A Sermon (No. 2255) Intended for Reading on Lord's-Day, May 8th, 1892, Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington On Lord's-day Evening, August 31st, 1890. "For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let G... Read More
Text: '"Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost, as your fathers did, so do ye." Acts 7:51. "They that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." Rom. 13:2. The Holy Ghost is a person and hence can be pleased or grieved just like any other person. It is improper and irreverent to speak of this third ... Read More
Is the word Justification always used in a forensic sense in this argument, or also in a moral and physical? The former we affirm, the latter we deny, against the Romanists. I. As in the chain of salvation Justification follows Vocation, Rom. 8:30, and is everywhere set forth as the primary effect o... Read More
It is my desire, in dependence on the Lord, to write a faithful record, so far as memory now serves me, of some of God's dealings with my soul and my strivings after the experience of holiness, during the first six years of my Christian life, ere I knew the blessedness of finding all in Christ. This... Read More
520. The first and primary means of grace is the Word of God. Lutheran and Reformed agree with each other here. Nevertheless, the latter do not discuss the Word of God under the heading of the means of grace, since in their dogmatics they have usually treated it by this time in a separate chapter [r... Read More
The worst enemy you have is not your neighbor nor your bill collector, he is not your severest critic nor your most aggressive competitor. We can identify him without calling in the FBI to determine who he is. In fact, I trust we can apprehend and condemn him very shortly, thus giving you a victory ... Read More
God's Test ...For now I know that thou fearest God.... (Genesis 22:12) And it came to pass after these things, that God did test Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of M... Read More
But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. (Galatians 4:4, 5) In amazing ways God prepared the world for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The world consci... Read More
Preached at Providence Chapel, Oakham, on Tuesday evening, June 24th, 1845 "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" 1 John 1:8, 9 In the text J... Read More
Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day Morning, June 27, 1858* * In consequence of Mr. Philpot's temporary indisposition preventing him from preaching during a part of the Spring of 1864, the Publisher (Mr. J. Ford) has been obliged for the last and the present No. to have recourse... Read More
Sermon 2255 - God Justified, Though Man Believes Not
On Resisting the Spirit
Forensic Justification
Holiness: The False and the True - Part 1
The Law--Gospel Distinction and Preaching
Ai and I
Was Abraham Justified by Works?
How God Prepared the World for the First Coming of Christ
Faithful and Just to Forgive
Death and Resurrection, or Spiritual Convictions and Heavenly Affections