Sermons & Devotionals by Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon
Sermon 1890 - Our Lord's Prayer for His People's Sanctification
A Sermon (No. 1890) Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, March 7th, 1886, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."--John 17:17. OUR LORD JESUS prayed much for his people while he was here on earth. He made Peter the special subjec... Read More
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Sermon 1188 - A Word for the Persecuted
A Sermon (No. 1188) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, August 16th, 1874, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "What if thy father answer thee roughly?"--1 Samuel 20:10. IT WAS NOT AN UNLIKELY THING that his father would answer Jonathan roughly. Saul had taken great umbrage aga... Read More
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Sermon 1714 - Earnest Expostulation
A Sermon (No. 1714) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, April 1st, 1883, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?"--Romans 2:4. The apost... Read More
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Sermon 990 - Self-Humbling and Self-Searching
A Sermon (No. 990) Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept."--Song of So... Read More
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Sermon 2028 - Let Him Deliver Him Now
A Sermon (No. 2028) Intended for Reading on Lord's-day, June 17, 1888, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "He trusted in God; let him deliver him now; if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God."--Matthew 27:43. THESE WORDS ARE a fulfilment of the prophecy contai... Read More
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Sermon 1010 - Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness
A Sermon (No. 1010) Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, September 10, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; the people which sat in darkness saw great light; and... Read More
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Sermon 2152 - Three Important Precepts
A sermon (No. 2152) intended for reading on Lord's Day, July 13th, 1890, delivered by C. H. Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, on Lord's Day Evening, June 22nd, 1890. "Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way."--Proverbs 23:19. The words are very direct and p... Read More
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Sermon 2201 - The Sword of the Spirit
A Sermon (No. 2201) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, April 19th, 1891, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."--Ephesians 6:17. TO BE A CHRISTIAN is to be a warrior. The good soldier of Jesus Christ must not expect to fin... Read More
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Sermon 1891 - The Sermon of the Seasons
A Sermon (No. 1891) Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, March 14th, 1886, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."--Genesis 8:22. OUR SAVIOR CONSTANTLY TAU... Read More
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Sermon 1513 - Cheer Up, My Comrades!
A Sermon (No. 1513) Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "And Josiah set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord"--2 Chronicles 35:2. JOSIAH, as you remember, in the early part of his reign set his face against the i... Read More
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Sermon 1031 - How Can I Obtain Faith?
A Sermon (No. 1031) Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, January 21st, 1872, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."--Romans 10:17. IT IS DIFFICULT to make men understand that the salvation of the gospel is not by wo... Read More
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Sermon 1189 - The Turning Point
A Sermon (No. 1189) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, August 23rd, 1874, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "And he arose, and came to his father."--Luke 15:20. THIS SENTENCE EXPRESSES the true turning point in the prodigal's life story. Many other matters led up to it, and ... Read More
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Sermon 991 - The Fourfold Treasure
A Sermon (No. 991) Delivered on Thursday Evening, April 27th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, he that glo... Read More
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Sermon 2202 - "Lo, I Come": Exposition
A Sermon (No. 2202) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, April 26th, 1891, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volum... Read More
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Sermon 1011 - Job's Regret and Our Own
A Sermon (No. 1011) Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, September 17th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; as I w... Read More
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Sermon 2040 - Sown Among Thorns
A Sermon (No. 2040) Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 19th, 1888, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them"--Matthew 13:7. "He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and th... Read More
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Sermon 2182 - Jehovah-Shammah: A Glorious Name for the New Year
A Sermon (No. 2182) Intended for Reading on Lord's-day, January 4th, 1891. Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "The name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there [or in the Hebrew Jehovah-shammah]."--Ezekiel 48:35. THESE words may be used as a test as... Read More
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Sermon 1729 - Beginning at Jerusalem
A Sermon (No. 1729) Delivered on Thursday Evening, June 14th, 1883, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."--Luke 24:47. The servants of God were not left to ori... Read More
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Sermon 1190 - A Song Among the Lilies
A Sermon (No. 1190) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, August 30th, 1874, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies."--Song of Solomon 2:16. LAST SABBATH, in our morning's sermon, we began at the beginning and described ... Read More
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Sermon 1732 - In Him: Like Him
A Sermon (No. 1732) Delivered on Thursday Evening, May 17th, 1883, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked."--1 John 2:6. He that saith he abideth in him: "--that is exactly what every Christian do... Read More
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He was converted to Christ at the age of 16 and immediately began preaching. He preached in the streets and in the fields before he was 21. In his first church, he began with 100 members. It grew until he was preaching to 10,000 people in the Surrey Music Hall. His church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle, seated 6,000 people. He withdrew from every movement among English Baptists which tended to criticize the Authorized Version 1611 in any way.
Before his death, he published more than 2,000 sermons and 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations, and devotions.