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  1. 18H AGO

    War! War! War!

    Using the backdrop of European war in 1859, Spurgeon calls every Christian to a far more important spiritual conflict — not the battles of nations or sects or personal reputations, but the Lord's battles against sin in one's own heart, against sin in the world through holy example and direct witness, against doctrinal error including the specific warnings about Roman Catholicism and Puseyism, and against the strife between human beings through the active work of peacemaking. He defines the Lord's true soldiers as those who have been washed in Christ's blood, clothed in his righteousness, and fully consecrated so that nothing is held back from his service — and he sharply rebukes the majority of church members who pay others to fight while they look on, insisting that Christ never enlisted proxy soldiers and that personal service is required from every believer. He closes with a memorable "drill" of spiritual postures — prayer on both knees, patient standing still, courageous forward march, shutting eyes and heart to temptation, sword-in-hand readiness for every opportunity, open-handed generosity to fellow believers, and above all patient watching for the return of Christ — and ends with a dual appeal: to Christians to do something today, and to sinners to leave the debt-producing service of Satan and enlist under the banner of Christ who accepts the most broken recruits. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on May 1st, 1859.

    43 min

  2. 1D AGO

    A Vision of the Latter Day Glories

    Spurgeon uses Isaiah's vision of the mountain of the Lord's house rising above all other mountains and all nations flowing to it as a breathtaking picture of the church's ultimate destiny — beginning as a despised and tiny hill, growing through the individual efforts of believers and the inner life of Christ within her, and destined to become supreme over every competing religion, philosophy, and empire until the whole earth is filled with the knowledge and worship of God. He identifies three forces that will bring about this triumph: the faithful daily labor of every Christian adding their stone to the growing hill, the living fire of truth and grace already burning within the church that must expand her, and above all the second advent of Christ himself, which Spurgeon expects will make short work of every remaining enemy, bring the Jewish people to sudden faith, and usher in the universal reign described in the text. He closes with two contrasting appeals: one to believers, who should be stirred to zeal by this glorious destiny and work toward it with full effort; and one to the unconverted, who are warned that the coming day of Christ's victory will be their destruction if they are still his enemies, and urgently invited to come now to the cross where any weary, sin-burdened soul may climb the accessible mountain of grace and find rest. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on April 24th, 1859.

    36 min

  3. 2D AGO

    Little Sins

    Spurgeon attacks the devil's most effective lie — "Is it not a little one?" — by marshaling five arguments: the greatest saints in history (Daniel, the three young men, the bishop Arethusa) chose death and torture over even the smallest sin, proving they saw enormous danger in what Satan calls trivial; little sins inevitably lead to greater ones, multiplying like locusts and spreading like thistle seed until they produce total devastation; and even in themselves, small sins are not actually small, since they break the same principle of obedience, are often more wantonly committed than great sins, and God explicitly judges people for the neglect of seemingly minor duties. For the believer, he adds that even a small sin will not destroy the soul but will absolutely destroy peace and fellowship with Christ, who withdraws his comfortable presence when any known sin is tolerated — comparing this to a loving spouse being content to live month after month without their partner's company. He closes with a thundering warning to the unconverted: God will damn people for little sins just as surely as for great ones, and no one can find mercy while deliberately keeping even one sin; and he paints a terrifying picture of the "bottomless pit" and "the wrath to come" — a judgment that never lessens but is always still approaching — to drive every listener to flee to the cross where even the smallest sin can be washed away. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on April 17th, 1859.

    36 min

  4. 3D AGO

    The Best of Masters

    Spurgeon takes Christ's contrast — "not as the world gives, give I unto you" — and unpacks it thoroughly, showing that the world's gifts are hollow compliments, empty wishes, always deferred to the future, and ultimately delusions that must all be surrendered at death, while Christ's peace and every other gift he gives are sincere, powerful, present, real, and eternal, surviving even the grave and entering glory with the believer. He extends the contrast across many dimensions of giving: the world gives scantily, half-heartedly, only to friends, with selfish motives, and always demands it all back in the end; Christ gives fully, whole-heartedly, specifically to enemies and the most needy, with no ulterior interest of his own, and deliberately gives more grace to make his people hunger for still more. He closes with a stirring practical challenge: if Christ gives so much better than the world, his people ought to serve him with far more devotion than worldlings serve their cause — pointing to the handful of early disciples who turned the world upside down, and lamenting that the church of his day has become a race of dwarfs where giants once ran, urging believers to give Christ not occasional service but their whole lives, wealth, and energy in return for gifts that never fade. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on April 10th, 1859.

    39 min

  5. 4D AGO

    Mr. Fearing Comforted

    Spurgeon takes Peter sinking on the water as the key to understanding all Christian doubt — he sank not because Christ failed but because he looked away from Christ to the winds and waves — and applies this same diagnosis to believers in temporal trouble, arguing that every form of anxiety about money, health, or overwhelming circumstances is essentially the same mistake: staring at second causes while forgetting the First Cause who planned the trial, measured it with love, has kept them through every previous difficulty, and will not abandon his own servants in the storm. He then turns to spiritual doubts and traces them through four forms — doubt from awareness of sin, doubt from a hard and feelingless heart, doubt from loss of sweet communion with Christ, and doubt that one can possibly persevere to the end — showing in each case that the error is the same: looking inward at one's own condition rather than outward to Christ crucified, risen, and interceding, whose merits are not diminished by the believer's failures and whose faithfulness is not conditional on our feelings. He closes by arguing that final apostasy is impossible precisely because it would publicly dishonor Christ, give Satan a trophy, and make the promise of eternal life a lie — and urges every doubting soul, whether troubled about their present acceptance or their ultimate safety, to stop examining themselves and simply look to Christ, who has never yet cast out anyone who came to him. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on April 3rd, 1859.

    40 min

  6. 5D AGO

    The Way to God

    Spurgeon takes Christ's declaration "No man comes unto the Father but by me" and applies it with equal force to four different ways people try to reach God: through nature worship (sincere-sounding but in practice an excuse for no religion at all), through penitence and good resolutions without Christ (which only draws down the curse of the law), through ongoing religious performance after conversion (the error of thinking continued acceptance depends on our own good behavior), and through mystical communion with God in creation or prayer without Christ as the explicit channel. He argues that in every case — whether a person is first approaching God as a sinner, living as a growing believer, seeking fellowship with God in daily life, or hoping for heaven at last — the only road is Christ alone, since God's own holy nature makes it impossible to receive sinful creatures except through the one perfect Mediator whose blood answers the demands of justice. He closes with a warm, urgent invitation to every trembling sinner to stop trying every other route and simply come to Christ at the cross, which stands wide open — arms spread, heart pierced, blood flowing — for the worst of sinners who will come with nothing but their need. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on March 27th, 1859.

    40 min

  7. 6D AGO

    The Bed and Its Covering

    Charles Spurgeon uses Isaiah’s image—“the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it”—to show that every attempt people make to find rest or spiritual covering apart from Christ ultimately fails. He describes how men try to rest their souls on beds of wealth, fame, and pleasure, yet each proves too short: the rich man never has enough, the ambitious man finds “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown,” and the pleasure‑seeker, like Byron, confesses he is still restless despite indulging every desire. Spurgeon then exposes the coverings people sew for themselves—doctrinal pride, good works, religious ceremonies, and sectarian scruples—but says these are only “nightcaps” or “slippers,” not garments that can cover the naked soul, noting how some “tried sacraments, fasting, private prayer—never good enough… never felt that the garment was broad enough.” In contrast, he proclaims that Christ alone provides a bed long enough for the soul’s deepest desires and a robe wide enough to cover even the greatest sinner, the seamless righteousness “woven from the top throughout” and dyed in His blood. Spurgeon concludes that only the believer can truly rest—stretching himself fully on the promises of God—and only the believer is fully clothed, wrapped safely in the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. Sermon delivered on January 9th, 1859.

    37 min

  8. MAY 11

    Weak Hands and Feeble Knees

    Spurgeon takes the image of "weak hands and feeble knees" as a picture of two critical Christian capacities — active service and earnest prayer — and argues that when these fail, the believer stops making spiritual progress, loses the power to accomplish anything for God's kingdom, and brings dishonor to Christ by treating his promises as untrustworthy. He traces the causes of this weakness: spiritual infancy that simply needs time and nourishment, starvation from preaching that is eloquent but empty of solid doctrine and makes no distinction between truth and error, the corrosive effects of doubt and fear that drain all strength from faith, and above all the widespread laziness of Christians who are content to occupy pews, pay their seat-rent, and call that their duty while never winning a soul, visiting the sick, or giving more than a token offering to God's cause. He closes by urging believers to act with whatever strength they have, use their service to build more strength, put their religion "out to usury" by giving it away, feed on solid doctrine, and above all cry to the Holy Spirit — since it is only on their knees that Christ's soldiers become truly invincible. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on March 20th, 1859.

    41 min
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