sermonindex
/
audio_api
mirror of https://github.com/sermonindex/audio_api.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Releases Activity
audio_api/speaker/c_h_spurgeon.json

2620 lines
193 KiB
JSON
Raw Permalink Blame History

{
"name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"image": "\/images\/c_h_spurgeon.gif",
"description": "C.H. Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker C.H. Spurgeon in mp3 format. Spurgeon quickly became known as one of the most influential preachers of his time. Well known for his biblical powerful expositions of scripture and oratory ability. In modern evangelical circles he is stated to be the \"Prince of Preachers.\" He pastored the Metropolitan Tabernacle in downtown London, England. \r\n\r\nHis church was part of a particular baptist church movement and they defended and preached Christ and Him crucified and the purity of the Gospel message. Spurgeon never gave altar calls but always extended the invitation to come to Christ. He was a faithful minister in his time that glorified God and brought many to the living Christ.",
"sermons": [
{
"title": "'Eyes Right'",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14343",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Proverbs 4:25",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cLet thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.\u201d Proverbs 4:25. THESE words occur in a passage wherein the wise man exhorts us to take care of all parts of our nature, which he indicates by members of the body. \u201cKeep thy heart,\u201d says he, \u201cwith all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.\u201d It is clear that every part of our nature needs to be carefully watched, lest in any way it should become the cause of sin. Any one member or faculty is readily able to defile all the rest, and therefore every part must be guarded with care. We have selected for our meditation the verse which deals with the eye. These windows of light need to be watched in their incomings, lest that which we take into our soul should be darkness rather than light; and they need to be watched in their outgoings, lest the glances of the eye should be full of iniquity, or should suggest foolish thoughts. Hence the wise man advises, \u201cLet thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.\u201d",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14343-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Proverbs",
"chapter": "4"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Call to Holy Living",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11505",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Matthew 5:47",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD'S DAY MORNING, JANUARY 14TH, 1872, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cWhat do ye more than others?\u201d \u2014 Matthew 5:47. IT is a very great fault in any ministry if the doctrine of justification by faith alone be not most clearly taught. I will go further, and add, that it is not only a great fault, but a fatal one; for souls will never find their way to heaven by a ministry that is indistinct upon the most fundamental of gospel truths. We are justified by faith, and not by the works of the law. The merit by which a soul enters heaven is not its own; it is the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am quite sure that you will all hold me guiltless of ever having spoken about this great doctrine in any other than unmistakable language; if I have erred, it is not in that direction. At the same time, it is a dangerous state of things if doctrine is made to drive out precept, and faith is held up as making holiness a superfluity. Sanctification must not be forgotten or overlaid by justification. We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God. It is not by personal holiness that a man shall enter heaven, but yet without holiness shall no man see the Lord.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11505-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "5"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Christmas Question",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3034",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "Spurgeon's sermon is most apt in the true calling for a Christian. One person pointed to the fact that Spurgeon bought presents for orphans at Christmas. Why should he not - when all others were indulging their own sensuous desires and not looking to uplift those who need help, comfort and the love of Christ the most.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3034-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "A Divided Heart",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1702",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Hosea 10:2",
"topic": "Divided",
"description": "Charles Spurgeon said in a 1859 sermon that the main fault with the Church was that it is not only divided \u00e2\u20ac\u0153somewhat\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in its creeds and ordinances, it is also \u00e2\u20ac\u0153somewhat\u00e2\u20ac\u009d divided in its heart. When Christians no longer can love each other unconditionally, when divisions in doctrine become so acid that we cannot cooperate, when we can no longer extend the hand of fellowship to those with whom we disagree, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153then, indeed, is the Church of God found faulty.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1702-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Hosea",
"chapter": "10"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Free Salvation",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1650",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Isaiah 55:1",
"topic": "",
"description": "Delivered on Friday Afternoon, June 11, 1858 \"Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.\"\u2014Isaiah 55:1. In this sermon Spurgeon wonderfully offers the Gospel, \"without money and without price\" to everyone w ho is able to \"know enough to know yourself a lost sinner, and Christ a great Saviour.\" He pleads with poor sinners that no matter how great their sin may be, his mercy is, and always will be, greater. He takes use of many examples of people who try to get into heaven with money, with price. He explains how many people without God spend their days trying not to focus on Eternity, and trying to focus instead on the temporal. He charges the person thus without God to instead dare ponder his own soul's destination, that he will spend forever in Hell until he turns to the cross of Christ. Then he offers a firm and resolute \"entreat to believe on the Lord Jesus.\"",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1650-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Isaiah",
"chapter": "55"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Golden Prayer",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11531",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "John 12:28",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30TH, 1877, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cFather, glorify thy name.\u201d-John 12:28. IN the first part of my discourse this morning I shall strictly keep to my text, as the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and endeavor to show what it teaches us with regard to him. These are his own words, and it would be robbery to borrow them until first we have seen what they meant as they fell from his lips. Their most golden meaning must be seen in the light of his sacred countenance. Then, in the second part of my sermon, I shall try to point out how the petition before us may be used by ourselves, and I pray that divine grace may be given us that it may be engraven upon our hearts, and that each one of us may be taught by the Holy Spirit daily to say for himself, \u201cFather, glorify thy name.\u201d I would suggest That these words should be to all the Lord's people in this church their motto for another year, and, indeed, their prayer throughout life. It will as well beseem the beginner in grace as the ripe believer; it will be proper both at the wicket-gate of faith, and at the portals of glory. Like a lovely rainbow let the prayer, \u201cFather, glorify thy name,\u201d over-arch the whole period of our life on earth. I cannot suggest a better petition for the present moment, nor indeed for any moment of our pilgrimage. Let us close the old year with it, and open the door of the new to the same note.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11531-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "12"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Lecture for Little-Faith",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1647",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "2 Thessalonians 1:3",
"topic": "",
"description": "Delivered on Sabbath Morning, July 18, 1858Spurgeon here gives a magnificent exposition on \"little-faith\" and \"great-faith.\" He offers some wise ways to strengthen your faith. He proposes to dwell upon the promises of God, associate yourself with Godly men, die to self, and go through great trouble. For, \"we don't grow strong in faith on sunshiny days. It is only in strong weather that a man gets faith.\" Spurgeon then offers a striking and wonderful appeal to the \"pew-warmer,\" which I am compelled to include: Do you want to get your faith strong? Use it. You lazy lie-a-bed Christians, that go up to your churches and chapels, and take your seats, and hear our sermons, and talk about getting good, but never think about doing good; ye that are letting hell fill beneath you, and yet are too idle to stretch out your hands to pluck brands from the eternal burning; ye that see sin running down your streets, yet can never put so much as your foot to turn or stem the current, I wonder not that you have to complain of the littleness of your faith. It ought to be little; you do but little. And why should God give you more strength than you mean to use. Strong faith must always be an exercised faith.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1647-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "2 Thessalonians",
"chapter": "1"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Paradox",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13292",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "2 Corinthians 12:10",
"topic": "",
"description": "The expression is paradoxical, and seems somewhat singular; yet it was the experience of the apostle Paul, a man of calm spirit, by no means fanciful, a wise man, and far removed from a fanatic. It was the experience of one who was led of the Spirit of God, and therefore it was a gracious experience: the experience of one who was a father in Israel, who could safely bid us to be imitators of him, even as he imitated the Lord Jesus Christ; and therefore it was a safe experience. If we are weak, so was Paul; and if, like him, we are strong in our weakness, we shall be in the best of company. If the same things be seen in us which were wrought in the apostle of the Gentiles, we may join with him in glorying in infirmities, because the power of Christ doth rest upon us, and we may count ourselves happy that with such a saint we can cry, \u201cWhen I am weak, then am I strong.\u201d I. Perhaps I can expound the text best if I first TURN IT THE OTHER WAY UP, and use it as a warning. When I am strong, then am I weak. Perhaps, while thinking of the text thus turned inside out, we shall be getting light upon it to be used when we view it with the right side outwards, and see that when we are weak, then we are strong. I am quite sure that some people think themselves very strong, and are not so...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13292-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "2 Corinthians",
"chapter": "12"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Portrait No Artist Can Paint",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11522",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Revelation 1:16",
"topic": "",
"description": "INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD'S-DAY, JANUARY 3RD, 1897, DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, APRIL 26TH, 1885. \u201cHe had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.\u201d \u2014 Revelation 1:16. WHILE reading this description given by John of what he saw in the isle called Patmos, I think you must have noticed that it would be quite impossible for any painter to depict it upon canvas, and equally impossible for any sculptor to embody it in stone or marble. Those who have attempted to copy the lines here given have signally failed; they may paint a picture of the garment down to the feet, and the golden girdle; but the rest, if it be viewed from an artist's aspect, would be found to be incongruous: \u201cHis head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.\u201d No great painter would ever venture to give us a portrait of our Lord with his head and his hair \u201cwhite like wool, as white as snow.\u201d If he did, it would be quite impossible to depict eyes that were \u201cas a flame of fire.\u201d How would it be possible to make us realize, with the aid of any pen or pencil, that his feet were \u201clike unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace\u201d?",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11522-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Revelation",
"chapter": "1"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Psalm of Remembrance",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1718",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "1 John 4:16",
"topic": "",
"description": "Delivered on Sabbath Morning, May 22nd, 1859. In this wonderful sermon, Spurgeon enlarges upon the \"love that God hath to us,\" which we have \"known and believed.\" He discourses here on \"knowing\" God's love for you, and \"believing\" in it, a two-fold experience. On knowing God's love for us, Spurgeon says that through seeing it in our lives, feeling it through the intimacy of Christ, and lastly through the witness of the Spirit do we come to know it. Then, there are seasons when \"all strength and hope are gone,\" and we \"behold nothing but the uttermost depths of despair.\" Now this person may not know God's love for him, but he can still believe in it. \"To believe it when you do not feel it, is the noblest,\" Spurgeon says. Then he expands on how God's love to us is undeserved, for there \"was nothing in us that could have caused it,\" there was never \"anything in us by nature that he could love.\" Oh, What an amazing thought to ponder on! Furthermore he says, \"the love of God towards us is free, sovereign, undeserved, and springs entirely from the overflowing love of his own heart, and is not caused by anything in us.\"",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1718-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "1 John",
"chapter": "4"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Serious Remonstrance",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13279",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "2 Kings 5:13",
"topic": "",
"description": "I am somewhat myself in the position of Elijah, when Naaman, the Syrian, came dashing up with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of the prophet. There are before me in this house, I fear, many who are spiritually diseased. Your motive for coming up to this assembly should be to hear the gospel, and to discover the remedy by which your spiritual disease may be removed. But what, let me ask, are really the thoughts that occupy your minds? I can suppose that you are looking for different things from me. One, perhaps, imagines that something will be said odd and strange that shall provoke a smile: another imagines that I shall labor to make some display of elocution and speak tender words softly, like flakes of featherd snow melting as they fall, and so draw forth the silent, graceful tear. When both of these are alike disappointed, you will probably say to yourselves, \u201cWell, it is only the old story we used to hear when we went to the Sunday-school; it is just what we have listened to Sunday after Sunday, till we turn away surfeited with it. It is, believe in Jesus Christ and live; there is nothing fresh or new to stimulate our intellect; nothing original to whet our curiosity...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13279-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "2 Kings",
"chapter": "5"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Song Among the Lilies",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11517",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Song of Solomon 2:18",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, AUGUST 30TH, 1874, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cMy beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.\u201d \u2014 Song of Solomon 2:16. LAST Sabbath, in our morning's sermon, we began at the beginning and described the turning point in which the sinner sets his face towards his God, and for the first time gives practical evidence of spiritual life in his soul. He bestirs himself, he goes to his Father's house, and speedily is pressed to his Father's bosom, forgiven, accepted, and rejoiced over. This morning we are going far beyond that stage, to a position which I may call the very crown and summit of the spiritual life. We would conduct you from the door-step to the innermost chamber, from the outer court to the Holy of Holies, and we pray the Holy Spirit to enable each one of us who have entered in by Christ Jesus, the door, to pass boldly into the secret place of the tabernacles of the Host High, and sing with joyful heart the words of our text, \u201cMy beloved is mine, and I am his.\u201d \u201cFor he is mine and I am his, The God whom I adore; My Father, Savior, Comforter, Now and for evermore.\u201d The passage describes a high state of grace, and it is worthy of note that the description is full of Christ. This is instructive, for this is not an exceptional case, it is only one fulfillment of a general rule. Our estimate of Christ is the best gauge of our spiritual condition...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11517-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Song of Solomon",
"chapter": "2"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Type and Its Teaching",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11506",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Genesis 22:8",
"topic": "Offering",
"description": "PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 3RD, 1916. DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Genesis 22:8. How stern the trial; how striking the triumph; how sublime, both in action and passion, was the faith of Abraham in that terrible crisis. It pleased God to try him on a very tender point. Abraham had received a great promise, on the fulfillment of which he greatly relied. Year after year elapsed, but no sign of the long-looked-for child appeared. At length old age crept over the patriarch and his wife. Still he looked steadfastly for the promise, because he believed implicitly in the Promiser. He considered not the infirmities of his own body, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb; but he waited patiently, nothing doubting that God would in due time, according to his promise, give him a son. What marvel that this son, when born, should be the object of his fondest affection! Moreover, a strange halo of hope gathers round the lad's head, for God has made him the heir of a covenant. It is in Isaac and in Isaac's seed that God will fulfill his covenant which he has made with Abraham. Nay, something more mysterious still is linked with that youth's life. It is in him that all the nations of the earth must be blessed. And now when the Lord says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Take thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there is a cut in every word at the most tender part of Abraham's soul.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11506-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Genesis",
"chapter": "22"
}
]
},
{
"title": "A Vision of the Latter-Day Glories",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1721",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1721-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "A Voice From Heaven",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11496",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Revelation 14:12,13",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cHere is the patience of the salute: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.\u201d \u2014 Revelation 14:12, 13. THE text speaks of a voice from heaven which said, \u201cBlessed are the dead which die in the Lord.\u201d The witness of that voice is not needed upon every occasion, for even the commonest observer is compelled to feel concerning many of the righteous that their deaths are blessed. Balaam, with all his moral shortsightedness, could say, \u201cLet me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.\u201d That is the case when death comes in peaceful fashion. The man has lived a calm, godly, consistent life; he has lived as long as he could well have wished to live, and in dying he sees his children and his children's children gathered around his bed. What a fine picture the old man makes, as he sits up with that snowy head supported by snowy pillows. Hear him as he tells his children that goodness and mercy have followed him all the days of his life, and now he is going to dwell in the house of the Lord for ever...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11496-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Revelation",
"chapter": "14"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Accidents, Not Punishments",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1731",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1731-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Accidents, Not Punishments",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11526",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Luke 13:1-5",
"topic": "Repentance",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER THE 8TH, 1861, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem! I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Luke 13:1-5. THE year 1861 will have a notoriety among its fellows as the year of calamities. Just at that season when man goeth forth to reap the fruit of his labors, when the harvest of the earth is ripe, and the barns are beginning to burst with the new wheat, Death too, the mighty reaper, has come forth to cut down his harvest; full sheaves have been gathered into his garner \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the tomb, and terrible have been the wailings which compose the harvest hymn of death. In reading the newspapers during the last two weeks, even the most stolid must have been the subject of very painful feelings. Not only have there been catastrophes so alarming that the blood chills at their remembrance, but column after column of the paper has been devoted to calamities of a minor degree of horror...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11526-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Luke",
"chapter": "13"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Additions to the Church",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11520",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Acts 2:47",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, APRIL 5TH, 1874, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cAnd the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.\u201d\u2014 Acts 2:47. WE are just coming to the most beautiful season of the year \u2014 the spring, when everything around us is shaking off the chill grave clothes of winter, and putting on the beautiful array of a new life. The church of God was in that condition at Pentecost, her winter was past, and the flowers appeared on the earth. She enjoyed the spring breezes, for the breath of the Holy Spirit refreshed her garden: there was spring music \u2014 the time of the singing of birds was come, for her preachers testified faithfully of Jesus, and so many and varied were the sweet notes which welcomed the new season, that many nations of men heard in their own tongue the wonderful works of God. There was, also, the spring blossoming, the fig tree put forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes gave a good smell, for all around multitudes inquired, \u201cMen and brethren, what must we do?\u201d and many also avowed their faith in Jesus. There were the spring showers of repentance, the spring sun-gleams of joy in the Holy Ghost and the spring flowers of newly-given hope and faith. May we behold just such another spring time in all the churches of Jesus Christ throughout the world, and meanwhile let us arouse ourselves suitable to so gladsome a season. Let us rise up and meet the Well-Beloved ...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11520-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "2"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Alas For Us, If Though Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5413",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "1 Corinthians 15:19",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cIf in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.\u201d \u2014 1 Corinthians 15:19. We will try and handle our text this morning in this way. First, we are not of all men most miserable; but secondly, without the hope of another life we should be - that we are prepared to confess \u2014 because thirdly, our chief joy lies in the hope of a life to come; and thus, fourthly, the future influences the present; and so, in the last place, we may to-day judge what our future is to be.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5413-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "1 Corinthians",
"chapter": "15"
}
]
},
{
"title": "All Fulness in Christ",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14344",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Colossians 1:19",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cFor it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.\u201d \u2014 Colossians 1:19. THE preacher is under no difficulties this morning as to the practical object to be aimed at in his discourse. Every subject should be considered with an object, every discourse should have a definite spiritual aim; otherwise we do not so much preach as play at preaching. The connection plainly indicates what our drift should be. Read the words immediately preceding the text, and you find it declared that our Lord Jesus is in all things to have the pre-eminence. We would seer; by this text to yield honor and glory to the ever-blessed Redeemer, and enthrone him in the highest seat in our hearts. O that we may all be in an adoring frame of mind, and may give him the pre-eminence in our thoughts, beyond all things or persons in heaven or earth. Blessed is he who can do or think: the most to honor such a Lord as our Immanuel. The verse which succeeds the text, shows us how we may best promote the glory of Christ, for since he came into this world that he might reconcile the things in heaven and the things in earth to himself, we shall best glorify him by falling in with his great design of mercy. By seeking to bring sinners into a state of reconciliation with God, we are giving to the great Reconciler the pre-eminence...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14344-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Colossians",
"chapter": "1"
}
]
},
{
"title": "An Appeal to Sinners",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1644",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1644-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "An Earnest Warning Against Lukewarmness",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11510",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Revelation 3:14-21",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, JULY 26TH, 1874, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cUnto the angel of the church of the Laodiocans write, These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God, I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.\u201d \u2014 Revelation 3:14-21. No Scripture ever wears out. The epistle to the church of Laodicea is not an old letter which may be put into the waste basket and be forgotten; upon its page still glow the words, \u201cHe that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11510-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Revelation",
"chapter": "3"
}
]
},
{
"title": "As We Have Heard, So Have We Seen",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14347",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalm 48:8",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cAs we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever.\u201d-Psalm 48:8. 'As we have heard, so have we seen': this is seldom true. In many places we see what we have not heard, and what we have heard we do not see. Time was when many simpletons believed that the streets of London were paved with gold. I am sure I do not know any part of London in which a single lump of that metal can be found in the footway. Ten thousand idle tales there are in every country, of mines where fortunes may be dug out of the earth, and plains where wealth forces itself on the immigrant; but how seldom do we hear the good news, 'As we have heard, so have we seen.' But when you come into the 'City of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God,' the reports about it are true, and the truth exceeds the report; for, like the Queen of Sheba, we cry, 'The half was not told me.' When we speak of the privileges of the Church of God on earth it is impossible to exaggerate. 'Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.' Behold, what blessings, what riches, what royalties the Lord Jesus bestows upon his chosen! How cleansed they are by his blood! How quickened by his life! How honored by his glorious enthronement at the right hand of the Father...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14347-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "48"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Barriers Broken Down",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13293",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Romans 10:3",
"topic": "",
"description": "You that have your Bibles open, kindly follow me from the first verse of the chapter. It begins, 'Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.' If you really desire that men should be saved, pray for them. It is an empty wish, a mere formality, if you do not turn it into prayer. Every loving desire for any man or woman should, by the believer, be taken before God in prayer. We cannot expect that God will save men unless his people pray for it. There must be travail before the birth, and there must be travail in prayer with God before we can expect that many will be born again into the church of God. Oh, for more prayer! Let us cry to God in secret, and in the family, and in all our assemblies, that God would save the sons of men. But prayer, if it is sincere, is always attended with effort. Hence the apostle begins to teach as well as to pray. He prays that Israel might be saved, and then he explains the difficulties in the way, and tries to remove them. You pray, dear friend, do you? But you never speak to the individual for whom you pray. Is your prayer sincere? I will not question it. But...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13293-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Romans",
"chapter": "10"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Canaan On Earth",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1668",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1668-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Christ -- Our Substitute",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1685",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1685-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Christ Crucified",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1677",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1677-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13276",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Zechariah 6:13",
"topic": "",
"description": "HEAVEN singeth evermore. Before the throne of God, angels and redeemed saints extol his name. And this world is singing too; sometimes with the loud noise of the rolling thunder, of the boiling sea, of the dashing cataract, and of the lowing cattle; and often with that still, solemn harmony, which floweth from the vast creation, when in its silence it praises God. Such is the song which gushes in silence from the mountain lifting its head to the sky, covering its face sometimes with the wings of mist, and at other times unveiling its snow-white brow before its Maker, and reflecting back his sunshine, gratefully thanking him for the light with which it has been made to glisten, and for the gladness of which it is the solitary spectator, as in its grandeur it looks down upon the laughing valleys. The tune to which heaven and earth are set, is the same. In heaven they sing, \u201cThe Lord be exalted; let his name be magnified for ever.\u201d And the earth singeth the same: \u201cGreat art thou in thy works, O Lord! and unto thee be glory.\u201d It would seem, therefore, a strange anomaly if the church, the temple of the living God, should be void of song...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13276-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Zechariah",
"chapter": "6"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Christ Our Passover",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1669",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1669-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Christ Precious to Believers",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1725",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1725-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Christ's Love to His Spouse",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5067",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Ephesians 5:26",
"topic": "",
"description": "With great reverence, let us think, first, of how Christ loves the church; then, secondly, how he has proved his love by giving himself for the church; and then, thirdly, let us make the practical enquiry, how shall we think of this wondrous love of Christ?",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5067-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Ephesians",
"chapter": "5"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Church Increase",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5065",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Isaiah 49:20-21",
"topic": "",
"description": "I do not expect to say anything upon this subject which will interest those who have no love for the Church of God; but those who belong to her, and who are spending their lives to promote her welfare because she is the bride of Christ, will, I trust, find something in what I say which will interest and perhaps encourage them. I shall come at once to the text, and notice that, first, we must expect a measure of decrease in the Church; but then, secondly, we may expect a great increase in the Church; and, thirdly, from what this text has to say upon that subject, and for other reasons also, we ought to be encouraged to seek the increase of the Church of God.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5065-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Isaiah",
"chapter": "49"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Classic Charles Spurgeon Quotes",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3301",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3301-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Comfort Proclaimed",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1643",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1643-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Compel Them to Come In",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11509",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Luke 14:23",
"topic": "Witnessing",
"description": "DELIVERED ON DECEMBER 5TH, 1858, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE MUSIC HALL, ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Compel them to come in.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Luke 14:23. I FEEL in such a haste to go out and obey this commandment this morning, by compelling those to come in who are now tarrying in the highways and hedges, that I cannot wait for an introduction, but must at once set about my business. Hear then, O ye that are strangers to the truth as it is in Jesus \u00e2\u20ac\u201d hear then the message that I have to bring you. Ye have fallen, fallen in your father Adam; ye have fallen also in yourselves, by your daily sin and your constant iniquity; you have provoked the anger of the Most High; and as assuredly as you have sinned, so certainly must God punish you if you persevere in your iniquity, for the Lord is a God of justice, and will by no means spare the guilty. But have you not heard, hath it not long been spoken in your ears, that God, in his infinite mercy, has devised a way whereby, without any infringement upon his honor, he can have mercy upon you, the guilty and the undeserving? To you I speak; and my voice is unto you, O sons of men; Jesus Christ, very God of very God, hath descended from heaven, and was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. Begotten of the Holy Ghost, he was born of the Virgin Mary; he lived in this world a life of exemplary holiness, and of the deepest suffering, till at last he gave himself up to die for our sins, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.'...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11509-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Luke",
"chapter": "14"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Compel Them to Come In",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1640",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1640-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Consider Before You Fight",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13288",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Luke 14:31-32",
"topic": "Fighting",
"description": "EVERY sensible man endeavors to adapt his purposes to his strength. He does not begin to build a house which he will not be able to finish, nor commence a war which he cannot hope to fight through. The religion of Christ is the most reasonable one in the world, and Jesus Christ never desires to have any disciples who shall blindly follow him without counting the cost. We always esteem it to be a happy thing when we can get men to sit down and consider. The most of you are so full of other thoughts, so occupied with the world, ever running hither and thither about your ordinary business, that we cannot get you to think, or calmly sit down, and soberly look at things as in the light of eternity, and weigh them deliberately as you ought. And yet it is only reasonable that the Master should ask of you to do for him with regard to your own spiritual matters, what you will admit that every sensible man does in his business continually. You are poor traders if you never have any stock-takings: you are likely to be ere long in the bankruptcy court if there is no periodical examination...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13288-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Luke",
"chapter": "14"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Constant, Instant, Expectant",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11528",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Romans 12:12",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, JUNE 22ND, 1879, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cContinuing instant in prayer.\u201d - Romans 12:12. THIS is placed in connection with a large number of brief but very weighty precepts. Prayer has a distinct relationship to all Christian duties and graces. It is not possible for us to carry out the holy commands of our Lord Jesus unless we are abundant in supplication. The Romans at the time that Paul wrote to them were subject to persecution, and in this verse he mentions two remedies for impatience under such afflictions, remedies which are equally effectual under all the trials of life. The old physicians tell us of two antidotes against poison, the hot and the cold, and they dilate upon the special excellence of each of these: in like manner the apostle Paul gives us first the warm antidote - \u201cRejoicing in hope,\u201d and then he gives us the cool antidote, \u201cPatient in tribulation.\u201d Either of these, or both together, will work wonderfully for the sustaining of the spirit in the hour of affliction; but it is to be observed, that neither of these remedies can be taken into the soul except they be mixed with a draught of prayer. Joy and patience are curative essences, but they must be dropped into a glass full of supplication, and then they will be wonderfully efficient. How can we \u201crejoice in hope\u201d if we know nothing about prayer to the God of hope.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11528-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Romans",
"chapter": "12"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Corn in Egypt",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1635",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1635-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Dare to be a Daniel",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5070",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Daniel 1:8",
"topic": "",
"description": "I am going to talk just now, not so much about Daniel, as about the whole subject of a spirit of decision in such a time as this. Our first head will be that, there are temptations to be resisted by us, as there were by Daniel; secondly, there are right methods of resisting temptation; and, thirdly, there are certain points which will have to be proved by experience while we are in this process of fighting against temptation.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5070-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Daniel",
"chapter": "1"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Distinguishing Grace",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1707",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1707-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Do You Know Him?",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13290",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Philippians 3:10",
"topic": "",
"description": "THE object of the apostle's life-that for which he sacrificed everything: country, kindred, honor, comfort, liberty, and life itself, was, that he might know Christ. Observe that this is not Paul's prayer as an unconverted man, that he may know Christ, and so be saved; for it follows upon the previous supplication that he might win Christ and be found in him. This is the desire of one who has been saved, who enjoys the full conviction that his sins are pardoned, and that he is in Christ. It is only the regenerated and saved man who can feel the desire, \u201cThat I may know him.\u201d Are you astonished that a saved man should have such a desire as this? A moment's reflection will remove your astonishment. Imagine for a moment that you are living in the age of the Roman emperors. You have been captured by Roman soldiers and dragged from your native country; you have been sold for a slave, stripped, whipped, branded, imprisoned, and treated with shameful cruelty. At last yon are appointed to die in the amphitheatre, to make holiday for a tyrant. The populace assemble with delight. There they are, tens of thousands of them, gazing down from the living sides of the capacious Colosseum. You stand alone, and naked, armed only with a single dagger-a poor defense against gigantic beasts. A ponderous door is...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13290-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Philippians",
"chapter": "3"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Election",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1672",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1672-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Everybody's Sermon",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1646",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1646-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Faith Illustrated",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1704",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1704-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Faith Victorious",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14350",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Matthew 15:21-28",
"topic": "",
"description": "Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David, my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.' - Matthew 15:21-28. WE learn from this chapter, dear friends, that our Master was tired of battling with hypocrites and formalists, and therefore withdrew himself from them. They had come to him with their foolish charges that his disciples did not observe the traditions of the elders, and they made a great fuss about meats, and drinks, and washing of hands, and all sorts of trifles...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14350-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "15"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Faith in Perfection",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1638",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1638-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "False Professors Solemnly Warned",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID15600",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Philippians 3:18,19",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID15600-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Philippians",
"chapter": "3"
}
]
},
{
"title": "For Whom is the Gospel Meant?",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5412",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "1 Timothy 1:15,Romans 5:8,Mark 2:17",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cThey that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.\u201d -Mark 2:17. \u201cChrist died for the ungodly.\u201d-Romans 5:6. \u201cGod commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.\u201d-Romans 5:8. \u201cThis is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.\u201d-1 Timothy 1:15. Out of a very great number I have selected the four texts which I have read just to set forth the truth that the mission of our Lord related to sinners. What did Christ come into the world for? For whom did he come? These are questions of the greatest importance, and they are clearly answered in Scripture.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5412-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "1 Timothy",
"chapter": "1"
},
{
"book": "Romans",
"chapter": "5"
},
{
"book": "Mark",
"chapter": "2"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Free Grace",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1636",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1636-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Free Will -- A Slave",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1670",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1670-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "God's Cure for Man's Weakness",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11527",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Hebrews 11:34",
"topic": "",
"description": "GOD'S CURE FOR MAN'S WEAKNESS. DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 24TH, 1866, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cOut of weakness were made strong.\u201d-Hebrews 11:34. SOME kinds of weakness are of God's appointment, and necessarily incident to manhood; they are not sinful, and, therefore, we may continue to be subject to them without regret. In reference to such weaknesses it may be that after beseeching the Lord even thrice to remove them, it may be for our good that they should remain. Then will our gracious God give us, in place of removing the weakness, this reply, \u201cMy grace shall be sufficient for thee.\u201d This is a case of in weakness made strong, and there are many of God's saints who daily experience so blessed a privilege. They are weak, and continue weak; they have infirmities which they once wished to have removed, but which now they are content to bear; for now they are of the same mind with the apostle, that they glory in their infirmity, because when they are weak they are strong. But, dear friends, there is another kind of weakness which is sinful, a weakness which springs not from nature but from fallen nature; not from God's appointment, but from our sinfulness, and out of this we should desire to be delivered. We cannot pray for strength in sinful weakness, but must earnestly plead for strength to come out of it and to be made strong.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11527-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Hebrews",
"chapter": "11"
}
]
},
{
"title": "God's Will About the Future",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11508",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "James 4:13-17",
"topic": "",
"description": "INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD'S-DAY, FEBRUARY 7TH, 1892, DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16TH, 1890. \u201cGo to now, ye that say, to day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.\u201d \u2014 James 4:13-17 MEN today are just the same as when these words were first written. We still find people saying what they are going to do today, tomorrow, or in six months time, at the end of another year, and perhaps still further. I have no doubt there are persons here who have their own career mapped out before them pretty distinctly, and they feel well-nigh certain that they will realize it all. We are like the men of the past; and this Book, though it has been written so long, might have been written yesterday, so exactly does it describe human nature as it is at the end of this nineteenth century. The text applies with very peculiar force when our friends and fellowworkers are passing away from us. Sickness and death have been busy in our midst....",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11508-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "James",
"chapter": "4"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Grieving the Holy Spirit",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1701",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1701-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Heaven and Hell",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1673",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1673-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "High Doctrine",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13285",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "2 Corinthians 5:18",
"topic": "",
"description": "I WOULD have you look on this text as being a summary of all the things which we have preached to you these years. It has been my endeavor, constantly and continually, to maintain that salvation is of God's good will, and not of man's free will; that man is nothing, and that Jesus Christ is both Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. And I think I may truly say, \u201cNow of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum\u201d \u2014 \u201call things are of God.\u201d And oh my brethren, what a large summary it is! it contains words which grasp the compass of everything that your mind can think upon \u2014 \u201call things;\u201d and it proclaims him to whom all things owe their being \u2014 \u201cGod.\u201d Grasp this total if you are able, \u201cAll things!\u201d What is here omitted? Surely whatsoever the Christian can desire is to be found in those words \u201cAll things.\u201d But lest even that should not be comprehensive enough, our summary contains a still greater word, one which is supreme over all inasmuch as all things spring from his loins, and yet he remaineth still the same, as full as ever. \u201cAll things are of God.\u201d If we be thirsty, here are streams that never can be exhausted. If we be hungry, surely here is bread enough and to spare.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13285-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "2 Corinthians",
"chapter": "5"
}
]
},
{
"title": "His Name -- The Mighty God",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1709",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1709-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "His Name -- Wonderful!",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2588",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2588-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "His Name -- the Counsellor",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1645",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1645-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Holy Violence",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1719",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1719-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "How Saints May Help the Devil",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2380",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2380-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "How to Read the Bible",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1676",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1676-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Humility",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11515",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Acts 20:19",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING,\r\nMARCH 17TH, 1861. BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. \u201cServing the Lord with all humility of mind.\u201d \u2014 Acts 20:19. IT is not often that a man may safely speak about his own humility. Humble men are mostly conscious of great pride, while those who are boastful of humility have nothing but false pretense, and really lack and want it. I question whether any of us are at all judges as to our pride or humility; for verily, pride so often assumes the shape of lowliness when it hath its own end to serve, and lowliness on the other hand is so perfectly compatible with a heavenly dignity of decision, that it is not easy at all times to discover which is the counterfeit and which is the precious and genuine coin. You will remember that in the case in our text, Paul speaks by inspiration. If it were not for this fact, I would not have believed even Paul himself when he spoke of his own humility. So distrustful do I feel of our judgment upon this point, that if he had not spoken under the infallible witness and guidance of the Holy Spirit, I should have said that the text was not true, and that when a man should say he served God with humbleness of mind, speaking merely from his own judgment, there was clear proof before you that he was a proud man. But Paul speaketh not to his own commendation, but with the sole motive of clearing his hands of the blood of all men.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11515-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "20"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Hypocrisy",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1695",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1695-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11523",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Jeremiah 32:26,27",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, APRIL 22ND, 1888, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cThen came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying, Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?\u201d-Jeremiah 32:26, 27. THIS method of questioning the person to be instructed is known to teachers as the Socratic method. Socrates was wont, not so much to state a fact, as to ask a question and draw out thoughts from those whom he taught. His method had long before been used by a far greater teacher. Putting questions is Jehovah's frequent method of instruction. When the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind it was with a series of questions. \u201cKnowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?\u201d and so forth. Questions from the Lord are very often the strongest affirmations. He would have us perceive their absolute certainty. They are put in this particular form because he would have us think over his great thought, and confirm it by our own reflections. The Lord shines upon us in the question, and our answer to it is the reflection of his light. The Infallible One challenges a contradiction, or even a doubt. \u201cIs anything too hard for me?\u201d is the strongest way of saying that nothing can be too hard for him...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11523-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Jeremiah",
"chapter": "32"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Israel's Hope or The Centre of the Target",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14349",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalm 130:7",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cLet Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.\u201d \u2014 Psalm 130:7. When he penned this psalm, the writer, David, was in deep distress, if not of circumstances, yet of conscience. He constantly mentions iniquities, and begs forgiveness. He felt like a shipwrecked mariner, carried overboard into the raging sea. Thus he reviews the situation - 'Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.' Yet he lived to tell the tale of deliverance. His prayer from among the waves was a memory worth preserving, and he does preserve it. The mercy of God to him he weaves into a song for us; and in this our text is found. Two things the rescued sufferer tells us. First, that, as God delivered him from the power of sin, so he will deliver all his praying, wrestling, believing people. That is the last verse of the psalm - He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.' The argument is - He delivered me. What am I more than others? The gracious Lord who saved me will save all those who call upon him in truth. He delivered me, though laden with iniquities, and his pardoning mercy is unfailing; and therefore he can and will rescue others from their uttermost distresses. This is a good line of reasoning, for the Lord's ways are constant, and he will do for all believers what he...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14349-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "130"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Jesus Christ Himself",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11518",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Ephesians 2:20",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9TH, 1877, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cJesus Christ himself.\u201d-Ephesians 2:20. \u201cJesus Christ himself\u201d is to occupy all our thoughts this morning. What an ocean opens up before me! Here is sea-room for the largest barque! In which direction shall I turn your thoughts? I am embarrassed with riches. I know not where to begin: and when I once begin where shall I end? Assuredly we need not go abroad for joys this morning, for we have a feast at home. The words are few, but the meaning vast- \u201cJesus Christ himself.\u201d Beloved, the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ contains in it nothing so wonderful as himself. It is a mass of marvels, but he is THE miracle of it; the wonder of wonders is \u201cThe Wonderful\u201d himself. If proof be asked of the truth which he proclaimed, we point men to Jesus Christ himself. His character is unique. We defy unbelievers to imagine another like him. He is God and yet man, and we challenge them to compose a narrative in which the two apparently incongruous characters shall be so harmoniously blended, - in which the human and divine shall he so marvelously apparent, without the one overshadowing the other. They question the authenticity of the four Gospels; will they try and write a fifth? Will they even attempt to add a few incidents to the life which shall be worthy of the sacred biography, and congruous with those facts which are already described?",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11518-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Ephesians",
"chapter": "2"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Jesus, The King of Truth",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11530",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "John 18:37",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19TH, 1872, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cPilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.\u201d \u2014 John 18:37. THE season is almost arrived when by the custom of our fellow-citizens we are led to remember the birth of the holy child Jesus, who was born \u201cking of the Jews.\u201d I shall not, however, conduct you to Bethlehem, but to the foot of Calvary; there we shall learn, from the Lord's own lips, something concerning the kingdom over which he rules, and thus we shall be led to prize more highly the joyous event of his nativity. We are told, by the apostle Paul, that our Lord Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. It was a good confession as to the manner of it, for our Lord was truthful, gentle, prudent, patient, meek, and yet, withal, uncompromising, and courageous. His spirit was not cowed by Pilate's power, nor exasperated by his sneers. In his patience he possessed his soul, and remained the model witness for the truth \u2014 both in his silence and in his speech. He witnessed a good confession also, as to the matter of it; for, though he said but little, that little was all that was needful.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11530-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "18"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Jesus, The King of Truth",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14354",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "John 18:37",
"topic": "",
"description": "'Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.' - John 18:37. THE season is almost arrived when by the custom of our fellow-citizens we are led to remember the birth of the holy child Jesus, who was born 'king of the Jews.' I shall not, however, conduct you to Bethlehem, but to the foot of Calvary; there we shall learn, from the Lord's own lips, something concerning the kingdom over which he rules, and thus we shall be led to prize more highly the joyous event of his nativity. We are told, by the apostle Paul, that our Lord Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. It was a good confession as to the manner of it, for our Lord was truthful, gentle, prudent, patient, meek, and yet, withal, uncompromising, and courageous. His spirit was not cowed by Pilate's power, nor exasperated by his sneers. In his patience he possessed his soul, and remained the model witness for the truth - both in his silence and in his speech. He witnessed a good confession also, as to the matter of it; for, though he said but little, that little was all that was needful...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14354-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "18"
}
]
},
{
"title": "John and Herod",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13281",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Mark 6:20",
"topic": "",
"description": "JOHN sought no honor among men. It was his delight to say concerning our Lord Jesus, \u201cHe must increase, but I must decrease.\u201d Yet, though John sought no honor of men, he had honor; for it is written, \u201cHerod feared John.\u201d Herod was a great monarch, John was but a poor preacher whose garment and diet were of the coarsest kind; but \u201cHerod feared John.\u201d John was more royal than royal Herod. His character made him the true king, and the nominal king trembled before him. A man is not to be estimated according to his rank, but according to his character. The peerage which God recognises is arranged according to a man's justice and holiness. He is first before God and holy angels who is first in obedience; and he reigns and is made a king and a priest whom God hath sanctified and clothed with the fair white linen of a holy life. Be not covetous of worldly honors, for you will have honor enough even from wicked men if your lives are \u201choliness unto the Lord.\u201d Let it be written on John's tomb, if he needs an epitaph, \u201cHerod feared John.\u201d Only there is one better testimonial which any minister of the gospel might be glad to receive, and it is this: \u201cJohn did no miracle, but all things which he spake concerning this man were true.\u201d",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13281-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Mark",
"chapter": "6"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Joseph's Bones",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13291",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Hebrews 11:22",
"topic": "",
"description": "WE cannot readily tell which action in a gracious life God may set the most store by. The Holy Spirit in this chapter selects out of good men's lives the most brilliant instances of their faith. I should hardly have expected that he would have mentioned the dying scene of Joseph's life as the most illustrious proof of his faith in God. That eventful life perhaps the most interesting in all sacred Scripture, with the exception of one, abounds with incidents, of which the Holy Spirit might have said by his servant Paul, \u201cBy faith Joseph did this and that,\u201d but none is mentioned save the closing scene. The triumph especially of his chastity under well-known and exceedingly severe temptation, might have been very properly traced to the power of his faith, but it is passed over, and the fact that he gave commandment concerning his bones is singled out as being the most illustrious proof of his faith. Does not this tell us, dear brethren and sisters, that we are very poor judges of what God will most delight in? Very likely when we least please ourselves God is best pleased with us. That prayer over which we groaned, and thought it was not prayer, may have had more true supplication in it than...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13291-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Hebrews",
"chapter": "11"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Joshua's Obedience",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11499",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Joshua 1:7",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cOnly be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.\u201d Joshua 1:7. JOSHUA was very highly favored in the matter of promises. The promises given him by God were broadly comprehensive and exceedingly encouraging. But Joshua was not therefore to say within himself, \u201cThese covenant engagements will surely be fulfilled, and I may therefore sit still and do nothing.\u201d On the contrary, because God had decreed that the land should be conquered, Joshua was to be diligent to lead the people onward to battle. He was not to use the promise as a couch upon which his indolence might luxuriate, but as a girdle wherewith to gird up his loins for future activity. As a spur to energy, let us always regard the gracious promises of our God. We should sin against him most ungratefully and detestably were we to say within ourselves, \u201cGod will not desert his people; therefore let us venture into sin;\u201d and we are almost equally wicked if we whisper in our own minds,\u201d God will assuredly fulfill his own decrees, and give the souls of his redeemed as a reward to his Son Jesus. therefore let us do nothing, and refrain altogether from zealous Christian service.\u201d This is not proper language for true children...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11499-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Joshua",
"chapter": "1"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Joy in God",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5064",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Romans 5:11",
"topic": "",
"description": "I am going to answer three questions. First, what is joy in God? Secondly, how is this the evidence of reconciliation? \u201cWe joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.\u201d And, thirdly, why is it that this joy is said to be through our Lord Jesus Christ?",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5064-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Romans",
"chapter": "5"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Justice Satisfied",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1716",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1716-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Justification By Faith Alone - Part 1",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3298",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3298-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Justification By Faith Alone - Part 2",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3299",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3299-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Let Us Go Forth",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11521",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Hebrews 13:13",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 26TH, 1861, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cLet us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.\u201d- Hebrews 13:13. MODERN professors have discovered a very easy way of religion. There is a method by which a man may attain to great reputation as a Christian, and yet avoid all the trials of the believer's estate. He may go through the world finding his path as smoothly turfed as the flesh could desire. Blessed with the smiles of friendly formalists, and with the admiration of the ungodly, he may pass from his first entrance into the Church to his grave without experiencing so much as a single shower to damp his delight; but, on the contrary, the sun may smile sweetly upon him all the way, the birds may sing, not a raven may dare to croak, not a single owl may hoot; his road to glory and immortality shall be all that ease could wish. Let him adopt the modern theory of universal charity; let him believe that a lie is a truth, and that whether it be a lie or a truth is of no consequence at all; let him be complacent towards every man; and with a smooth and oily tongue, chime in with every other man's principles, having none of his own worth mentioning; let him trim his sails whenever the wind changes; let him in all things do in Rome as Rome does; let him yield at all times to the current and float gently with the stream, and he shall come to the haven -though I fear...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11521-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Hebrews",
"chapter": "13"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Limiting God",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1703",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1703-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Little Sins",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1722",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1722-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Love",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1639",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1639-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Man's Ruin and God's Remedy",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1698",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1698-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Man's Ruin and God's Remedy",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11502",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Numbers 21:8",
"topic": "",
"description": "MAN'S RUIN AND GOD'S REMEDY. DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, NOVEMBER 20TH, 1859, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE MUSIC HALL, ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. \u201cAnd the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.\u201d \u2014 Numbers 21:8. I DO not propose this morning to explain again the mystery of the brazen serpent. As many of you well remember, not long ago I preached upon that subject, and endeavored to expound it in all its lengths and breadths. I have a somewhat similar object at the present time, the details may indeed be different, but after all the moral will be the same. Man has very many wants, and he should be grateful whenever the least of them is supplied. But he has one want which overtops every other: it is the want of bread. Give him raiment, house him well, decorate and adorn him, yet if you give him not bread, his body faints, he dies of hunger. Hence it is that while the earth when it is tilled is made to bring forth many things that minister unto the comfort and luxury of men, yet man is wise enough to understand that since bread is his chief want, he must be most careful concerning corn. He therefore sows broad acres with it, and he cultivates more of this, which is the grandest necessary, than he doth of anything else in his husbandry. I feel that this is the only excuse I can offer you for coming back again constantly...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11502-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Numbers",
"chapter": "21"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Martha and Mary",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13284",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Luke 10:38-42",
"topic": "Martha",
"description": "IT is not an easy thing to maintain the balance of our spiritual life. No man can be spiritually healthy who does not meditate and commune; no man, on the other hand, is as he should be unless he is active and diligent in holy service. David sweetly sang, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there was the contemplative, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he leadeth me beside the still waters;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there was the active and progressive: the difficulty is to maintain the two, and to keep each in its relative proportion to the other. We must not be so active as to neglect communion, nor so contemplative as to become unpractical. In the chapter from which our text is taken, we have several lessons on this subject...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13284-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Luke",
"chapter": "10"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Memento Mori",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1686",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1686-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Memory - The Handmaid of Hope",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11524",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Lamentations 3:21",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15TH, 1865, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cThis I recall to my mind,therefore have I hope.\u201d-Lamentations 3:21. MEMORY is very often the servant of despondency. Despairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past, and every gloomy feature in the present. Memory stands like a handmaiden, clothed in sackcloth, presenting to her master a cup of mingled gall and wormwood. Like Mercury, she hastes, with winged heel, to gather fresh thorns with which to fill the uneasy pillow, and to bind fresh rods with which to scourge the already bleeding heart. There is, however, no necessity for this. Wisdom will transform memory into an angel of comfort. That same recollection which may in its left hand bring so many dark and gloomy omens, may be trained to bear in its right hand a wealth of hopeful signs. She need not wear a crown of iron, she may encircle her brow with a fillet of gold, all spangled with stars. When Christian, according to Bunyan, was locked up in Doubting Castle, memory formed the crab-tree cudgel with which the famous giant beat his captives so terribly. They remembered how they had left the right road, how they had been warned not to do so, and how in rebellion against their better selves, they wandered into By-path Meadow. They remembered all their past misdeeds, their sins, their evil thoughts and evil words, and all these were so many knots in the cudgel...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11524-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Lamentations",
"chapter": "3"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Mercy, Omnipotence, and Justice",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13275",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Nahum 1:3",
"topic": "",
"description": "WORKS of art require some education in the beholder, before they can be thoroughly appreciated. We do not expect that the uninstructed should at once perceive the varied excellencies of a painting from some master hand; we do not imagine that the superlative glories of the harmonies of the Princes of Song will enrapture the ears of clownish listeners. There must be something in the man himself, before he can understand the wonders either of nature or of art. Certainly this is true of character. By reason of failures in our character and faults in our life, we are not capable of understanding all the separate beauties, and the united perfection of the character of Christ, or of God, his Father. Were we ourselves as pure as the angels in heaven, were we what our race once was in the garden of Eden, immaculate and perfect, it is quite certain that we should have a far better and nobler idea of the character of God than we can by possibility attain unto in our fallen state. But you cannot fail to notice, that men, through the alienation of their natures, are continually misrepresenting God, because they cannot appreciate his perfection. Does God at one time withhold his hand from wrath?...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13275-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Nahum",
"chapter": "1"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Mr. Fearing Comforted",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1723",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1723-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Not Now, But Hereafter!",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1730",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1730-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "One Antidote for Many Ills",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2587",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2587-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "One Lion; Two Lions; No Lion at All",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Proverbs 22:13",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cThe slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.\u201d- Proverbs 22:13. THIS slothful man seems to cherish that one dread of his about the lions as if it were his favorite aversion, and he felt it to be too much trouble to invent another excuse. Perhaps he hugs it to his soul all the more because it is a home-born fear, conjured up by his own imagination; and us mothers are said to love their weakest children best, so is he fondest of this most imbecile of excuses at any rate, it serves him for a passable excuse for laziness, and that is what he wants. If you can get the king of beasts to apologize for your idleness there is a sort of royalty about your pretences: he hopes his sloth will appear the less disgraceful if he can paint a lion rampant upon its shield. I am not about to speak of slothful men in general, albeit that when a man does not diligently attend to his business he is committing great wrong to himself and to others. When a man is slothful as a servant he is unjust to his employers, and when he is in business on his own account idleness is usually a wrong to his wife and family. I know one who is the cause of poverty and want to those whom he ought to provide for; and all because...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Proverbs",
"chapter": "22"
}
]
},
{
"title": "One of the Master's Choice Sayings",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14352",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Matthew 14:16",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cBut Jesus said unto them, They need not depart.\u201d \u2014 Matthew 14:16. OF course the Master was right, but he appeared to speak unreasonably. It seemed self-evident that the people very much needed to depart. They had been all day long hearing the preacher, the most of them had not broken their fast, and they were ready to faint for hunger. The only chance of their being fed was to let them break up into small parties, and forage for themselves among the surrounding villages. But our Lord declared that there was no necessity for them to go away from him, even though they were hungry, and famished, and in a desert place. Now, if there was no necessity for hungry hearers to go away, much less will it ever be needful for loving disciples to depart from him. If these, who were hearers only, - and the bulk of them were nothing more, a congregation collected by curiosity, and held together by the charm of his eloquence, and by the renown of his miracles, - if these needed not to depart, much leas need they depart who are his own friends and companions, his chosen and beloved. If the crowds needed not through hunger to depart bodily, much less need any of the saints depart spiritually from their Lord. There is no necessity that our communion with Christ should ever be suspended...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14352-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "14"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Our Motto",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5069",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Ephesians 6:7",
"topic": "",
"description": "If we are enabled to adopt this motto it will, influence our work itself; and secondly elevate our spirit concerning that work. Should the Lord really be the all in all of our lives, it is after all only what he has a right to expect, and what we are under a thousand obligations to give to him.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5069-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Ephesians",
"chapter": "6"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Paul's Parenthesis",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11495",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "1 Corinthians 15:10",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, MARCH 19TH, 1908, DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, APRIL 26TH, 1874. \u201cBy the grace of God I am what I am.\u201d \u2014 1 Corinthians 15:10. IF you will read the context of this passage, you will find that these words occur in one of Paul's digressions, or parentheses. He was a writer who very frequently went off at a tangent; he often left the subject on which he was writing, turned his thoughts in quite another direction, and then came back, and went on with the subject which he had left for a while. In this respect, I have; often, in my own mind, likened the apostle Paul to Samson. When he was on the road to Timnath with his father and mother he turned aside to slay the lion, and afterwards to find the honey in the carcass, and each time he came back to his parents just as if nothing had happened. So the apostle Paul often turns aside from some grand argument upon which he is engaged, and says something very valuable and important upon quite another topic, and then comes back again, and calmly and deliberately goes on with his argument.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11495-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "1 Corinthians",
"chapter": "15"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Perfection in Faith",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1637",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1637-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Plenary Absolution",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11497",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalm 103:12",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cAs far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.\u201d \u2014 Psalm 103:12. WE shall aim at no novelty to-night, nor shall we try to serve up the old truths in any new and attractive forms. Upon your tables you always require bread, and generally you account salt to be indispensable. Some kinds of food are presented to us over and over again, and it would augur ill for our health if they were not always relished. It was an evil lusting which made Israel tire of the manna; an Israelite in his right mind found it to be a dainty still, though he ate of it for every day of his forty years' pilgrimage. Who tires of the verdure of the fields, the light of the sun, or the air we breathe? These things are ever fresh and new, and ever needful to us. The doctrine of forgiving love is one of those necessaries of daily life, concerning which it may be affirmed that if we should set them before you every day we should not be guilty of vain repetition. None need fear of tiring man, or vexing God's Spirit by harping too much on this string. Therefore come we to our favourite theme to-night. To speak of the great gospel truth of the forgiveness of sin in the simplest manner we possibly can, is the purpose we have immediately in view...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11497-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "103"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Ploughing a Rock",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13283",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Amos 6:12",
"topic": "",
"description": "THESE two questions are evidently Oriental proverbial expressions. Proverbs have always been used by the wisest of men. Solomon not only spoke and wrote a great many, but he also made a considerable collection of those uttered by others. We find, in the writings of such notable thinkers as Socrates, and Pliny, and Aristotle, an abundance of short, pithy sentences, many of which can be used as proverbs. Proverbs have great force in them, because they are condensed wisdom. They are generally most convincing; it is hardly ever possible to answer or controvert them. They carry truth home as an arrow has often been known to carry death to the person aimed at, for they strike, they stick, they penetrate, they wound. Our Lord Jesus very frequently made use of proverbs; nor was he singular in so doing. The prophets of old constantly employed them; and here, in our text, we see Amos, \u2014 who, from his occupation as a herdsman and gatherer of sycamore fruit, was probably more familiar with their use than some others of the prophets were, \u2014 puts together two proverbs which were commonly used to signify that men do not, as a rule, continue to labor in vain, and spend their strength for nought.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13283-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Amos",
"chapter": "6"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Portraits of Christ",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1683",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1683-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Return Unto Thy Rest",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14351",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalm 116:7",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cReturn unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.\u201d\u2014 Psalm 116:7. You, who have not believed in our Lord Jesus Christ, have no rest to which you can return, for you have never, found any. May God grant to you the grace to come unto Christ that you may find rest unto your souls! But we, who believe in him, do enter into rest. We are sometimes described as journeying through the wilderness towards Canaan, and the type is quite allowable; but, still, it must not be pressed, too far; for, in another sense, we have already entered into our rest. We have entered the Canaan which our Joshua has given unto us; Moses, by the law, could not lead us into this promised land; but Jesus has brought us into it, and we now have our portion and our inheritance in the covenant blessings which God has provided for his people in Christ Jesus his Son. God's people, when they are as they ought to be, are in a state of rest even now. I do not mean that they will have rest so far as this world is concerned, for this earth is not our rest, it is polluted; but I do mean that as the apostle Paul writes to the Romans, 'There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are, in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.'",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14351-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "116"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Rough, But Friendly",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14353",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Genesis 42:6",
"topic": "Joseph",
"description": "\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way: and thus did he unto them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Genesis 42:6. AN immense number of persons came down into Egypt from all parts of the world to buy corn. Many of these Joseph never saw. Many others came into his personal presence. I do not find that of all who came, he treated any of them roughly, except his own brethren. 'Strange!' you will say, and if you did not know the sequel of the story, it would not only seem strange, but cruel. You would not. know how to account for such a thing. Very like this is the manner of God's providence. There are thousands of people living in this world, with all if whom God deals according to wisdom. We all bear trouble in a measure, for 'Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.' .Some have more troubles than others, and these often happen to be those who are dearest to the Lord. If any man escape the rod, the true-born children of the royal family of heaven never can. Some may sin and prosper, but the righteous, if they sin, suffer. The ungodly are permitted to fatten like sheep for the slaughter, to have no bands even in their death; their strength is firm; they are not in trouble, as other men, neither are they plagued like other men...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14353-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Genesis",
"chapter": "42"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Rubbish",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5062",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Nehemiah 4:10",
"topic": "",
"description": "Now, this, it seems to me, is intended, or at least may justifiably be used, for a type of the work which God's people have to carry on in the name of Jesus, and in the power of his Spirit, in the world. We have to build the wall of the church for God, but we cannot build it, for there is so much rubbish in our way. This is true, first, of the building of the church, which is the Jerusalem of God; and this is equally true of the temple of God, which is to be built in each one of our hearts. Full often we feel discouraged. Though we hear the voice that saith, \u201cBut ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God,\u201d still we are apt to feel that we cannot build this wall, because there is so much rubbish.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5062-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Nehemiah",
"chapter": "4"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Satan's Banquet",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1642",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1642-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Self Examination",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0894",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0894-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Sin Immeasurable",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1697",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1697-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Sovereignty and Salvation",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1667",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1667-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Speak for Yourself. A Challenge!",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11512",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "John 9:21",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cHe is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.\u201d-John 9:21 THOSE of you, dear friends, who were present this morning will remember that our subject was \u201cJesus Christ himself.\u201d We dwelt upon his blessed person. Our faith is fixed on him; our affections are drawn to him; our hopes all bend toward him. Though everything he said or did is precious, yet Jesus himself stands first in our estimation. To know him, to believe him, to love him, is the very essence of our Christianity. Tonight we change our theme. There is a \u201chimself\u201d in our text this evening- a \u201chimself\u201d \u2018tis true of a much humbler order. How stand we each one for himself? Our individuality and the personal responsibilities which fall upon ourselves in reference to Christ must not be lost sight of. If, for instance, a spiritual miracle has been wrought upon us, if we are obliged to confess-nay, if we are delighted to confess-that he has opened our eyes, then we are bound, especially those of us who are of ripe understanding, who may be said to be of full age, we are bound to bear our own personal testimony to him. The allegation and the appeal may alike apply to each one of us, \u201cHe is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.\u201d Jesus Christ himself bore our sins, as we heard this morning. He gave himself for us, he served us, not by proxy, but by personal consecration; not by alms doled out pitifully, but by his life surrendered...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11512-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "9"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Spiritual Peace",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1696",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1696-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Spiritual Religion",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11529",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "John 6:63",
"topic": "",
"description": "INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD'S-DAY, JUNE 3RD, 1900, DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT NEW PARK STREET CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK, ON A THURSDAY EVENING, EARLY IN THE YEAR 1858. \u201cIt is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.\u201d \u2014 John 6:63. To a casual reader, it looks as if the meaning of this passage lay upon the very surface; but he who has studied the chapter carefully has discovered that it is a sentence replete with many difficulties as to the exact interpretation of it. I shall not, however, waste your time by entering into any critical discussion of it; but shall only try to give you simply what I believe to be the mind of the Spirit, as uttered by the lips of Jesus in this passage; and after I have done that, I shall then revert to what I shall call the meaning which any person would give to it who is not a diligent and careful student of Scripture. That meaning being true, although not the special truth taught in this passage, I shall briefly enlarge upon it. \u201cIt is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.\u201d I suppose there is not a man in the world who could form any intelligent idea of what a spirit is. It is very easy for persons to define a spirit by saying what it is not; but I query whether there is, or ever could be, any man who could form any idea of what it is. We sometimes talk about seeing a spirit; ignorant persons in ages gone by, and some living now in benighted villages, talk about seeing spirits by night.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11529-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "6"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Spiritual Resurrection",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1714",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1714-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Spurgeon A New Biography #1",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0374",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0374-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Spurgeon A New Biography #2",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0375",
"size": "11200000",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0375-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Spurgeon A New Biography #3",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0376",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0376-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Spurgeon A New Biography #4",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0377",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0377-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Spurgeon A New Biography #5",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0378",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0378-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Spurgeon A New Biography #6",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0379",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0379-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Spurgeon A New Biography #7",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0380",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0380-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Sunshine in the Heart",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5063",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalm 37:4",
"topic": "",
"description": "THERE are two teachings in our text which must be very surprising to those who are strangers to vital godliness; to sincere believers these marvels are recognised facts, but to the outside world they will appear passing strange. We have here, first of all, the life of a believer described as a delight in God; and thus we are certified of the great truth that true religion overflows with happiness and joy. Ungodly persons and mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing, to them it is service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure and delight.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5063-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "37"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Sweet Comfort for Feeble Saints",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11492",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Matthew 12:20",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT NEW PARK STREET CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK. \u201cA bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgement unto victory.\u201d-Matthew 12:20. BABBLING fame ever loves to talk of one man or another. Some there be whose glory it trumpets forth, and whose honor it extols above the heavens. Some are her favorites, and their names are carved on marble, and heard in every land, and every clime. Fame is not an impartial judge; she has her favorites. Some men she extols, exalts, and almost deifies; others, whose virtues are far greater, and whose characters are more deserving of commendation, she passes by unheeded, and puts the finger of silence on her lips. You will generally find that those persons beloved by fame are men made of brass or iron, and cast in a rough mould. Fame caresseth Ceasar, because he ruled the earth with a rod of iron. Fame loves Luther, because he boldly and manfully defied the Pope of Rome, and with knit brow dared laugh at the thunders of the Vatican. Fame admires Knox; for he was stern, and proved himself the bravest of the brave. Generally, you will find her choosing out the men of fire and mettle, who stood before their fellow-creatures fearless of them, men who were made of courage; who were consolidated lumps of fearlessness, and never knew what timidity might be.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11492-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "12"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Terrible Convictions and Gentle Drawings",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13277",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalms 32:3-4",
"topic": "",
"description": "David here describes a very common experience amongst convinced sinners. He was subjected to extreme terrors and pangs of conscience. These terrors were continual; they scared him at night with visions, they terrified him all day with dark and gloomy forebodings. \u201cDay and night thy hand was heavy upon me.\u201d His pain was so extreme, that when he resorted to prayer he could scarcely utter an articulate word. There were groanings that could not be uttered within his spirit; and hence he calls his prayer roaring \u2014 a \u201croaring all the day long.\u201d Wherever he was, his spirit seemed to be always sighing, sending a full torrent of melancholy groans upwards towards God; a \u201croaring all the day long.\u201d So far did this groaning proceed, that at last his bodily frame began to show evidences of it. He grew old, and that not merely in the lines of the countenance and the falling in of the cheeks, but his very bones seemed as if they partook of the suffering. He became like an old man before his time. We have heard of some who through severe trouble have had their hair blanched in a single night.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13277-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "32"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Alarm",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13786",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalm 57:8",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cI myself will awake early.\u201d \u2014 Psalm 57:8. THE proper subject to treat upon with such a text as this 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 consecrated to devotion. The text is a very remarkable expression, and might fitly be made the early-riser's motto. It is, in the original, a highly poetical phrase, and Milton and others have borrowed or imitated it. 'I will awaken the morning.' So early would the psalmist arise for the praise of God, that he would call up the day, and bid the sun arise from the chambers of the east, and proceed upon his journey. 'I will awaken the morning.' Early rising has the example of Old Testament saints to recommend it, and many modern saints having conscientiously practiced it, have been loud in its praise. It is an economy of time, and an assistance to health, and thus it doubly lengthens life. Late rising is too often the token of indolence, and the cause of disorder throughout the whole day. Be assured that the best hours are the first. Our City habits are to be deplored, because by late hours of retirement at night we find early rising difficult if not impossible. If we are able to escape the shackels of custom, and secure for devotion and contemplation the hour when the dew is on the grass, we may count ourselves thrice happy...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13786-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "57"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Alarum",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14345",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalm 57:8",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cI myself will awake early.\u201d \u2014 Psalm 57:8. THE proper subject to treat upon with such a text as this 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 consecrated to devotion. The text is a very remarkable expression, and might fitly be made the early-riser's motto. It is, in the original, a highly poetical phrase, and Milton and others have borrowed or imitated it. 'I will awaken the morning.' So early would the psalmist arise for the praise of God, that he would call up the day, and bid the sun arise from the chambers of the east, and proceed upon his journey. 'I will awaken the morning.' Early rising has the example of Old Testament saints to recommend it, and many modern saints having conscientiously practiced it, have been loud in its praise. It is an economy of time, and an assistance to health, and thus it doubly lengthens life. Late rising is too often the token of indolence, and the cause of disorder throughout the whole day. Be assured that the best hours are the first. Our City habits are to be deplored, because by late hours of retirement at night we find early rising difficult if not impossible. If we are able to escape the shackels of custom, and secure for devotion and contemplation the hour when the dew is on the grass, we may count ourselves thrice happy...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14345-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "57"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Battle of Life (the Christian's Warfare)",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3300",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID3300-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Bed and Its Covering",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1724",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1724-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Beginning, Increase and End of the Divine Life",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1684",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1684-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Believer's Challenge",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1710",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1710-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Bible",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0895",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0895-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Blind Beggar",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1706",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1706-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Blood",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1728",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1728-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1715",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1715-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Call of Abraham",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1708",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1708-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Charge of the Angel",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13287",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Acts 5:19-20",
"topic": "",
"description": "THE second persecution of the church, in which all the apostles were put into the common prison, was mainly brought about by the sect of the Sadducees. These, as you know, were the Broad School, the liberals, the advanced thinkers, the modern-thought people of the day. If you want a bitter sneer, a biting sarcasm, or a cruel action, I commend you to these large-minded gentlemen. They are liberal to everybody, except to those who hold the truth; and for those they have a reserve of concentrated bitterness which far excels wormwood and gall. They are so liberal to their brother errorists, that they have no tolerance to spare for evangelicals. We are expressly told that \u201cthe high priest, and all they that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) were filled with indignation.\u201d That which had been done deserved their admiration, but received their indignation. Such gentlemen as these can be warm at a very short notice, when the doctrine of the cross is spreading, and God the Holy Spirit is bearing witness with signs following. Let them display their indignation, it is according to their nature. To them the only answer which God gave was spoken by his angel...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13287-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "5"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Christ of Patmos",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1681",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1681-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Church as She Should Be",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11498",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Song of Solomon 6:4",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cthou art beautiful, O my love as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.\u201d \u2014 Song of Solomon 6:4. THERE are various estimates of the Christian church. Some think everything of her; some think nothing of her; and probably neither opinion is worth the breath which utters it. Neither Ritualists, who idolise their church, nor sceptics, who vilify all churches, have any such knowledge of the true spiritual church of Jesus Christ as to be entitled to give an opinion. The king's daughter is all glorious within, with a beauty which they are quite unable to appreciate. What is usually the most correct character which is obtainable of a woman? Shall we be guided by the praises of those neighbors who are on good terms with her, or by the scandal of those who make her the subject of ill-natured gossip? No; the most accurate judgment we are likely to get is that of her husband. Solomon saith in the Proverbs concerning the virtuous woman, \u201cHer husband also riseth up, and he praiseth her.\u201d Of that fairest among women, the church of Christ, the same observation may be made. It is to her of small consequence to be judged of man's judgment, but it is her honor and joy to stand well in the love and esteem of her royal spouse, the Prince Emmanuel.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11498-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Song of Solomon",
"chapter": "6"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Coming Resurrection",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11513",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "John 5:28-29",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD'S DAY MORNING, \r\nOCTOBER 17TH, 1869, BY C.H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cMarvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.\u201d \u2014 John 5:28,29. THE doctrine of the resurrection of the dead is peculiarly a Christian belief. With natural reason, assisted by some little light lingering in tradition, or borrowed from the Jews, a few philosophers spelled out the immortality of the soul; but that the body should rise again, that there should be another life for this corporeal frame, was a hope which is brought to light by the revelation of Christ Jesus. Men could not have imagined so great a wonder, and they prove their powerlessness to have invented it, by the fact, that still, as at Athens, when they hear of it for the first time, they fall to mocking. \u201cCan these dry bones live?\u201d is still the unbeliever's sneer. The doctrine of the resurrection is a lamp kindled by the hand which once was pierced. It is indeed in some respects the key-stone of the Christian arch. It is linked in our holy faith with the person of Jesus Christ, and is one of the brightest gems in his crown. What if I call it the signet on his finger, the seal by which he hath proven to a demonstration, that he hath the king's authority...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11513-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "5"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1648",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1648-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Danger of Doubting",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13289",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "1 Samuel 27:1",
"topic": "",
"description": "To doubt the lovingkindness of God is thought by some to be a very small sin; in fact, some have even exalted the doubts and fears of God's people into fruits and grace, and evidences of great advancement in experience. It is humiliating to observe that certain ministers have pampered and petted men in unbelief and distrust of God, being in this matter false to their Master, and to the souls of his people. Far be it from me to smite the feeble of the flock; but their sins I must and will smite, since it is my firm conviction, that to doubt the kindness, the faithfulness, and the love of God, is a very heinous offense. Unbelief is akin to Atheism. Atheism denies God's existence- unbelief denies his goodness, and since goodness is essential to God, these doubts do, in reality, stab at his very being. That can be no light sin which makes God a liar; and yet unbelief does in effect, cast foul and slanderous suspicion upon the veracity of the Holy One of Israel. That can be no small offense which charges the Creator of heaven and earth with perjury; and yet, if I mistrust his oath, and will not believe his promise, sealed with the blood of his own Son, I count the oath of God to be unworthy of my trust...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13289-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "1 Samuel",
"chapter": "27"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Earnest of Heaven",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1680",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1680-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Fainting Warrior",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1726",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1726-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Fatherhood of God",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2590",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2590-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Feast of the Lord",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1641",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1641-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The First Cry From the Cross",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11516",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Luke 23:34",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24TH, 1869, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cThen said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.\u201d \u2014 Luke 23:34. OUR Lord was at that moment enduring the first pains of crucifixion; the executioners had just then driven the nails through his hands and feet. He must have been, moreover, greatly depressed, and brought into a condition of extreme weakness by the agony of the night in Gethsemane, and by the scourgings and cruel mockings which he had endured all through the morning, from Caiaphas, Pilate, Herod, and the Praetorian guards. Yet neither the weakness of the past, nor the pain of the present, could prevent him from continuing in prayer. The lamb of God was silent to men, but he was not silent to God. Dumb as a sheep before her shearers, he had not a word to say in his own defense to man, but he continues in his heart crying unto his Father, and no pain and no weakness can silence his holy supplications. Beloved, what an example our Lord herein presents to us! Let us continue in prayer so long as our heart beats; let no excess of suffering drive us away from the throne of grace, but rather let it drive us closer to it. \u201cLong as they live should Christians pray, For only while they pray they live.\u201d To cease from prayer is to renounce the consolations which our case requires...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11516-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Luke",
"chapter": "23"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Form of Sound Words",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11514",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "2 Timothy 1:13",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, MAY 11, 1856, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT NEW PARK STREET CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK \u201cHold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.\u201d \u2014 2 Timothy 1:13. MY incessant anxiety for you, dearly beloved in the faith of Jesus Christ, is that I may be able, in the first place, to teach you what God's truth is; and then, trusting that I have to the best of my ability taught you what I believe to be God's most holy gospel, my next anxiety is, that you should \u201chold fast the form of sound words,\u201d that whatever may occur in the future, should death snatch away your pastor, or should anything occur which might put you in perilous circumstances, so that you were tempted to embrace any system of heresy, you might every one of you stand as firm and as unmoved as rocks, and as strong as mountains be, abiding in the faith which was once delivered unto the saints,\u201d whereof ye have heard, and which we have proclaimed unto you. If the gospel be worth your hearing, and if it be a true gospel, it is worth your holding, and our anxiety is, that you should be so established in the faith, that you may, \u201chold fast the profession of your faith without wavering, for he is faithful that has promised.\u201d The Apostle most earnestly admonished Timothy to \u201chold fast the form of sound words which he had heard of him in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.\u201d",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11514-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "2 Timothy",
"chapter": "1"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The God of Peace and Our Sanctification",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11494",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Hebrews 13:20-21",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, AUGUST 5TH, 1877, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, \u201cNow the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.\u201d- Hebrews 13:20, 21. THE apostle, in the eighteenth verse, had been earnestly asking for the prayers of the Lord's people. On the behalf of all his brethren he said, \u201cPray for us;\u201d and for himself he added, \u201cI beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.\u201d If the apostle needed the prayers of his brethren, how much more do we who are so greatly inferior to him in all respects. We may, indeed, even with tears appeal to you who are our brethren in Christ, and entreat you to be earnest in your supplications to God on our behalf. What can we do without your prayers? They link us with the omnipotence of God. Like the lightning-rod, they pierce the clouds and bring down the mighty and mysterious power from on high. But what the apostle was anxious to receive he was careful to bestow, and therefore he proceeded in the words of our text to plead for his brethren; from which we learn that if we desire others to pray for us we must set the example of praying for them...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11494-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Hebrews",
"chapter": "13"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Heavenly Race",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1665",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1665-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Holy Ghost -- the Great Teacher",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1671",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1671-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Incarnation and Birth of Christ",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1678",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1678-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The King in His Beauty",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11500",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Isaiah 33:17",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, MAY 26TH, 1867, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cThine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.\u201d-Isaiah 33:17. WHEN the Assyrians had invaded Judea with an immense army, and were about to attack Jerusalem, Rab-shakeh was sent with a railing message to the king and his people. When Hezekiah heard of the blasphemies of the proud Assyrian, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord, and sent the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to consult with Isaiah the prophet. The people of Jerusalem, therefore, had seen their king in most mournful array, wearing the garments of sorrow, and the weeds of mourning; they were, however, cheered by the promise that there should be so complete a defeat to Sennacherib, that the king should again adorn himself with the robes of state, and appear with a smiling countenance in all the beauty of joy. Moreover, through the invasion of Sennacherib, the people had not been able to travel; they had been cooped up within the walls of Jerusalem like prisoners. No journeys had been made, either in the direction of Dan or Beersheba, even the nearest villages could not be reached; but the promise is given, that so completely should the country be rid of the enemy, that wayfarers should be able to see the whole of their territory, even that part of the land which was very far off...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11500-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Isaiah",
"chapter": "33"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Light of the World",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13286",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "John 8:12",
"topic": "",
"description": "OUR Lord did not speak in this way at the beginning of his ministry. He did not thus bear witness to himself, saying, \u201cI am the light of the world.\u201d But it was befitting on this occasion, when the people before him had already received sufficient evidence from other quarters. John the Baptist, whom all men counted for a prophet, had testified that Christ was the true light whim lighteth every man that cometh into the world. The witness of John they rejected; startling, if not conclusive, as it must have been, considering the esteem in which his oracular voice was held. Moreover, Jesus himself had wrought conviction in their own hearts by his own teaching. Had they not listened to his famous Sermon on the Mount? Could they not feel the authority with which he spoke? Did they not confess to the impressions he produced on them? The weight and the wisdom of his discourse manifested a power that could melt their thoughts into the very mould of his ministry. Nor was it merely his teaching, trance parent though that was; but the signs he showed and the miracles he wrought with the majesty of his voice and the virtue of his touch proclaimed that he was the light of the world.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13286-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "8"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Lord's Knowledge, Our Safeguard",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13282",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "2 Peter 2:9",
"topic": "",
"description": "THERE are very narrow limits to our knowledge. There is a great breadth to our conceit; but the things that we really know are very few, after all. He who is wisest will be the first to confess his own ignorance. Our faith in the superior knowledge of God is a great source of comfort to us. That he knows everything, is a sort of omnipresent covering to our naked ignorance. Though we know not as yet, we rejoice that he knows, and it is better that he should know than that we should know. Knowledge is safer in the hands of God than it would be in our hands. The infinite God alone is to be trusted with infinite knowledge. The first words of our text, \u201cThe Lord knoweth,\u201d often come as a comfort to my own mind. The text says, \u201cThe Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations.\u201d This is only one of the many things, which the Lord knoweth. For instance, sometimes we meet with perplexing doctrines; perhaps we endeavor to effect reconciliation between the predestination of God and the freedom of human action. It is better not to wade too far into those deep waters, lest we lose ourselves in an abyss. \u201cThe Lord knoweth.\u201d",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13282-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "2 Peter",
"chapter": "2"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Meek and Lowly One",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2379",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2379-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Necessity of the Spirit's Work",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1720",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1720-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The New Heart",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2589",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID2589-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Novelties of Divine Mercy",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11493",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Lamentations 3:22,23",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, 1909, DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cHis compassions... are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.\u201d \u2014Lamentations 3:22, 23. THE Book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah is very dolorous. When you look upon the dragons, and owls, and pelicans, and bitterns of the wilderness, you have a fit picture of his mournful state. He was full of grief, like a bottle wanting vent. His heart was ready to burst with wormwood and with gall. But the whole current changes when the prophet brings to his remembrance the mercy of God. No sooner does he think of the compassions of the Most High than at once he takes his harp from the willows, and begins to sing as joyously as ever that sweet singer of Israel, David, sang before him; and, truly, if we, too, instead of harping upon our miseries, would but reflect upon our mercies, we should exchange, our mournful dirges for songs of joy. It is true that, God's people are a tried people, but it is equally true that God's grace is equal to their trials. It is quite true that through much tribulation they enter the kingdom; but then they do enter, and the thought of the kingdom that is coming sustains them in their present tribulation. They wade through the waters of woe, often breast-deep; but the billows do not, and shall not, go over them, they shall still be able to sing even in the midst of the tempest.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11493-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Lamentations",
"chapter": "3"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0876",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID0876-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Peculiar Sleep of the Beloved",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1675",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1675-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The People's Christ",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11504",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalm 89:19",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1855, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT EXETER HALL, STRAND. \u201cI have exalted one chosen out of the people.\u201d \u2014 Psalm 89:19. ORIGINALLY, I have no doubt, these words referred to David... However, in this sermon we shall not speak of David, but of the Lord Jesus Christ, for David, as referred to in the text, is an eminent type of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who was chosen out of the people; and of whom his Father can say \u201cI have exalted one chosen out of the people.\u201d Before I enter into the illustration of this truth I wish to make one statement, so that all objections may be avoided as to the doctrine of my sermon. Our Savior Jesus Christ, I say, was chosen out of the people; but this merely respects his manhood. As \u201cvery God of very God\u201d he was not chosen out of the people, for there was none save him. He was his Father\u2019s only-begotten Son, \u201cbegotten of the Father before all worlds.\u201d He was God\u2019s fellow, co-equal, and co-eternal; consequently when we speak of Jesus as being chosen out of the people, we must speak of him as a man. We are, I conceive, too forgetful of the real manhood of our Redeemer, for a man he was to all intents and purposes, and I love to sing, \u201cA Man there was, a real Man Who once on Calvary died.\u201d He was not man and God amalgamated \u2014 the two natures suffered no confusion \u2014 he was very God, without the diminution of his essence or attributes...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11504-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "89"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Portion of the Ungodly",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11501",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Isaiah 47:14",
"topic": "",
"description": "THE PORTION OF THE UNGODLY. A SERMON DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 13TH, 1862, BY REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cBehold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.\u201d-Isaiah 47:14. THIS text is part of a terrible description of God's judgment upon Babylon and Chaldea. The prophet had clearly written out the indictment of the Lord against that tyrannic people, and having proved their guilt he pronounces their sentence. He accused them of shewing no mercy to the inheritance of the Lord which, in his wrath, he had given into their hands. He charges them with pride and boastfulness, for Chaldea had said in her heart, \u201cI am, and there is none beside me;\u201d and Babylon had boasted, \u201cI shall be a lady for ever; I shall see no sorrow.\u201d He testifies against their over-boldness and presumption; for they were given to pleasures and lived carelessly, expecting no ill. Thus said the prophet, speaking in the name of the Lord, \u201cThou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.\u201d On account of these iniquities the destruction of Chaldea and Babylon was to be sudden, terrible, and complete. They were to be so utterly destroyed...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11501-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Isaiah",
"chapter": "47"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Resurrection Credible",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13280",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Acts 26:8",
"topic": "",
"description": "CONCERNING the souls of our believing friends who have departed this life we suffer no distress, we feel sure that they are where Jesus is, and behold his glory, according to our Lord's own memorable prayer. We know but very little of the disembodied state, but we know quite enough to rest certain beyond all doubt that \u2014 \u201cThey are supremely blest, Have done with sin, and care, and woe, And with their Savior rest.\u201d Our main trouble is about their bodies, which we have committed to the dark and lonesome grave. We cannot reconcile ourselves to the facts that their dear faces are being stripped of all their beauty by the fingers of decay, and that all the insignia of their manhood should be fading into corruption. It seems hard that the hands and feet, and all the goodly fabric of their noble forms, should be dissolved into dust, and broken into an utter ruin. We cannot stand at the grave without tears; even the perfect Man could not restrain his weeping at Lazarus' tomb. It is a sorrowful thought that our friends are dead, nor can we ever regard the grave with love. We cannot say that we take pleasure in the catacomb and the vault...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13280-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "26"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Saint's Horror at the Sinner's Hell",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13738",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Psalm 26:9",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cGather not my soul with sinners.\u201d \u2014 Psalm 26:9. WE must all be gathered in due course. When time shall have ripened the fruit, it must hang no longer upon the tree, but be gathered into the basket; when the summer's sun has perfectly matured the corn, the sickle must be brought forth, and the harvest must be reaped; to everything there is a season and an end. There shall be a gathering-time for every one of us. It may come to-morrow; it may be deferred another handful of years; it may come to us by the long process of consumption or decline; it may advance with more rapid footsteps, and we may in a moment be gathered to our people. Sooner or later, to use the expressive words of Job, the Almighty shall set his heart upon each of us, and gather unto himself our spirit and our breath. That gathering rests with God! - the prayer of the Psalmist implies it, and many Scriptures affirm it. As Young sings in his Night Thoughts \u2013 \u201cAn angel's arm can't hurl me to the grave.\u201d Accidents are but God's arrangements; diseases are his decrees; fevers his servants, and plagues his messengers. Our mortality is immortal, till the Eternal wills its death. \u201cReturn, ye children of men\u201d can be spoken by none but our heavenly Father, and when he gives the word, return we must without delay...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13738-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "26"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Saviour's Many Crowns",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1700",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1700-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Shameful Sufferer",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1634",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1634-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Sin of Unbelief",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1679",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1679-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Singular Origin of a Christian Man",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5068",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Ephesians 2:10",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cI would dwell upon man as God's workmanship in a still higher sense than by his first making. Created anew \u201cunto good works, which God hath before prepared that we should walk in them.\u201d",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5068-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Ephesians",
"chapter": "2"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Spies",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1666",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1666-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Spur",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11507",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "John 9:4",
"topic": "",
"description": "DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, JULY 31ST, 1870, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cI must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.\u201d \u2014 John 9:4. IF this ninth chapter of John is intended to be a continuation of the history contained in the eighth, as we think it is, it brings before us a very extraordinary fact. You will observe in the eighth chapter that our Lord was about to be stoned by the Jews; he therefore withdrew himself from the circle of his infuriated foes, and passed through the crowd, not I think in a hurried manner, but in a calm and dignified way, as one not at all disconcerted, but wholly self-possessed. His disciples, who had seen his danger, gathered round him while he quietly retreated. The group wended their way with firm footsteps till they reached the outside of the temple. At the gate there sat a man well known to have been blind from his birth; our Savior was so little flurried by the danger which had threatened him, that he paused and fixed his eye upon the poor beggar, attentively surveying him. He stayed his onward progress to work the miracle of this man's healing. If it be so that the two chapters make up but one narrative, and I think it is, though we are not absolutely sure, then we have before us a most memorable instance of the marvellous calmness of our Savior while under danger...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11507-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "9"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Superlative Excellence of the Holy Spirit",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5066",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "John 16:7",
"topic": "",
"description": "God has given two great gifts to his people: the first is, his Son for US; the second is, his Spirit to us. After he had given his Son for us, to become incarnate, to work righteousness, and to offer an atonement, that gift had been fully bestowed, and there remained no more to be conferred in that respect. \u201cIt is finished!\u201d proclaimed the completion of atonement, and his resurrection showed the perfection of justification. It was not therefore necessary that Christ should remain any longer upon earth since his work below is for ever finished. Now is the season for the second gift, the descent of the Holy Spirit.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID5066-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "16"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Sweet Uses of Adversity",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1699",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1699-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Tabernacle of the Most High",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1705",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1705-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Three Hours' Darkness",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11525",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Matthew 27:45",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, APRIL 18TH, 1886, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cNow from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.\u201d \u2014 Matthew 27:45. FROM nine till noon the usual degree of light was present; so that there was time enough for our Lord's adversaries to behold and insult his sufferings. There could be no mistake about the fact that he was really nailed to the cross; for he was crucified in broad daylight. We are fully assured that it was Jesus of Nazareth, for both friends and foes were eye-witnesses of his agonies: for three long hours the Jews sat down and watched him on the cross, making jests of his miseries. I feel thankful for those three hours of light; for else the enemies of our faith would have questioned whether in very deed the blessed body of our Master was nailed to the tree, and would have started fancies as many as the bats and owls which haunt the darkness. Where would have been the witnesses of this solemn scene if the sun had been hidden from morn till night? As three hours of light gave opportunity for inspection and witness-bearing, we see the wisdom which did not allow it to close too soon. Never forget that this miracle of the closing of the eye of day at high noon was performed by our Lord in his weakness.",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11525-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "27"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Tomb of Jesus",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1674",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1674-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Two Advents of Christ",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1729",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1729-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1727",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1727-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Way of Salvation",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11503",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Acts 4:12",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1858, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE MUSIC HALL, ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. \u201cNeither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.\u201d \u2014 Acts 4:12. IT is a very happy circumstance when the servants of God are able to turn everything to account in their ministry. Now, the apostle Peter was summoned before the priests and Sadducees, the chief of his nation, to answer for having restored a man who was lame from his mother's womb. Whilst accounting for this case of cure, or, if I may use the expression, for this case of temporal salvation, the apostle Peter had this thought suggested to him, \u201cWhile I am accounting for the salvation of this man from lameness, I have now a fine opportunity of showing to these people, who otherwise will not listen to us, the way of the salvation of the soul.\u201d So he proceeds from the less to the greater, from the healing of a man's limb to the healing of a man's spirit; and having informed them once that it was through the name of Jesus Christ that the impotent man had been made whole, he now announces that salvation, \u2014 the great salvation, must be wrought by the selfsame means; \u201cNeither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.\u201d What a great word that word \u201csalvation\u201d is!...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11503-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "4"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Weeding of the Garden",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13278",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Matthew 15:18",
"topic": "",
"description": "JESUS CHRIST had spoken certain truths which were highly objectionable to the Pharisees. Some of his loving disciples were in great fright, and they came to him and said, \u201cKnowest thou not that the Pharisees are offended?\u201d Now, our Savior, instead of making any apology for having offended the Pharisees, took it as a matter of course, and replied in a sentence which is well worthy to be called a proverb, \u2014 \u201cEvery plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.\u201d Now we have oftentimes, as Mathew Henry very tritely remarks, a number of good and affectionate but very weak hearers. They are always afraid that we shall offend other hearers. Hence, if the truth be spoken in a plain and pointed manner, and seems to come close home to the conscience, they think that surely it ought not to have been spoken, because So-and-so, and So-and-so, and So-and so took offense at it. Truly, my brethren, we are not all slow to answer in this matter. If we never offended, it would be proof positive that we did not preach the gospel. They who can please man will find it quite another thing to have pleased God. Do you suppose that men will love those who faithfully rebuke them? If you make the sinner's heart to groan...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13278-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "15"
}
]
},
{
"title": "The Wicked Man's Life, Funeral & Epitaph",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1649",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1649-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "The Wounds of Jesus",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1717",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1717-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Thoughts on the Last Battle",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13274",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "1 Corinthians 15:56-57",
"topic": "",
"description": "WHILE the Bible is one of the most poetical of books, though its language is unutterably sublime, yet we must remark how constantly it is true to nature. There is no straining of a fact, no glossing over a truth. However dark may be the subject, while it lights it up with brilliance, yet it does not deny the gloom connected with it. If you will read this chapter of Paul's epistle, so justly celebrated as a master-piece of language you will find him speaking of that which is to come after death with such exaltation and glory, that you feel, \u201cIf this be to die, then it were well to depart at once.\u201d Who has not rejoiced, and whose heart has not been lifted up, or filled with a holy fire, while he has read such sentences as these: \u201cIn a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID13274-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "1 Corinthians",
"chapter": "15"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Trust in God - True Wisdom",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11519",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Proverbs 16:20",
"topic": "",
"description": "A SERMON DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING,\r\nMAY 12TH, 1861, BY REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cHe that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.\u201d \u2014 Proverbs 16:20. WISDOM is man's true path \u2014 that which enables him to accomplish best the end of his being, and which, therefore, gives to him the richest enjoyment, and the fullest play for all his powers. Wisdom is the compass by which man is to steer across the trackless waste of life. Without wisdom man is as the wild asses' colt; he runs hither and thither, wasting strength which might be profitably employed. Without wisdom, man may be compared to a soil untilled, which may yield some fair flowers, but can never field a harvest which shall repay the labor of the reaper, or even the toil of the gleaner. Give man wisdom, wisdom in the true sense of the term, and he rises to all the dignity that manhood can possibly know; he becomes a fit companion for the angels, and between him and God there is no creature; he standeth next to the Eternal One, because Christ has espoused his nature, and so has linked humanity with divinity. But where shall this wisdom be found? Many have dreamed that they discovered it, but they have not possessed it. Where shall we find it? \u2018Twere worth while to pierce the bowels of the earth, to scale the heights of heaven, to traverse the deserts, to plough the sea, to fly through the illimitable fields of ether ...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID11519-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Proverbs",
"chapter": "16"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Turn or Burn",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID12968",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID12968-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
},
{
"title": "Witnesses Against You",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14348",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Nehemiah 5:7",
"topic": "",
"description": "\u201cI set a great assembly against them.\u201d \u2014 Nehemiah 5:7. THE facts are these. At the time when certain of the Jews returned with Nehemiah to Jerusalem, many of them were in very straitened circumstances; and, contrary to the Jewish law, the richer Jews lent them money upon usurious interest, amounting to the hundredth per month, or twelve per cent. per annum. They took from their poorer brethren their lands, or put a heavy mortgage upon them; and in some cases took the men themselves to be slaves for debts which they had unavoidably incurred. Now, as you know, every Jew was a landholder, and his land, if mortgaged for a time, must return free to him in the fiftieth year; and, though a Jew might for a while become a servant to his Jewish brother, yet he must go out free at the end of the seventh year. He could only be bound for a short period of servitude. Nehemiah called to him, therefore, the elders, and nobles, and rulers of Jerusalem, and showed them how wrong they were to hold their poorer brethren in bondage. 'Ye exact usury, every one of his brother,' he says; and he rebukes them sharply for it. When he found that his own words were scarcely powerful enough with them, he gathered together the people, and let them all have a voice, and in the many voices there was power...",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID14348-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": [
{
"book": "Nehemiah",
"chapter": "5"
}
]
},
{
"title": "Words of Expostulation",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1682",
"size": "0",
"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "",
"topic": "",
"description": "",
"download": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID1682-download",
"speaker_name": "C. H. Spurgeon",
"_scripture": []
}
]
}
View Git Blame Copy Permalink