Sermon 64 - The Enchanted Ground
A Sermon
(No. 64)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 3, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Therefore let us not sleep, as do others: but let us watch and be sober."--1 Thess. 5:6
As the spiritual guide of the flock of God along the intricate mazes of experience, it is the duty of the gospel ...read
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Sermon 65 - Lions Lacking--But the Children Satisfied
A Sermon
(No. 65)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 10, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
On behalf of the Baptist Fund for the Relief of Poor Ministers.
"The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing."--Psalm 34:10.
RIGHT truly did ...read
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Sermon 66 - The Resurrection of the Dead
A Sermon
(No. 66)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 17, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"There shall be a resurrection of the dead, both the of the just and unjust."--Acts 24:15.
Reflecting the other day upon the sad state of the churches at the present moment, I was led to look back to a ...read
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Sermon 68 - A Solemn Warning for All Churches
A Sermon
(No. 68)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 24, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy."--Revelation 3:4.
MY LEARNED and eminently pious predecessor, Dr. ...read
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Sermon 69 - The Allegories of Sarah and Hagar
A Sermon
(No. 69)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 2, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"These are the two covenants."--Galatians 4:24.
THERE cannot be a greater difference in the world between two things than there is between law and grace. And yet, strange to say, while the things are diame ...read
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Sermon 70 - Good Works
A Sermon
(No. 70)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 16, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Zealous of good works."--Titus 2:14.
WE SHALL not be afraid of leading any of you into a legal spirit this morning through what we shall say, for after our frequent exhortations to avoid anything like tr ...read
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Sermon 71 - A Bottle in the Smoke
A Sermon
(No. 71)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 23, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget they statutes."--Psalm 119:83.
The figure of "a bottle in the smoke" is essentially oriental; we must therefore go to the East for its expl ...read
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Sermon 72 - Israel at the Red Sea
A Sermon
(No. 72)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 30, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness."--Psalm 106:9.
SEVERAL Sabbaths ago we preached upon the deliverance of the children of Isr ...read
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Sermon 73 - Effectual Calling
A Sermon
(No. 73)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 30, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"When Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zaccheus, make haste and come down; for to-day I must abide at thy house."--Luke 19:5.
Notwithstanding our firm belief that you ...read
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Sermon 74 - A Willing People and an Immutable Leader
A Sermon
(No. 74)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, April 13, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth."--Psalm 110:3.
Never verse in the Scripture has puzzled me m ...read
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Sermon 75 - Final Perseverance
A Sermon
(No. 75)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 23, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world t ...read
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Sermon 76 - Gospel Missions
A Sermon
(No. 76)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, April 27, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
On behalf of the Baptist Missionary Society.
"And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region."--Acts 13:49.
I SHALL not confine myself to the text. It being an old custom to take text ...read
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Sermon 77 - Divine Sovereignty
A Sermon
(No. 77)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 4, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?--Matthew 20:15.
THE householder says, "Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?" and even so does the God of heaven and earth ask thi ...read
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Sermon 78 - The Character of Christ's People
A Sermon
(No. 78)
Delivered on Thursday Evening, November 22, 1855, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."--John 17:16.
CHRIST'S prayer was for a special people. He declared that he did not offer an universal intercession. "I pray for them," said ...read
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Sermon 79 - The Form of Sound Words
A Sermon
(No. 79)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 11, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus."--2 Timothy 1:13.
MY INCESSANT anxiety for you, dearly beloved in the faith of Jesus Christ, is t ...read
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Sermon 80 - God Alone the Salvation of his People
A Sermon
(No. 80)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 18, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"He only is my rock and my salvation."--Psalm 92:2.
HOW noble a title. So sublime, suggestive, and overpowering. "MY ROCK." It is a figure so divine, that to God alone shall it ever be applied.
Look on y ...read
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Sermon 81 - The God of the Aged
A Sermon
(No. 81)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 25, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
The substance of which was also delivered at Stambourne, Essex, on the commemoration of the Jubilee of his Grandfather, the REV. JAMES SPURGEON, Tuesday 27th May. 1856.
"Even to your old age I am he; and ev ...read
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Sermon 83 - Indwelling Sin
A Sermon
(No. 83)
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, June 1, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
"Then Job answered the Lord and said, Behold, I am vile."--Job 40:3-4.
SURELY, if any man had a right to say, I am not vile, it was Job; for, according to the testimony of God himself, he was "a perfect and ...read
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Sermon 84 - Salvation to the Uttermost
A Sermon
(No. 84)
Delivered on Sabbath Evening, June, 8, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At Exeter Hall, Strand.
"Where he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."--Hebrews 7:25.
SALVATION is a doctrine peculiar to revelation. Revelation affords us ...read
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Sermon 85 - Omniscience
A Sermon
(No. 85)
Delivered on Sabbath Evening, June 15, 1856, by the
REV. C.H. SPURGEON
At Exeter Hall, Strand.
"Thou God seest me."--Genesis 16:13.
There are more eyes fixed on man than he wots of: he sees not as he is seen. He thinks himself obscure and unobserved, but let him remember that a cloud on witnesses hold him in full ...read
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