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Spurgeon defends the doctrine of Election as singular (God bypassed angels to choose fallen men), unconstrained (it rests on God's free will rather than any goodness in the chosen, foreseen or otherwise), and just (no one merits salvation, and God owes mercy to none, so giving extra grace to some wrongs no one, while the unsaved are lost only because they themselves refuse to come). He proves its truth by pointing out that even bel...

Spurgeon takes aim at false peace — the comfortable feeling of being spiritually fine when one is not — identifying five main sources of it: the man who drowns conscience in ceaseless amusement and gaiety, beating drums so loud that the soul's own cries cannot be heard; the man who has swallowed infidel arguments not from honest intellectual conviction but because the Bible makes him too uncomfortable in his sins; the c...

Spurgeon takes the question "Who can understand his errors?" to argue that our sin is genuinely beyond our own comprehension — we cannot count its number, weigh its guilt, or grasp its special aggravations, especially when those sins are committed against a praying mother, a merciful escape from death, or special spiritual privilege — and that to fully understand our sin we would need to first understand things permanen...

Spurgeon takes Naaman's question about the rivers of Damascus as the emblem of what he calls "Evil-Questioning" — the habit of raising intellectual objections to the gospel not from honest intellectual difficulty but as a convenient cover for continuing in sin — and he tracks this enemy through his disguises (calling himself "Honest Enquiry"), his speeches (turning Calvinist doctrine into an excuse for passivity, Armini...

Using the image of Israel's cities of refuge — where magistrates annually cleared the roads of every obstacle so that the fleeing manslayer could arrive safely — Spurgeon surveys the road of faith and systematically removes six common stumbling blocks that prevent anxious sinners from trusting Christ: the enormity of past sin (answered by the boundless sufficiency of Christ's blood, which abounds where sin abounds), the...

In this sermon, Spurgeon tells the story of a woman who showed great love for Jesus by breaking a very expensive jar of perfume and pouring it on His head. Other people complained that she wasted money, but Jesus said her act would be remembered forever. Spurgeon explains that what made her action special was that she did it from her heart, without worrying about what others thought, and she did it only for Jesus, not for attention...

Spurgeon presents the sinner's ruin under four heads — the sheer number and aggravation of sins, including the special guilt of those who have sinned against light and a praying mother's example; the legal sentence of condemnation already passed, so that the sinner stands not as someone awaiting trial but as someone already convicted with the rope around their neck; utter helplessness to do anything toward their own rescue; a...

Spurgeon takes the repeated refrain of Psalm 80 — "Turn us again, O Lord, cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved" — as the church's one all-sufficient prayer for every ill, arguing that because all problems trace to one source (the withdrawal of God's favor) they can all be cured by one remedy (his return), and he identifies the genuine benefits of revival as the salvation of sinners, the healing of church quar...

Spurgeon takes Christ's words to his bride in Song of Solomon 4:10-11 as a genuine expression of how Jesus actually estimates his people — their love is to him better than wine (a luxury and a refreshment), their graces smell sweeter than all spices, their words drop like honeycomb, the thoughts they never quite manage to speak lie under their tongue like honey and milk, and their daily actions smell to him like the cedars of...

Spurgeon organizes his meditation on "many crowns" into three categories: crowns of dominion — Christ reigns as King of Heaven commanding angels, King of Hell holding the chains of the damned, King of creation who spoke the universe into being, King of providence who sustains every atom, and King of grace who opens and shuts the door of mercy — making the point that there is nowhere a believer can go where Christ does n...

Spurgeon begins by carefully defining the "ungodly" — not primarily the blasphemer or the open rebel, but the far larger class of respectable, church-attending people who live without a genuine eye to God, who have no love for him, no delight in prayer, and no dependence on Christ's blood — and then works through the fearful negative of Psalm 1:4 clause by clause, showing that the ungodly lack the special providence tha...

Spurgeon builds the sermon around four elements of Revelation 22:17 — the water of life itself (God's free grace that pardons sin, overcomes the love of sin, satisfies the soul's deepest longings, and ends in eternal life), the breadth of the invitation ("whosoever will," with no reference to understanding, past character, feelings of repentance, or worthiness — the only question being whether you are willing), the clea...

Spurgeon builds his case for not grieving the Holy Spirit on two foundations: first, the Spirit's love — surveyed through his early striving with us before conversion, his patient perseverance when we resisted him, his work in quickening and teaching us, his help when we cannot pray, his indwelling despite our constant sin — arguing that this record of tender, costly, persistent love makes grieving him a particularly sh...

Spurgeon works through the Everlasting Covenant systematically — identifying the contracting parties as the three persons of the Trinity (not God and man), the stipulations as the Father promising to give his elect to the Son and the Spirit promising to quicken and preserve them, the Son promising to live, die, rise, and intercede until every one is safely delivered — and insists that its "everlasting" character means i...

Spurgeon takes the divided heart as a spiritual disease of the most dangerous kind — dangerous because it strikes a vital organ, because its victim is unconscious of how loathsome it is, because it is chronic and deep-seated, and above all because the heart flatters its owner into thinking everything is fine — and he identifies its four main symptoms: formality in religion (defending the shell because there is no kernel...

In this sermon, Spurgeon uses the story of Jonah and Nineveh to show how seriously people should take God’s warnings about sin and judgment. He describes how the Ninevites suddenly realized their guilt, the shortness of their time, and the terror of the destruction coming upon them. Even though Jonah offered no promise of mercy, they still repented because they believed there was a chance—“Who can tell?”&mda...

Spurgeon takes Paul's phrase "to depart and be with Christ" and unpacks it in three movements: first, what death actually is for the believer — not an arrest, not a plunge into darkness, but a quiet departure like a ship leaving harbor, the visible part being simply a calm leave-taking from everything loved on earth; second, what waits on the other side — not a long interval but an immediate arrival, where "to be with C...

Spurgeon takes Colossians 2:15 as an invitation to view the cross not through the eyes of worldly shame but through the eyes of faith — and describes the cross as Christ's actual battlefield, where he fought Satan, sin, and death in a cosmic war that reached its crisis at Calvary, disarmed every enemy by taking their weapons, stripped them of their armor and their crowns, and then divided the spoil as a conqueror does when th...

Spurgeon exposes the sin of "limiting God" through two main forms — dictating to him and distrusting him — showing how believers dictate when they demand specific answers to prayer in their own chosen form, by their own chosen means, on their own chosen timetable, and how they distrust when they declare their trials too great for his power, give up praying for hardened loved ones because months have passed, or decide th...