Sermon 44 - Repentance Unto Life
A Sermon
(No. 44)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, September 23, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life."--Acts 11:18.
ONE OF THE GREATEST obstacles which the Christian religion ever overcame, was the inveterate prejudice which possessed t ...read
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Sermon 45 - Conversion
A Sermon
(No. 45)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 7, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth; and one convert him; Let him know that he which converteth sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. ...read
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Sermon 46 - The Glorious Habitation
A Sermon
(No. 46)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 14, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Lord thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations."--Psalm 90:1.
Moses was the inspired author of three devotional compositions. We first of all find him as Moses the poet, singing the song whi ...read
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Sermon 47 - Christ's Prayer for His People
A Sermon
(No. 47)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 21, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."--John 17:15.
THIS PRAYER of Christ is an ever precious portion to all true believers, from t ...read
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Sermon 48 - Chastisement
A Sermon
(No. 48)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 28, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him."--Hebrews 12:5.
GOD'S PEOPLE ...read
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Sermon 49 - The God of Peace
A Sermon
(No. 49)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, November 4, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen,"--Romans 15:33.
PAUL ONCE ADVISED the Romans to strive. Three verses before our text he actually gives them an exhortation to strive, and yet he here utters ...read
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Sermon 50 - The Holy Ghost--The Great Teacher
A Sermon
(No. 50)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, November 18, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. ...read
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Sermon 51 - Comfort for the Desponding
A Sermon
(No. 51)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, November 25, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Oh that I were as in months past."--Job 29:2.
FOR THE MOST part the gracious Shepherd leads his people beside the still waters, and makes them to lie down in green pastures; but at times they wander t ...read
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Sermon 52 - Free Will--A Slave
A Sermon
(No. 52)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 2, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life."--John 5:40.
This is one of the great guns of the Arminians, mounted upon the top of their walls, and often discharged with terrible noise against t ...read
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Sermon 53 - Healing for the Wounded
A Sermon
(No. 53)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, November 11, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds."--Psalm 147:3.
The next verse finely declares the power of God. "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them by their names." Perha ...read
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Sermon 54 - Christ Our Passover
A Sermon
(No. 54)
Delivered on Sabbath Evening, December 2, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us."--1 Corinthians 5:7.
THE more you read the Bible, and the more you meditate upon it, the more you will be astonished with it. He who is but a casual r ...read
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Sermon 55 - The Exodus
A Sermon
(No. 55)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 9, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt."--Exodus 12:41.
IT IS our fir ...read
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Sermon 56 - Heaven
A Sermon
(No. 56)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 16th, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"As it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spir ...read
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Sermon 57 - The Incarnation and Birth of Christ
A Sermon
(No. 57)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 23rd, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, f ...read
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Sermon 58 - Canaan on Earth
A Sermon
(No. 58)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 30, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"For the land whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs; but the land whi ...read
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Sermon 59 - Watch-Night Service
(No. 59)
Held at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
On Tuesday Night, December 31, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
If it be enquired why I held a Watch-night, let the answer be--because I hoped that the Lord would own the service, and thus souls might be saved. I have preached at all hours the gospel of Jesus, and I see no reason why I ...read
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Sermon 60 - Sovereignty and Salvation
A Sermon
(No. 60)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 6, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else."--Isaiah 45:22.
SIX years ago to-day, as near as possible at this very hour of the day, I was "in the gall ...read
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Sermon 61 - The Beatific Vision
A Sermon
(No. 61)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 20, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"We shall see him as he is."--1 John 3:2.
IT IS one of the most natural desires in all the world, that when we hear of a great and a good man, we should wish to see his person. When we read the works of ...read
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Sermon 62 - Exposition: 1 John 3:1-10
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is."
A ...read
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Sermon 63 - Marvellous Increase of the Church
A Sermon
(No. 63)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 27, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?"--Isaiah 60:8.
TThe ancient church, in the foresight of her mighty increase in these latter days lifts up her hands in astonishment ...read
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