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  1. 9h ago

    Preparation For Revival

    Spurgeon opens by grounding the entire desire for revival in a single text — "Can two walk together except they be agreed?" — arguing that the church cannot expect God's accompanying Presence in any season of special effort unless she has first examined herself to ensure genuine agreement with God in four critical areas: the ultimate aim of Christian existence (God's glory rather than personal Heaven-getting or wealth-building), the preciousness of perishing souls (agreeing with God's own anguish over the lost), the means to be used (Christ crucified and the Spirit's power alone, with every member active rather than idle), and a complete renunciation of human boasting in any results that follow. He then delivers a searching warning about the disasters produced by revival without God's Presence: weariness and forced fervor replace genuine power, prayer is dishonored when no answer comes, a false excitement leaves the church worse than before, and the world is furnished with a ready argument against the gospel — while by contrast a church truly accompanied by God moves effortlessly like a ship with sails filled by a fair wind, produces genuine conversions, spreads blessing to other churches and nations, and is terrible to her enemies. He closes with a solemn self-examination checklist — asking each member privately whether pride, sloth, worldliness, covetousness, anger, or lust has broken agreement with God — and calls the whole congregation to sweep the house of every crumb of leaven before the feast begins, promising that if they do, God will walk with them and the revival they have longed for will be both genuine and glorious. A sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on October 30th, 1864.

  2. 1d ago

    Praying and Waiting

    Spurgeon leads believers up three ascending rungs of spiritual experience: from saving faith to the full assurance of eternal life (distinguishing between having life and knowing you have it), from that assurance to a firm confidence that God actually hears prayer (which depends on knowing you are truly his child, since assurance of sonship is the ground from which confidence in prayer springs), and finally from believing God hears to the highest rung — knowing with calm certainty that the specific petitions you have brought before him are already yours, waiting only to be received. He illustrates this watching faith through Elijah sending his servant seven times to scan the horizon for the cloud, David directing his prayer like an arrow and then looking up to see where it lands, Samson planting his feet between the pillars in full confidence before a single stone has moved, and Hannah's face clearing immediately when told her prayer was heard — all of them acting on the conviction that the answer was already theirs before they could see it. He closes with a gentle rebuke for all who pray and then neither watch nor expect — comparing them to runaway knocks by idle boys, prayers offered as polite opinions without any real urgency — and closes with a cascade of scriptural promises proving that a God who cannot lie and a Christ who pleads in heaven and a Spirit who indites the prayer cannot possibly refuse the answer, urging his congregation to meet again for special prayer, stand on their watchtower, and trust that the windows of Heaven will open over any church that truly cries mightily to God. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on October 23, 1864.

  3. 2d ago

    Barabbas Preferred To Jesus

    Spurgeon opens by drawing three lessons from the crowd's choice of Barabbas over Christ: first, it is a picture of substitutionary atonement — Christ, though guilty of no wrong, takes the prisoner's place so the guilty one goes free, just as one bird was slain and its blood applied to the other bird that was then released to fly free; second, it shows how deep God's imputation went, since when all his people's sins were laid on Christ he appeared before the bar of justice as more guilty than even Barabbas, which shows how far the sinless one stooped on our behalf; and third, it forewarns every believer to expect the same treatment the Master received, since the world has in every age — under pagan Rome, under papal Rome, and now under the respectable formalism of the present day — been more willing to tolerate any sin than to tolerate a living Christ and his truly converted people. He then turns the same charge on the whole unregenerate world and on every hearer's own pre-conversion life, arguing that every unconverted person is right now making the same choice as the Jerusalem crowd — preferring drunkenness, lust, dishonest gain, or the fear of others' opinions to Christ — not in theory but in daily practice, and that this was the settled choice of every believer too before sovereign grace intervened, making it as impossible for the natural man to turn to Christ as for a river to run uphill. He closes with an urgent and searching appeal, asking whether present pleasure — even seventy or eighty years of it, crowded to the brim — is rationally worth exchanging for eternal happiness, and calling every hearer to decide whose side they are on, since there are no neutrals: either Christ or Barabbas, either salvation or ruin — and pleading that any soul willing to trust Christ now will find that the moment of trust is itself the moment of salvation, complete and everlasting. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on October 16, 1864.

  4. 3d ago

    Inward Conflicts

    Spurgeon opens by establishing that the "company of two armies" the daughters of Jerusalem would see in the Shulamite is a picture of every genuine Christian's inner life — not a mark of spiritual failure but a mark of spiritual reality, since before conversion there is no great inner conflict because sin reigns unchallenged, but the moment the new nature is implanted by the Spirit, two irreconcilable principles face each other in permanent warfare: an old corrupt nature deeply rooted after decades of unchallenged possession, and a new divine nature as pure as its heavenly source, the two as incompatible as fire and water, with Satan stirring the old and the Holy Spirit driving the new. He traces this warfare through the Psalms (where David argues with himself from the depths to the heights in the same breath), through Romans 7 and Galatians 5 (where Paul anatomizes the flesh-Spirit conflict in exact detail), through the biographies of every Christian who has ever honestly written about their experience, and through nature itself (where centrifugal and centripetal forces hold planets in orbit just as corruption and grace hold the Christian in the narrow road) — while carefully noting that the intensity of the conflict varies: it is fiercest not when sin is strongest alone, but when both the Spirit and the flesh are at full strength simultaneously, which is why the most spiritually vigorous Christians often feel the most ferocious battles. He closes by insisting that the conflict, though it will not end until death, is not stationary — progress is real even when any single wave seems to recede, as the tide's advance is proven not by one wave but by the whole — and anticipates the final victory with joy: the day is coming when sin will be utterly abolished, the Christian will be as perfect as the Father in Heaven, and the palm branch will be waved all the more joyously for having been won through bloody conflict, while he urges every exercised believer to come again to Christ, put the whole case in his hands, and trust that through him they will be more than conquerors. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on October 9, 1864.

  5. 4d ago

    The True Position Of Assurance

    Spurgeon opens by identifying a painful and very common mistake — the believer who, not yet having full assurance, concludes they are not saved at all, putting last things first and treating assurance as the root of salvation rather than its fruit — and he insists that a person who truly trusts Christ, even with the feeblest and most doubting faith, is already fully saved, since salvation rests on Christ himself and not on the strength of one's confidence in him. He then works through the text's three-step process: hearing the Word of Truth (the true, full Gospel of grace as opposed to tradition, ceremony, or man-made novelty), believing it (which is not a separate act the Holy Spirit performs for us but the man himself trusting Christ, made possible by the Spirit's quickening — and which demands no particular degree of strength, since even a trembling touch of the hem of Christ's garment is genuine faith), and finally being sealed by the Spirit (an entirely passive receiving of Heaven's own attestation, a gift never commanded but earnestly to be sought, which may come immediately after conversion or — as with one minister who waited thirty-seven years — only on the deathbed, but which always follows faith and never precedes it). He closes by insisting that the same Christ who gave faith is the only source of assurance — not experiences, not feelings, not prolonged self-examination but continued meditation on the Cross — and urges any doubting soul whose faith has run to its lowest ebb to simply hang on to Christ, since even blind faith clinging in the dark will be crowned by God in the end, and it is Christ rather than the faith itself that does the saving. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on October 2, 1864.

  6. 5d ago

    “Thus Says The Lord”

    Spurgeon opens by establishing the absolute supremacy of "Thus says the Lord" as the only valid authority in the Christian church — the minister's only commission, the church's only rule for worship, the believer's only solid comfort, and the only weapon against error — before quoting a Church of England dean's public dismissal of him as a young ignoramus too untrained to judge such matters, then responding in the spirit of David before Goliath by accepting the charge cheerfully and demanding that the learned answer a simple question: where is "Thus says the Lord" for any of what follows. He then fires a sustained volley of specific demands for scriptural authority: for the practice of godparents making impossible promises on behalf of unconscious infants in baptism, for the Prayer Book's declaration that every sprinkled child is thereby regenerate and made a member of Christ, for the ceremony of Confirmation in which a bishop certifies by hand-laying that young people have received special divine favor, for priestly absolution of the dying, for burying every baptized thief and drunkard "in sure and certain hope of the resurrection," for the ordination of priests by bishops who claim to confer the Holy Spirit by hand-laying and thereby grant power to forgive sins, and finally for the entire system of Royal Supremacy which places Victoria as Head of the Church alongside Christ — declaring each one a pure invention of priestcraft, none of which appears in Scripture. He closes by turning from the controversy to his congregation with a final test: whatever hope of Heaven any hearer carries must itself be able to bear the question "Thus says the Lord" — not feelings from an exciting prayer meeting, not good works, not sacraments, not the word of any man — and he urges everyone to cast out every false foundation now and trust Christ alone, who is the only Rock that will stand when God shakes everything shakeable. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on September 25, 1864.

  7. 6d ago

    The Backslider's Way Hedged Up

    Spurgeon opens with Israel's spiritual adultery as a mirror for every backslider, arguing that the first and most deadly step away from God is the perversion of his mercies into instruments of idolatry — the backslider, prospering in business, health, or family, piles up the word "my" (my house, my profits, my children) over goods that are borrowed, claims his success as the fruit of his departure from God, and sinks deeper with every new mercy until the thorn hedge of Providence — bankruptcy, sickness, bereavement, the sudden loss of every pleasure's flavor — is the only thing standing between him and final destruction. He then traces the painful and often repeated experience of those whom God has determined to reclaim: first one hedge of trial is driven through and another stronger wall is built, then the pleasures of sin lose all their sweetness and the man finds himself like Tiberius willing to pay a fortune for a pleasure his jaded appetite can no longer taste, until he sits exhausted at the end of an empty chase and the first honest thought breaks through — "It was better with me then than now" — which Spurgeon celebrates as the dawn of repentance, noting that the backslider returns with a double urgency, mourning not just original sin but the added shame of having despised a Savior he once knew. He closes with an equally solemn warning aimed at those who have never had the root of the matter in them at all, tracing the gradual cooling — forsaking weekday meetings, then the closet, then the sanctuary itself, then dying wealthy and morally respectable with no grace left — before urging every genuine believer to take the tiniest symptoms of backsliding with extreme seriousness, watch against the first coolnesses of heart, and above all cling to the cross, since the only security against falling is the continual keeping and anointing of the Holy Spirit. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on September 18, 1864.

  8. Sep 3

    The Prodigal’s Reception

    Spurgeon opens by taking a long, searching look at the prodigal before his father ever reaches him — filthy, ragged, starving, disgraced, with no claim on his father's mercy and no denial when told he deserves to be cast away forever — and holds this mirror up to every trembling, despairing sinner who knows they are a great way off from God: too weak to cover the distance, too frightened to run toward a father they have wronged, too hard-hearted to repent as they wish, too doubtful to lay hold of faith, convinced in every department that they fall catastrophically short and cannot close the gap by any effort of their own. He then turns the sermon with tremendous force to the second half of the verse — the father's response — dwelling word by word on what the father does: he sees his son while still a great way off (as God sees every penitent sinner in his most desperate state with an eye full of tender paternal love, reading his whole case at a glance), he has compassion (feeling the son's misery from the inside, putting himself in the rags), he runs (not walking stately with conditions, but leaping over hedges by the shortest possible route), and he falls on the sinner's neck and kisses him before a single wound is cleansed or a single qualification met — because God never saw the sinner in himself but always in Christ, and so kissed him as he would have kissed his beloved Son. He closes with three properties of this reception that Spurgeon insists matter enormously to the doubting soul: it was instant (not gradual — the moment the prodigal was found he was as near the father as he would ever be, just as the freshly converted sinner is already as fully accepted and as truly a child as the saint of eighty years), complete (no conditions, no partial forgiveness, no second-class membership — the ring, the robe, the feast, all at once), and permanent (the father does not receive and then dismiss — "you are ever with me" is the lasting word) — and he urges every sinner who is still a great way off to stop looking for feelings to authorize their coming, and simply turn their face toward the Father who is already running toward them. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on September 4, 1864.

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