john-8:32

The self-righteous proclaim that they are righteous and that everything they say and do is right. There is one thing they cannot bear to hear: others questioning whether their behaviour was right. That is why they rebel and defend themselves, usually by adding that others do not understand them and ... Read More

A Sermon (No. 2191) Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, February 22nd, 1891, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "As he spake these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and... Read More

Mark 5: 22-43; Luke 7: 11-16; John 11. Three times only, as far as we know, did the Lord Jesus, while upon earth, raise the dead to life; viz., the daughter of Jairus, the son of the widow of Nain, and Lazarus. Each of these cases has its special characteristics and instruction. The daughter of Jair... Read More

John 9, 10. In John 8 we get the development of part of the truth of Christ referred to in John 1, as the One who is the Light of the world, because in Him was life. In John 9 we get another thing connected with the same truth. Now He is the One who not only has eternal life and is light, but who al... Read More

Here are some queries, held forth in love to thee, reader, to bring thee into a true sense in many weighty matters. They are not of a confounding (unless it be to that part which is not to know), but of an opening nature; they were sweet to my taste, which (as in God's presence, and by the virtue of... Read More

Preached on Tuesday Evening, October 31st, 1854, at Oakham, Rutland "Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples." John 15:8 Why does the farmer, at this season of the year, cast into the bosom of the earth so much valuable corn? That at harvest time he may re... Read More

Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day Morning, March 21, 1858 "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen." Philemon, 25 What a mercy--a mercy beyond all expression, and indeed all conception, it is to have a religion which will take us to heaven; which will not ... Read More

Preached at Providence Chapel, West Street, Croydon, Lord's Day morning, April 16th, 1865 "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD; his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth" Hosea 6:3 I was speaking, ... Read More

A Sermon preached on Tuesday Evening, August 1, 1843, at Jewry Street Chapel, Aldgate, on behalf of the Aged Pilgrims' Friend Society "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall mak... Read More

Galatians 6:12. "The truth," or the doctrine of the Son, as the Lord Himself teaches us (John 8: 32-36), sets free all those who receive it. It is the "law of liberty" (James 1, 2); it is "mercy rejoicing over judgment;" for judgment has been duly and fully marked against us as guilty, but through t... Read More