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  1. 23H AGO

    Prayer Answered, Love Nourished

    Spurgeon invites believers to look backward through their lives and count up the answers to prayer they have received, using seven angles of reflection: how God answered even their cold, doubting, infrequent, and poorly-worded prayers; how he met a vast variety of requests covering soul, body, family, business, and church; how he bore with prayers offered dozens of times a day without ever complaining; how he answered even trivial requests with fatherly kindness; how his timing was always exactly right — never too early, never too late; and how in special seasons of crisis he delivered them in ways that cannot be forgotten. The cumulative weight of this retrospect is meant to produce love: not a sentimental feeling but a deep, grateful attachment to a God who has been unfailingly faithful to people who have been inconsistent, unbelieving, and forgetful — a love that moves Spurgeon to personal confession of how his own cold-heartedness grieves him when he remembers specific deliverances including his own breakdown in health and the disaster at the Surrey Hall. He closes with three lessons that should flow from this memorial: if God heard our voice in prayer, we owe him our voice in praise; if he listened to us, we must listen to him and obey; and if he answered us, we must go tell others who have never prayed that the same God is waiting to hear them too. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on February 27th, 1859.

    39 min

  2. 1D AGO

    Jacob and Esau

    Spurgeon begins by insisting that the text means exactly what it says — God loved Jacob and did not love Esau — and that election is not a doctrine to be debated away but an undeniable fact visible in daily life, where God plainly gives different people different gifts, opportunities, parents, dispositions, and gospel access, so arguing against it is simply arguing against reality. He then separates the two questions most people wrongly tangle together: why God loved Jacob is answered entirely by sovereign free grace, since Jacob's own character — his bargaining with God, his cunning with Laban, his unbelief despite repeated promises — shows there was nothing in him to merit God's love; while why God hated Esau is answered entirely by Esau's own choices, since he voluntarily sold his birthright, repented only in order to get it back cheaply, and harbored murder in his heart, proving that damnation belongs to human sin, not divine decree. He closes with a crisp summary of his theology: salvation is all of God's grace, and damnation is all of man's fault — God gets all the glory when anyone is saved, but no blame for any who perish — and he urges every sinner to recognize that if they are lost it will be their own doing, while the gospel remains wide open to anyone who will simply believe in Christ. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on January 16th, 1859.

    44 min

  3. 3D AGO

    Reform

    Spurgeon teaches that true worship must lead to real-life change, just as Israel’s great Passover under Hezekiah produced action—“they broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves”—rather than fading emotion. Spurgeon urges hearers to leave church determined to destroy their “false gods,” beginning with self‑righteousness, which he calls a towering idol like the “colossal statues of Egypt,” and moving on to the gods of drunkenness, lust, and dishonest business practices, illustrated by stories of drunkards transformed into gentle husbands and a woman who “burned her bushel” after realizing it cheated customers. He then presses believers to “cut down the groves”—not just the sins themselves but the places and habits that shelter them—condemning theaters, taverns, frivolous amusements, and light novels because they are associated with temptation, even if not sinful in themselves. Finally, he calls for tearing down even the “high places” of worship that are dedicated to the true God but not built according to His Word, warning that Christians must remove not only obvious sins but also any practice, tradition, or religious habit that is unscriptural. Spurgeon’s message is that genuine revival produces thorough reform: breaking idols, removing occasions of sin, and purifying worship until every part of life is brought into obedience to God. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on February 13th, 1859.

    45 min

  4. 3D AGO

    Hypocrisy

    Spurgeon identifies six marks of the hypocrite drawn from Matthew 23: saying one thing and doing another; performing good deeds only when others are watching; craving titles and positions of honor; straining at minor ceremonial sins while swallowing major moral ones; keeping up an immaculate outward religious form while neglecting the heart; and having a religion that changes with the company or the time of day. He then takes the hypocrite's ledger and shows that what appears to be profit — respectability, ease of conscience under preaching, business success from a religious reputation, church office — is vastly outweighed by the debt side: the exhausting effort of maintaining a false front, a conscience that can never know true peace or assurance, and ultimately the certainty of being publicly stripped and exposed before the universe at the judgment, followed by a specially severe portion among the damned. He closes with the only reliable cure: a vivid, constant awareness that God sees everything done in secret, that nothing is truly hidden, and that every secret thought and action will one day be proclaimed aloud — and he urges every reader to do the uncomfortable work of personal self-examination, since it is far better to discover a hollow profession now than to arrive at death's door or the judgment seat still wearing a mask. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on February 6th, 1859.

    41 min

  5. 4D AGO

    The Shameful Sufferer

    Spurgeon devotes this sermon almost entirely to meditating on the shame Christ endured — arguing that shame is uniquely terrible to human dignity, and all the more so to one of Christ's noble, sensitive, and deeply loving nature — and walks listeners through its three forms: the shameful accusations of blasphemy and treason hurled at one who was perfectly holy and entirely loyal; the shameful mockeries of his person, his royalty, his prophetic office, his priesthood, and even his dying prayers; and the shameful death of crucifixion itself, the punishment reserved exclusively for the worst class of slaves, inflicted publicly before a Passover crowd while accompanied by jeering onlookers. He then turns to the inward dimension of the cross that no words can adequately capture: the soul of Christ enduring what was equivalent to hell itself, bearing all the wrath of God and the assault of every demonic power, utterly forsaken by his Father at the moment of greatest need — a suffering so vast that the rocks split and the sun went dark. He concludes with a brief but piercing application: the motive that carried Christ through all of this was the joy of saving sinners like us — people who were, in fact, his own enemies and the very ones whose sins drove the nails — and this love ought to make every Christian willing to bear any shame, loss, or mockery that following Christ may bring. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on January 30th, 1859.

    43 min

  6. 5D AGO

    The Fainting Warrior

    Spurgeon begins by insisting that Paul's cry "O wretched man that I am!" is the authentic experience of a mature believer, not a pre-conversion state, and uses this to dismantle the mistaken idea that great saints like the apostles were somehow exempt from inward conflict — arguing instead that the closer a person lives to God, the more intensely they feel the war between the new nature implanted by the Holy Spirit and the old corrupt nature that remains unchanged, entire, and fiercely resistant. He traces this battle in vivid detail: the two natures are irreconcilable enemies forced to inhabit the same heart, the old nature has the accumulated strength of decades and the reinforcements of the world and Satan, while the new nature must call in the Trinity itself — the eternal decree of the Father, the blood of Christ, and the power of the Spirit — just to hold its ground, making the Christian's inner life a perpetual and exhausting battlefield. He closes on two contrasting notes: first reassuring the fainting believer that the cry of despair is itself the mark of genuine spiritual life, that the Christian falls only to rise again through Christ, and will one day be perfectly free from sin; and then warning the person who feels no such conflict that their undisturbed peace is not a sign of health but of death — for Satan has no reason to fight someone who already belongs to him. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on January 23rd, 1859.

    41 min

  7. 6D AGO

    Corn in Egypt

    Spurgeon uses the story of Jacob's sons starving in Canaan while grain sits waiting in Egypt as a rich picture of the sinner's spiritual condition — a total, essential, hopeless need with nothing in oneself to meet it and nowhere else to turn — and then matches it point for point with the good news of the gospel: not only is there mercy in God, but it is abundant beyond measure, held by Christ who is the sinner's own brother, and freely available to any who come at his express invitation rather than on a risky guess. He then turns to the practical application, arguing forcefully against any preaching that tells sinners to wait passively for grace, insisting instead that just as Jacob's sons immediately picked up their empty sacks and headed to Egypt the moment they heard there was grain, sinners should come to Christ now — empty-handed, with nothing but their need, their sins laid out as the only "recommendation" required. He closes with the personal testimony of his own three years of fruitless agonized prayer until he learned to stop relying on the prayers themselves and simply look to Christ on the cross — and invites every hearer to do the same, reminding them that the stakes are nothing less than eternal life or eternal death. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on January 16th, 1859.

    40 min

  8. MAY 1

    Free Grace

    Spurgeon takes God's blunt declaration — "Not for your sakes do I this" — and preaches it as a comprehensive statement that every act of God's saving work, from the eternal election before creation, through Christ's death, the Spirit's calling, the believer's preservation, and final entry into heaven, has its motive entirely within God's own love and not in anything humanity has done, felt, deserved, or could ever contribute. He illustrates this with force, comparing sinners to a condemned criminal who has not only committed every possible offense but keeps adding new crimes and corrupting others, yet is still offered mercy by a compassionate sovereign — making it undeniable that if such a person is spared, the reason must lie entirely in the sovereign's heart and nowhere in the criminal's character. He draws two practical conclusions: first, that this doctrine should permanently destroy all pride in the believer, who received grace that was undeserved, unasked-for, and once actively rejected; and second, that it is the most welcoming possible gospel for the worst of sinners, since the very absence of merit in the sinner is no barrier when God explicitly says the reason for saving is not in the sinner at all — so they are urged to come exactly as they are with nothing to offer. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on January 9th, 1859.

    41 min
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