Sermon 996 - The Alarum
A Sermon
(No. 996)
Delivered by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"I myself will awake early."--Psalms 42:8.
The proper subject to treat upon with such a text would be the propriety and excellence of early rising, especially when we are desirous of praising or serving God. The dew of dawn should be consecra ...read
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Sermon 997 - Prosperity Under Persecution
A Sermon
(No. 997)
Delivered by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"Come on let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Therefore they did set over them tas ...read
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Sermon 998 - More and More
A Sermon
(No. 998)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, July 2nd, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more."--Psalm 71:14.
WHEN sin conquered the realm of manhood, it slew all the minstrels except those of the race of Hope. For humanity, ami ...read
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Sermon 999 - The Withering Work of the Spirit
A Sermon
(No. 999)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, July 9th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the Spirit of the Lord ...read
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Sermon 1000 - Number One Thousand; Or, "Bread Enough and To Spare"
A Sermon
(No. 1000)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, July 16th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!"--Luke 15:17.
HE came to himself." The word may be applied to one ...read
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Sermon 1001 - Altogether Lovely
A Sermon
(No. 1001)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, July 23rd, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"Yea, he is altogether lovely."--Song of Solomon 5:16.
WHEN THE OLD PURITAN MINISTER had delivered his discourse, and dwelt upon firstly, and secondly, and thirdly, and perhaps upon twenty-fifthly, bef ...read
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Sermon 1002 - Now, and Then
A Sermon
(No. 1002)
Delivered by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face."--1 Corinthians 13:12.
IN THIS CHAPTER the apostle Paul has spoken in the highest terms of charity or love. He accounts it to be a grace far more excellent than any of the spiri ...read
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Sermon 1003 - Your Own Salvation
A Sermon
(No. 1003)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, July 30th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"Your own salvation."--Philippians 2:12.
WE SELECT THE WORDS, "your own salvation," as our text this morning, not out of any singularity, or from the slightest wish that the brevity of the text should ...read
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Sermon 1004 - "Bought with a Price"
A Sermon
(No. 1004)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 6th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"Ye are not your own: for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."--1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
OUR BELOVED BROTHER, Thomas Cook, who has for so ...read
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Sermon 1005 - Lessons From Nature
A Sermon
(No. 1005)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 13th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats, and the rooks for the conies."--Psalm 104:17-18.
THIS PSALM IS ALL th ...read
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Sermon 1006 - Christ Is All
A Sermon
(No. 1006)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 20th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"Christ is all in all."--Colossians 3:11.
THE APOSTLE WAS ARGUING for holiness. He was earnestly contending against sin and for the maintenance of Christian graces, but he did not, as some do, who wo ...read
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Sermon 1007 - North and South
A Sermon
(No. 1007)
Delivered by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, keep not back."--Isaiah 43:6.
IN THE FULLNESS of the promised days when the Jews shall be restored from their wanderings, and all the seed of Jacob shall again meet in their own land, God ...read
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Sermon 1008 - Love's Logic
A Sermon
(No. 1008)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 27th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"We love him because he first loved us."--1 John 4:19.
THIS is a great doctrinal truth, and I might with much propriety preach a doctrinal sermon from it, of which the sum and substance would be the ...read
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Sermon 1009 - Travailing for Souls
A Sermon
(No. 1009)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, September 3rd, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children."--Isaiah 66:8.
ISRAEL had fallen into the lowest condition, but an inward yearning of heart was felt in the midst of God's people for the ...read
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Sermon 1010 - Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness
A Sermon
(No. 1010)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, September 10, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; the people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region an ...read
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Sermon 1011 - Job's Regret and Our Own
A Sermon
(No. 1011)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, September 17th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; as I was in the days of my youth, when th ...read
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Sermon 1012 - The Unbeliever's Unhappy Condition
A Sermon
(No. 1012)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, September 24th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"He that believed, not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."--John 3:36.
THIS IS A PART of a discourse by John the Baptist. We have not many sermons by that mighty prea ...read
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Sermon 1013 - Our Watchword
A Sermon
(No. 1013)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, October 1st, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"Let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified."--Psalm 70:4.
THESE WORDS OCCUR at least three times in the book of Psalms, and therefore we may regard them as especially impor ...read
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Sermon 1014 - "Nunc Dimittis"
A Sermon
(No. 1014)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, October 8th, 1871, by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation."--Luke 2:29-30.
BLESSED WERT THOU, O Simeon, for flesh and blood had not revealed th ...read
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Sermon 1015 - The One Thing Needful
A Sermon
(No. 1015)
Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, October 15th, 1871 by
C. H. SPURGEON,
At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
"But one thing is needful."--Luke 10:42.
WE HAVE no difficulty whatever in deciding what the one thing is. We are not allowed to say that it is the Saviour, for he is not a thing; and we are not perm ...read
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