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  1. 5h ago

    Who Are The Elect?

    Spurgeon uses the story of Samuel anointing David — the youngest, most overlooked, and most despised son of Jesse, passed over even by his own father and brothers, yet chosen by God — to argue that God's election consistently bypasses the obvious candidates (the tall, the noble, the educated, the emotionally responsive) and falls on people whom nobody would have guessed, because God looks at the heart rather than the outward appearance, and the preacher's only job is to faithfully deliver the gospel to all and then observe where the Spirit's power falls. He then provides a practical checklist of the heart-marks of a genuine elect soul drawn from David's own Psalms — a believing heart that rests in God alone rather than self or creature, a meditative heart that flies back to divine things when free, a humble heart that ascribes all to grace, a holy heart that loves God's commands, a brave heart that faces the world's opposition without cowering, and a constant heart that stays fixed on God through every season — while warning that election can be confirmed to an infallible degree by the Spirit's own witness within, but should never degenerate into careless presumption, and that a healthy believer will sometimes, with reverence, examine whether their confidence is truly grounded. He closes with the trajectory of David's life as the elect soul's own path: anointing (the Spirit's sealing), growing distinction by valiant deeds others cannot perform, inevitable conflict with the world that hates those chosen out of it, outlaw suffering that paradoxically produces the clearest manifestation of divine favor — and finally coronation, when the One who wrote their names before the foundation of the world will say publicly, "Come, you blessed of My Father," and every mean, despised, persecuted saint will find the reward so overwhelmingly beyond the suffering that even the worst of the journey will seem like nothing at all. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on July 9, 1865.

  2. 1d ago

    Two Loving Invitations

    Spurgeon takes two short phrases from John's Gospel — "Come and see" and "Come and dine" — and builds a full portrait of the Christian life's two great stages, beginning with "Come and see" as an invitation to honest, unbiased investigation: study the Bible as you would study any great book (reading whole books rather than picking random verses), hear the gospel where it is actually preached rather than merely admired for eloquence, and above all test Christ's claims by trusting him with your own soul — since faith comes not by manufacturing feelings but by meditating on the crucified God until the wonder breaks through and you find yourself believing. He then argues that "come and dine" describes something richer and nearer than mere saving faith — a stage where the believer moves from looking at Christ to actually feeding on him, leaning on him as John leaned at the Last Supper, entering into the enjoyment of his promises, finding in him the source of spiritual growth (the reason Christians stay stunted is that they see Christ without dining on him), the ground of true church unity (hungry congregations are quarrelsome ones; well-fed ones love each other), and the secret of all strength for service (as the cake baked on the coals sent Elijah forty days, so feeding on Christ sends the believer out with strength proportionate to what was freely received). He closes by sending his hearers out with both invitations ringing in their ears: to the unconverted, "Come and see" — the blackest sinner may look at a king, and one look at Christ with the Spirit's help is the beginning of eternal life; and to the believer who has looked, "Come and dine," and then go out and carry the same feast to the starving, since the purpose of all grace received is to be grace distributed. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in 1865.

  3. 2d ago

    Consider Before You Fight

    Spurgeon opens by turning Christ's parable about the king calculating his chances before going to war into a direct challenge to every unconverted person in the building — pressing them to sit down and honestly calculate whether they can possibly win their war against God, before working through five reasons why they cannot: God's stupendous power that flattens mountains and buries armies in the sea, his all-surrounding providence that can strip away wealth, wife, children, and health in a single moment, his army of created servants that stretches from stars to serpents and has never yet failed to execute his judgment, his infinite wisdom that outmaneuvers every human strategy before it is formed, and the fact that the enemy's own conscience is already fighting against him from inside. He then turns the parable's second half on the newly convicted soul who resolves to fight Satan in their own strength — pressing them with equal honesty to calculate the real cost of that battle: the sweetness of the sins they must abandon, the persuasive power of old temptations and beloved tempters, the iron grip of long-established habits that Niagara is as likely to reverse as moral effort is to overcome, the stinging ridicule of mocking companions, and the constant pull of financial gain — warning them that self-made reformation always ends in the swept-and-garnished house that Satan re-inhabits with seven worse spirits. He closes by insisting that both battles point to the same conclusion: neither the war against God nor the war against Satan can be won by the creature in their own strength, and the only hope is to send the one Ambassador God will receive — Jesus Christ — accepting his terms of peace (renouncing every harbored sin, bowing in the publican's posture, trusting Christ's blood alone), and then crying across the river of sin, "Boat, ahoy!" — since the Ferryman is there, willing and able to carry any soul that cries to him safely to the other shore. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in 1865.

  4. 3d ago

    The Believer Sinking In The Mire

    Spurgeon opens with a vivid image of a man sucked into the black mud of a river bank — unable to help himself, sinking deeper with every struggle — as a picture of the Christian who has fallen into the deep mire of spiritual trial, cataloging its four main forms: tormenting doubts about the foundational truths of the faith, loss of personal assurance of salvation, temporal troubles that heap sorrow upon spiritual darkness, and sudden overwhelming sights of the corruption and sin lurking within one's own heart. He then addresses why God allows his people to fall into such states — as chastisement for neglected watchfulness, to test and prove the genuineness of faith, to strip away dependence on every created comfort and drive the soul back to God alone, and to make Heaven's peace incomparably sweeter by contrast — while insisting throughout that the very capacity to suffer in these ways is itself proof of spiritual life, since the dead feel nothing, and illustrating this with the experiences of Luther (who frequently doubted his own interest in the truths he preached so thunderously) and Knox (whose last great temptation was to trust his own blameless record rather than Christ). He closes with an urgent, almost desperate call to prayer as the one weapon that never rusts, never misfires, and can never be blockaded — insisting that prayer's essence is not elegant words or upright posture but the soul's sheer hunger and thirst, that God welcomes it at any hour in any state, and that to stop praying is to surrender the last defense to Satan — so that even from the deepest mire, the one act left is to cry out, "Deliver me, O God, and let me not sink." Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in 1865.

  5. 4d ago

    The Holy Spirit Compared To The Wind

    Spurgeon takes the wind as a sustained image of the Holy Spirit through the whole sermon, drawing out five qualities they share: mystery (no one can trace where the wind comes from or where it goes, and no one can explain how the infinite God enters and works within a finite human mind), sovereignty (the wind blows where it pleases, answering to no man's command, just as the Spirit regenerates whom he wills and cannot be summoned by any human technique or religious excitement), variety (the wind comes as a hurricane to some and as a barely perceptible zephyr to others, from different directions, through different instruments, touching different weaknesses — and the Spirit likewise never produces the same conversion twice, making spiritual biography a poor template since God never paints the same picture twice). He then traces the Spirit's effects by analogy with the wind's effects: the wail of conviction, the jubilant sweep of full assurance, the fierce contention with indwelling sin, the leveling of every proud thought, the purifying of a soul grown yellow with covetousness, and above all the testing that separates chaff from wheat — blowing away every hollow professor and false doctrine while leaving true Christians and sound doctrine unmoved. He closes with a double application: to believers, a call to spread every sail and wait patiently in well-doing for the Spirit's propitious gale, neither murmuring at his delay nor unprepared when he comes; and to every unconverted hearer, a thundering repetition of Christ's "must" — "you MUST be born again" — insisting that this single non-negotiable condition stands unchanged over the gates of Heaven, and pleading with every soul in the building to seize the knocker of God's mercy door and refuse to let go until the Spirit who blows where he wills has blown new life into them. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on February 2, 1888.

  6. 5d ago

    Jericho Captured

    Spurgeon preaches this sermon to a gathering of the Irish Society — a mission aiming to bring Protestant Christianity to Roman Catholic Ireland — using the siege of Jericho as a three-part framework: work (every member of Israel marched, not just the priests or the generals, and so every believer in every church must take personal responsibility for evangelism in their own doorstep, their own street, their own class, doing it daily, in God's appointed ways rather than worldly shortcuts, and in active faith that surveys the full impossibility of the task and goes forward anyway), wait (the Israelites saw no movement in Jericho's walls for six full days, yet kept marching in patient obedience — just as the Irish Society has seen agonizingly little result over decades, yet is called to keep its post, bear testimony, keep men ready for the moment God chooses to send his earthquake, and take comfort in every Rahab-like individual saved). He argues that Jericho is a perfect image of Rome — shut tight against the Gospel, apparently impervious to every Protestant effort, mocking the marching circumnavigators from the walls — yet insists that the Sovereign God who brought those walls down by rams' horns and a shout has not changed, and that the surest sign of defeat would be to stop compassing the city before the seventh day's shout. He closes with characteristic urgency: when the victory comes it will go entirely to God's glory (no denomination, no Society, no individual can take credit, since God always arranges his victories to eliminate human boasting), and he directs any hearer not yet converted to begin with their own soul — trusting the heavenly Joshua for their own salvation first, and then going out to point others to the redeeming blood. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon.

  7. 6d ago

    Justification and Glory

    Spurgeon opens by celebrating the sovereign, unbroken chain of Romans 8:30 — foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, glorification — as a triumphal procession in which God alone acts at every step, leaving no room for chance, human merit, or creature interference, before settling on justification's four essential features: it is an act of pure grace aimed exclusively at guilty sinners who cannot justify themselves, its foundation is Christ's imputed righteousness (both his active obedience to the Law's demands and his passive suffering of its penalty), its instrument is faith alone — not repentance, not feelings, not mortification, just a look to the crucified Christ — and its character is instantaneous, complete, infallible, and irreversible, so that the believer in their worst moment of doubt and defeat is just as perfectly justified as in their most joyous hour on the mountaintop. He then traces three stages of the glory that justification guarantees: the present glory of disembodied spirits (immediately with Christ in Paradise, no purgatory, no limbo, as the dying thief's case settles forever), the resurrection glory when soul and body are reunited at Christ's coming and believers reign with him in bodies transformed like his own glorious body, and the eternal weight of glory beyond — perfect rest, perfect holiness, fullness of divine communion, perpetual delight, clear knowledge, and total absorption into God while remaining a creature — all of which, he notes, is already in embryo within justification itself, as the whole oak is hidden in the acorn. He closes with the argument that God cannot justify and then condemn, since justification cost the blood of Christ while glorification costs God nothing more, and the same God who did the infinitely greater thing will not fail to do the lesser — so the only remaining question is whether each hearer is justified, and he urges every soul to simply trust Christ now, since the moment of faith is the moment of justification, and justification is the seed of glory already planted. A sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on April 30, 1865.

  8. Sep 23

    The Waterer Watered

    Spurgeon opens with an extended meditation from nature and the human body — rivers, oceans, clouds, blood circulation — all demonstrating the universal law that nothing in God's creation thrives by hoarding, but only by giving, before narrowing this to the believer's specific duty to water fellow Christians: the constitutionally desponding who need constant comfort, the ignorant who need patient instruction, the sick shut away from public worship, the young recently transplanted into faith who will wither without attentive care, the persecuted who are growing in hostile soil, and the backsliding who need gentle pursuit rather than abandonment. He then proves the promise's fulfillment by four practical blessings that flow back to the waterer: wakened latent talents the person never knew they had, unexpected instruction received from the very people they went to teach (discovering saints chest-deep in divine love while the teacher was only ankle-deep), the living comfort that circulates back like blood — as chafing a frozen man's limbs to save him simultaneously saves the one doing the chafing — and a wealth of prayer from every converted soul who will intercede for the one God used to bring them to Christ. He closes with two wider applications: first, to his own congregation, insisting that the Metropolitan Tabernacle's twelve years of unbroken revival is directly tied to its policy of freely releasing members to plant other churches, train other preachers, and water other neighborhoods rather than hoarding talent at the center — and warning that the moment they sit still and stop flowing outward they will stagnate; and second, to the whole Protestant church, charging that London's million spiritually destitute souls can only be reached by Free churches zealously scattering the pure gospel, since a state church entangled with Puseyism and sacramentarianism is incapable of the work, and that any congregation in earnest must give everything to the task or answer to God for their abundance of opportunity squandered. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on April 23, 1865.

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