It’s a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
Unless you forgive others, you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord’s Prayer (“Forgive us our sins...”).
Let us cultivate the spirit of prayer which is even better than the habit of prayer. There may be seeming prayer where there is little devotion. We should begin to pray before we kneel down, and we should not cease when we rise up.
God, please save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!
Christ is the great central fact in the world’s history. To him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon him.
There was never a sinner half as big as Christ is as a Saviour.
It is as important to know Christ as the truth, as it is to know him as the way and the life.
Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.
We may say too much in a single sermon, we may give a field of wheat instead of a loaf of bread.
Like Cat, Like Kitten!
Justification
Spurgeon begins by defining what justification is, and how it can be distinguished from sanctification. Further, he argues that there must be proper grounds for justification. Then there must also be a means for man to have access to this justification. Finally, this justification when accessed should be manifest.
Particular Redemption
This article dwells on the redemption of Christ, and emphasizes the particularity of Christ's redemption (the Reformed view) as opposed to the Arminian understanding that Christ died to make salvation possible for man. Spurgeon then goes on to elaborate on the greatness of this redemption when considering the heinousness of the guilt of the saved, the sternness of divine justice, the nature of the sacrificial price Christ paid, and the vast number of those for whom this redemption was made.
The Immutability of God
This article considers the immutability of God, that God does not change.
Doubting God
What possible reason do we have to ever doubt God? This article is a meditation on David's doubt expressed in 1 Samuel 27:1, and how our doubt is always unfounded.
The Minister’s Private Prayer
Christ the Conqueror
The article is an attempt to discover the gospel message that can be found in Genesis 3:15. Thus the article finds in this verse alone both salvation and judgment, the blessing and the curse, all to be effected through the seed of the woman.
To believe means that man must not rely on what he is, or can be, or shall be, nor on what he does or can do, nor on what he feels or does not feel, but to rely solely on what Christ has done, is doing and shall yet do.
Repentance will not make you see Christ, but to see Christ will give you repentance.
Christ was not half a God and half a man; he was perfectly God and perfectly man.
To believe means that man must not rely on what he is, or can be, or shall be, nor on what he does or can do, nor on what he feels or does not feel, but to rely solely on what Christ has done, is doing and shall yet do.
Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss. That is how apostates do it; it is always with a kiss.
You cannot have the hyacinth of love without the bulb of faith.
Opinions alter, but truth certified by God can no more change than the God who uttered it.
Search the Scriptures - John
During Bible reading, Christians should have the attitude of someone looking for precious stones. From the scriptures one more precious gems is revealed - Jesus Christ.
The Delivery of the Sermon
Prayer life of the preacher
The task of the preacher
We are chosen as an afflicted people and not as a prosperous people, chosen not in the palace but in the furnace
Obedience is the hallmark of faith
Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are strung
A father’s holy life is a rich legacy for his sons
To live by faith is a far surer and happier thing than to live by feelings of works
Until God can be unjust, and demand two payments for one debt, he cannot destroy the soul for whom Jesus died
Faith’s way of gaining is giving
Faith always sees the bow of covenant promise whenever sense sees the cloud of affliction
He who fears God has nothing to fear
Giving is true having
Better to be the elect of God than the elect of a whole nation
Lord, send us such a floodtide of thy love that we shall be washed beyond the mire of doubt and fear
Better a brief warfare and eternal rest than false peace and everlasting torment
There is no holy walking without careful watching
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.
If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.