Sermons & Devotionals by Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 49 TITLE. To the Chief Musician, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. This is precisely the same as on former occasions, and no remark is needed. DIVISION. The poet musician sings, to the accompaniment of his harp, the despicable character of those who trust in the... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 50 TITLE. A Psalm of Asaph. This is the first of the Psalms of Asaph, but whether the production of that eminent musician, or merely dedicated to him, we cannot tell. The titles of twelve Psalms bear his name, but it could not in all of them be meant to ascri... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 51 TITLE. To the Chief Musician . Therefore not written for private meditation only, but for the public service of song. Suitable for the loneliness of individual penitence, this matchless Psalm is equally well adapted for an assembly of the poor in spirit. A... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 52 TITLE. To the Chief Musician . Even short Psalms, if they record but one instance of the goodness of the Lord, and rebuke but briefly the pride of man, are worthy of our best minstrelsy. When we see that each Psalm is dedicated to "the chief musician," it ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Preface To Volume 3, Psalms 53-78
Preface to Volume 3, Psalms 53-78 This volume completes half of my labor on this priceless book. It is my humble prayer that I may be spared to conclude the other portion. So uncertain is life and so often have people's plans remained unfinished that I will press on with all diligence, lest the lamp... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 53 TITLE. To the Chief Musician . If the leader of the choir is privileged to sing the jubilates of divine grace, he must not disdain to chant the miseries of human depravity. This is the second time he has had the same Psalm entrusted to him (see Psalm 14), ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 54 TITLE. To the Chief Musician on stringed instruments . The music was to be that of stringed instruments. Variety is to be studied in our tunes, and in all other matters relating to sacred song. Monotony is often the death of congregational praise. Providen... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 55 TITLE. To the Chief Musician with stringed instruments . Another song to be accompanied by stringed instruments. The strain is at one time mournful, and at another softly sweet. It needed the chief musician's best care to see that the music was expressive ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 56 TITLE. To the Chief Musician. To the tune of "A dove on distant Oaks". That mighty minstrel by degrees acquired a noble repertoire of hallowed songs, and set them all to music. We have here the songs of God's servant, who rejoices once more to return from ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 57 TITLE. To the Chief Musician . So glad a song as this becomes before it closes, should be in the keeping of the most skilled of all the temple minstrels. Altaschith, that is, DESTROY NOT. This petition is a very sententious prayer, as full as it is brief, ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 58 To the Chief Musician. Although David had his own case in his mind's eye—yet he wrote not as a private person, but as an inspired prophet, and therefore his song is presented, for public and perpetual use, to the appointed guardian of the Temple psalmody. ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 59 To the Chief Musician. Strange that the painful events in David's life should end in enriching the repertoire of the national minstrelsy. Out of a sour, ungenerous soil spring up the honey bearing flowers of psalmody. Had he never been cruelly hunted by Sa... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 60 TITLE. Here is a lengthy title, but it helps us much to expound the Psalm. To the Chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, or the Lily of Testimony. The forty-fifth was on the lilies, and represented the kingly warrior in his beauty going forth to war; here we se... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 61 TITLE. To the Chief Musician upon Neginah, a Psalm of David. The original indicates that both the hymn and the musical instrument were David's. He wrote the verses and himself sang them to the stringed instrument whose sound he loved so well. We have left ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 62 TITLE. To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. This is the second Psalm which is dedicated to Jeduthun, or Ethan, the former one being the thirty-ninth, a Psalm which is almost a twin with this in many respects, containing in the original the word translated o... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 63 TITLE. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. This was probably written while David was fleeing from Absalom; certainly at the time he wrote it he was king (verse 11), and hard pressed by those who sought his life. David did not leave of... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 64 TITLE. To the Chief Musician. The leader of the choir, for the time being, is charged with this song. It were well if the chief musicians of all our congregations estimated their duty at its due solemnity, for it is no mean thing to be called to lead the s... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 65 TITLE. This title is very similar to many we have before studied. To the Chief Musician. It is consigned to the care of the usual overseer of song. When a man does his work well, there is no use in calling in others for novelty's sake. A Psalm and song of ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 66 TITLE. To the Chief Musician. He had need be a man of great skill, worthily to sing such a Psalm as this—the best music in the world would be honored by marriage with such expressions. A Song or Psalm, or a Song and Psalm. It may be either said or sung. It... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Treasury of David
Treasury of David Charles Spurgeon PSALM 67 TITLE. To the Chief Musician . Who he was matters not, and who we may be is also of small consequence, so long as the Lord is glorified. On upon stringed instruments. This is the fifth Psalm so entitled, and no doubt like the others was meant to be sung wi... 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.