Daily Sermon Station

Daily Sermon Station

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

  1. 3 天前

    Distinguishing Grace

    Spurgeon uses the question "Who makes you to differ?" as a sword against pride, working through a series of contrasts — between the comfortable and the suffering among God's own people, between the converted and the callous hearer sitting in the same pew, between the believer and the openly hardened sinner, between the preserved and those who have fallen into open apostasy, and finally between those who are saved and former companions who are now in hell — arguing in each case that the only honest answer is sovereign grace, since nothing in the person themselves explains why they received mercy while others did not. He is particularly sharp about the danger of self-congratulation among believers who have been kept from gross sin, noting that Abraham, Noah, Lot, and David all fell when left even briefly without divine support, so that any Christian who has not fallen owes their standing entirely to God's continual keeping, not to their own superior character. He draws three practical lessons: first, that genuine awareness of distinguishing grace should kill pride stone dead; second, that if God could save us he can save anyone, so no one should ever be given up as hopeless; and third, that those who have been loved more than others owe correspondingly greater service to Christ, and he calls the church to examine whether it is doing anything at all, given how much remains undone and how little time remains. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on February 6th, 1859.

    32 分鐘
  2. 5 天前

    An Earnest Invitation

    Spurgeon unpacks the command "Kiss the Son" through four progressively deeper meanings — a kiss of reconciliation that ends the sinner's rebellion against God, a kiss of homage that acknowledges Christ as king, a kiss of worship that bows before his full divinity, and a kiss of affectionate gratitude like Mary Magdalene weeping at Christ's feet — arguing that each aspect of this single command encompasses the entire movement from enmity to love, and that Christ stands ready to receive every sinner who comes with any one of these intentions. He then turns to the warning with thunder and urgency: Christ the Lamb can become angry, and when he does it is the most fearful anger in the universe — the wrath of the very one who is "mighty to save" — and even a little of that anger is enough to destroy the sinner forever, while death may come without warning at any moment, so that delay is not merely foolish but potentially fatal. He closes with the benediction as a second and sweeter argument: those who trust Christ are not merely promised blessing but receive it really, consciously, and increasingly, growing from the first ray of faith all the way to eternal glory — and he urges every trembling sinner to simply trust Christ now, since no soul that ever cast itself on Christ has perished, the door of mercy stands wide open, and the only qualification required is to feel your own need. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on July 3rd, 1859.

    40 分鐘
  3. 5月25日

    The Scales of Judgment

    Spurgeon warns that every person—like Belshazzar—will one day be weighed by God and may hear the dreadful verdict, “You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.” He begins by showing that God weighs nations as well as individuals, citing the bloodshed of ancient Babylon and the persecutions in Piedmont as proof that national sins bring national judgment. Turning to the personal level, Spurgeon urges hearers to judge themselves now through several “preliminary weighings”: the opinion of honest men, the divine law—which exposes even the most respectable person as light as “the dust of the balance”—the scale of conscience, the scale of Scripture, and the scales of providence, whether adversity, prosperity, or temptation. He illustrates how adversity tests whether we can say, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,” while prosperity often melts superficial religion like “the palace of ice,” and temptation reveals whether we truly resist sin or merely wear a mask of piety. Spurgeon warns that many professing Christians fear to examine themselves, like bankrupts who keep no books, and urges them to test their souls honestly before the final judgment. Only the true believer, clothed in Christ’s perfect righteousness, can step into God’s scales without fear, for Christ’s obedience and atonement give him “full weight” where the law would otherwise condemn. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on June 12th, 1859.

    44 分鐘

簡介

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