty Power Which Creates and Sustains Faith

    Spurgeon opens by insisting that what appears to be the simplest thing in the world — simply trusting Christ — is actually the most astonishing display of divine power in the universe, requiring nothing less than the very same omnipotence that raised Christ from the dead, because bringing a proud, dead, opposing sinner to cheerful, childlike faith involves simultaneously a creation (implanting a new spiritual nature that had no prior existence), a destruction (tearing out the old corrupt nature), a transformation (reversing what no human power has ever reversed), and a quickening (raising the spiritually dead to life), any one of which would be beyond angelic or human ability. He then unfolds a sweeping analogy that traces the same divine power through five stages in both Christ and the believer: raised from real death, ascended contrary to the laws of nature, seated at God's right hand in honor and pleasure, exalted far above all angelic principalities, and made head with all things put under his feet — arguing that the same compass that measures Christ's descent into the grave and ascent to the throne measures the believer's descent into spiritual death and ultimate rise to reign with Christ, and that this must be so because a body can only be of the same nature as its Head, and Christ will not enjoy a single Heaven-privilege without his people sharing it. He closes with four practical conclusions: Christians should be astonished at their own dignity rather than despairing in self-contempt, since Omnipotence is personally engaged to bring them home; no sinner should be given up as hopeless, since the power that raised a corpse from a sealed tomb can raise any drunkard, blasphemer, or harlot to faith; no believer should doubt their ultimate security, since nothing can match itself against Omnipotence; and the unconverted should face with open eyes how helpless they actually are, since nothing less than this same irresistible eternal power can save them — a power freely available to anyone who will simply trust Christ now. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on August 12, 1860.

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