Resources by Charles Spurgeon

The following excerpt is from C. H. Spurgeon’s Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress: A Commentary on Portions of John Bunyan’s Immortal Allegory, forthcoming in summer 2024. WHEN Christian and Hopeful left the Delectable Mountains to pursue their way towards the Celestial City the shepherds bade them ‘Beware of the Flatterer.’ They learned afterwards, by sad experience, […]

When God takes manhood into union with himself in this matchless way, it must mean blessing to man. God cannot intend to destroy that race which he thus weds unto himself. Such a marriage as this, between mankind and God, must foretell peace; war and destruction are never thus predicted. God incarnate in Bethlehem, to […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, APRIL 22, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. ‘The carnal mind is enmity against God.’—Rom. 8:7   THIS is a very solemn indictment which the apostle Paul here prefers against the carnal mind. He declares it to be enmity against God. When we consider […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, APRIL 8, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. ‘Come, see the place where the Lord lay.’—Matt. 28:6. EVERY circumstance connected with the life of Christ is deeply interesting to the Christian mind. Wherever we behold our Saviour, he is well worthy of our notice: […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. ‘The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him; but his bow abode in strength and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. ‘The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him; but his bow abode in strength and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, MARCH 25, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. ‘For, behold, he prayeth.’—Acts 9:11. GOD has many methods of quenching persecution. He will not suffer his church to be injured by its enemies, or overwhelmed by its foes; and he is not short of means […]

A Sermon   DELIVERED ON SABBATH EVENING, MARCH 18, 1855, BY THE   REV. C. H. SPURGEON,   AT EXETER HALL, STRAND.   ‘I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.’—Hosea 8:12.  THIS is God’s complaint against Ephraim. It is no mean proof of his goodness, that he […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, MARCH 18, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. ‘For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.’—1 John 5:4. THE epistles of John are perfumed with love. The word is continually occurring, […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, MARCH 11, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. ‘For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.’—2 Corinthians 1:5. SEEK ye rest from your distresses ye children of woe and sorrow? This is the place where ye […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, MARCH 4, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. ‘For so he giveth to his beloved sleep.’—Psalm 127:2. THE sleep of the body is the gift of God. So said Homer of old, when he described it as descending from the clouds, and resting on […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. ‘I have exalted one chosen out of the people.’—Psalm 79:19. ORIGINALLY, I have no doubt, these words referred to David. He was chosen out of the people. His lineage was respectable, but not illustrious. His family […]

A Sermon DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT NEW PARK STREET CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK. ‘And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.’—Revelation 5:10. ‘MUSIC hath charms.’ I am sure sacred music has; for I have felt something of its […]

The following sermon, ‘Spiritual Liberty’, was delivered on Sabbath morning, February 18, 1855, by the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon, at Exeter Hall, Strand. ‘Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.’—-2 Corinthians 3:17. LIBERTY is the birthright of every man. He may be born a pauper; he may be a foundling; his parentage may […]

The following sermon, ‘Christ Crucified’, was delivered on Sabbath morning, February 11, 1855, by the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon, at Exeter Hall. ‘But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of […]

The following sermon, ‘Sweet Comfort for Feeble Saints’, was delivered on Sabbath morning, February 4, 1855, by the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. ‘A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.’— Matthew 12:20. BABBLING fame ever loves to […]

The following sermon, ‘The Comforter’, was delivered on Sabbath evening, January 21, 1855, by the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. GOOD old Simeon called Jesus the consolation of Israel; and so he was. Before his actual appearance, his name was the Day-Star; cheering the darkness, and prophetic of the rising sun. […]

The following sermon, published as ‘The Personality of the Holy Ghost’, was delivered on Sabbath morning, January 21, 1855, by the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. ‘And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; […]

The following sermon, ‘The Sin of Unbelief’, was delivered on Sabbath morning, January 14, 1855, by the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. ‘And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, […]

The following sermon, on the Remembrance of Christ, was delivered on Sabbath evening, January 7th, 1855, by the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. ‘This do in remembrance of me.’—1 Cor. 11:24. IT seems, then, that Christians may forget Christ. The text implies the possibility of forgetfulness concerning him whom gratitude and […]

The following sermon, on the immutability of God, was delivered on Sabbath morning, January 7th, 1855, by the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. ‘I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.’—Malachi 3:6. IT has been said by some one that ‘the proper study of […]