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  1. 8h 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.

  2. 1d 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.

  3. 2d 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.

  4. 3d 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.

  5. 4d ago

    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.

  6. 5d ago

    God’s Strange Choice

    Spurgeon opens by establishing that God is the Elector — not man — working through the evidence of Scripture (angels fell and were left without mercy while fallen man received the promise of redemption, through no merit of man's own), the nature of God's kingship (as the absolute and perfectly wise Sovereign he alone has the right to determine who receives mercy, just as a king alone decides which condemned prisoners to pardon), and the believer's own experience (every genuine Christian feels in their heart that their unrenewed nature could never have chosen God and therefore the choice must have been God's). He then celebrates the strangeness of the election — that God deliberately passes by the wise, the mighty, and the noble in order to choose foolish things, weak things, base things, and "things that are not" — arguing this is the precise opposite of how man chooses, since man selects those who can benefit him while God selects those he can most benefit, and demonstrating historically how the illiterate fishermen-apostles, the ungrammatical catacombs Christians, the reviled Lollards under Wycliffe, and every generation of despised believers have confounded the philosophers and outlasted the emperors who tried to destroy them. He closes with God's ultimate reason — "that no flesh should glory in his presence" — pressing the word "flesh" as a leveler that strips every human boast to nothing (Caesar in his purple, the legions in their armor, the philosopher at his podium are all flesh, worms' meat when God wills), and ending with a gentle gospel invitation: the very sinner who feels he has nothing to boast of, who lies in the dust and says "do with me as you will," has in that moment become reconciled to God's sovereign reign — and to such a soul Christ stands crucified, bidding them look and live. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on August 28, 1864.

  7. 6d ago

    A Mystery! Saints Sorrowing and Jesus Glad!

    Spurgeon opens with the seemingly scandalous declaration that Jesus was "glad" when Lazarus died — not glad because of the sorrow, but glad because of what the sorrow would produce — and works through three groups whose faith Christ intended to deepen by the delay: the Apostles, who needed to see Christ conquer not merely sickness but putrefaction itself before they could preach the gospel to the most depraved corners of the Roman world; the family of Mary and Martha, Christ's closest friends, who needed the sharpest trial precisely because they were his most beloved, just as the rarest diamond receives the most cutting; and observers and inquirers who believed when they saw Lazarus come forth, proving that the death of one man was the spiritual birth of many. He then unfolds a rich doctrine of sanctifying affliction — showing that trials strip away the carnal security that blocks faith's road, expose the emptiness of every human prop, drive the soul to God as the barking dog drives the wandering sheep, and harden the believer for greater battles the way Spartan training hardened young soldiers — before insisting that the deepest fellowship with Christ comes not in easy days but in the darkness, when he draws near, weeps with the weeping, and reveals secrets he shares nowhere else. He closes with a tender appeal to unbelievers who have themselves survived illness, loss, or near-death, urging them to recognize that Christ allowed those very trials specifically "to the intent that you may believe" — and that the one thing needed is simply to trust the Savior who stepped into the sinner's place, bore the sword of divine justice in his own heart, and now offers a complete discharge of every debt to any soul that will rest on his atonement. Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on August 7, 1864.

  8. Aug 31

    A Hearer in Disguise

    Spurgeon uses the story of Jeroboam's wife coming in disguise to the blind prophet Ahijah as a framework for addressing three groups he spots in his own congregation: the occasional hearer — typically graceless, arriving under pressure of trouble rather than love for God, but welcomed warmly nonetheless, since some of the most useful members of his church came in exactly this way — while warning solemnly that Jeroboam's wife herself, having heard the tidings, perished with her husband anyway, and that hearing the gospel without yielding to it only adds to one's condemnation. He then dwells on the useless disguise — pointing out that Jeroboam's wife could fool everyone with sight but not the blind prophet, whose God saw through her instantly — and turns this into a penetrating examination of every kind of hypocrisy in his congregation: the person who assumes the posture of prayer without praying, sings without meaning a word, attends the Lord's Table without belonging to the Lord, wears a churchwarden's respectability while their inner life is as dry as Bunyan's tinder, and warns with genuine grief that the discovery of such a disguise at the gate of Heaven — "Come out, wife of Jeroboam, I know you!" — is the most dreadful fate imaginable. He closes with the heavy tidings of Ahijah's prophecy applied personally: God's wrath already resting on every unconverted soul, death within reach of every person in the building before the next week is out, and judgment following hard after — but with a sweet interruption for any sinner who is willing, offering Christ's finished work in its entirety (the bath is filled, the robe is woven, the crown is bought, the Heaven is prepared) and urging every hearer to simply trust him now, since Jesus carries not one end of the burden of sin but the whole of it. A sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on July 31, 1864.

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