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      • • 3153. Paul Cheered In Prison By His Lord | Answers in Genesis
          Paul was like the rest of us, made of flesh and blood, and therefore liable to be depressed.
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      • • 2014. “As We Have Heard, So We Have Seen.” | Answers in Genesis
          “As we have heard, so we have seen”: this is seldom true. In many places we see what we have not heard, and what we have heard we do not see.
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      • • 3313. A Practical Discourse | Answers in Genesis
          Our God is not a taskmaster, and sacred service should not sour into forced labour. Self-sacrifice is the soul of true religion; but we must not demand of others what would turn religion into slavery.
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      • • 2788. Prayer For The Church | Answers in Genesis
          A true-hearted believer does not live for himself. Where there is abundance of grace, and great strength of mind in the service of God, there is sure to be a spirit of unselfishness. It was so with Daniel, who was a model man in the matter of decision of character, and a holy, believing walk before the Lord.
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      • • 2649. Girded For The Work | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 2649. Girded For The Work, delivered On Thursday Evening, July 13, 1882, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 2707. An Antidote To Satan’s Devices | Answers in Genesis
          If you would successfully wrestle with Satan, make the Holy Scriptures your daily resort. Lay hold on the glorious doctrines of God’s Word; make them your daily food and drink. So you shall be strong to resist the devil, and you shall be joyful in discovering that he will flee from you.
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      • • 3223. Salvation As It Is Now Received | Answers in Genesis
          Salvation is not another thing of the future; it is very decidedly a present matter
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      • • 3394. “Who Is This?” | Answers in Genesis
          The incarnation of God must have been staggering even to the intellect of seraphs, and again and again they must have said to each other, “Who is this?”
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      • • 3393. Wheat in the Barn | Answers in Genesis
          Do not be dispirited, Christ will not be disappointed. “He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.”
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      • • 3392. Justification by Faith | Answers in Genesis
          We want to preach on justification tonight as a matter of experience, as a thing experienced, felt, enjoyed, and understood in the soul.
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      • • 3391. Preparation for the Lord’s Supper | Answers in Genesis
          We are to examine ourselves each time we come. Each man is to do so. No one is to shirk the personal duty.
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      • • 3390. Hoping in God’s Mercy | Answers in Genesis
          By the term, “the fear of God,” we understand in Holy Scripture the totality of true religion.
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      • • 3388. Soul Threshing | Answers in Genesis
          God has taught man to plough, to break the clods, to sow the different kinds of grain, and to thresh out the different kinds of seeds.
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      • • 3387. A New Year’s Blessing | Answers in Genesis
          Observe the way in which the apostles were accustomed to incite believers in Christ to the performance of their duties.
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      • • 3385. The Saviour’s Thirst | Answers in Genesis
          At this time we would go away to Calvary, and there stand and hear our Redeemer crying, “I thirst,” as he bears the guilt of sin for us.
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      • • 3384. Growth in Faith | Answers in Genesis
          The disciples went to Christ, the lawgiver, the author and finisher of their faith, and, lifting up their hearts to him in the prayer, “Lord, increase our faith.”
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      • • 3383. The Ploughman | Answers in Genesis
          Unless the Holy Spirit breaks up the heart by the plough of the law and sows it with the seed of the gospel, not a single ear of holiness will any of us grow.
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      • • 3382. Our Lord’s Transcendent Greatness | Answers in Genesis
          Jesus Christ is not to be greater, then, essentially than he is now. He is “God over all, blessed for ever.”
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      • • 3381. The Broken Fence | Answers in Genesis
          Come, then, let us take a walk with Solomon, and stand with him and consider and learn instruction while we look at this broken-down fence.
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      • • 3380. Our Lord’s Voluntary Poverty | Answers in Genesis
          Even in our Lord’s poverty he becomes our instructor, just as in his death he becomes our Saviour.
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      • • 3379. Rough, but Friendly | Answers in Genesis
          God’s servants will be dealt roughly with by their Master, and the brethren of Christ must accept it.
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      • • 3376. God’s Answer to Persistent Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Things can never be so bad that God cannot bring deliverance in his own time.
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      • • 3375. Standing and Singing | Answers in Genesis
          We must bring something like spiritual worship, and when we have learned to praise God with the understanding as well as with our hearts, surely it will be none the less acceptable to him, but all the more. He ought to have the best of the best, and when we bring him our praise it should be the best praise our hearts can make.
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      • • 3374. Sin’s True Quality | Answers in Genesis
          The law of Moses made clear how sinful sin was; the purpose for which it was sent was, not to make men holy, but to make men see how unholy they were.
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      • • 3372. Conversion and Character | Answers in Genesis
          The work of God at Philippi went on very quietly and successfully in the hands of Paul and Silas.
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      • • 3371. Two Choice Benedictions | Answers in Genesis
          It will be a rich enjoyment if we shall grasp and make our very own the precious things which are presented here to the whole redeemed family of the living God.
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      • • 1707. “Herein Is Love” | Answers in Genesis
          Love is winning many hearts to the kingdom of God, and its reign shall extend until love shall rule over the whole earth.
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      • • 1144. The Matchless Mystery | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds upon “one of the most wonderful texts in the whole compass of revelation.”
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      • • 582. The Restoration and Conversion of the Jews | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon teaches that Ezekiel prophesied that the Jews would eventually undergo a political and spiritual restoration.
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      • • 1227. The Best House Visitation | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the visit of Jesus to Simon Peter’s house.
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      • • 1567. The Blood Of The Testament | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Hebrews 9:20.
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      • • 1481. The Red Heifer | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Hebrews 9:13–14.
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      • • 1846. The Purging Of The Conscience | Answers in Genesis
          Oh, living Spirit, help us now to think living thoughts, and so to carry on the worship of the living God while we are hearing your word!
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      • • 759. Jesus Putting Away Sin | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the statement in Hebrews that Christ came to put away sin.
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      • • 911. The Putting Away of Sin | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses one aspect of Christ’s work at the Cross.
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      • • 2283. Christ’s One Sacrifice For Sin | Answers in Genesis
          He put away sin; he did not merely try to do it, but he actually accomplished the stupendous work for which he left his glory throne above.
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      • • 1077. The Lord Blessing His Saints | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the certainty of God blessing His people.
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      • • 1069. Labouring and Not Fainting | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains that believers can work hard for the Lord and have their strength renewed by Him.
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      • • 1162. The Lord Chiding His People | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how God chides His people.
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      • • 1108. Plenary Absolution | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon shows that complete forgiveness for sins can be found in Jesus Christ.
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      • • 932. How God Condemned Sin | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses an oft-overlooked aspect of Christ’s work on the Cross.
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      • • 1651. A Delusion Dispelled | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses that the righteousness of the most godly cannot avail for the ungodly and the prayers of the greatest intercessors cannot avail if men persist in their unbelief.
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      • • 2640. Comforted And Comforting | Answers in Genesis
          The persecutions of that time were excessively severe, and every man who called himself a Christian had to carry his life in his hand.
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      • • 3039. The King's Sharp Arrows | Answers in Genesis
          Christ, therefore, for our good, is a fighting King, combating evil, and contending against sin in every shape and form.
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      • • 2848. Theocracy | Answers in Genesis
          Now, when the Lord Jesus Christ becomes our King, it is most inspirting to us, for he leads us on to fight with sin, to fight with selfishness, to overcome evil by love, and to conquer hate by kindness. No man is so free as he who loyally bows before the King of kings. He who has God for his King is himself a king.
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      • • 11. The People’s Christ | Answers in Genesis
          We do not believe that Israel or Judah ever had a better ruler than David; and we are bold to affirm that the reign of the man “chosen from the people” outshines in glory the reigns of high bred emper
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      • • 145. Love Your Neighbour | Answers in Genesis
          Many of the sermons of Christ—and what sermons shall compare with them—have not what is now currently called “the gospel” in them at all.
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      • • 2233. Both Sides Of The Shield | Answers in Genesis
          Many differences among the people of God have arisen from the undue stress laid on one aspect of truth, while the other side has been altogether neglected.
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      • • 2365. “Goodness, As A Morning Cloud.” | Answers in Genesis
          Certain men that are great curiosities. Alas, there are also others that are great monstrosities! You can never tell, from what a man is, what he will be.
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      • • 2716. Christ’s Poverty, Our Riches | Answers in Genesis
          You know how much our Lord Jesus Christ loved by knowing how much he gave. He gave himself for us because he loved us with all the force and energy of his nature. I commend to you who rule, — give as you love, and measure your love by your gift.
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      • • 2717. Man’s Extremity, God’s Opportunity | Answers in Genesis
          God may bring his people, in the order of his providence, into such a state that “their power is gone.” It is possible that it was absolutely necessary that you should be brought as low as you are in order to cure you of your sin.
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      • • 1330. Idols Abolished | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Hosea 14:8.
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      • • 195. Looking To Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          No man ever yet looked to Jehovah God, as he is in himself, and found any comfort in him, for “our God is a consuming fire.”
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      • • 2193. A Poor Man’s Cry, And What Came Of It | Answers in Genesis
          Saints are never better pleased than when they hear those first truths which instruct sinners in the way to God.
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      • • 2194. Between The Two Appearings | Answers in Genesis
          The two great links between earth and heaven are the two advents of our Lord: or, rather, he is the great bond of union, by these two appearings.
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      • • 61-62. The Beatific Vision | Answers in Genesis
          It is one of the most natural desires in all the world, that when we hear of a great and a good man, we should wish to see his person.
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      • • 295. The Treasure Of Grace | Answers in Genesis
          As is Isaiah among the prophets, so is Paul among the apostles; each stands out with singular prominence, raised up by God for a conspicuous purpose, and shining as a star of extraordinary brilliance.
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      • • 1555. The Glories Of Forgiving Grace | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon speaks about the measure of forgiveness, its manner, and its manifestations.
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      • • 2207. Redemption Through Blood, The Gracious Forgiveness Of Sins | Answers in Genesis
          e do not merely think so, but we know that we have it. We are redeemed; we are free from bondage; we are forgiven, and are no longer under condemnation.
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      • • 1168. Fearful of Coming Short | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about the fear of coming short of God’s rest.
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      • • 1159. The Crown of Thorns | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon examines the many aspects of Christ’s suffering.
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      • • 2334. Our Service For Christ Never Finished | Answers in Genesis
          To be saved by his grace as a matter of pure favour, and then afterwards to serve him, having gratitude for our great motive, is the right order.
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      • • 2804. Disobedience To The Gospel | Answers in Genesis
          Even concerning those who have heard the gospel, it can still be said, “They have not all obeyed the gospel.” You cannot speak of obeying anything which does not have the authority of a command; it is clear that the gospel comes to men with the force of a command.
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      • • 1290. Love’s Birth And Parentage | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses 1 John 4:19 for doctrinal instruction, for practical information, for practical direction, and for argumentative defence.
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      • • 2016. Jesus Affirmed To Be Alive | Answers in Genesis
          The adversaries of the cross of Christ assert nothing, but they question everything. They will not lay down a basis, nor define their opinions.
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      • • 2017. “David’s Spoil” | Answers in Genesis
          We shall now look into this victorious act on the part of David with the view of finding spiritual teaching in it.
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      • • 1067. The Resurrection Is Credible | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon addresses the future resurrection of our bodies and tells listeners that they can have absolute confidence that it will happen.
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      • • 1058. No Quarter | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon advises readers to take drastic measures in their attitude toward sin.
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      • • 202. The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus | Answers in Genesis
          How marvellous the condescension which induced the Saviour to take notice of such a wretch as Saul!
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      • • 1774. God’s Work Upon Minister And Convert | Answers in Genesis
          Do you wonder that when Saul came to Jerusalem and tried to join with the disciples, they were all afraid of him and did not believe that he was a disciple?
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      • • 1775. “My Lord And My God.” | Answers in Genesis
          Our Lord had special reasons for turning as he did to Thomas that day, and for taking so much trouble to bring Thomas out of his unbelieving condition.
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      • • 862. Winnowing Time | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon applies truths from Jeremiah 23:28 to individual believers and churches in general.
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      • • 1708. The Holy Spirit’s Threefold Conviction Of Men | Answers in Genesis
          The work of proclaiming the gospel to the world was far too great for the twelve; but it was by no means too great for the Spirit of God.
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      • • 2395. The Blessings Of Public Worship | Answers in Genesis
          It is good to go and mix with others, and openly worship God who delights to be worshipped like this.
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      • • 2384. “Forget You, I Will Not.” | Answers in Genesis
          This was a blessed speech when God said to his ancient people, “You are my servant: oh Israel, you shall not be forgotten by me.”
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      • • 222. The Christian’s Heaviness and Rejoicing | Answers in Genesis
          Can there be in the same heart great rejoicing, and yet a temporary heaviness? Most assuredly.
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      • • 2783. A Worthy Theme For Thought | Answers in Genesis
          Such thought as our text describes is essential for all true worship. Do not be startled if I say that it is very much in proportion to our thought that we really do worship; and, without thought, there is no true worship. Suppose we sing the praises of God without thinking what we are doing; is that praising him? No.
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      • • 1909. A Seasonable Exhortation | Answers in Genesis
          May your conversations and your lives be full of the Lord Jesus Christ, so men may take knowledge of you, that you have been with him and have learned from him.
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      • • 698. Seeing is Not Believing, but Believing is Seeing | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the fact that in order to truly see things as they are, we must first believe in God.
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      • • 689. Temptations on the Pinnacle | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon examines the temptations of Christ in the wilderness and Gethsemane.
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      • • 2653. The Head And The Body | Answers in Genesis
          Paul was most anxious to have the Ephesian church thoroughly knit together, and the chapter from which our text is taken is all about unity, and how to maintain it.
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      • • 2654. Wakeful and Watchful Eyes | Answers in Genesis
          The eyes of servants ought to be so directed to their masters that they not only see the sign, but obey it, whatever it means. It may be a very little thing, but yet the little thing should not be neglected. Our eyes are only to be turned to the Lord.
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      • • 939. The Pilgrim’s Grateful Memories | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon reminds Christians that God provided for and protected Israel, so we can expect Him to do the same for us.
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      • • 215. His Name—The Counsellor | Answers in Genesis
          Ah! beloved, it was fitting that the world should have a Counsellor to restore it, if it had a Counsellor to destroy it.
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      • • 1524. Your Personal Salvation | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the salvation of God—a salvation of grace.
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      • • 2697. Angelic Interest In The Gospel | Answers in Genesis
          Angels take a deep interest in the gospel because they observe God’s interest in it. What God cares about, angels care about at once. What grieves the Holy Spirit, must be grievous to holy angels, too; and what gladdens the heart of God must also make glad the spirits that bow adoringly around his throne.
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      • • 2698. The First And The Second | Answers in Genesis
          “He takes away the first”; that is, the blood of bulls and of goats; — “so that he may establish the second,” which second is Christ himself, the one effective propitiation for sin, the great burnt offering which the Lord accepts, and by which he is reconciled to all who trust in it.
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      • • 990. Self-Humbling and Self-Searching | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon makes spiritual application from the Song of Solomon to discuss proper Christian attitudes.
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      • • 2939. A Stir, And What Came Of It | Answers in Genesis
          I do not wonder that there was a stir in the city when we reflect that all Christ’s disciples were that day in a very lively state.
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      • • 3085. A Challenging Enquiry | Answers in Genesis
          Oh, that something would move this great city of ours! I am afraid that at least one third of our population is settling down in stolid indifference to all religion.
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      • • 510. Peace by Believing | Answers in Genesis
          A moment’s contemplation would suffice to arouse any man to the terror of the position involved in being at war with God.
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      • • 1456. The Food And Drink Of The New Nature | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses what Christ must be to us, what is bound up in this, and what reflections naturally arise out of it.
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      • • 3154. Concerning The Forbearance Of God | Answers in Genesis
          It is a great sign of love on God's part that he condescends to reason with men.
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      • • 3326. The Wondrous Covenant | Answers in Genesis
          It has been said that he who well understands the distinction between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace is a master of divinity.
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      • • 3304. Grace Abounding | Answers in Genesis
          At last the banner of grace waved triumphantly over the battle-field, for “where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.”
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      • • 2750. A Door Of Hope | Answers in Genesis
          It is, in the first place, a door of hope, because it shows that you are one whom Christ invites to come to him. Christ invites the heavy laden, — you are such a one, so come to him. You are one for whom Jesus died; for Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
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      • • 3115. Sin And Grace | Answers in Genesis
          There are two very powerful forces in the world, which have been here ever since the time when Eve partook of the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden.
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      • • 477. Never! Never! Never! Never! Never! | Answers in Genesis
          What power resides in “Thus says the Lord!” The man who can grasp by faith, “He has said,” has an all conquering weapon in his hand. What doubt will not be killed by this to twoedged sword?
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      • • 1880. A Lesson And A Fortune For Christian Men Of Business | Answers in Genesis
          The ripest apple in the garden grows on the tree of contentment. The garments which fit us best are the most fit for us, and are the most comfortable to wear.
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      • • 3150. “Never, No Never, No Never” | Answers in Genesis
          All scriptural promises have a message for all believers.
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      • • 1409. The Firm Hold | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon describes faith as taking hold upon divine instruction.
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      • • 32. The Necessity of Increased Faith | Answers in Genesis
          If the twelve mightiest in the army of the Lord of hosts had need of such a supplication, what shall we say who are only the inferior soldiers—the feeblest saints?
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      • • 1318. Christ, The Overcomer Of The World | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how Jesus has overcome the world.
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      • • 560. Christ Is Glorious—Let Us Make Him Known | Answers in Genesis
          You have a very vivid idea of the sufferings of Christ.
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      • • 2027. The Sluggard’s Farm | Answers in Genesis
          Men generally learn wisdom if they have wisdom. The artist’s eye sees the beauty of the landscape because he has beauty in his mind.
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      • • 741. A Troubled Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon shows how our prayers of confession and sorrow remind us of our sin and God’s grace.
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      • • 2170. The Blessing Of The High Priest | Answers in Genesis
          Aaron was not appointed to bless the nations who were without God; but to bless the children of Israel.
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      • • 3370. Our Leader Through the Darkness | Answers in Genesis
          Can you see Jesus in the dark? Yes. We sometimes see him better in the dark than in the light.
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      • • 3369. Man Humbled, God Exalted | Answers in Genesis
          Man in all matters of religion, and in all his dealings with God, is proud. It is amazing how apparently humble men will be when they worship false gods.
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      • • 3368. Fathomless | Answers in Genesis
          God’s judgments do not come by chance, nor on us at all as a matter of sovereignty merely, but they are sent in wisdom, because God judges them to be necessary.
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      • • 3367. Paul as a Pattern Convert | Answers in Genesis
          The transformation of persecuting Saul of Tarsus into the apostle Paul is a typical example of the work of grace in the heart.
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      • • 3366. Deliverance from the Power of Darkness | Answers in Genesis
          Sin is a tremendous moral and spiritual darkness, which has spread over the human mind, but we are told that “he has delivered us from the power of darkness.”
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      • • 3364. Surveying the Field | Answers in Genesis
          Nehemiah certainly acted on one of our Saviour’s maxims about counting the cost, lest, after having begun to build, we should not be able to finish.
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      • • 3363. Witnessing at the Cross | Answers in Genesis
          The work of grace which enabled him to die in peace would, if it had been the Lord’s will, have enabled him to live in holiness.
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      • • 3362. Fearing and Trusting—Trusting and Not Fearing | Answers in Genesis
          Fear is always distressing, and it is always a terrible thing to have to go mourning because of being afraid.
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      • • 3361. God’s Valiant Right Hand | Answers in Genesis
          The right hand of the Lord is exalted today, and it still does valiantly.
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      • • 3360. Pleading with the Indifferent | Answers in Genesis
          Jeremiah stands a very emperor of grief. “Behold, and see,” he says, “if there ever was any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me.”
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      • • 3359. Penitence, Pardon, and Peace | Answers in Genesis
          The evangelist does not lay bare the minute details of this woman’s life’s sins, but rather delights to dwell on the story of her penitence and its fair fruits, and so makes her to shine resplendently as a wonder of redeeming grace.
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      • • 3358. “Grace and Glory” | Answers in Genesis
          Let us look within to be humbled, but not to be made unbelieving. Look within, so as to be driven from all confidence in ourselves, but never so as to shake our absolute confidence in God.
      • 3357-heedful-hearing/1 page
      • • 3357. Heedful Hearing | Answers in Genesis
          A man cannot take heed how he hears if he does not hear at all. Hence, how great is the sin of a vast proportion of the inhabitants of this city who utterly forsake the ministry of the Gospel, who never hear it, or hear it only now and then.
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      • • 3355. Life’s Inevitable Burden | Answers in Genesis
          The truth is, there are burdens which may be shared, and which should be shared. But, on the other hand, there are burdens which no man can share.
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      • • 3354. The Old Testament “Prodigal” | Answers in Genesis
          The case of Manasseh is a very prominent example of glaring sin and of amazing grace.
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      • • 3353. The Great Teacher and Remembrancer | Answers in Genesis
          Here, our Saviour directs us to one particular blessing, which the coming of the Holy Spirit would bring us, namely, that of divine instruction.
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      • • 3351. The Queen of Sheba | Answers in Genesis
          If the religious leaders had possessed the same open mind that was found in the Queen of the South, they would have listened to the Lord.
      • 3350-stewards/1 page
      • • 3350. “Stewards” | Answers in Genesis
          Brethren, let us be content to wear out our lives even in the worst position, if by our labour we can expedite the passage of Christ.
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      • • 3349. “The Garment of Praise” | Answers in Genesis
          The list of comforts which the Anointed has prepared here for his mourners is apparently inexhaustible.
      • 3348-knowing-and-doing/1 page
      • • 3348. Knowing and Doing | Answers in Genesis
          If, being first taught and instructed, we afterward practically exemplify in our life and conduct the things which we have learned.
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      • • 962. A Personal Application | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the sacrifice of Christ and how He came to put away sin.
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      • • 1366. “Now Then Do It.” | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon reminds us of former impulses, recommends decided action, and reasons with a forcible argument.
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      • • 712. War with Amalek | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon compares the struggles faced by Christians to the Israelite’s battle with the Amalekites.
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      • • 2192. The Joyful Return | Answers in Genesis
          God does not say, “Oh Israel, depart accursed!” But instead of that, in dulcet tones he cries, “Oh Israel, return to the Lord your God.”
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      • • 1541. Unprofitable Servants | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the unprofitable servants in Matthew 25 and Luke 17.
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      • • 2940. “He Must Reign” | Answers in Genesis
          Do not imagine that Christ’s reign is limited to these gates of pearl and streets of shining gold. Far from it, for Jesus reigns today on earth.
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      • • 713. Soul Murder—Who Is Guilty? | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon examines some of the many sins of which we are all guilty.
      • 3069-cleansing-wrong-right/1 page
      • • 3069. Cleansing—Wrong Or Right? | Answers in Genesis
          We are all, by nature and by practice, unclean in the sight of God.
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      • • 1715. A Description Of Young Men In Christ | Answers in Genesis
          It is not age according to the family register that we are now to speak about, but age according to the Lamb’s book of life.
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      • • 2858. Migratory Birds | Answers in Genesis
          If sicknesses do not soften, they harden. If we get no good from our chastisements, we are sure to get harm from them. So, my afflicted but restored friend, know your time, recognise that you have been struck by your God, and do not turn away from the hand that strikes you.
      • 2159-holdfasts-of-faith/1 page
      • • 2159. The Holdfasts Of Faith | Answers in Genesis
          True faith, as the work of God, is not a thing to be put down: it is a conquering grace, and makes a brave fight against wicked unbelief.
      • 2160-not-sufficient-and-yet-sufficient/1 page
      • • 2160. Not Sufficient, And Yet Sufficient | Answers in Genesis
          The more we study the work of grace accomplished by God through his ministers, the more are we forced to ask, “Who is sufficient for these things?”
      • 733-unstaggering-faith/1 page
      • • 733. Unstaggering Faith | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses Abraham as a model of someone with great faith.
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      • • 724. His Name—The Everlasting Father | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains why Isaiah called Jesus the Everlasting Father.
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      • • 1358. Strong Faith | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Romans 4:20.
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      • • 1450. Peace: A Fact And A Feeling | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about how faith brings us a state of peace and brings us a sense of peace.
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      • • 37. Law And Grace | Answers in Genesis
          There is no point upon which men make greater mistakes than upon the relation which exists between the law and the gospel.
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      • • 2012. Grace Abounding Over Abounding Sin | Answers in Genesis
          Law does not make us sinful, but it displays our sinfulness. In the presence of the perfect standard we see our shortcomings.
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      • • 1045. Joy in a Reconciled God | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon describes the steps that take place when a person becomes reconciled with God.
      • 2550-joy-god/1 page
      • • 2550. Joy In God | Answers in Genesis
          It clearly appears that the Christian life is one of continuous progress. It would be so without a break if we were more careful, and lived nearer to God.
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      • • 2569. The Backslider’s Door Of Hope | Answers in Genesis
          The message of infinite mercy to such people is: “Return, you backsliding children”; come back, come home to your God. There is no other place of rest for you in the whole wide world.
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      • • 2295. God’s People, Or Not God’s People | Answers in Genesis
          If you seek salvation or want comfort, never rest satisfied with the mere word of man. Do not be content unless you get the truth from the mouth of God.
      • 2564-strange-ways-love/1 page
      • • 2564. Strange Ways Of Love | Answers in Genesis
          God no longer convicts of sin by the terrors of the law, but he comes to deal with the poor guilty soul on terms of love and mercy.
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      • • 2013. The Infallibility Of Scripture | Answers in Genesis
          The true preacher, the man whom God has commissioned, delivers his message with awe and trembling, because “The mouth of the Lord has spoken it.”
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      • • 1036. Precious Deaths | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about why the death of saints can be precious in the sight of God.
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      • • 468. Ezekiel’s Deserted Infant | Answers in Genesis
          The figure of a deserted infant, cast out into the open field to perish by wild beasts, by starvation, or exposure, was a very apt portrait of the youthful state of Israel.
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      • • 1440. A Vile Weed And A Fair Flower | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses a covetousness to be shunned, a contentment to be entertained, and a confidence to be established.
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      • • 163. Awake! Awake! | Answers in Genesis
          It is strange to say, but it is strangely true, that the very best gifts of God have by the sin of men become the worst pictures of man’s guilt.
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      • • 839. The Head of the Church | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains how Jesus Christ fulfills His role as the head of the church.
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      • • 2048. A Lifelong Occupation | Answers in Genesis
          If reproach is bitter, praise is sweet: we will drown the drops of gall in a sea of honey.
      • 2049-driving-out-the-canaanites/1 page
      • • 2049. Driving Out The Canaanites And Their Iron Chariots {a} | Answers in Genesis
          The Canaanites had been outlawed by God. They had been guilty of such horrible offences that he had condemned their nations to destruction.
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      • • 1368. Taking Hold Upon God | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Isaiah 64:7.
      • 1359-the-god-of-peace-and-our-sanctification/1 page
      • • 1359. The God Of Peace And Our Sanctification | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Hebrews 13:20–21.
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      • • 2832. Christ’s Yoke And Burden | Answers in Genesis
          Christ has a yoke for us to wear, so let us wear it seriously; but it is an easy yoke, so let us wear it hopefully. He has a burden for us to carry for him, so let us be in earnest in bearing it; but it is a light burden, so let us be full of joy at the very prospect of carrying it.
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      • • 319. Special Thanksgiving to the Father | Answers in Genesis
          We lack the power to grasp and the time to discuss that volume of truths which is here condensed into a few short sentences.
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      • • 2465. Our Omnipotent Leader | Answers in Genesis
          I am afraid that, in our assemblies, we often think and say, “So-and-so was there, and such and such a minister spoke to us”; but the best meeting happens when Christ is there, and when he himself by his Divine Spirit speaks familiarly to our souls.
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      • • 3180. Christ The Creator | Answers in Genesis
          There can be no mistake, as for the Person concerning whom Paul is writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
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      • • 3253. Faith Hand In Hand With Fear | Answers in Genesis
          It must be a very difficult thing to be the first traveller through an unknown country, but it is a much more simple matter to travel where others have preceded us. A long caravan of pilgrims has preceded us, and they have left us marks on the way, and records of their journey.
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      • • 3226. Figs And Olive Berries | Answers in Genesis
          Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
      • 3297-david-and-his-volunteers/1 page
      • • 3297. David and His Volunteers | Answers in Genesis
          David, compelled to flee from his own country and to hide himself from the malice of Saul, was eminently a type of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, in the days when he lived here among men, was despised and rejected by men.
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      • • 2539. The Joy Of Holy Households | Answers in Genesis
          All who trust in Christ as they ought to do will find a measure of this joy springing up within them, keeping company with the new life which the Holy Spirit has created. Ours is peace which surpasses all understanding, and joy unspeakable.
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      • • 3264. God’s Care of Elijah | Answers in Genesis
          What a mighty master of the art of prayer was Elijah the Tishbite! He was one of those who had the power to shut up heaven, so that it did not rain.
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      • • 1620. Is It Nothing To You? | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the sufferings of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
      • 801-the-woman-who-was-a-sinner/1 page
      • • 801. The Woman Who Was a Sinner | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains the account of the repentant woman who washed the Lord’s feet with her tears.
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      • • 1659. A Feast For The Upright | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the blessing given to the man who walks uprightly.
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      • • 2502. Grace And Glory | Answers in Genesis
          God is full of grace; his very name is love, it is his nature to freely dispense his goodness to others. It is according to the nature of God to give good things to his creatures. In him all fulness dwells; all grace and all glory are perpetually resident in Jehovah, the Infinite.
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      • • 2875. Confirming The Witness Of Christ | Answers in Genesis
          If you can hold your temper when men laugh at you, and if, when they revile you, you do not return it, you will confirm the truth. They will say, “There is something in that man’s religion, otherwise he could not hold his temper.”
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      • • 2894. The Sinner’s Only Alternative | Answers in Genesis
          If there is a God, he must punish men for sinning against him. How can any moral government exist if sin goes unpunished, if virtue and vice lead to the same end? Conscience, fallen though it is, and no longer like God’s candle in the soul, still has sufficient light left to assure men that God must punish sin.
      • 3041-sparrow-swallow/1 page
      • • 3041. The Sparrow And The Swallow | Answers in Genesis
          When David was far away from the services of the tabernacle, he envied the birds that had built their nests near the sacred shrine.
      • 2831-burden-bearing/1 page
      • • 2831. Burden Bearing | Answers in Genesis
          The apostle says “Bear each other’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” These Galatians had been trying to bear the heavy burden of the law of Moses. They had forsaken the gospel way of justification by faith, and had sought to be made perfect by their personal obedience to the law.
      • 2632-what-shall-harvest-be/1 page
      • • 2632. What Shall The Harvest Be? | Answers in Genesis
          Those “wild oats” about which you laugh now, are easily sown, but they will make hard and sorrowful reaping.
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      • • 315. The Teaching of the Holy Spirit | Answers in Genesis
          There are many choice gifts comprehended in the Covenant of Grace, but the first and richest of them are these two—the gift of Jesus Christ for us and the gift of the Holy Spirit to us.
      • 1842-private-tutor/1 page
      • • 1842. The Private Tutor | Answers in Genesis
          It is the true disciple’s privilege to possess in the Holy Spirit a private tutor, a prompter, and a Comforter.
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      • • 3166. A Greater Than Solomon | Answers in Genesis
          We cannot tell exactly who the queen of the south was, nor exactly where Sheba lay.
      • 2779-heart-communing/1 page
      • • 2779. Heart-Communing | Answers in Genesis
          It is the time when you think you can see your way that you go wrong; when you cannot see your way, but trust in God to lead you by a way that you do not know, you will go perfectly right. If you do not come to Jesus, you will lose his counsel and help, and the comfort that comes from them.
      • 2440-faithful-stewardship/1 page
      • • 2440. Faithful Stewardship | Answers in Genesis
          It is good that our dear brethren should make a proper account of us. Paul says, in the verse preceding our text, “Let a man so account of us,” for there are some who make a wrong evaluation concerning the ministers of the gospel.
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      • • 1016. Beauty for Ashes | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about how God mends broken hearts and what results from His work of consoling mourners.
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      • • 3325. Solace for Sad Hearts | Answers in Genesis
          Long live Jehovah the King! He issues the proclamation from his throne, and asks his Son to tell captive souls that Christ Jesus sets them free.
      • 3336-beauty-for-ashes/1 page
      • • 3336. Beauty for Ashes | Answers in Genesis
          I would remind you that the mission of our Lord Jesus Christ related to mourners in Zion.
      • 3341-oil-of-joy-for-mourning/1 page
      • • 3341. “The Oil Of Joy for Mourning” | Answers in Genesis
          Mourners in Zion ought to be doubly comforted, for here, in this gracious promise is a second gift of divine love for them, a second exchange of loss for gain.
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      • • 2478. Christ’s Perfection And Precedence | Answers in Genesis
          The spouse in this verse calls her Lord, “my Beloved,” from which it is easy for us to gather that it is of the utmost importance that our heart’s affection should be really and truly set on Christ Jesus, our Lord. We must trust him, and we must love him.
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      • • 2543. Good Reasons For A Good Resolution | Answers in Genesis
          Whenever a man makes a resolution, it should be because he has a good reason for doing so; and when he has a good reason for it, he ought to adhere to his resolution, and carry it out to the fullest possible extent.
      • 3346-resurrection-for-the-just-and-the-unjust/1 page
      • • 3346. Resurrection for the Just and the Unjust | Answers in Genesis
          My great purpose tonight, beloved, is to speak on the majestic fact that the just and the unjust are to live on in a resurrection state.
      • 3342-faith-seeing-gods-glory/1 page
      • • 3342. Faith Seeing God’s Glory | Answers in Genesis
          It is not every man whose deed is as good as his word, but of the Son of man, Christ Jesus, it may be said that whatever his lips have promised, his hands perform.
      • 3340-take-away-the-frogs/1 page
      • • 3340. “Take Away the Frogs” | Answers in Genesis
          In the case before us Jehovah has to deal with Pharaoh, and he humbles him by frogs. Strange! Exceptional!
      • 3339-heart-perfumed/1 page
      • • 3339. The Heart Perfumed | Answers in Genesis
          It is not the preacher, neither is it the letter of this Book, but it is the Holy Spirit who most graciously comes there to shed abroad the love of God in your heart.
      • 3337-ears-bored-to-door-post/1 page
      • • 3337. Ears Bored to the Door-Post | Answers in Genesis
          Observe that sometimes the Hebrew servant, although free to go where he liked at the end of six years, would not go.
      • 3335-divine-discipline/1 page
      • • 3335. The Divine Discipline | Answers in Genesis
          The Israelites had for their guide, instructor, and tutor, in order to prepare them for Canaan, none other than Jehovah himself.
      • 3334-lovely-but-lacking/1 page
      • • 3334. Lovely, but Lacking | Answers in Genesis
          Though the Gospel of Jesus Christ most certainly addresses itself to the vilest of the vile, it is not exclusively to such that the message of salvation is sent.
      • 3333-gods-king-magnified/1 page
      • • 3333. God’s King Magnified | Answers in Genesis
          You cannot hear of Jesus Christ without either getting a blessing or involving the responsibility of rejecting a blessing.
      • 3332-dumb-become-singers/1 page
      • • 3332. The Dumb Become Singers | Answers in Genesis
          What a difference grace makes whenever it enters the heart! The tongue of the dumb does not simply speak, but it sings.
      • 3331-knowing-and-believing/1 page
      • • 3331. Knowing and Believing | Answers in Genesis
          The text is entirely taken up with three things; namely, with knowing, with believing, and with the person who is known and believed.
      • 3330-two-choice-assurances/1 page
      • • 3330. Two Choice Assurances | Answers in Genesis
          I hope to be able to give you, beloved, some honey out of the rock, by dwelling on one or two choice, plain texts that speak their sweetness directly to the heart.
      • 3329-goodness-going-before/1 page
      • • 3329. Goodness Going Before | Answers in Genesis
          When we speak of “preventing grace” we do not intend to describe the grace that keeps us from sin, but the grace which goes before our actually believing in Christ.
      • 3328-guests-for-royal-feast/1 page
      • • 3328. Guests for the Royal Feast | Answers in Genesis
          The terror of the royal power had been proven, but it still remained to display the splendour of the imperial hospitality.
      • 3327-our-lords-heroic-endurance/1 page
      • • 3327. Our Lord’s Heroic Endurance | Answers in Genesis
          If we regard the Christian as a racer contending in the great race, we see that he is subject to several dangers.
      • 3324-turning-from-death/1 page
      • • 3324. Turning from Death | Answers in Genesis
          Sinner, God speaks to you tonight out of his infinite mercy. He has no pleasure in your death.
      • 1695-the-orphans-father/1 page
      • • 1695. The Orphan’s Father | Answers in Genesis
          The Lord God of Israel, the one only living and true God, has this for a special mark of his character, that in him the fatherless finds mercy.
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      • • 807. Good News for Loyal Subjects | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains the necessity of the coming reign of Jesus Christ.
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      • • 66-67. The Resurrection of the Dead | Answers in Genesis
          The apostles did not take a text when they preached, nor did they confine themselves to one subject, much less to any place of worship.
      • 1908-washed-to-greater-foulness/1 page
      • • 1908. Washed To Greater Foulness | Answers in Genesis
          It is one thing to call yourself a sinner, and quite another thing to feel it.
      • 383-the-missionaries-charge-and-charta/1 page
      • • 383. The Missionaries’ Charge and Charta | Answers in Genesis
          While I was meditating in private upon this text I felt myself carried away by its power. I was quite unable to consider its terms calmly, or to investigate its argument.
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      • • 1743. A Loving Entreaty | Answers in Genesis
          In this verse man is invited to draw near to God. Those same men of whom God says that he was weary of them are asked to plead with him.
      • 830-grey-hairs/1 page
      • • 830. Grey Hairs | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon encourages believers to examine their lives to make sure it is in line with God’s will.
      • 978-all-fulness-in-christ/1 page
      • • 978. All Fulness in Christ | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon teaches on the truth that Jesus was and is fully God.
      • 1721-glory/1 page
      • • 1721. Glory! | Answers in Genesis
          Even when nature is at her best she cannot give us an idea of the supernatural glory which God has prepared for his people.
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      • • 914. Work in Us and Work by Us | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon elaborates on the work that we do for the Lord because of the work He does in us.
      • 905-footsteps-of-mercy/1 page
      • • 905. Footsteps of Mercy | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains that God not only disciplines us, but He bestows great mercy upon us.
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      • • 1569. The Golden Lamp And Its Goodly Lessons | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the golden lamp in Zechariah 4.
      • 3176-beauty-olive-tree/1 page
      • • 3176. The Beauty Of The Olive Tree | Answers in Genesis
          Our present object will be to bring out the resemblance in point of beauty between the godly man and the olive tree.
      • 3177-christ-seen-salvation/1 page
      • • 3177. Christ Seen As God’s Salvation | Answers in Genesis
          Thousands of times that song of Simeon has been sung by careless, thoughtless people.
      • 3190-gethsemane/1 page
      • • 3190. Christ In Gethsemane | Answers in Genesis
          As we think of Christ in Gethsemane, I want you who love him not only to adore him, but to learn to imitate him.
      • 3208-faithful-olive-tree/1 page
      • • 3208. The Faithful Olive Tree | Answers in Genesis
          A temptation was set before the olive tree; it was urged to become ambitious, and aspire to reign over the rest of the trees.
      • 3209-priceless-prize/1 page
      • • 3209. The Priceless Prize | Answers in Genesis
          The very high value that the apostle Paul set on the Saviour, is most palpable, when he speaks of winning him.
      • 1903-who-found-it-out/1 page
      • • 1903. Who Found It Out? | Answers in Genesis
          The story of four leprous men inserted in the book of the Kings of Israel: is it not exceptional? No; it is not exceptional for the Bible.
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      • • 124. The Snare of the Fowler | Answers in Genesis
          The devil of this day is a well spoken gentleman: he does not persecute—he rather attempts to persuade and to beguile.
      • 119-rahabs-faith/1 page
      • • 119. Rahab’s Faith | Answers in Genesis
          The apostle Paul undertook to raise the structure, and he erected a most magnificent pillar in the chapter before us. It recites the victories of faith.
      • 420-abram-and-the-ravenous-birds/1 page
      • • 420. Abram and the Ravenous Birds | Answers in Genesis
          Faith knows how, when sceptical kites, when blaspheming vultures, when speculative eagles, come down to attack the sacrifice of Christ, to chase them away with only a puff of her breath.
      • 411-infant-salvation/1 page
      • • 411. Infant Salvation | Answers in Genesis
          I think there is no one point which ought to be left out in our ministry, even though it may only yield comfort to one class.
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      • • 637. The Dove’s Return to the Ark | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 637. The Dove’s Return to the Ark, delivered on Sunday Morning, July 2, 1865, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 663. Walking in the Light and Washed in the Blood | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon gleans lessons for Christian living from a passage in 1 John.
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      • • 1005. Lessons from Nature | Answers in Genesis
          Following the Psalmist’s lead, Charles Spurgeon examines some creatures in our world and offers insightful comments about what we can learn from them.
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      • • 996. The Alarm | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the importance of being alert when praising God and in every area of spiritual life.
      • 1696-the-bird-escaped-from-the-snare/1 page
      • • 1696. The Bird Escaped From The Snare | Answers in Genesis
          The man’s soul is the soul of the man; and though some give all their attention to the body, their folly is great.
      • 1697-the-word-of-a-king/1 page
      • • 1697. The Word Of A King | Answers in Genesis
          Kings in Solomon’s day had a vast amount of power, for their word was absolute.
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      • • 1993. Driving Away the Vultures from the Sacrifice | Answers in Genesis
          I think that this staying of Abram to defend the sacrifice when the ravenous birds came down upon it may be used as a lesson for us in three respects.
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      • • 1994. Sweet Peace for Tried Believers | Answers in Genesis
          It was fitting that he should close the service of his life in which he had preached peace, by pronouncing this as his closing benediction.
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      • • 2373. The Weary Dove’s Return | Answers in Genesis
          True faith often goes to the window. If your faith turns her face to the wall, and expects nothing, I do not think it is genuine faith.
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      • • 2374. Blessed Discipline | Answers in Genesis
          Because we are God’s children, therefore he will have us trained and prepared for that high destiny which awaits us eventually.
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      • • 2631. Israel’s Cry And God’s Answer | Answers in Genesis
          God still has a people whom he has chosen to be his own in a very special sense, but they are at present mixed up with the world.
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      • • 2764. The Cloud of Doves | Answers in Genesis
          We believe that, in the latter days, according to the Word of God, men will flock to Christ, and to his Church, in far greater numbers than they have done so far. At present, we have to go to them; but, eventually, they will come to us.
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      • • 2859. The Lions’ Den | Answers in Genesis
          Those who serve the living and the true God are sure to challenge the sneers of the time-servers in any age. There are many, nowadays, who hate nothing so much as a religious man. There is no toleration for anyone who believes that the laws of heaven should regulate life on earth.
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      • • 2861. "The Time Is Short" | Answers in Genesis
          You consider it a little thing to trespass on our minutes, but in doing so you may spoil our hours. Whether you think so, or not, it is often distracting to us to be troubled with trivial things in the midst of our sacred engagements.
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      • • 2862. The Way Of Wisdom | Answers in Genesis
          For the mind of God, there is no difficulty concerning these two truths, though there is, to us, so much mystery and perplexity. It is all simple enough for him; he is omnipotent in the world of mind as well as in the world of matter; and he is omniscient, he knows everything.
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      • • 2984. A Silly Dove | Answers in Genesis
          Be as full of love as you can, but take care that you mix iron with your constitution. Silly are the doves that have no bold heart for God.
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      • • 2985. Messages to Sinners and Saints | Answers in Genesis
          You will be ill just as long as God appoints; but if anything could help to heal you, it would be quietness and confidence of heart.
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      • • 2778. Consulting With Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          How can a man be just with God? It stands in the Book of Job, and it seems to stand there unanswered: “How should man be just with God?” There is no one, on the face of the earth, who could have answered that question if it had not been made possible by our Lord Jesus Christ.
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      • • 2780. The Sojourn In Mesech | Answers in Genesis
          I will not say that it is good, in a Christian man, to long to be away from the place where God has put him. But I will say that it scarcely needs an apology for that Christian man sometimes to cry out, “My soul is weary, I am almost weary of my life, because of those wicked men who surround me on every side.”
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      • • 2946. A Procession Of Cross-Bearers | Answers in Genesis
          I have often said that home-made troubles are like home-made clothes, — they seldom fit, and they are likely to last a very long while.
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      • • 271. Faith Illustrated | Answers in Genesis
          An assurance of our safety in Christ will be found useful to us in all states of experience.
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      • • 908. Assured Security in Christ | Answers in Genesis
          God is able to keep believers in His hand, giving us blessed assurance. Charles Spurgeon explains.
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      • • 1913. Confidence And Concern | Answers in Genesis
          Ignorance is a wretched foundation, but sure knowledge is like a rock.
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      • • 3273. A Sermon to Ministers and Other Tried Believers | Answers in Genesis
          Oh, for more humility, for then we shall have more tranquillity. Pride begets anxiety, true humility gives birth to patience.
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      • • 2814. Abraham’s Great Reward | Answers in Genesis
          Let us consider the text itself: “I am your very great reward”; and let us ask, first, what is this reward? Secondly, what are the excellencies of this very great reward? And, thirdly, what then? The Lord himself is the portion of his people.
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      • • 2022. “The Wedding Was Furnished With Guests.” | Answers in Genesis
          It should be an extraordinary feast. Surely, it would be the simplest thing in the world to gather together a grateful company of guests.
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      • • 2809. Faith: Life | Answers in Genesis
          To the believer, faith is of the utmost importance. He should endeavour not to lose any of his graces; he should seek, by the power of the blessed Spirit, neither to lose patience, nor hope, nor love, nor any other grace or virtue; still, the root of true religion is faith, so he must first of all see to that.
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      • • 3260. Spiritual Convalescence | Answers in Genesis
          If our eyes have been opened to see ourselves as we are in God’s sight, we know that we are as weak as water, and that from us, unassisted by divine grace, there can never come any good thing.
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      • • 3322. Hiding Among the Baggage | Answers in Genesis
          We are rather inclined to give Saul the credit for being really so modest that he concealed himself from honour, and must have greatness forced on him.
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      • • 3321. God in Heaven, and Men on the Sea | Answers in Genesis
          Holy men of old were accustomed to mix praise and prayer together: this is a happy mixture.
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      • • 3320. A Bad King’s Good Son | Answers in Genesis
          He was the only child of the whole family in whose heart there was “found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel.”
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      • • 3318. How to Read the Bible | Answers in Genesis
          I have no right to expect that the Spirit will reveal truth to me without the use of a book when I can find it out for myself with the book. “The Holy Spirit helps our infirmities,” but not our idlenesses.
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      • • 3316. Their Desired Haven | Answers in Genesis
          This natural voyage on the sea may be a very excellent type and picture of the spiritual voyage which all men undertake in their soul’s life.
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      • • 3314. God in Nature and in Revelation | Answers in Genesis
          There are two things in the psalm about which I am going to speak; the first is, a parallel intended; and the second, praise expressed.
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      • • 3312. The Carpenter’s Son and His Relatives | Answers in Genesis
          While others see in Christ everything to admire, these critics see no beauty in him, and just put him on the same level with others with whom they are acquainted.
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      • • 3310. Prompt Obedience | Answers in Genesis
          There is no doubt that we have David speaking to us in this Psalm, but it is equally certain that we must not limit it to David.
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      • • 3309. Christ the Seeker and Saviour of the Lost | Answers in Genesis
          The salvation of the lost was “the joy which was set before him,” for the sake of which he “endured the cross, despising the shame.”
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      • • 3306. Satan, Self, Sin, and the Saviour | Answers in Genesis
          I think the text suggests to us something about Satan, and something about self, and also something about sin and the Saviour.
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      • • 3305. A Clear Understanding | Answers in Genesis
          It would be good for someone to run up to us, as Philip did to the eunuch, and say to us as Philip did to him, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
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      • • 3303. A Very Early Bible Society | Answers in Genesis
          The Old Testament is a divine light which has led multitudes of saints to the Lord’s right hand, and its lustre is not dimmed by the New Testament, but increased by it.
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      • • 3302. Faith in Christ’s Ability | Answers in Genesis
          Among professing Christians, there is much so-called faith that is not really faith. Many of us profess much more in our creeds than we believe in our hearts, and we hold a great deal more in theory than we do in reality.
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      • • 3301. A Prophetic Warning | Answers in Genesis
          Christ had spoken to his disciples of earthquakes in various places, famines, and pestilences; but these were only the beginning of sorrows.
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      • • 342. Grace Reviving Israel | Answers in Genesis
          In reading this passage, does it ever fail to charm you? How full of beauty, and how full of poetry it is! Every word is a metaphor.
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      • • Great Meeting in The Metropolitan Tabernacle | Answers in Genesis
          I congratulate you upon your being present with me in the largest place of worship in Great Britain for the use of Nonconformist Christians.
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      • • 3005. Silken Cords | Answers in Genesis
          There is no better proof that man is totally depraved than that he needs to be effectually called.
      • 2981-the-safeguards-of-forgiveness/1 page
      • • 2981. The Safeguards of Forgiveness | Answers in Genesis
          Pardon is free to you, but it cost him his all; and, because of what it cost him, you feel that you must not sin again.
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      • • 2982. The Memorable Hymn | Answers in Genesis
          Our glorious Jesus plays the man beyond all other men. Boldest of the sons of men, he does not quail in the hour of battle, but tunes his voice to loftiest psalmody.
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      • • 1417. The Lifting Up Of The Bent Down | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses Jesus healing a woman in a synagogue on the Sabbath.
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      • • 1026. Joy Born at Bethlehem | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about the joy surrounding the birth of the Savior.
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      • • 1017. The Talking Book | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about the Bible, explaining that it is a living book, a friend to the righteous, and a guide for believers.
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      • • 1321. The Great Birthday | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the birth of Jesus Christ.
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      • • 659. Simeon | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the testimony of Simeon and how he serves as an example for us.
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      • • 650. Judgment Threatening But Mercy Sparing | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon addresses unbelievers and explains how patient God is and why they must not resist any longer.
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      • • 907. Christ—The Fall and Rise of Many | Answers in Genesis
          Mary was told that Jesus was destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel. Charles Spurgeon explains.
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      • • 898. A Word with Those Who Wait for Signs and Wonders | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains why signs and wonders do not guarantee a person will believe.
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      • • 2360. Come, My Beloved! | Answers in Genesis
          The Song of love and the Book of love end in almost the very same way, with a strong desire for Christ’s speedy return.
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      • • 2753. Patience, Comfort, And Hope From The Scriptures | Answers in Genesis
          You know that we are saved by faith, and that by faith we find complete and immediate salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ. But you must never forget that, as soon as we are saved, we come under the discipline of Christ, and a part of that discipline lies in the exercise of patience, “the patience of the Scriptures.”
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      • • 1150. Counting The Cost | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about the cost of true religion.
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      • • 1141. Life More Abundant | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon describes the abundant life that men may have through Jesus Christ.
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      • • 493. Gethsemane | Answers in Genesis
          Few had fellowship with the sorrows of Gethsemane. The majority of the disciples were not there. They were not sufficiently advanced in grace to be admitted to behold the mysteries of “the agony.”
      • 484-the-lord-the-liberator/1 page
      • • 484. The Lord, — The Liberator | Answers in Genesis
          Lord, break the fetters, and set the captives free. Glorify yourself this morning by proving yourself to be Jehovah, who frees the prisoners.
      • 693-the-garden-of-the-soul/1 page
      • • 693. The Garden of the Soul | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and makes application for believers today.
      • 684-hope-yet-no-hope-no-hope-yet-hope/1 page
      • • 684. Hope, Yet No Hope. No Hope, Yet Hope. | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the differences between those who have hope and those who do not.
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      • • 1199. Infallibility — Where To Find It And How To Use It | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses our infallible standard of the Bible.
      • 494-the-betrayal/1 page
      • • 494. The Betrayal | Answers in Genesis
          When Satan had been entirely worsted in his conflict with Christ in the garden, the man-devil Judas came upon the scene.
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      • • 1357. The Danger Of Unconfessed Sin | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the erring child of God convicted of his sin, and the awakened sinner in whom the Spirit of God has begun to work a sense of guilt.
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      • • 1348. A Business-Like Account | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Philippians 3:7–9.
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      • • 2315. Paul Apprehended And Apprehending | Answers in Genesis
          Paul was in a position of conscious safety; he was a saved man, he knew that he was saved, for he rejoiced in Christ, and had no confidence in the flesh.
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      • • 2553. The Enemies of the Cross of Christ | Answers in Genesis
          We dream that our temptations are worse than those of our fathers, but they are not. We imagine that the Church is subject to worse diseases than in her early days, but it is not so.
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      • • 97. Pride and Humility | Answers in Genesis
          Almost every event has its prophetic prelude. It is an old and common saying, that “coming events cast their shadows before them;” the wise man teaches us the same lesson in the verse before us.
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      • • 964. The Essence of the Gospel | Answers in Genesis
          Using Christ’s words in Matthew 25, Charles Spurgeon asks people to consider whether are sheep or goats.
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      • • 63. Marvelous Increase of the Church | Answers in Genesis
          The ancient church, in foreseeing her mighty increase in these latter days lifts up her hands in astonishment, and having been so used to see the Lord’s grace confined to a small nation, she exclaims.
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      • • 481. A Drama in Five Acts | Answers in Genesis
          Holy Scripture seldom gives a special rule for each particular case, but it rather instructs us by general principles applicable to all cases.
      • 428-a-cure-for-care/1 page
      • • 428. A Cure for Care | Answers in Genesis
          No one precept contains all of a believers duty; but usually in Scripture, the precepts rise one above the other, like those stone steps by which the traveller in Egypt ascends to the pinnacle of the
      • 1080-our-gifts-and-how-to-use-them/1 page
      • • 1080. Our Gifts, and How to Use Them | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about spiritual gifts and how Christians can stir up those gifts and use them properly.
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      • • 703. Salvation Altogether by Grace | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains that salvation only comes as a result of God’s grace.
      • 1653-the-resurrection-of-our-lord-jesus/1 page
      • • 1653. The Resurrection Of Our Lord Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon considers the bearings of the resurrection of Christ upon other great truths.
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      • • 1998. Not Bound Yet | Answers in Genesis
          We take death and the grave in transit now: they do not hinder our advance to glory, and immortality, and eternal life.
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      • • 1749. A Luther Sermon At The Tabernacle | Answers in Genesis
          We ought to believe in the ascended Saviour for the perpetual enriching of the church with confessors and evangelists who shall declare the truth of God.
      • 2591-pride-destroyer/1 page
      • • 2591. Pride The Destroyer | Answers in Genesis
          Habakkuk had to prophesy to the people that God would eventually deliver them out of the hand of the Chaldeans, and send them better times.
      • 2622-watching-see/1 page
      • • 2622. Watching To See | Answers in Genesis
          Habakkuk was, like ourselves, called by God to labour for the good of the people among whom he lived.
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      • • 1805. Strength And Recovery | Answers in Genesis
          When there remains no strength in you, nor any ability of any kind or sort, then fling yourself upon the divine strength, and lay hold on it, and rejoice.
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      • • 3240. The Blood Of Christ’s Covenant | Answers in Genesis
          All believers have some share in that covenant made with Abraham, for he is the father of the faithful.
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      • • 1745. Abijah Or Some Good Thing Towards The Lord | Answers in Genesis
          In the terrible news which the prophet Ahijah delivered to this wife of Jeroboam, there was only one bright spot, only one word of solace.
      • 2870-revelation-and-conversion/1 page
      • • 2870. Revelation And Conversion | Answers in Genesis
          As long as we are blind, we can see no faults in ourselves; but when the Spirit of God comes to us, and reveals to us the law of God, then we perceive that we have broken all of the ten commandments in the spirit, if not in the letter of them.
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      • • 2775. David Warned And Rewarded | Answers in Genesis
          Never allow anyone to make you depreciate the Old Testament. No part of the Bible is to be set up above the rest, or to be treated as of secondary importance. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”
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      • • 2337. The Physician Pardons His Palsied Patient | Answers in Genesis
          In this passage we have several examples of Christ acting as he could not have acted if he had not possessed a royal and divine power.
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      • • 3016. Good Cheer From Forgiven Sin | Answers in Genesis
          This man was paralysed in body, but he was very far from being paralysed in mind.
      • 2493-man-named-matthew/1 page
      • • 2493. “A Man Named Matthew.” | Answers in Genesis
          I do not think there is any part of Matthew’s Gospel that touched him more than this portion in which he was writing down the story of divine love for himself, and of how he himself was called to be a disciple of Christ.
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      • • 1326. A Cheery Word In Troublesome Times | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how we may speak words of encouragement to our comrades in distress.
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      • • 1327. A Family Sermon | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses God’s covenant with Noah.
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      • • 1329. Work For Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the service to which we have been called.
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      • • 273. Christ Triumphant | Answers in Genesis
          To the eye of reason the cross is the entire sorrow and the lowest depth of shame.
      • 2966-resistance-to-salvation/1 page
      • • 2966. Resistance to Salvation | Answers in Genesis
          Deathlike slumber is the condition of those who are dead in sin; but to be aroused to action is the sure result of the gospel coming with power to anyone.
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      • • 2262. Christ’s Curate In Decapolis | Answers in Genesis
          There are some people who could tell a story very like this man’s, a story of slavery to Satan, and deliverance by the power of Christ.
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      • • 827. The Physicians Baffled, the Great Physician Successful | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the account of Jesus healing the woman with a bleeding disorder.
      • 1382-a-golden-prayer/1 page
      • • 1382. A Golden Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on John 12:28.
      • 514-tell-it-all/1 page
      • • 514. Tell It All | Answers in Genesis
          Jesus was pressing through the throng to the house of Jairus to raise the ruler’s dead daughter; but he is so profuse in goodness that he performs another miracle while upon the road.
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      • • 1488. More And More, Or Less And Less | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Matthew 13:12.
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      • • 1355. Nevertheless. Hereafter. | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Matthew 26:64.
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      • • 1560. The Plain Man’s Pathway To Peace | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 1560. The Plain Man’s Pathway To Peace, delivered By C. H. Spurgeon, at The Metropolitan Tabernacle Newington.
      • 2482-unparalleled-cure/1 page
      • • 2482. An Unparalleled Cure | Answers in Genesis
          No sooner is one act of mercy done than there is another person needing an equal display of grace and power; and the Saviour at once goes to the task, and heals again, again, again, and yet again. What an inexhaustible fulness there is in Christ!
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      • • 1809. May I? | Answers in Genesis
          I know that multitudes of sin-sick men and women are vexed with this same question. Oh that I could help them over the difficulty!
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      • • 3020. Good Cheer From Grace Received | Answers in Genesis
          The words of good cheer which our Saviour spoke to this woman were not given to her while she was coming to him, for that would have been premature.
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      • • 3298. Lessons from Christ’s Baptism | Answers in Genesis
          I want to teach two lessons tonight; the first will be a most necessary one for the unconverted, the second will be more suitable for believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
      • 3296-praise-for-jesus/1 page
      • • 3296. Praise for Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          I intend only to speak about Judah so far as he is a type of Christ, and I trust that I shall, by the Holy Spirit’s gracious guidance, move all the brethren of the Lord Jesus Christ to praise him, so that I shall be able reverently to say to him, “Jesus, you are he whom your brethren shall praise.”
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      • • 3295. Communion with Christ and His People | Answers in Genesis
          We, who are many, are one loaf, one body: for we all partake of the one loaf.” The word “loaf” helps to bring out more clearly the idea of unity intended to be illustrated by the apostle.
      • 3294-lords-eternal-rest/1 page
      • • 3294. The Lord’s Eternal Rest | Answers in Genesis
          It would seem too great a thing for the Creator ever to rest in his creature, yet it is true that this is the place where he finds his rest.
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      • • 3291. The Sea! The Sea! The Wide and Open Sea! | Answers in Genesis
          Whether we contemplate the land or the sea, there will be found on them both abundant reasons for adoring the great Creator.
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      • • 3290. God’s Hand in the Evening | Answers in Genesis
          Perhaps, in the special senses in which Ezekiel uses this expression, we shall not expect to feel “the hand of the Lord” on us.
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      • • 3289. The Sealed Hand—a Winter Sermon | Answers in Genesis
          When the Lord seals up a man’s hand, he is unable to perform his labour. The Lord has an object in this, namely, “so that all men may know his work.”
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      • • 3287. The Only Door | Answers in Genesis
          The Word of God tells us that in the midst of the great mass of men there are to be found a special people—a people who were chosen by God out of the common race.
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      • • 3286. The Fear of Death | Answers in Genesis
          We may truly say concerning our Father in heaven that his plans, his arrangements, his actions, his gifts are very emphatically for the children.
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      • • 3285. Good Cheer from Christ’s Victory over the World | Answers in Genesis
          The believer is in two places, and he lives two lives. In the text there are two places spoken of, “in me,” and “in the world.”
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      • • 3284. The Sequel to Divine Sovereignty | Answers in Genesis
          No doctrine in the whole Word of God has more aroused the hatred of mankind than the truth of the absolute sovereignty of God.
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      • • 3283. The Voices of Our Days | Answers in Genesis
          In the discussion between Job and his three friends, Elihu was present, but though by far the wisest man he remained quiet. Sometimes, a still tongue proves a wise head.
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      • • 3282. Preparing for the Week of Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Our great High Priest is represented here as standing at the golden altar which is before the throne of God, having in his hand a golden censer full of incense, the fragrance of which would give acceptance to the prayers of the saints for his sake.
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      • • 3281. The Broad Wall | Answers in Genesis
          It seems that, around Jerusalem of old, in the time of her splendour, there was a broad wall, which was her defence and her glory. Jerusalem is a type of the Church of God. It is always good when we can see clearly, distinctly, and plainly, that around the Church to which we belong there runs a broad wall.
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      • • 3280. Christ’s Prayer and Plea | Answers in Genesis
          I believe that we have in this verse a prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some portions of this Psalm cannot apply to anyone but the Saviour; and we have the examples of Peter and Paul to warrant us in saying that, in this Psalm, David spoke of Jesus Christ.
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      • • 3278. The Wordless Book | Answers in Genesis
          I daresay that most of you have heard of a little book which an old divine used to study constantly, and when his friends wondered what there was in the book, he told them that he hoped they would all know and understand it, but that there was not a single word in it.
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      • • 3276. Christ’s Glory Turned to Shame | Answers in Genesis
          In the case of both of David and Jesus, the sons of men turned their glory into shame, but I want especially to have you remember the sufferings of our Saviour in this respect.
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      • • 3275. “A Kind of First-fruits” | Answers in Genesis
          God intends to put us first. He puts his saints beyond all others as his special treasure.
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      • • 934. Bands of Love | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses some of the means God uses to draw people to Himself.
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      • • 2447. “God, And Not Man,”—What Does It Mean? | Answers in Genesis
          In a thousand respects, God is greater than man; but the Lord here puts this truth most prominently forward, that he is “God, and not man,” in that he is infinitely more forbearing, infinitely more tender, infinitely more ready to pass by offences than any man ever can be.
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      • • 2884. “Who Is On The Lord’s Side?” | Answers in Genesis
          Justification by faith is the side on which God is; but justification by the works of the law is a lie; in fact, it is an impossibility. Now, dear friends, on which side are you with regard to this matter of salvation by Christ or salvation by self? Are you “on the Lord’s side” of that question?
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      • • 3106. Freedom Through Christ's Blood | Answers in Genesis
          Jesus Christ has been delivered from the bondage of the grave.
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      • • 3107. Christ And His Table-Companions | Answers in Genesis
          The outward ordinances of the Christian religion are only two, and those two are very simple, yet neither of them has escaped human alteration.
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      • • 2589. The Christian’s Glorious Inventory | Answers in Genesis
          It is only right that people should feel an attachment to those who preach the gospel to them; but when it becomes almost a worship, they need a solemn reproof.
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      • • 2135. The Warnings And The Rewards Of The Word Of God | Answers in Genesis
          The sun in the heavens is everything to the natural world; and the Word of God in the heart is everything in the spiritual world.
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      • • 2494. The Cause And Cure Of A Wounded Spirit | Answers in Genesis
          I am persuaded that there is no man in this world who does not have trial in some form or other, unless it is those whom God permits to have their portion in this life because they will have no portion of bliss in the life that is to come.
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      • • 2417. First Forgiveness, Then Healing | Answers in Genesis
          He cares more about you, and about what shall take place in you, than about any of the Pharisees or doctors of the law who may be sitting by. God is glorified in scattering his miracles of mercy where there is the greatest need of them.
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      • • 109. Going Home—A Christmas Sermon | Answers in Genesis
          This poor wretch being possessed with a legion of evil spirits had been driven to something worse than madness.
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      • • 1810. The Lion And The Bear: Trophies Hung Up | Answers in Genesis
          David concludes that just as bears and lions die when they meddle with sheep, so must Goliath fall now that he dares to attack the Lord and his people.
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      • • 2018. Cured At Last! | Answers in Genesis
          Here is one of the Lord’s hidden ones: a case not publicly described because of its secret sorrow. We have here a woman of few words and much shamefacedness.
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      • • 2019. “She Was Not Hidden.” | Answers in Genesis
          Many would have quoted her case as a reason why they might be allowed to escape the responsibilities, duties, and sufferings which discipleship might involve.
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      • • 2020. “Is Anything Too Hard For The Lord?” | Answers in Genesis
          The Lord shines upon us in the question, and our answer to it is the reflection of his light.
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      • • 2613. Sonship Questioned | Answers in Genesis
          In speaking on the temptation of our Lord, I want first to say a few words that ought always to be remembered by those who are tempted.
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      • • 2197. Christ’s Resurrection And Our Newness Of Life | Answers in Genesis
          The notion that the doctrines of grace give licence to sin, comes from the devil, and we scorn it with a detestation more deep than words can express.
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      • • 882. The Old Man Crucified | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains some of the major benefits of salvation, including the death of the old man.
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      • • 2933. Dead, Yet Alive | Answers in Genesis
          Every believer is truly dead to sin, because Christ has died to sin, just as every believer is truly alive to God, because Christ is alive to God.
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      • • 1410. Encouragement To Trust And Pray | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Isaiah 30:19.
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      • • 1735. The Doctrines Of Grace Do Not Lead To Sin | Answers in Genesis
          Grace is the soul of the gospel: without it the gospel is dead. Grace is the music of the gospel: without it the gospel is silent with respect to all comfort.
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      • • 1482. Our Change Of Masters | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses our change of masters, the reasons for that change, and the results of that change.
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      • • 1868. Death And Life: The Wage And The Gift | Answers in Genesis
          In the fifth chapter of this epistle, Paul had shown at considerable length our justification from sin through the righteousness of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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      • • 17. Joseph Attacked by the Archers | Answers in Genesis
          It must have been a fine sight to see the hoary headed Jacob sitting up in his bed while he bestowed his parting benediction upon his twelve sons.
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      • • 2572. Fellowship With Christ | Answers in Genesis
          There is one great difference between Christ, as the Founder of the Christian religion, and all mere men who have attempted to create a system of belief.
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      • • 1138. The Gentleness of Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon describes the gentleness and longsuffering of the Lord Jesus.
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      • • 1649. Freshness | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the excellency of freshness, the fear of its departure, and the hope of its continuance.
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      • • 2118. The Planter Of The Ear Must Hear | Answers in Genesis
          The character of a man hinges upon his relationship to God. You may know what manner of man he is if you find out how he stands towards God.
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      • • 2619. The Captain Of Our Salvation | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 2619. The Captain Of Our Salvation, Delivered On Thursday Evening, January 19, 1882, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 3217. An Earnest Warning Against Unbelief | Answers in Genesis
          All the histories of Scripture are written for our examples, but especially the story of the Israelites in the wilderness.
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      • • 2655. Decided Ungodliness | Answers in Genesis
          There are some who have refused to return, and who have said as much. Many people in the great world have actually declared that they will not yield to God. They will sooner burn than turn, they will rather perish in their iniquities than be pardoned after repenting of their sins.
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      • • 2833. Lessons On Divine Grace | Answers in Genesis
          God has not bestowed his love, his favour, his mercy, on me because he foresaw that I should repent of my sin, and trust in his dear Son. No, there is a deeper reason for his love. If I am a child of God, an heir of heaven, the well-spring of God’s love for me is in his own sovereign grace.
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      • • 2287. “If There Is No Resurrection, — .” | Answers in Genesis
          The resurrection of Christ is a foundational truth; and if it was taken away, much more was gone than some supposed; indeed, everything was gone.
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      • • 828. Dying Daily | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon elaborates on the fact that we are all in the process of dying and explains how we should respond to this truth.
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      • • 2271. Alone, Yet Not Alone | Answers in Genesis
          Our Lord looks for faith as the result of his teaching; and I think that I hear him say, at the end of every service, “Do you now believe?”
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      • • 2525. Joy In Place Of Sorrow | Answers in Genesis
          As I have often reminded you, it has become a Christian duty for believers to be glad. “Rejoice in the Lord,” is a precept given to us over and over again, and I believe that, broadly speaking, the general condition of God’s people is one of joy.
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      • • 2907. The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ | Answers in Genesis
          It is the Holy Spirit’s office to come between us and Christ, to lead us to Christ, even as the Son of God comes between us and the Father, to lead us to the Father; so that we have the whole Trinity uniting to save a sinner, the Triune God bowing down out of heaven for the salvation of rebellious men.
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      • • 3024. Christ’s Death And Ours | Answers in Genesis
          Surely, we make too little of our Redeemer’s death.
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      • • 1844. Israel And Britain. A Note Of Warning | Answers in Genesis
          The blindness of Israel concerning our Lord was sadly remarkable. It was a blindness of the eyes, for they saw his many miracles, and yet did not believe.
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      • • 129. David’s Dying Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          There was a time when this prayer would have been unnecessary; a period, in fact, when it could not have been offered, seeing the thing to be asked for was already existed.
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      • • 1233. Abraham’s Prompt Obedience To The Call Of God | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses Abraham’s experience, his conduct, and the result of that conduct.
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      • • 279. Come and Welcome | Answers in Genesis
          The cry of the Christian religion is the simple word, “Come.”
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      • • 1331. Manoah’s Wife And Her Excellent Argument | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Judges 13:22–23.
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      • • 1608. The Double “Come” | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Revelation 22:17.
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      • • The Oft-Repeated Invitation | Answers in Genesis
          If God shall bless that invitation, "Come", and sinners do come to Christ, there will be more music evoked from this note than if my sermon had been as brilliant as the highest human eloquence could make it, for angels in heaven and God himself will rejoice if sinners are brought to the Saviour.
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      • • 998. More and More | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how believers can praise God more and more every day.
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      • • 3271. God, the Children’s Teacher | Answers in Genesis
          The success of the scholar brings honour and credit to the teacher. So David speaks of God having taught him, in order that he may give honour and glory to God.
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      • • 1937. A Mingled Strain | Answers in Genesis
          In what state of heart should we come to the communion table? It is no light matter: in what manner shall we come before the Lord in so sacred an ordinance?
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      • • 3056. The Guilt And The Cleansing | Answers in Genesis
          David felt like one who was shut out from God, and was unworthy to approach him. He could not be content to remain in such a condition.
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      • • 2431. The Double Cleansing | Answers in Genesis
          Are any of you here broken down under a sense of sin? Then I am glad that I have such good news for you as my text contains. It is for sinners that Jesus bled and died. It is for you who are conscious of your great guiltiness that the fulness and the freeness of his grace are revealed.
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      • • 2934. Great Changes | Answers in Genesis
          God deliver us from having an exclusively respectable congregation! I like to see men of all classes.
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      • • 2419. Repentance After Conversion | Answers in Genesis
          I appeal to those who have tasted that the Lord is gracious, who have been restored from spiritual death, who are debtors to free grace and dying love. I invite and entreat them to accompany us while we present to God the sacrifices which he will not despise, the sacrifices of a broken spirit and a contrite heart.
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      • • 2510. Apart | Answers in Genesis
          Remember, you have to be born alone, you will have to die alone, you will have to be judged alone, and you must be born again alone; and therefore, there must be for yourself a personal sense of sin, a personal seeking to Christ, a personal acceptance of pardon through the precious blood.
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      • • 3009. Our Champion | Answers in Genesis
          Poor Samson! We cannot say much about him as an example to believers.
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      • • 86. Unimpeachable Justice | Answers in Genesis
          There is now agitating the public mind something which I thought I might improve this day, and turn to very excellent purpose. There are only two things concerning which the public have any suspicion.
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      • • 3274. Sickness and Prayer, Healing and Praise | Answers in Genesis
          Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
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      • • 3269. A Frail Leaf | Answers in Genesis
          Poor Job! who could have been brought lower than he? He had lost his possessions, his children, his health; he was covered with sore boils, and he was aggravated by the unkind speeches of his friends.
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      • • 3268. The Saviour’s Silence | Answers in Genesis
          Our gracious Master always walked the hospital, for the whole world was that to him, and whenever he went his supreme business here below was by touch, or look, or word, to bestow healing on the soul and body.
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      • • 3267. Under His Shadow | Answers in Genesis
          “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty”: and that shadow shall preserve him from nightly terror and ghostly evil, from the arrows of war and of pestilence, from death and from destruction.
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      • • 3265. Faith Tried and Triumphing | Answers in Genesis
          In this epistle Peter is speaking of the scattered saints in all parts of the world, and, taught by the Holy Spirit, he says of them that they were “a holy priesthood.”
      • 3265-faith-tried-and-triumphing/1 page
      • • 3265. Faith Tried and Triumphing | Answers in Genesis
          Faith is not a grace of luxury but a grace of necessity. We must have it, and if we do not have it, we would not be the people of God at all.
      • 3263-intelligent-obedience/1 page
      • • 3263. Intelligent Obedience | Answers in Genesis
          So far as the sinner is concerned, by the law comes the knowledge of sin. The law can do nothing more for him than convince him that he needs a Saviour, and drive him out of himself to find in Christ what he cannot find in himself.
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      • • 3262. Satan’s Arrows and God’s | Answers in Genesis
          Dear friends, when we preach to you, we do as it were, shoot arrows at a mark; but, alas! how few of them ever reach the target! If any of our arrows are shot without earnestness and zeal, they are almost certain to fall short of the mark.
      • 3259-faiths-way-of-approach/1 page
      • • 3259. Faith’s Way of Approach | Answers in Genesis
          ithout faith Christ is not ours. His blood cannot cleanse us; his life cannot quicken us. We must have faith to receive the blessings of salvation.
      • 3257-thoughts-and-their-fruit/1 page
      • • 3257. Thoughts and Their Fruit | Answers in Genesis
          It has almost passed into a proverb, that “thought is free.” Thought must be free, and it shall be acknowledged, by God’s help, perfectly free as between man and man.
      • 3256-beggars-becoming-princes/1 page
      • • 3256. Beggars Becoming Princes | Answers in Genesis
          So strange are the workings of providence that, however low anyone may be in temporal circumstances, he need not give way to despair, but he may cherish hopes of better times coming to him.
      • 3254-curse-removed/1 page
      • • 3254. The Curse Removed | Answers in Genesis
          Not human lawgiver could have given out such a law as what we find in the Decalogue. It is a perfect law, for all human laws that are right are to be found in that brief compendium and epitome of all that is good and excellent towards God, or between man and men.
      • 3251-christ-tree-of-life/1 page
      • • 3251. Christ The Tree Of Life | Answers in Genesis
          We believe our Lord Jesus Christ to be none other than that tree of life in the centre of the new paradise, whose leaves are for the healing of the nations.
      • 3250-growth-of-faith/1 page
      • • 3250. The Growth Of Faith | Answers in Genesis
          May our experience keep pace with our knowledge, and may that experience be composed of a practical using of our Lord. Jesus casts a shadow, let us sit under it: Jesus yields fruit, let us taste its sweetness.
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      • • 228. The Blood | Answers in Genesis
          God’s people are always safe. Nothing can harm the man who has made his refuge in God.
      • 221-comfort-proclaimed/1 page
      • • 221. Comfort Proclaimed | Answers in Genesis
          What a sweet title: “My people!” What a cheering revelation: “Your God!” How much of meaning is couched in those two words, “My people!”
      • 1251-the-unbroken-line-of-true-nobles/1 page
      • • 1251. The Unbroken Line Of True Nobles | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Psalm 45:16.
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      • • 870. Things Present | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how Paul gave the Corinthians the proper perspective on material things.
      • 875-things-to-come/1 page
      • • 875. Things to Come | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon looks at what the future holds for believers and how those truths should influence us today.
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      • • 981. Carried By Four | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon draws spiritual insights from the account of the paralyzed man who was carried by four friends to Jesus.
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      • • 1991. “Sitting By.” | Answers in Genesis
          It is noteworthy that God always selects our congregations for us, and his arrangements are always wise.
      • 478-christ-perfect-through-sufferings/1 page
      • • 478. Christ — Perfect Through Sufferings | Answers in Genesis
          Believing that God foreknows all things, we can only come to the conclusion that he foreknew the fall, and that it was only an incident in the great method by which he would glorify himself.
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      • • 2620. Christ’s Prayer For Peter | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 2620. Christ’s Prayer For Peter, delivered On Lord’s Day Evening, January 22, 1882, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
      • 90-men-chosen-fallen-angels-rejected/1 page
      • • 90. Men Chosen–Fallen Angels Rejected | Answers in Genesis
          The Almighty God, who dwelt alone, was pleased to manifest himself by created works, which would display his wisdom and his power.
      • 487-a-tempted-saviour-our-best-help/1 page
      • • 487. A Tempted Saviour—Our Best Help | Answers in Genesis
          There is something here for each of us, as Solomon puts it, a portion for seven and also for eight.
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      • • 1974. The Suffering Saviour’s Sympathy | Answers in Genesis
          There is more eloquence in love than in all the words that the most clever rhetorician can ever put together.
      • 1975-convenanter/1 page
      • • 1975. The Convenanter | Answers in Genesis
          You can play with religion until you are laid low, and then it becomes serious work. The romance of religion is one thing; the reality of it is another.
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      • • 2885. Christ’s Sympathy With His People | Answers in Genesis
          Remember, believers, that you not only have the love of Christ’s heart, but you also have the strength of Christ’s arm at your disposal. He rules over all things, in heaven, and earth, and hell, so rest in him, for he still bears the scars of his wounds to show that he has suffered even as you do.
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      • • 2552. Take Heed, Brethren | Answers in Genesis
          True religion is not a thing that can be acquired by carelessness or neglect; we must take heed, or we shall never be found in the narrow way.
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      • • 611. Zechariah’s Vision of Joshua the High Priest | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains why the Christian has a sure hope when he is under attack.
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      • • 1042. A Persuasive to Steadfastness | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon examines what it means to actually be a partaker of Christ as opposed to those who only appear to be partakers of Christ.
      • 1033-faiths-dawn-and-its-clouds/1 page
      • • 1033. Faith’s Dawn and Its Clouds | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon elaborates on the battle between true faith and unbelief.
      • 1585-truthfulness/1 page
      • • 1585. Truthfulness | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Jeremiah 5:3.
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      • • 562. Alas for Us, If You Were All, and Nothing Beyond, Oh Earth. | Answers in Genesis
          The argument has nothing to do with some of you who are not Christians; it only respects those who are real, living followers of the Saviour, and who are known by this, that they have hope in Christ.
      • 1442-this-year-also/1 page
      • • 1442. “This Year Also” | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the beginning of a new year.
      • 1256-the-eternal-truth-of-god/1 page
      • • 1256. The Eternal Truth Of God | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about the fact that God is true and that God is true in all generations.
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      • • 3022. God’s Innumerable Mercies | Answers in Genesis
          All that God does for his people is in faithfulness to his promise.
      • 1938-the-master-key-opening-the-gate-of-heaven/1 page
      • • 1938. The Master Key, Opening The Gate Of Heaven | Answers in Genesis
          The God of the past has blotted out your sin, the God of the present makes all things work for your good, the God of the future will never leave you nor forsake you.
      • 2496-joyful-anticipation-of-the-second-advent/1 page
      • • 2496. Joyful Anticipation Of The Second Advent | Answers in Genesis
          The destruction of Jerusalem was, so to speak, the rolling up of the curtain on the great drama of the world’s doom; it will not fall again until all the things that we now see shall have passed away, and only the things that cannot be shaken—the things of God and of eternity, which we cannot see—shall remain.
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      • • 2432. Kept From Iniquity | Answers in Genesis
          There was scarcely any bad thing which the court of Saul did not attribute to David; but he was upright before God, and he dared to challenge the investigation of the Most High, for he was sincere and true to the core.
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      • • 2935. Christ’s Joy And Ours | Answers in Genesis
          God gives us many precepts, and every precept in God’s Word is a sign-post pointing out the road to joy.
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      • • 2420. “The King Can Do No Wrong.” | Answers in Genesis
          We may go and do, on our own account, things that shall bring dishonour to the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and King. He will have no part nor lot in them, nothing that he has taught will suggest them, and nothing that he desires will urge us to act like that.
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      • • 2511. Brought Out, To Be Brought In | Answers in Genesis
          I am sure that, in my early youth, no teaching ever had such an impression on my mind as the instruction of my mother; neither can I conceive that, for any child, there can be one who will have such influence over the young heart as the mother who has so tenderly cared for her offspring.
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      • • 2904. The Plumb-line | Answers in Genesis
          First, then, dear friends, a plumb-line is used in building when it is done as it ought to be; and I remind you that God always uses it in his building. Everything that God builds is built plumb, and straight, and square, and fair.
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      • • 3010. Jacob’s Model Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          You must have noticed, dear friends, how very frequently God makes the life of a man to be the reflection of his character.
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      • • 971. The Open Fountain | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses Israel’s future repentance and then draws parallels to our own salvation.
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      • • 1824. The History Of Various Fools | Answers in Genesis
          We are much alike as children of the first Adam, and alike when we become children of the second Adam; and yet no two children of God are quite the same.
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      • • 3070. A Visit To Christ's Hospital | Answers in Genesis
          Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
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      • • 2921. An Old-Fashioned Remedy | Answers in Genesis
          The healing of natural sickness is not accomplished without the power of God. Vain would be the skill of the most learned physician unless the God of nature cooperated with the medicine. If any of you have been recently restored from sickness, I charge you to praise God for his goodness.
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      • • 1992. Song For The Free, And Hope For The Bound | Answers in Genesis
          Jesus has come into the world to break the gate of bronze, and to cut the bars of iron asunder. Oh, that my prayer might be heard for those who are in bondage!
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      • • 2856. Our Hiding-Place | Answers in Genesis
          Many of you know only too well that there are rough winds of outward trial and trouble I do not doubt that many a stormy blast has swept across your heart, in your families, or in your lives; in one way or another, you have realized your need of “a hiding-place from the wind, and a refuge from the tempest."
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      • • 3031. "The Shadow Of A Great Rock" | Answers in Genesis
          Writing under divine inspiration, the prophet Isaiah describes the Lord Jesus Christ, in his personal manhood, as being comparable to this great rock.
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      • • 2166. Experience And Assurance | Answers in Genesis
          I am afraid these eager days leave little time for meditation; yet there is no exercise more nourishing to faith, and love, and all the graces.
      • 1732-in-him-like-him/1 page
      • • 1732. In Him: Like Him | Answers in Genesis
          Ours is no transient union; while he lives as our Head we shall remain his members.
      • 1751-fathers-in-christ/1 page
      • • 1751. Fathers in Christ | Answers in Genesis
          Truth, which is fundamental, should be repeated by the teacher until the disciple has learned it beyond all fear of ever forgetting it.
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      • • 811. To You, Young Men | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon gives a charge to young men who must take a stand for Christ.
      • 1244-the-lion-slayer-the-giant-killer/1 page
      • • 1244. The Lion Slayer — The Giant Killer | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the courage of David.
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      • • 654. Memory—The Handmaid of Hope | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon speaks words of encouragement to believers and gives a warning to unbelievers.
      • 2436-how-good-to-those-who-seek/1 page
      • • 2436. “How Good To Those Who Seek!” | Answers in Genesis
          It is the prophet Jeremiah, in his Book of Lamentations, who says to you who are seeking the Lord, “The Lord is good to the soul that seeks him.” You do not need to take any discount off his words of cheer. Depend on it, what he says is true.
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      • • 1291. Life’s Need And Maintenance | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Psalm 22:29.
      • 1031-how-can-i-obtain-faith/1 page
      • • 1031. How Can I Obtain Faith? | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains why faith comes by hearing the word of God.
      • 2327-whole-machinery-of-salvation/1 page
      • • 2327. The Whole Machinery Of Salvation | Answers in Genesis
          An invocation of the name of God, a trusting in God, and a subsequent calling on God and acknowledgment of God, it is this that saves the soul.
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      • • 2932. False Justification And True | Answers in Genesis
          Men who believe themselves to be saved by their own good works generally have something harsh and evil to say against God’s grace.
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      • • 3229. The Royal Saviour | Answers in Genesis
          These apostles were the representatives of Messiah the Prince, acting under his authority, and, so far as they could, filling up the gap caused by his absence.
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      • • 966. Joseph’s Bones | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon makes application from the final words of Joseph.
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      • • 1786. Our Sanctuary | Answers in Genesis
          All men who have to deal with great multitudes of people for God must be much alone, or they will lose their power.
      • 606-marys-song/1 page
      • • 606. Mary’s Song | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon takes a close look at Mary’s song of praise.
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      • • 2941. Mary’s Magnificat | Answers in Genesis
          Oh, surely, if the children of earth sing, the children of heaven ought to sing far more often, far more loudly, far more harmoniously than they do.
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      • • 3019. The Hungry Filled, The Rich Emptied | Answers in Genesis
          Divine providence is like a wheel; and as the wheel revolves, that spoke which was highest becomes the lowest, and what was lowest is elevated to the highest place.
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      • • 873. Christ Made a Curse for Us | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains how believers are saved from the Curse by the Son of God who was made a curse for us.
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      • • 3062. The Spirit's Office Towards Disciples | Answers in Genesis
          Whatever you feel which lifts Christ on high in your soul, comes from the Spirit.
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      • • 2370. “Christ First, Me Last: Nothing Between But Love.” | Answers in Genesis
          Paul speaks of it as a fact ascertainable, and one which he had himself ascertained, that Jesus Christ loved him, and gave himself for him.
      • 2402-under-arrest/1 page
      • • 2402. Under Arrest | Answers in Genesis
          When Christ came to the chosen people, they were in a most miserable condition, and there was no hope for them at all apart from the promised Messiah.
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      • • 3194. A Look And Its Lessons | Answers in Genesis
          The people of God are described here as those “who follow after righteousness.”
      • 3248-gathering-without-planting/1 page
      • • 3248. Gathering Without Planting | Answers in Genesis
          As the Holy Spirit shall help us, let us first learn from the text as it referred to Israel; and then, taking the general principle mentioned here, let us learn from their case to consider our own, for we also enjoy what we have neither produced nor earned.
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      • • 3247. Unreasonable Reasons | Answers in Genesis
          Our Saviour did not ask Peter that question for his own information.
      • 3246-thoughts/1 page
      • • 3246. God’s Thoughts And Ours | Answers in Genesis
          Some people seem to be always struggling to get away from the thought of one true personal God.
      • 3245-position-purpose/1 page
      • • 3245. Our Position And Our Purpose | Answers in Genesis
          The apostle here delivers an exhortation, in which he appeals to the noblest passions of the children of God.
      • 3243-vine-israel/1 page
      • • 3243. The Vine Of Israel | Answers in Genesis
          We shall view the prayer of the text in its reference to Israel.
      • 3242-unparalleled-lovingkindnesses/1 page
      • • 3242. Unparalleled Lovingkindnesses | Answers in Genesis
          The mercies of God awaken us every morning, so that we are as used to them as we are to the sunlight, yet some of us think very little of them.
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      • • 3241. The Painful And Puzzling Question | Answers in Genesis
          This question may be very properly asked of those who have no faith at all.
      • 3239-woe-weal/1 page
      • • 3239. Woe And Weal | Answers in Genesis
          Those who expect to find the road to heaven smooth and unobstructed will discover little in the experience of the ancient saints to support the expectation.
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      • • 3237b. “Do Not Sin Against The Child” | Answers in Genesis
          We who know what is due to children will be far more guilty than others if we sin against their souls.
      • 3237a-preaching/1 page
      • • 3237a. Our Lord’s Preaching | Answers in Genesis
          Our Lord’s anointing was with a special view to his preaching.
      • 3235-hope-purifies/1 page
      • • 3235. The Hope That Purifies | Answers in Genesis
          Relationship to the ever-blessed God must bring with it a measure of joy.
      • 3234-strangers-sojourners/1 page
      • • 3234. Strangers And Sojourners | Answers in Genesis
          If you read the whole verse, you will see that David used these words as an argument in prayer.
      • 3233-firebrands/1 page
      • • 3233. God’s Firebrands | Answers in Genesis
          When a fire begins to get the upper hand with us, it is terrible in its destructiveness.
      • 3232-facts-inferences/1 page
      • • 3232. Facts And Inferences | Answers in Genesis
          We must never judge by appearances, for many things that we see with our eyes and hear with our ears are not really what they appear to be to us.
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      • • 3231. A New Year’s Wish | Answers in Genesis
          The Philippians had several times sent presents to Paul, to supply his needs.
      • 3230-last-message-for-year/1 page
      • • 3230. The Last Message For The Year | Answers in Genesis
          I pray that the Holy Spirit may cause the deepest possible seriousness to rest on this whole assembly.
      • 3228-oh-how-he-loves/1 page
      • • 3228. “Oh, How He Loves!” | Answers in Genesis
          Most of us here, I trust, are not mere onlookers, but we have a share in the special love of Jesus.
      • 3227-secret-happiness/1 page
      • • 3227. The Secret Of Happiness | Answers in Genesis
          Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
      • 2035-peter-after-his-restoration/1 page
      • • 2035. Peter After His Restoration | Answers in Genesis
          Peter was to be sifted, so our Lord warned him; and Satan was to operate with the sieve.
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      • • 1787. Humility The Friend Of Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          It seems to me that when once a man is taught by the Lord to pray he is equal to every emergency that can possibly arise.
      • 1788-proof-of-our-ministry/1 page
      • • 1788. The Proof Of Our Ministry | Answers in Genesis
          Paul was sure that the power of God would be with him to support him in the work of reformation.
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      • • 2817. Jacob’s Fear And Faith | Answers in Genesis
          Jacob, in his fear, is not to be held up as an example for us. He is not to be commended for fearing Esau, neither are we to imitate him in this respect. There is a great deal that Christians feel which they never ought to feel, and there are many places into which Christians come in which they never ought to come.
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      • • 1825. An Inscription For The Mausoleum Of The Saints | Answers in Genesis
          It is idle to think that we can mark out a place in the cemetery where none but saints shall sleep; but yet there is a truth at the basis of that folly.
      • 2922-an-infallible-sign-of-revival/1 page
      • • 2922. An Infallible Sign of Revival | Answers in Genesis
          Wherever God comes out in his great mercy his name alone is exalted. So again it will be when yet farther on in human history the end shall come, when you and I and all born of woman shall stand before the dread tribunal of the last great day; then the Lord alone shall be exalted.
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      • • 1234. Rivers Of Water In A Dry Place | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Isaiah 32:2.
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      • • 350. A Blow at Self-Righteousness | Answers in Genesis
          Ever since man became a sinner he has been self-righteous. When he had a righteousness of his own he never gloried in it, but ever since he has lost it, he has pretended to be the possessor of it.
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      • • 1301. The Blind Befriended | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Isaiah 42:16.
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      • • 1292. A Prince And A Saviour | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses some of the titles of Jesus.
      • 320-contentment/1 page
      • • 320. Contentment | Answers in Genesis
          The apostle Paul was a very learned man, but not the least among his various acquisitions in science was this—he had learned to be content.
      • 1729-beginning-at-jerusalem/1 page
      • • 1729. Beginning At Jerusalem | Answers in Genesis
          Implicit obedience is not thoughtless: on the contrary, it is necessary for its completeness that heart and mind should be active in it.
      • 1730-a-cure-for-unsavoury-foods/1 page
      • • 1730 A Cure For Unsavoury Foods: or, Salt For The White Of An Egg | Answers in Genesis
          Poor Job feels that he has very unsavoury food to eat, and he asks them whether they expect him to eat it without salt.
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      • • 3224. “Repentance And Remission” | Answers in Genesis
          This verse is among our Lord’s last words to his disciples just before he left them to return to heaven.
      • 3225-finding-following-christ/1 page
      • • 3225. Finding And Following Christ | Answers in Genesis
          There are abundant reasons why we may have a well-grounded assurance that Christ is our Saviour if we have truly trusted in him.
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      • • 1900. Rejoice Evermore | Answers in Genesis
          That joy should be made a duty is a sure sign of the blessed New Covenant. Because Jesus has suffered, we are encouraged, commanded, and enabled to rejoice.
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      • • 2215. Young Man! A Prayer For You | Answers in Genesis
          If we desire the good of our servants, our children, and our friends, let us take care that we make supplication for them.
      • 1898-mouth-and-heart/1 page
      • • 1898. Mouth And Heart | Answers in Genesis
          He who composes short and striking summaries of gospel truth may be working as effectively for the salvation of men as another who delivers earnest, pleading discourses.
      • 520-confession-with-the-mouth/1 page
      • • 520. Confession with the Mouth | Answers in Genesis
          This morning, according to promise, I shall discourse upon the second part of this verse — “With the mouth confession is made to salvation.”
      • 511-pentecost/1 page
      • • 511. Pentecost | Answers in Genesis
          How absolutely necessary is the presence and power of the Holy Spirit! It is not possible for us to promote the glory of God or to bless the souls of men, unless the Holy Spirit be in us and with us.
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      • • 3011. Faith First, Confession Following | Answers in Genesis
          Believing with the heart must come first; confession with the mouth must and should come afterwards.
      • 2328-micahs-message-for-today/1 page
      • • 2328. Micah’s Message For Today | Answers in Genesis
          In him we meet the requirements of the law, first, by what he has done for us; and next, by what he works in us.
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      • • 2805. “Life For A Look.” | Answers in Genesis
          For salvation out of any trouble, we should only look to God. When I have spoken briefly on that point, I shall carry the principle into deeper spiritual matters by showing you, in the second place, that, for eternal salvation, we must assuredly only look to God.
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      • • 1022. Do Not Sleep | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about actively serving the Lord rather than falling asleep like the disciples on the night Jesus was arrested.
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      • • 1514. The Keynote Of A Choice Sonnet | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Luke 1:46.
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      • • 2219. A Harp Of Ten Strings | Answers in Genesis
          The essence of true divinity is greatening God, magnifying him, and enlarging our conceptions of his majesty and his glory to the utmost degree.
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      • • 2583. Rain And Grace—A Parallel | Answers in Genesis
          Job was an admirable man, but the Lord intended to make him even better.
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      • • 2908. The Saints Heritage And Watchword | Answers in Genesis
          The ship of Christ’s Church never sails so well as when she is rocked from side to side by the winds of persecution, and when, at every lurch, she is almost overwhelmed. Nothing has helped God’s Church so much as persecution; she has been increased and strengthened by it.
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      • • 1534. Salvation By Works, A Criminal Doctrine | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon says that two great crimes are contained in the idea of self-justification, that they are committed by many, and that the true believer does not fall into these crimes.
      • 1705-the-hearing-of-faith/1 page
      • • 1705. The Hearing Of Faith | Answers in Genesis
          Doubtless, if it had been possible for the Lord to have presented another way of salvation, man would have opposed that also.
      • 1706-the-cast-off-sash/1 page
      • • 1706. The Cast-Off Sash | Answers in Genesis
          The people of Israel and Judah were so sunk in thoughtlessness that it was absolutely necessary to do something more than speak.
      • 864-lifes-ever-springing-well/1 page
      • • 864. Life’s Ever Springing Well | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how Jesus is the source of living water.
      • 2094-foundation-work/1 page
      • • 2094. Foundation Work | Answers in Genesis
          Solomon began to build the temple at the foundation. You smile, and wonder how he could have begun anywhere else.
      • 1145-daniel-facing-the-lions-den/1 page
      • • 1145. Daniel Facing the Lions’ Den | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon describes the prayerful habits of Daniel.
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      • • 2403. The Sweet And The Sweetener | Answers in Genesis
          May God the Holy Spirit help us all sweetly to meditate on him of whom the psalmist speaks here!
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      • • 1196. All For Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses our service of Jesus Christ.
      • 1187-the-stern-pedagogue/1 page
      • • 1187. The Stern Pedagogue | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the function of the law, the intent of that function, and the termination of that function.
      • 781-christus-et-ego/1 page
      • • 781. Christus Et Ego | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains how the believer’s life is characterized by one’s relationship with Christ.
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      • • 1599. Everyday Religion | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Galatians 2:20.
      • 1050-a-bright-light-in-deep-shadows/1 page
      • • 1050. A Bright Light in Deep Shadows | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses a passage about God’s care for Israel during her formative years and makes application for believers today.
      • 1041-mercys-master-motive/1 page
      • • 1041. Mercy’s Master Motive | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses a passage in Isaiah about the ways in which God refined Israel to discuss the ways He converts sinners and purifies believers.
      • 2542-christs-rest-and-ours/1 page
      • • 2542. Christ’s Rest And Ours | Answers in Genesis
          Let us, dear friends, always look on Christ as the great Standard-Bearer of all the hosts of God, and let us pitch our tents as near to his ensign as we can, and constantly follow where his banner leads the way.
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      • • 814. Life By Faith | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses what the Bible means when it states that the just shall live by faith.
      • 2810-nevertheless-at-your-word/1 page
      • • 2810. “Nevertheless At Your Word.” | Answers in Genesis
          For a man to take his creed blindly from a pope or a priest, is to degrade himself, because he receives that teaching from his fellow man; but for him to lay his whole mind down at the feet of Jesus Christ, is no degradation, since Christ is the wisdom of God, and all wisdom is infallibly gathered up in him.
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      • • 128. The Uses of the Law | Answers in Genesis
          The apostle, by a highly ingenious and powerful argument, had proven that the law was never intended by God for the justification and salvation of man.
      • 123-particular-election/1 page
      • • 123. Particular Election | Answers in Genesis
          It is exceedingly desirable that in the hours of worship and in the house of prayer our minds should be as much as possible divested of every worldly thought.
      • 2610-witness-partaker/1 page
      • • 2610. A Witness And A Partaker | Answers in Genesis
          Peter was not always so gentle, but the Spirit of God had rested on him, and now he writes with much tenderness.
      • 2346-earths-vanities-and-heavens-verities/1 page
      • • 2346. Earth’s Vanities, And Heaven’s Verities | Answers in Genesis
          I believe that, spiritually, as well as naturally, it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting.
      • 3034-reasons-for-seeking/1 page
      • • 3034. Reasons For Seeking God | Answers in Genesis
          Idolatry has been in every age, the besetting sin of mankind.
      • 2415-believers-inheritance-of-joy/1 page
      • • 2415. The Believer’s Inheritance Of Joy | Answers in Genesis
          When David wrote these words, he was not in a condition of ease and luxury. He was not even in a position of assured safety. You know what we mean when we say that a man carries his life in his hand; that is to say, he expects death, he is in imminent peril, and may at any moment be cut off from his fellow men.
      • 1657-my-hourly-prayer/1 page
      • • 1657. My Hourly Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon speaks of God’s holding us up and of the two blessings that come out of it.
      • 1658-healed-or-deluded-which/1 page
      • • 1658. Healed Or Deluded? Which? | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Jeremiah 8:11 and Jeremiah 17:14.
      • 551-faith-and-life/1 page
      • • 551. Faith and Life | Answers in Genesis
          The two most important things in our holy religion are faith and life. He who shall properly understand these two words is not far from being a master in experiential theology.
      • 542-paul-his-cloak-and-his-books/1 page
      • • 542. Paul—His Cloak and His Books | Answers in Genesis
          Foolish people have made remarks upon the trifles of Scripture. They have marvelled why so little a matter as a cloak should be mentioned in an inspired book.
      • 1565-maschil-of-ethan-a-majestic-song/1 page
      • • 1565. Maschil Of Ethan. A Majestic Song | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses Psalm 89.
      • 674-the-mighty-arm/1 page
      • • 674. The Mighty Arm | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains that revivals never begin in the flesh. They can only be accomplished by the power of God.
      • 665-open-house-for-all-comers/1 page
      • • 665. Open House for All Comers | Answers in Genesis
          Jesus reached out to all sorts of people, including the worst of sinners. He receives all who come to Him. Charles Spurgeon explains.
      • 1314-and-why-not/1 page
      • • 1314. And Why Not? | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains Luke 17:22.
      • 1305-the-mighty-arm/1 page
      • • 1305. The Mighty Arm | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon considers the mighty power of God in his grace, as revealed in our experience and the divine power, as displayed in Christ Jesus.
      • 1964-why-is-faith-so-feeble/1 page
      • • 1964. Why Is Faith So Feeble? | Answers in Genesis
          None of us has any idea how scanty our faith really is. When trial comes, the heap from the threshing-floor becomes very small beneath the winnowing fan.
      • 1965-gods-thoughts-of-peace-and-our-expected-end/1 page
      • • 1965. God’s Thoughts Of Peace, And Our Expected End | Answers in Genesis
          Jeremiah plainly warned the people against expecting more than God had promised, and he aroused them to look for the fulfilment of what he had promised.
      • 1121-the-christians-great-business/1 page
      • • 1121. The Christian’s Great Business | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains that all believers are called to warn the lost of their sinful condition.
      • 1112-soul-satisfying-bread/1 page
      • • 1112. Soul Satisfying Bread | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains thatJesus is sufficient for all our needs.
      • 2852-comfort-for-the-fearful/1 page
      • • 2852. Comfort For The Fearful | Answers in Genesis
          All the trouble in the world cannot harm you so much as half a grain of unbelief. Poverty cannot make you so poor as doubt can; and sickness cannot make you so sick as unbelief can. The greatest evil to be dreaded is that of doubting your Lord.
      • 2853-observing-the-kings-word/1 page
      • • 2853. Observing The King’s Word | Answers in Genesis
          There is far too little of diligent observance of what God says in his Word. Dear friend, if you want to have the pardon for your sin, it is only God who can do this for you. Hence, every anxious enquirer ought to be a diligent searcher of his Bible.
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      • • 1686. With The Disciples On The Lake Of Galilee | Answers in Genesis
          This story of the tempest upon the lake is wonderfully full of spiritual interest.
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      • • 2069. My Own Personal Holdfast | Answers in Genesis
          What a blessed thing it is that the child of God knows and feels that this is true: wherever he fails, he will succeed at the throne!
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      • • 1577. Sin Subdued | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Micah 7:19.
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      • • 840. Do Not Sin Against the Child | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the importance of bringing up children to know the Lord Jesus Christ.
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      • • 831. The Altar | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon takes a look at the altar, which he believed to be an antitype of Christ, and then discusses the dangers of idolatry.
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      • • 1604. Heart Disease Curable | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon considers heart wounds, heavenly healing, and an honoured Healer.
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      • • 2371. Freedom At Once And For Ever | Answers in Genesis
          I am going to proclaim to the slaves of sin and Satan that there is liberty for them through the Great Emancipator, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
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      • • 2372. A Page From A Royal Diary {a} | Answers in Genesis
          Brethren, we are bound to praise God for all his goodness; we cannot help bearing testimony to his faithfulness and his truth.
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      • • 3104. Binding Up Broken Hearts | Answers in Genesis
          One of the worst calamities that can happen to anyone is to have his spirit broken.
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      • • 3105. The Search For Happiness | Answers in Genesis
          This is a text which, by the rich assistance of the Holy Spirit, may serve as a touchstone to test our state.
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      • • 2479. Spices, Flowers, Lilies, And Myrrh | Answers in Genesis
          You may apply the microscope to Christ; you may examine his little things, if, indeed, anything can be little that refers to him; you may look into the deep things of Christ, the hidden things of Christ, his secrets, and the more closely you look, the more you will be amazed, and astonished, and filled with delight.
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      • • 1934. “And We Are”—A Jewel From The Revised Version | Answers in Genesis
          A genuine fragment of inspired Scripture has been dropped by our older translators, and it is too precious to be lost.
      • 1935-where-are-the-nine-or-praise-neglected/1 page
      • • 1935. “Where Are The Nine?” Or, Praise Neglected | Answers in Genesis
          It would not have been amazing if the whole ten had hurried back, and fallen at Jesus’ feet, and lifted up their voices in a tenfold psalm.
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      • • 2347. The Lord’s Famous Titles | Answers in Genesis
          You know that it helps men to come to a person when they know who he is, how good he is, and how likely it is that they will find some benefit by coming to him.
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      • • 602. The Smoke of Their Torments | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains some of the issues surrounding the doctrine of everlasting punishment.
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      • • 623. Satan Considering the Saints | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon describes how the devil's best-laid plans are ultimately foolish because God will always win.
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      • • 614. For Christ’s Sake | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 614. For Christ’s Sake, delivered on Sunday Morning, February 12, 1865, by C. H. Spurgeon, st the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 2393. A Comforting Message For The Closing Year | Answers in Genesis
          though there is no rest to be found in earthly things, yet we may have rest even while here, rest which drops from above.
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      • • 1712. Filling The Empty Vessels | Answers in Genesis
          Is it not a blessed state of mind which enables a heart so soon to be full to overflowing?
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      • • 2351. Prayer, The Cure For Care | Answers in Genesis
          It is that cage of carnal trust, and that box of seed that we are always labouring to fill, that makes the worry of this mortal life.
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      • • 2352. Great Joy In The City | Answers in Genesis
          When Philip went to the city of Samaria, he found there a people prepared by the Lord. Jesus sowed the seed; Philip came, and reaped the harvest.
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      • • 2405. Joy, A Duty | Answers in Genesis
          People who are very happy, especially those who are very happy in the Lord, are not apt either to give offence or to take offence.
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      • • 2406. An Appeal To Children Of Godly Parents | Answers in Genesis
          Would you become spiritually wise? Come and hear what the Spirit of God has to say by the mouth of the wise man.
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      • • 2063. The Filling Of Empty Vessels | Answers in Genesis
          The best of men may die in poverty: here is the widow of a prophet left in destitution. Our concern for her is tender.
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      • • 2064. Essential Points In Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Friends, it was an extremely encouraging thing to Solomon that the Lord should appear to him before the beginning of his great work of building the temple.
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      • • 1467. Two Kinds Of Hearers | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on James 1:22–25.
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      • • 1466. The Oil And The Vessels | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon draws spiritual application from 2 Kings 4:6.
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      • • 1960. The Servants and the Pounds | Answers in Genesis
          Jesus’ disciples were to be in the position of servants put in trust with property while their master was gone away to receive a kingdom, and then to come again.
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      • • 311. The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life | Answers in Genesis
          Evil things may seem to begin well, but they end badly; there is the flash and the glare, but afterwards the darkness and the black ash.
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      • • 345. Self-Sufficiency Slain | Answers in Genesis
          Conscious of this truth in my own case, I would earnestly seek the help of God’s Spirit in preaching as in every other spiritual exercise, for without him I can do nothing.
      • 346-all-sufficiency-magnified/1 page
      • • 346. All Sufficiency Magnified | Answers in Genesis
          There have been some men who, puffed up with vanity, have in their hearts said, “I can do all things.” Their destruction has been sure, and near at hand.
      • 336-struggles-of-conscience/1 page
      • • 336. Struggles of Conscience | Answers in Genesis
          There are many people who long to have a deeper sense of their sinfulness, and then with a certain show of conscientious scruple, they make an excuse for the exercise of simple faith.
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      • • 590. The Backslider’s Way Hedged Up | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 590. The Backslider’s Way Hedged Up, delivered on Sunday Morning, September 18, 1864, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 2350. “Take, Eat.” | Answers in Genesis
          We are all agreed on this one point, that the Lord’s supper is an emblem of the death of Jesus Christ, and of the way by which we receive benefit from him.
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      • • 3192. The Soul’s Food And Drink | Answers in Genesis
          It was our Lord Jesus Christ who uttered these words, and some of those who heard him misunderstood his meaning
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      • • 2607. Foretastes Of The Heavenly Life | Answers in Genesis
          The children of Israel sent twelve men as spies into the land of Canaan, and they brought back with them the fruit of the land.
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      • • 959. Right Replies to Right Requests | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains the Lord’s response to His disciples’ request to be taught how to pray.
      • 950-means-for-restoring-the-banished/1 page
      • • 950. Means for Restoring the Banished | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses the circumstances surrounding Absalom’s murder of Amnon to highlight our own rebellion and subsequent redemption.
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      • • 613. the Strong One Driven out by a Stronger One | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 613. the Strong One Driven out by a Stronger One, delivered on Sunday Morning, February 5, 1865, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 2009. Job Among The Ashes | Answers in Genesis
          Jehovah had spoken, Job had trembled. The Lord had revealed himself, Job had seen him.
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      • • 1260. The New Fashion | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the wonder of the gospel.
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      • • 3017. Seeing God’s Goodness Here | Answers in Genesis
          We were favoured with very much of God’s goodness, last Sabbath evening, when we considered the rule of grace in guiding a believer’s life.
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      • • 80. God Alone the Salvation of His People | Answers in Genesis
          How noble a title. So sublime, suggestive, and overpowering. “MY ROCK.” It is a figure so divine, that to God alone shall it ever be applied.
      • 76-gospel-missions/1 page
      • • 76. Gospel Missions | Answers in Genesis
          I shall address you, at large, upon a subject which I am sure will occupy your attention, and has done for many days and years past - the subject of gospel missions.
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      • • 144. Waiting Only upon God | Answers in Genesis
          Rest calm and undisturbed. Your enemies are around you, and have sorely surrounded you; your troubles do surround you like strong bulls of Bashan; but rest, my soul, in God.
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      • • 138. Prayer–The Forerunner of Mercy | Answers in Genesis
          God in this verse declares, that though the promise was made, and though he would fulfil it, yet he would not fulfil it until his people asked him to do so.
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      • • 3220. “A Time To Love” | Answers in Genesis
          If you will look at our text, dear friends, you will see that it is very ominously followed by the words, “and a time to hate.”
      • 3219-blessed-them/1 page
      • • 3219. “He Blessed Him There” | Answers in Genesis
          Angels’ names we can afford to leave, but God’s blessing we must have, and we cannot do without it.
      • 3218-preaching-christ-crucified/1 page
      • • 3218. Preaching Christ Crucified | Answers in Genesis
          I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
      • 3215-black-cloud-bright-blessings/1 page
      • • 3215. Black Cloud And Bright Blessings | Answers in Genesis
          It is still true, in the spiritual as well as the natural economy, that one place is rained on, and another is not rained on.
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      • • 3214. Two Wilderness Incidents | Answers in Genesis
          We learn, from this narrative, that the children of Israel were in real danger.
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      • • 3212. A Command And A Promise | Answers in Genesis
          Wherever we are, we must come into contact with the unseen powers either for good or evil.
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      • • 3211. Feed My Sheep | Answers in Genesis
          Those whom the Lord addressed, and especially Simon, had become fishermen.
      • 3207-secret-disciples/1 page
      • • 3207. Secret Disciples Encouraged | Answers in Genesis
          I know I love the Lord; I am sure I do.
      • 3205-scales-taken-eyes/1 page
      • • 3205. Scales Taken From The Eyes | Answers in Genesis
          When the blinding film was gone, light broke into the darkness of Saul.
      • 3204-saints-riches/1 page
      • • 3204. The Saints’ Riches | Answers in Genesis
          Many of you, dear friends, are coming to the Lord’s table at the close of this service.
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      • • 2280. God’s Handwriting Upon David | Answers in Genesis
          In the things of God, we are not left to follow our own judgments and devices; but we are to look to the law and to the testimony for our instructions.
      • 2102-pricked-in-their-heart/1 page
      • • 2102. “Pricked In Their Heart.” | Answers in Genesis
          It is very encouraging to those who are engaged in preaching that the first sermon should have been so successful.
      • 2103-hunger-and-thirst-which-are-blessed/1 page
      • • 2103. The Hunger And Thirst Which Are Blessed | Answers in Genesis
          If you and I shall, by divine grace, attain to blessedness hereafter, it will be because God has restored us to righteousness.
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      • • 2586. A Far-Reaching Promise | Answers in Genesis
          In the first stage of the Christian ministry, the thing to be striven for is that men should be pricked in the heart.
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      • • 1167. The Eternal Day | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about the future eternal state.
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      • • 1158. Additions to the Church | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses additions to the church.
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      • • 921. Nathanael and the Fig Tree | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses the example of Nathanael to discuss the concept of an earnest seeker.
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      • • 502. A Jealous God | Answers in Genesis
          The passion of jealousy in man is usually exercised in an evil manner, but it is not in itself necessarily sinful.
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      • • 1783. Pentecost | Answers in Genesis
          Without any deliberation or delay we conclude that if he has loved us, and given himself for us, we ought to show our love for him in some obvious way.
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      • • 1784. Unbelief Condemned And Faith Commended | Answers in Genesis
          Should unbelief display itself in its real hideousness, you who have been brought up religiously would be startled at its approach.
      • 806-a-young-mans-vision/1 page
      • • 806. A Young Man’s Vision | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the importance of vision and how Christians should aspire to reaching the lost for Christ.
      • 797-spots-in-our-love-feasts/1 page
      • • 797. Spots in Our Love Feasts | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon warns believers to stay alert because false teachers and false teachings will inevitably invade the church.
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      • • 2988. Great Pardon for Great Sin | Answers in Genesis
          Count your sins if you can, oh you children of God, and then fall on your knees, bow your heads, cover your faces, and say, “Our iniquity indeed is great.”
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      • • 2989. Near the Kingdom, or in It? | Answers in Genesis
          Almost saved is altogether lost. Think of that, you who are not far from the kingdom. It is being in the kingdom that saves the soul, not being near the kingdom.
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      • • 2277. Sychar’s Sinner Saved | Answers in Genesis
          Jesus was too intent upon saving her soul to care about a little rudeness on her part. Learn a lesson from your Lord’s conduct.
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      • • 1557. Walking Humbly With God | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Micah 6:8.
      • 60-sovereignty-and-salvation/1 page
      • • 60. Sovereignty and Salvation | Answers in Genesis
          If it were within the range of human capacity to conceive a time when God dwelt alone, without his creatures, we should then have one of the grandest and most stupendous ideas of God.
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      • • 2450. The Joy Of Redemption | Answers in Genesis
          When the human mind is on the stretch of emotion, whether it is under the influence of grief or joy, it often thinks that the whole world is in sympathy with itself. It seems to wrap the mantle of the universe all around its spiritual nature as a garment.
      • 1951-pleading-of-last-messenger/1 page
      • • 1951. The Pleading Of The Last Messenger | Answers in Genesis
          The fact is, that unless changed by divine grace, we have all refused to pay to our great God the service which is due to him.
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      • • 1654. “At Your Word.” | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how this phrase ought to apply to the affairs of ordinary life, matters of spiritual profiting, and our great life business, which is being fishers of men.
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      • • 1963. The Search For Faith | Answers in Genesis
          When Jesus comes he will look for precious faith. He has more regard for faith than for anything else that earth can yield him.
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      • • 535. Benhadad’s Escape—An Encouragement for Sinners | Answers in Genesis
          Although the manners and customs of warfare were exceedingly rough and cruel in those primitive ages, yet it appears that the kings of Israel gained a name for being merciful.
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      • • 1819. A Sweet Silver Bell Ringing In Each Believer’s Heart | Answers in Genesis
          “My God will hear me.” There is more eloquence in that sentence than in all the orations of Demosthenes.
      • 2151-holy-longings/1 page
      • • 2151. Holy Longings | Answers in Genesis
          When we have light enough to see what holiness is, and how desirable it is, then we should hunger and thirst after it.
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      • • 1324. “Rest In The Lord.” | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Psalm 37:7.
      • 1469-prayer-perfumed-with-praise/1 page
      • • 1469. Prayer Perfumed With Praise | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon considers the reasons for thanksgiving in prayer, the evil of its absence, and the result of its presence.
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      • • 1288. My God | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Psalm 91:2.
      • 1279-truly-eating-the-flesh-of-jesus/1 page
      • • 1279. Truly Eating The Flesh Of Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon describes what is meant by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Christ, and he discusses the virtues of this act.
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      • • 1460. The Roes And The Hinds | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 1460. The Roes And The Hinds, written at Mentone, By C. H. Spurgeon.
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      • • 2706. Feeding On The Bread Of Life | Answers in Genesis
          It is quite certain that those whom Christ has quickened by his Spirit shall never die; but it is just as certain that they would die if they did not feed on Christ, and sustain their life by that means; the two things are not contrary to each other.
      • 947-seeking-for-jesus/1 page
      • • 947. Seeking for Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses a passage about those who sought Jesus for selfish reasons to discuss the true character of those who seek Jesus for salvation from sin.
      • 938-a-good-soldier-of-jesus-christ/1 page
      • • 938. A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains some of the false views of what a Christian should be like, and then shows why being a soldier is a good analogy.
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      • • 1103. The Conditions of Power in Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Many people think prayer to God is sort of like asking wishes of a genie who must do what we ask. Charles Spurgeon explains some of the conditions for effective prayer.
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      • • 175. The Two Talents | Answers in Genesis
          All that men have they must trace to the Great Fountain, the Giver of all good.
      • 1642-truly-truly/1 page
      • • 1642. “Truly, Truly” | Answers in Genesis
          If Jesus says, “Truly, truly,” there is something coming to which we should attend with all our hearts. The subject which he thus introduces is our possession of eternal life, and our being delivered from condemnation by faith in himself.
      • 766-believing-to-see/1 page
      • • 766. Believing to See | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains how “seeing is believing” is actually inaccurate. Instead, many times, believing is seeing.
      • 757-in-the-hay-field/1 page
      • • 757. In the Hay Field | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon makes spiritual application from the numerous ways “grass” is figuratively used in Scripture.
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      • • 2541. “Mr. Moody’s Text.” | Answers in Genesis
          I saw this text advertised as being printed in colours, and it was called, “Mr. Moody’s Text.” When I saw him yesterday, I asked him how it was his text any more than it is mine. He said that he was sure he did not know; he never called it his text, so far as he knew.
      • 2947-royal-emblems-for-loyal-subjects/1 page
      • • 2947. Royal Emblems For Loyal Subjects | Answers in Genesis
          Just as this sunrise of Christ in our heart is divine, so likewise it is irresistible. No curtains can conceal the sun from the world when it starts to rise.
      • 2948-stephen-and-saul/1 page
      • • 2948. Stephen And Saul | Answers in Genesis
          It is a calamity for the Church of Christ when her best men, whether ministers or deacons, are called home; yet it often that God takes his servants home when they are most useful.
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      • • 431. A Secret and yet No Secret | Answers in Genesis
          Observe the sweet titles with which Christ the husband addresses his Church the bride.
      • 422-the-peacemaker-a-sermon-for-the-times/1 page
      • • 422. The Peacemaker—A Sermon for the Times | Answers in Genesis
          He who would have perfect blessedness, as far as it can be enjoyed on earth, must labour to attain to this seventh benediction, and become a peacemaker.
      • 1957-lord-view-of-his-church-and-people/1 page
      • • 1957. The Lord’s Own View Of His Church And People | Answers in Genesis
          We understand this sacred love song to be a Canticle of Communion between the Lord Jesus Christ and his church. He is the bridegroom, and she is the bride.
      • 2476-this-thing-is-from-me/1 page
      • • 2476. “This Thing Is From Me.” | Answers in Genesis
          It is very delightful to read a history in which God is made prominent. How sadly deficient we are of such histories of our own English nation! Yet surely there is no story that is more full of God than the record of the doings of our British nation.
      • 2674-learning-in-private-to-teach-in-public/1 page
      • • 2674. Learning In Private What To Teach In Public | Answers in Genesis
          If you get your message of mercy directly and distinctly from the living Christ, you will have truth in its personality, — living, acting, feeling, for he is “the way, the truth, and the life.” The message will come to you with power because he uttered it, and therefore you will preach him as well as it.
      • 2675-jehovahs-challenge/1 page
      • • 2675. Jehovah's Challenge | Answers in Genesis
          I can believe in the conversion of the Jews when I hear Jehovah’s challenge, “Is there anything too hard for me?” I can believe in the spread of his gospel over the whole world when I hear him ask, “Is there anything too hard for me?”
      • 187-providence/1 page
      • • 187. Providence | Answers in Genesis
          During this week my mind has been much directed to the subject of Providence and you will not wonder when I relate a portion of one day’s story.
      • 180-how-to-keep-the-heart/1 page
      • • 180. How to Keep the Heart | Answers in Genesis
          Inasmuch as the heart is the most important part of man, it would be natural to expect that Satan would be sure to make his strongest and most perpetual attacks upon the heart.
      • 7-8-christ-crucified/1 page
      • • 7-8. Christ Crucified | Answers in Genesis
          What contempt has God poured upon the wisdom of this world! How has he brought it to nought, and made it appear as nothing. He has allowed it to work out its own conclusions, and prove its own folly.
      • 2611-lost-christ-found/1 page
      • • 2611. A Lost Christ Found | Answers in Genesis
          What a precious treasure must the child Jesus have been to his parents!
      • 2580-partnership-with-christ/1 page
      • • 2580. Partnership With Christ | Answers in Genesis
          Here Paul is arguing for the safety, the perseverance, and the ultimate perfection of the saints to whom he is writing.
      • 587-gods-strange-choice/1 page
      • • 587. God’s Strange Choice | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses Paul’s statement about the fact that not many wise or mighty are chosen.
      • 1722-first-setting-up-of-bronze-serpent/1 page
      • • 1722. The First Setting Up Of The Bronze Serpent | Answers in Genesis
          If even Moses and Aaron erred on the road, I fear there are very few of us who can read the story without crying, “I remember my faults today.”
      • 1723-knock/1 page
      • • 1723. “Knock!” | Answers in Genesis
          If we abound in pleading with God we shall grow strong in the Lord, and we shall be happy in his love, we shall become a blessing to those around us.
      • 1399-the-reason-why-many-cannot-find-peace/1 page
      • • 1399. The Reason Why Many Cannot Find Peace | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on James 4:7–10.
      • 2795-the-double-drawing-near/1 page
      • • 2795. The Double Drawing Near | Answers in Genesis
          Drawing near to God will help you to become pure. There is cleansing by water as well as by blood; the blood, that washes away the guilt of sin, is accompanied by a cleansing flood that takes away the power of sin, so that hands are cleansed and hearts are purified when we draw near to God.
      • 2796-a-man-of-god-alone-with-god/1 page
      • • 2796. A Man Of God Alone With God | Answers in Genesis
          The whole world is full of God to him who believes in God, and he has fellowship with God wherever he goes. He cannot live without it; it is his joy and delight. How can he live happily in his Father’s house unless he often sees his Father’s face, and speaks with him, and hears his voice in return?
      • 1704-all-joy-in-all-trials/1 page
      • • 1704. All Joy In All Trials | Answers in Genesis
          Let brotherly love continue; let us love each other with a pure heart fervently, and reveal that love, not in word only, but in deed and in truth.
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      • • 2537. A Warning To Waverers | Answers in Genesis
          Whenever James talks about faith, he seems to be saying all the while, “Believe”; if he discourses on prayer, you can hear him crying, “Pray”; and if he speaks concerning holy living, you can hear the thunder behind his words commanding us to forsake sin and to follow after righteousness.
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      • • 2538. An Epistle Illustrated By A Psalm | Answers in Genesis
          A life so full of the lovingkindness of the Lord should yield more praise to God than any one tongue can possibly utter. “The Lord has done great things for us, of which we are glad”; let us therefore praise him with all our hearts.
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      • • 1874. A Discourse Upon True Blessedness Here And Hereafter | Answers in Genesis
          Happiness ripples like a flowing brook; but blessedness is a springing well. Happiness may be entirely human; but blessedness has the divine element in it.
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      • • 1875. The Preacher’s Last Sermon For The Season | Answers in Genesis
          If they were sent to take him, let them take him; as for himself, the time was come to speak boldly.
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      • • 1847. Before Sermon, During Sermon, And After Sermon | Answers in Genesis
          Brethren, it is a good thing to be under the sound of the word of God.
      • 1848-mirror/1 page
      • • 1848. The Mirror | Answers in Genesis
          At this time I shall draw a distinction between the true and blessed hearer of the Word, and the person who misses the blessing because he hears only to forget.
      • 1849-coming-judgment-of-the-secrets-of-men/1 page
      • • 1849. Coming Judgment Of The Secrets Of Men | Answers in Genesis
          Paul has exposed the sins of his day which crimsons the cheek of the modest when they read it, and makes both the ears of him who hears it to tingle.
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      • • 2313. Charity And Purity | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 2313. Charity And Purity, delivered On Thursday Evening, May 23, 1889, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 2314. Three Blessings Of The Heavenly Charter | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 2314. Three Blessings Of The Heavenly Charter, delivered On Lord’s Day Evening, June 16, 1889, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 1281. Godly Fear And Its Goodly Consequence | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Proverbs 14:26.
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      • • 1272. “Do You Love Me?” | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on John 21:16.
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      • • 3147. God’s Glory In The Building Up Of Zion | Answers in Genesis
          The Lord himself must “build up Zion,” or it never will be built up.
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      • • 2821. “Until He Finds It” | Answers in Genesis
          It is the Shepherd who finds the lost sheep. True salvation comes to the sinner by Jesus Christ finding him. You and I, if we are very earnest in seeking the souls of others, may readily find the lost ones, for they are all around us.
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      • • 2823. One Trophy For Two Exploits | Answers in Genesis
          We may say of the three Persons of the Divine Trinity that each of these is our Redeemer, because they have all brought to its full completion the grand work of our redemption from the power of sin, and death, and hell. Our Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, — the Lord of hosts is his name.
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      • • 2106. “In The Garden With Him.” | Answers in Genesis
          Peter was on dangerous ground. When his Master was being buffeted, he was trying to make himself comfortable.
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      • • 3084. Paul's Parenthesis | Answers in Genesis
          If you will read the context of this passage, you will find that these words occur in one of Paul’s digressions, or parentheses.
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      • • 16. Paul’s First Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          God has many methods of quenching persecution. He will not allow his church to be injured by its enemies, or overwhelmed by its foes.
      • 944-an-encouraging-lesson-from-pauls-conversion/1 page
      • • 944. An Encouraging Lesson from Paul’s Conversion | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses practical matters we can learn from one of the most important events in church history.
      • 935-the-sad-wonder/1 page
      • • 935. The Sad Wonder | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon elaborates on the sad occurrence of Jesus being rejected by His own people in Nazareth.
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      • • 869. The Gospel of Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains the sacriifice of Christ by looking at the extraordinary events of Genesis 22.
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      • • 860. Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the reactions of some of the people who witnessed the Crucifixion.
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      • • 1532. The Holy Spirit’s Intercession | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon considers the help which the Holy Spirit gives, the prayers which he inspires, and the success which such prayers are certain to obtain.
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      • • 152. Things that Accompany Salvation | Answers in Genesis
          I have taken the words rather by accommodation than otherwise, and shall make use of them as a kind of heading to the discourse which I hope to be enabled to deliver.
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      • • 1034. The Only Atoning Priest | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon studies the high priesthood of Christ as described in Hebrews.
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      • • 618. The Great Physician and His Patients | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses Christ’s statement that only the sick need a physician.
      • 580-god-is-with-us/1 page
      • • 580. God is with Us | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 580. God is with Us, delivered on Sunday Morning, July 17, 1864, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 571. Unbelievers Stumbling; Believers Rejoicing | Answers in Genesis
          Because of Christ, unbelievers stumble and believers rejoice.
      • 256-the-believers-challenge/1 page
      • • 256. The Believer’s Challenge | Answers in Genesis
          The protest of an innocent man against the charge of an accuser may well be strong and vehement. But here we have a more uncommon and a more sublime theme.
      • 249-a-vision-of-the-latter-day-glories/1 page
      • • 249. A Vision of the Latter Day Glories | Answers in Genesis
          The prophet saw two things in the vision. He saw the mountain exalted, and he beheld the nations flowing into it.
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      • • 2240. A Challenge And A Shield | Answers in Genesis
          Such a hope as this is “an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast”; and the man who has this anchor can never suffer spiritual shipwreck.
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      • • 2241. A Stanza Of Deliverance | Answers in Genesis
          The house of bondage is a true picture of our condition when we are convicted of sin, but are ignorant of the way to escape from its guilt and power.
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      • • 3202. “It Pleased God.” | Answers in Genesis
          You will perceive, I think, in these words, that the divine plan of salvation is very clearly laid down.
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      • • 3201. Mercy For The Lowliest Of The Flock | Answers in Genesis
          How the church is lame now! How deficient in vigour, how weak in her actions!
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      • • 3200. Faith Justifying Speech | Answers in Genesis
          What a mercy it is for us that God does not judge us by our hasty speeches!
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      • • 3199. How The Lambs Feed | Answers in Genesis
          Our text deals with the lambs, and to the lambs we intend to speak; may the Good Shepherd speak to them also!
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      • • 3197. The Sweetness Of God’s Word | Answers in Genesis
          It is delightful to find how exactly the experience of David, under the Jewish times, tallies with the experience of the saints of God in these gospel times.
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      • • 3196. Noah’s Eminence | Answers in Genesis
          God keeps his eyes on the sons of men, and he searches among them for certain individuals on whom he delights to fix his gaze.
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      • • 3195. Christ Frees From Infirmities | Answers in Genesis
          Where Christ worked wonders we should have attentive eyes and ears.
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      • • 3189. The Tenderness Of God’s Comfort | Answers in Genesis
          There has been a great need for consolation ever since the time when man was expelled from Eden.
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      • • 3188. Discipline In Christ’s Army | Answers in Genesis
          Believers are called to be good soldiers of Jesus Christ.
      • 3187-large-pot-twenty-loaves/1 page
      • • 3187. The Large Pot And The Twenty Loaves | Answers in Genesis
          I believe there are lessons to be learned from these two miracles, and I shall try to bring out these lessons in three forms.
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      • • 3184. Maroth; or, The Disappointed | Answers in Genesis
          The village of the bitter spring, for that is probably the meaning of this name Maroth, experienced a bitter disappointment.
      • 3183-cheer-for-despondency/1 page
      • • 3183. Cheer For Despondency | Answers in Genesis
          What a great mercy it is that we do not know “what a day may bring.”
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      • • 3182. Boldness At The Throne | Answers in Genesis
          Prayer occupies a most important place in the life of the Christian.
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      • • 3181. A Sermon For A Winter’s Evening | Answers in Genesis
          Jesus Christ was being tried. Some were very busy about it, being full of malice and burning with rage; but a great many more were indifferent.
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      • • 1517. For The Candid And Thoughtful | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon notices a commendation which is expressed and a question which is suggested.
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      • • 782. Saving Knowledge | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses the example of the woman at the well to explain the spiritual ignorance of many and how we should address it.
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      • • 1240. Saints In Heaven And Earth One Family | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the great family union of Jesus Christ.
      • 2150-all-the-day-long/1 page
      • • 2150. “All The Day Long.” | Answers in Genesis
          Today we will consider two precepts, that we may not seem to neglect any part of the Word of God; for the precept is as divine as the promise.
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      • • 2297. Sealed And Open Evidences | Answers in Genesis
          We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of what is yet to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan.
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      • • 1724. Supposing Him To Have Been In The Company | Answers in Genesis
          It was a most natural supposition, because of the sweetness and friendliness of his temperament, that they would find Jesus in the company.
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      • • 616. Special Call and the Unfailing Result | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 616. Special Call and the Unfailing Result, delivered on Sunday Evening, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
      • 1441-the-immoveability-of-the-believer/1 page
      • • 1441. The Immoveability Of The Believer | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses a lowly people, a singular stability in them, and the obvious reason for this stability of theirs.
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      • • 161. The Security of the Church | Answers in Genesis
          The changes of society may well illustrate the immutability of God.
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      • • 2065. Our Great Shepherd Finding The Sheep | Answers in Genesis
          Oh sweet love of Christ, so practical, so preeminent, so prevenient! Let us ask for grace so that we may imitate it.
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      • • 2660. Suffering Outside the Camp | Answers in Genesis
          Does your conscience shut you out of the Church today? Remember, Christ shut himself out, too. He was “despised and rejected by men.” Do you feel, tonight, as if you could not come to his table, — as if your Master would spurn you from it?
      • 248-little-sins/1 page
      • • 248. Little Sins | Answers in Genesis
          The great Father of Lies has multitudes of devices by which he seeks to ruin the souls of men.
      • 1214-jesus-the-substitute-for-his-people/1 page
      • • 1214. Jesus, The Substitute For His People | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how Jesus Christ is our substitute.
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      • • 656. Prevenient Grace | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how God works in the heart and mind of people before they believe on Him.
      • 647-hearts-ease/1 page
      • • 647. Heart’s Ease | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the fact that evil tidings may come upon any of us and he also explains how Christians should respond.
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      • • 2594. “The Offence Of The Cross.” | Answers in Genesis
          The religion of Jesus is the most peaceful, mild, and benevolent religion which was ever promulgated.
      • 94-tomorrow/1 page
      • • 94. Tomorrow | Answers in Genesis
          I have always looked upon the book of Proverbs with pleasure, as being a book not only teaching us the highest spiritual wisdom.
      • 772-delay-is-dangerous/1 page
      • • 772. Delay Is Dangerous | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the tendency of unbelievers to delay the reception of Christ and shows why this is so dangerous.
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      • • 1216. Jesus, The Delight Of Heaven | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the worthiness of Jesus Christ.
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      • • 1207. To Souls In Agony | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses our reaction to sorrow.
      • 2758-return-to-your-rest/1 page
      • • 2758. “Return To Your Rest” | Answers in Genesis
          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 to Christ so that you may find rest for your souls! But we, who believe in him, enter into rest.
      • 2759-the-pleasures-of-piety/1 page
      • • 2759. The Pleasures Of Piety | Answers in Genesis
          Religion is a thing that can make the most melancholy joyful, at the same time that it can make the joyful ones even more joyful. It can make the gloomy bright, as it gives the oil of joy in the place of mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
      • 312-personal-service/1 page
      • • 312. Personal Service | Answers in Genesis
          In the fullest and widest sense therefore, the believer may cry, “You have loosened my bonds.”
      • 303-election-and-holiness/1 page
      • • 303. Election And Holiness | Answers in Genesis
          It has been my earnest endeavour ever since I have preached the Word, never to keep back a single doctrine which I believe to be taught by God.
      • 874-the-overflowing-cup/1 page
      • • 874. The Overflowing Cup | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses a phrase from Psalm 23 to discuss some of the “cups” mentioned in Scripture.
      • 865-deep-calls-to-deep/1 page
      • • 865. Deep Calls to Deep | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses Psalm 42:7 to discuss deep theological concepts.
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      • • 1222. The Sure Triumph Of The Crucified One | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Isaiah 52:13–15.
      • 1213-the-overflowing-cup/1 page
      • • 1213. The Overflowing Cup | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Psalm 23:5.
      • 396-climbing-the-mountain/1 page
      • • 396. Climbing the Mountain | Answers in Genesis
          It is Christ who alone ascended up on high by his own merits, and by virtue of a perfect obedience stands in God’s holy place.
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      • • 387b. Effectual Calling | Answers in Genesis
          We know that every wise intellect forms its plan before it provides its means, or attempts to carry out the idea conceived in the mind.
      • 3144-true-sayings/1 page
      • • 3144. “The True Sayings Of God” | Answers in Genesis
          Here the angel declared that certain things which had been spoken in John’s hearing were “the true sayings of God.”
      • 3145-paul-tempest/1 page
      • • 3145. Paul In The Tempest | Answers in Genesis
          Here we see a believer full of comfort cheering others.
      • 1855-what-is-the-verdict/1 page
      • • 1855. What Is The Verdict? | Answers in Genesis
          It appears from the text that this childlike confidence towards God originally arises out of a certain solemn trial of our case.
      • 3152-lower-courts/1 page
      • • 3152. The Lower Courts | Answers in Genesis
          The fault of a very large number of people is that they will not lay spiritual things to heart at all, but treat them in a very superficial manner.
      • 3042-parable-ark/1 page
      • • 3042. The Parable Of The Ark | Answers in Genesis
          Christ always taught by parables. Hence the popularity and the power of his teaching.
      • 3043-filling-up-measures-iniquity/1 page
      • • 3043. Filling Up the Measure of Iniquity | Answers in Genesis
          The Amorites had indulged in the most degrading sin. God had observed this, but he did not at once execute vengeance on them.
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      • • 1613. Shut In Or Shut Out | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Genesis 7:16.
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      • • 1426. Adoption — The Spirit And The Cry | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the dignity of believers, the subsequent indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and the filial cry.
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      • • 2891. A Sabbath Miracle | Answers in Genesis
          Fine sermons never win souls; you may blaze away with your brilliant oratory, and your fine pieces of poetry and quotations from eminent authors, but that will not save souls. What does save souls, then? Why, the Word of the Lord, the truth as it is in Jesus.
      • 2892-the-free-agency-of-christ/1 page
      • • 2892. The Free Agency Of Christ | Answers in Genesis
          Our Lord leading the blind man is of the most beautiful incidents in Scripture. It is not everyone who would undertake such a task as that, but our Lord condescended to take by the hand this poor fellow who could not see anything, and lead him right away from the crowd that had gathered.
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      • • 2547. “Return! Return!” | Answers in Genesis
          My text is all about repentance; it is an exhortation from God, very brief and thought-provoking, but very earnest and plain: “Return now everyone from his evil way.”
      • 2568-sabbath-work/1 page
      • • 2568. Sabbath Work | Answers in Genesis
          Our divine Master healed men every day of the week; from the first day even to the close of the seventh day, he went around doing good.
      • 408-accidents-not-punishments/1 page
      • • 408. Accidents, Not Punishments | Answers in Genesis
          The year 1861 will have a notoriety among others as the year of calamities.
      • 399-a-peal-of-bells/1 page
      • • 399. A Peal of Bells | Answers in Genesis
          There are many days already past which we might well have wished to see.
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      • • 641. Confession of Sin: Dr. Pritchard and Constance Kent | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses two notorious murder cases to illustrate types of confession.
      • 2605-death-sentence-abolished/1 page
      • • 2605. Death And Its Sentence Abolished | Answers in Genesis
          It tends to incite gratitude in our hearts if we remember what the Lord has done for us. It is not wrong for us to think of all that we still need from God, but it would be extremely ungrateful if we were to forget what we have already received.
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      • • 2040. Sown Among Thorns | Answers in Genesis
          Without fruit the sower’s work would even seem to be insane, for he takes good wheat, throws it away, and loses it in the ground.
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      • • 929. The Model Home Mission and the Model Home Missionary | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses Jesus as the example of how a missionary to one’s own people should behave.
      • 1457-the-seven-sneezes/1 page
      • • 1457. The Seven Sneezes | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon draws spiritual application from 2 Kings 4:34.
      • 89-hatred-without-cause/1 page
      • • 89. Hatred without Cause | Answers in Genesis
          No being was ever more lovely than the Saviour; it would seem almost impossible not to have affection for him. Certainly at first sight it would seem far more difficult to hate him than to love him.
      • 3080-two-ancient-proverbs/1 page
      • • 3080. Two Ancient Proverbs | Answers in Genesis
          We have two ancient proverbs here; each of them is true as a separate proverb, and they are equally true when linked together.
      • 3081-gracious-lips/1 page
      • • 3081. The Gracious Lips Of Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          What a never-ending theme there is in the name and person of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
      • 1024-the-throne-of-grace/1 page
      • • 1024. The Throne of Grace | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains how the work of Christ on the Cross has given us the opportunity to come boldly before the Lord.
      • 2530-special-people/1 page
      • • 2530. “A Special People.” | Answers in Genesis
          If you read this Psalm through, you will notice that, when David wrote it, he had been pestered and troubled by certain ungodly men who mocked what was his greatest delight. They had turned his glory into shame, and had proved that they loved folly and falsehood.
      • 2089-profitable-mixture/1 page
      • • 2089. Profitable Mixture | Answers in Genesis
          May heavenly power create within our hearts a holy caution, lest by any means we come short of the grace of God!
      • 3178-preparatory-prayers/1 page
      • • 3178. The Preparatory Prayers Of Christ | Answers in Genesis
          There is one peculiarity about the life of our Lord Jesus Christ which everyone must have noticed who has carefully read the four Gospels.
      • 3175-peace-perfect-peace/1 page
      • • 3175. “Peace! Perfect Peace!” | Answers in Genesis
          May the Divine Teacher lead us into mines of truth, and show us the deep things of God!
      • 3174-concentration-diffusion/1 page
      • • 3174. Concentration And Diffusion | Answers in Genesis
          True children of God do not always feel moved to serve the Lord Jesus in the same way, or to express their love for him in precisely the same way.
      • 3173-as-so/1 page
      • • 3173. “As” And “So” | Answers in Genesis
          This is a very simple text, yet no human being has ever discovered its full meaning.
      • 3170-christ-creator/1 page
      • • 3170. Christ The Creator | Answers in Genesis
          All things were created by him, and for him.
      • 3168-scarlet-line-window/1 page
      • • 3168. The Scarlet Line In The Window | Answers in Genesis
          Every little incident in a remarkable conversion like that of the prostitute Rahab is worthy of notice.
      • 3167-helmet/1 page
      • • 3167. The Christian’s Helmet | Answers in Genesis
          The very mention of a helmet may well seem to remind every Christian here that he is a soldier.
      • 3165-witnesses/1 page
      • • 3165. Witnesses For God | Answers in Genesis
          It is some time since I have known what it is to be at leisure.
      • 3164-mission-affliction/1 page
      • • 3164. The Mission Of Affliction | Answers in Genesis
          The bright side of David’s character was generally seen either when he was actively engaged or when he was greatly suffering.
      • 3163-encumbered/1 page
      • • 3163. Encumbered With Much Serving | Answers in Genesis
          The preacher will have one hearer tonight to whom his text will be amazingly applicable—namely, himself.
      • 3162-unfailing-help/1 page
      • • 3162. The Unfailing Help | Answers in Genesis
          I read in your hearing the very horrible incident connected with the siege of Samaria.
      • 3161-positivism/1 page
      • • 3161. Positivism | Answers in Genesis
          It is remarkable how throughout the entire epistle of John he continually uses the word “know.”
      • 3160-call-today/1 page
      • • 3160. The Call Of “Today” | Answers in Genesis
          Now it is noteworthy that the Holy Spirit, neither that we may take comfort in it, nor despair about it, does not say “yesterday”—he says “today.”
      • 3159-sixth-beatitude/1 page
      • • 3159. The Sixth Beatitude | Answers in Genesis
          The teaching of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, was continually aimed at the hearts of men.
      • 3158-fifth-beatitude/1 page
      • • 3158. The Fifth Beatitude | Answers in Genesis
          I have compared the Beatitudes to a ladder of light, and I have remarked that every one of them rises above and out of those which preceded it.
      • 3157-fourth-beatitude/1 page
      • • 3157. The Fourth Beatitude | Answers in Genesis
          Each of the seven Beatitudes rises above the one which precedes it, and rises out of it.
      • 3156-first-beatitude/1 page
      • • 3156. The First Beatitude | Answers in Genesis
          It would have been a grievous discouragement to struggling faith if the first blessing had been given to the pure in heart.
      • 3155-beatitudes/1 page
      • • 3155. The Beatitudes | Answers in Genesis
          One enjoys a sermon all the better for knowing something about the preacher.
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      • • 2690. Meditation On God | Answers in Genesis
          Meditation is a word that more than half of you, I fear, do not know how to spell. You know how to repeat the letters of the word; but I mean to say, you cannot spell it in the reality of life. You do not occupy yourselves with any meditation.
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      • • 2429. Converts, And Their Confession Of Faith | Answers in Genesis
          You will perceive that there was an exhortation to John to “Write.” Why was he especially to write these words down? I conceive that it was, first, because the information recorded here was valuable: “Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
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      • • 2096. “The Marriage Of The Lamb.” | Answers in Genesis
          The perfected union of the entire church of God with her divine husband is described here by the beloved apostle, who laid his head upon his Master’s bosom.
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      • • 2097. The Mediator — The Interpreter | Answers in Genesis
          To us, that day at Horeb is a type of the action of the law in our nature: the law deals like this with our consciences and hearts.
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      • • 1070. Wrecked, but Not Reckless | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses a passage about physical peril as a bridge to address the spiritual peril faced by so many people.
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      • • 1061. Rahab | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon examines the faith of Rahab, a prostitute of Jericho who was spared in the destruction of the city because of her faith.
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      • • 2952. The Church the World’s Hope | Answers in Genesis
          There have been special cases in Scripture where the putting of a person into an unpleasant condition has been a great blessing to his fellow men.
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      • • 3136. Lessons From The Malta Fire | Answers in Genesis
          As much as lies in us, we should seek to do good to all men, and we can never know to whom we may be rendering service.
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      • • 2489. Singing Saints | Answers in Genesis
          The first thing to do, when the throat is clear after an illness, is to sing praises to God; the first thing to do, when the eyes are brightened again, is to look up to the Lord with thankfulness and gratitude. Some people need to be told this, but the psalmist did not, it came to him as a matter of course.
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      • • 2959. God’s Love For The Saints | Answers in Genesis
          It was because of his love that the Father gave his Son; it was not the Son who came to make that love possible.
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      • • 2960. “Where Are The Nine?” Where? | Answers in Genesis
          Oh, that Christians would adhere as closely to each other as sinners do, and walk in friendship and love!
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      • • 701. Seeing and Not Seeing, or Men as Trees Walking | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 701. Seeing and Not Seeing, or Men as Trees Walking, delivered on Sunday Morning, July 22, 1866, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 2761. The Free-Agency Of Christ | Answers in Genesis
          God’s ways are diverse; from the beginning to the end, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, and our Lord Jesus Christ, act sovereignly, and do not choose to follow one particular mode of action in every case. Neither must we, for a moment, try to tie the Lord Jesus Christ down to work in our particular manner.
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      • • 798. Special Protracted Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon highlights the prayer life of Jesus Christ as an example for all believers to follow.
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      • • 2621. The Sinner’s Refuge | Answers in Genesis
          You are aware that the principle of blood-revenge is a deep-seated one in the Eastern mind.
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      • • 2034. Peter’s Restoration | Answers in Genesis
          We must either deny ourselves, or we shall deny our Lord; if we cleave to self-confidence, we shall not cleave to him.
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      • • 2036. The Whole-Heartedness Of God In Blessing His People | Answers in Genesis
          Oh, that it were so even now! May the house of Israel look on him whom they have pierced, and turn to him with all their hearts.
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      • • 2644. The Last Words Of Christ On The Cross | Answers in Genesis
          Now, by the help of the blessed Spirit, we will consider the last words of our Lord Jesus before he gave up the ghost.
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      • • 2645. The Time Of Jacob’s Trouble | Answers in Genesis
          There is still an enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, and the seed of the woman is made to feel the serpent’s malice.
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      • • 2519. When Should We Pray? | Answers in Genesis
          My mind alights with great joy on the simple truth which gleams on the very surface of our text, — then, man may pray. If men ought to pray, they may pray. It is clear that you may pray because men ought always to pray, and what they ought to do they may do.
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      • • 2836. Prayerful Persistence | Answers in Genesis
          And when a man is waiting for Christ, he is ready for Christ. But when they say they are waiting, and they fold their arms in unconcern, it is a gross falsehood; they are waiting for God to destroy them, and nothing else. When men really do wait for the Lord, they go where they hope to meet him.
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      • • 1949. A Sermon For The Worst Man On Earth | Answers in Genesis
          It was the fault of the Pharisee that when he went up to the temple to pray he forgot an essential part of prayer, which is confession of sin.
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      • • 1950. Earthquake, But Not Heartquake | Answers in Genesis
          If, indeed, the Lord is our refuge and strength, we are entitled to seek after a spirit which shall bear us above the dreads of common men.
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      • • Too Good To Be Saved! | Answers in Genesis
          There are still in the world many people who, in their own opinion, are too good to be justified, too good to be saved; and they come to this condition because they compare themselves with others. The standard for any man who would be saved by his own righteousness is God’s holy law.
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      • • "Good Judgement" | Answers in Genesis
          Are we strangers to the goodness of God? Taking God’s dealings as a whole, he has dealt well with us. There are some points, in his dealings with us, which have been so special that the words of our text hardly appear emphatic enough to describe them.
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      • • 1818. The Song Of A City, And The Pearl Of Peace | Answers in Genesis
          This song of a city may belong to us as much as to the men of Judah, and we may throw into it a deeper sense of which they were not aware.
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      • • 2430. Christians, And Their Communion With God | Answers in Genesis
          It is something when a man truly knows that there is a God. Behind the doubt of the existence of God, many men shield themselves, and permit themselves to indulge in iniquities of which they might be ashamed if they did not make a cloak of their atheism.
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      • • 2713. Walking In The Light Of The Lord | Answers in Genesis
          “Come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.” What does this invitation mean? First, I think it means, let us make use of that light. Let us “walk in the light of the Lord” in order to have an absolute certainty about the things which we believe.
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      • • 2714. Those Who Desire | Answers in Genesis
          True religion is always a matter of desire. If you do not desire to fear God, you do not fear him. If you do not feel any desire after what is right in God’s sight, you do not have anything at all right in your heart. Yet we must always remember that the religion of dread is not the religion of Christ.
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      • • 501. Grace Abounding | Answers in Genesis
          This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a theologian, and he who can dive into its fulness is a true Master in divinity.
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      • • 492. Nominal Christians—Real Infidels | Answers in Genesis
          I think it best to occupy our time this morning with an exhortation to those who are wayward.
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      • • 920. Backsliding Healed | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains how a backsliding believer should respond to the Lord’s work in their life.
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      • • 1339. The Great House And The Vessels In It | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on 2 Timothy 2:20–21.
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      • • 548. Forward! Forward! Forward! | Answers in Genesis
          Spiritual men, in their distresses, turn at once to prayer, even as the stag when hunted takes to flight. Prayer is a never failing resort; it is sure to bring a blessing with it.
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      • • 134. Elijah’s Appeal to the Undecided | Answers in Genesis
          We have upon that hill of Carmel and along the plain three kinds of people.
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      • • 483. Life And Walk Of Faith | Answers in Genesis
          Although man was made in the image of God at first, it is plain enough that any trace of immutability which he may once have possessed has long ago departed.
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      • • 474. Faith Omnipotent | Answers in Genesis
          Lift up your eyes, then, to the hills, from where Jesus comes who is your help, and entreat him never to forsake his people, but to dwell with them, and walk among them for evermore.
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      • • 3030. A Consistent Walk For Time To Come | Answers in Genesis
          Though the shepherd cares for the lambs, and carries them in his arms, he does not cease his care when they become sheep.
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      • • 1094. Always, and for All Things | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon encourages believers to be thankful at all times and in every circumstance.
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      • • 644. God’s Witnesses | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 644. God’s Witnesses, delivered on Sunday Morning, August 13, 1865, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 635. Are You Prepared to Die? | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon asks a question that each person must answer at some point in his or her life.
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      • • 3098. Needless Fears | Answers in Genesis
          Objects often influence us out of proportion to their value because of their nearness.
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      • • 2889. Christ Receiving Sinners | Answers in Genesis
          The Christ whose gospel we preach is no unapproachable philosopher. The glory of his person reflects even a brighter lustre than the dignity of his office. He appeared among men, not as one who had been lifted up from the ranks to obtain a position for himself, but as one who bowed himself down from Heaven to save us.
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      • • 918. The Two Builders and Their Houses | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the wise man who built his house on the rock and the foolish man who built his house on the sand.
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      • • 2928. Sham Conversion | Answers in Genesis
          If any man shall go through this world with his eyes shut, believing all that he hears, he will find himself the dupe of a thousand knaves.
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      • • 2760. A King Sent In Love | Answers in Genesis
          What which the invasion of countries by the more powerful is perpetually being justified by the laws of politics which seem to be the very opposite of the laws of God? Oh, that better times might come, when kings would rule in righteousness! At any rate, there is a King coming who will rule in righteousness.
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      • • 3071. Idolatry Condemned | Answers in Genesis
          This is the conclusion of one of the most mysterious, most simple and yet most sublime, of all the divinely-inspired Books.
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      • • 3072. An Observation Of The Preacher | Answers in Genesis
          Better is the end of a thing than its beginning.
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      • • 1151. The Entreaty of the Holy Spirit | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon urges men not to harden their hearts against the Holy Spirit.
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      • • 3065. The Third Beatitude | Answers in Genesis
          This third beatitude is of a higher order than the other two. There is something positive in it concerning virtue.
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      • • 3066. The Everlasting Counsellor | Answers in Genesis
          Has your counsellor perished?
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      • • 2508. “Beautiful For Ever.” | Answers in Genesis
          God’s own people are frequently made to mourn. They are brought into severe straits, and burdened and surrounded with difficulties; but, though “many are the afflictions of the righteous,” “the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.”
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      • • 1414. A Sacred Solo | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses an assured possession, a definite experience, and an expressed emotion.
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      • • 1405. No Difference | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the ways in which there is no distinction made between the righteous and the wicked.
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      • • 1029. A Call to Holy Living | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses the words of Christ to show that Christians are held to a higher standard than unbelievers.
      • 1109-the-light-of-the-world/1 page
      • • 1109. The Light of the World | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explores why God makes believers to be light for other men.
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      • • 1594. The Candle | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the lighting, the placing, and the shining.
      • 1660-the-perpetuity-of-the-law-of-god/1 page
      • • 1660. The Perpetuity of the Law of God | Answers in Genesis
          The relationship of the law to myself, and how it condemns me: the relationship of the gospel to myself, and how if I am a believer, it justifies me.
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      • • 1661. Praying and Pleading | Answers in Genesis
          This passionate appeal for mercy was forced from the people by extreme misery.
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      • • 3143. Shoes For Pilgrims And Warriors | Answers in Genesis
          The Christian was evidently intended to be in motion, for here are shoes for his feet.
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      • • 3142. Established Work | Answers in Genesis
          Some of us have been to the grave this afternoon, and the most forcible impression on our minds at this time is that of our mortality.
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      • • 3141. Women’s Rights—A Parable | Answers in Genesis
          I would ask for your attention, and exhibit for your imitation, the faith which these five young women, the daughters of Zelophehad, possessed with regard to the promised inheritance.
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      • • 3140. The Glory Of Our Strength | Answers in Genesis
          It is said of these people that God is the glory of their strength. All strength of every kind comes from God.
      • 3135-golden-sentence/1 page
      • • 3135. A Golden Sentence | Answers in Genesis
          You who are trembling under a sense of sin will perceive that the work of saving souls is called by Christ “his Father’s will.”
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      • • 3133. Christ's Prayer For Believers | Answers in Genesis
          In the very opening of this subject one feels inexpressibly delighted to see the wonderful love of our Saviour towards his people.
      • 3132-question-you/1 page
      • • 3132. A Question For You | Answers in Genesis
          This blind man, whose eyes Christ had opened, was a very shrewd-headed fellow and wonderfully straightforward and determined.
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      • • 1142. A Revival Promise | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the great covenant blessing of the church.
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      • • 2095. The Lamb In Glory | Answers in Genesis
          The apostle John had long known the Lord Jesus as the Lamb. I pray that we may have on this earth a clear and constant sight of the sin-bearing Lamb.
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      • • 1970. Loving Persuasion | Answers in Genesis
          Oh, that you and I, after having explained the gospel, may always be able to relate something from our own experience which will prove it!
      • 1971-blood-shed-for-many/1 page
      • • 1971. The Blood Shed For Many | Answers in Genesis
          To illustrate the future intent of the blessed ordinance of the Lord’s Supper he must by necessity treat his death as an accomplished fact.
      • 516-the-ministers-stock-taking/1 page
      • • 516. The Minister’s Stock Taking | Answers in Genesis
          This is the only proper way to calculate the results of our ministry. We just want the account book ruled with two columns.
      • 507-the-power-of-prayer-and-the-pleasure-of-praise/1 page
      • • 507. The Power of Prayer and the Pleasure of Praise | Answers in Genesis
          The apostle attributes to God alone his singular preservation.
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      • • 2958. The Saints’ Love for God | Answers in Genesis
          Do we, if we are called the saints of the Lord, need to be exhorted to love him? If we do, shame on us!
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      • • 2944. Hastening Lot | Answers in Genesis
          Spurgeon Sermon 2944. Hastening Lot, delivered On Lord’s Day Evening, April 25, 1875, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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      • • 856. The Persistent Widow | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon uses the parable of the persistent widow to illustrate the need for dedication in prayer.
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      • • 31. The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness | Answers in Genesis
          Night appears to be a time peculiarly favourable to devotion. Its solemn stillness helps to free the mind from that perpetual din which the cares of the world will bring around it.
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      • • 388. The Final Perseverance of Believers in Christ Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          Is it possible for sincere Christians, truly regenerated people, to be finally separated from Jesus, to lose the favour of God their Father, and be eternally shut out from his smile and home?
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      • • 917. Precious, Honourable, Beloved | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses God’s special love for Israel described in Isaiah 43:4 and the special love He has for the church.
      • 1178-the-three-witnesses/1 page
      • • 1178. The Three Witnesses | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about the three witnesses on earth, the Spirit, the water, and the blood.
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      • • 1027. The Joy of the Lord, the Strength of His People | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the joy of the Lord, its importance for believers, and the fact that it is available to all Christians.
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      • • 2421. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! | Answers in Genesis
          This morning, we were trying to extol our God, our King, and to magnify his holy name; and something seemed to say to me, “Hold on to that strain. Let us have the same note again tonight, and let us still laud and praise and magnify the name of the Most High.”
      • 416-the-shield-of-faith/1 page
      • • 416. The Shield of Faith | Answers in Genesis
          Like the Spartans, every Christian is born a warrior. It is his destiny to be assaulted; it is his duty to attack. Part of his life will be occupied with defensive warfare.
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      • • 407. Natural or Spiritual | Answers in Genesis
          The Apostle Paul only knows of two classes of men—natural and spiritual. Before his eye all other distinctions are extinguished.
      • 2202-lo-i-come-exposition/1 page
      • • 2202. “Lo, I Come”: Exposition | Answers in Genesis
          Because he has come to us, we gladly come to him; and now we reverently wait upon him to hear what our Lord shall speak.
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      • • 1701. Gladness For Sadness | Answers in Genesis
          As we are made to sympathise with Moses in this psalm, let us imitate his example. Like him in multiplied bereavements, let us be like him in grace and faith.
      • 1702-on-laying-foundations/1 page
      • • 1702. On Laying Foundations | Answers in Genesis
          Our Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to tell us about the Father’s love, and never a man spoke as he spoke, and yet there are many who refuse to hear him.
      • 44-repentance-to-life/1 page
      • • 44. Repentance to Life | Answers in Genesis
          One of the greatest obstacles which the Christian religion ever overcame, was the inveterate prejudice which possessed the minds of its earliest followers.
      • 513-the-young-mans-prayer/1 page
      • • 513. The Young Man’s Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Amid a thousand miracles of mercy, what must have been the sorrows of a camp in which every halt was marked with many burials, until the whole track was a long cemetery?
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      • • 504. I Know that my Redeemer Lives | Answers in Genesis
          Our text deserves our profound attention; its preface would hardly have been written had not the matter been of the utmost importance in the judgment of the patriarch who uttered it.
      • 2987-the-beau-ideal-of-life/1 page
      • • 2987. The “Beau-Ideal” of Life | Answers in Genesis
          There never did live, and there never could live, a man whose entire nature could be satisfied with his worldly possessions.
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      • • 302. Jesus About his Father’s Business | Answers in Genesis
          It is peculiarly pleasing to the Christian to observe the interest which God the Father takes in the work of salvation.
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      • • 1901. Mysterious Food | Answers in Genesis
          You see the Lord endeavoured to use the lower expression as a ladder to something higher and more spiritual.
      • 1902-the-happy-duty-of-daily-praise/1 page
      • • 1902. The Happy Duty Of Daily Praise | Answers in Genesis
          Should we omit praise any more than we omit prayer? And should not praise come daily and as many times in the day as prayer does?
      • 2898-the-search-warrant/1 page
      • • 2898. The Search-Warrant | Answers in Genesis
          Faith is the opposite of sight. It is to believe that we are saved when sin tells us we are lost. It is to believe that Christ has cleansed us when we still feel defilement within. It is to believe that we shall see his face in glory when clouds and darkness enshroud our path, and doubts and fears distress our heart.
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      • • 2623. How Faith Comes | Answers in Genesis
          Wherever faith exists, it is the gift of God. It is a plant that never sprang up spontaneously from the soil of corrupt human nature.
      • 2570-jesus-sitting-by-well/1 page
      • • 2570. Jesus Sitting By The Well | Answers in Genesis
          Treasure up in your mind and heart the assured fact that Christ was most really and truly man; and though the Godhead was most mysteriously united to his manhood, yet he was none the less completely and intensely man.
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      • • 2571. The Climax Of God’s Love | Answers in Genesis
          His infinite mercy at last taught Israel to know him in deed and in truth, and by the mighty power of his grace she was completely delivered.
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      • • 2423. The Model Soul Winner | Answers in Genesis
          Jesus said to the woman of Samaria, “Give me a drink.” I speak to many here who are wise to win souls. I hope that I also address many more who, although they have not yet learned this wisdom, are anxious, if possible, to be used by God to bless their fellow creatures.
      • 2424-new-song-on-earth/1 page
      • • 2424. The New Song On Earth | Answers in Genesis
          This man who talks about his song, and seems to be very much struck with the fact that he has become a singer, was formerly a man of prayer. I do not doubt that he was still praying while he was praising; but he began to pray before he began to praise.
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      • • 773. David’s Holy Wonder at the Lord’s Great Goodness | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon looks into the greatness of God and shows why we have so many reasons to be thankful for His grace.
      • 770-the-water-of-life/1 page
      • • 770. The Water of Life | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses Christ’s encounter with the woman at the well.
      • 761-the-shrill-trumpet-of-admonition/1 page
      • • 761. The Shrill Trumpet of Admonition | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the dangers of walking in darkness and offers the solution only found in Christ.
      • 855-every-day-usefulness/1 page
      • • 855. Every Day Usefulness | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expresses his longing for revival but encourages his listeners to not overlook daily opportunities to serve God.
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      • • 1202. The Hospital Of Waiters Visited With The Gospel | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about those waiting by Bethseda’s pool.
      • 1193-holy-water/1 page
      • • 1193. Holy Water | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the water that Jesus gives.
      • 668-unity-in-christ/1 page
      • • 668. Unity in Christ | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the fact that even though we may have many disagreements, believers are united in Christ.
      • 2377-love-stronger-than-death/1 page
      • • 2377. Love Stronger Than Death | Answers in Genesis
          It is important to know how a man feels when he comes to the real crisis of his life. At the time of his departure we shall see what power really ruled him.
      • 1088-the-essence-of-simplicity/1 page
      • • 1088. The Essence of Simplicity | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon draws insights from the miraculous healing of the man born blind who was given sight by Jesus.
      • 1079-the-secret-food-and-the-public-name/1 page
      • • 1079. The Secret Food and the Public Name | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how a believer finds God’s Word, takes it in, and rejoices in it.
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      • • 2141. The Question Of Questions | Answers in Genesis
          If we, at any time, should seem cast off from Christ as well as cast out by proud religionists, he will find us when we cannot find him. Blessed be his name!
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      • • 2142. Our Lord’s Triumphant Ascension | Answers in Genesis
          The love that brought him here would have kept him here if everything necessary for our salvation had not been finished.
      • 2667-a-conscripted-man-yielding-to-christ/1 page
      • • 2667. A Conscripted Man Yielding To Christ | Answers in Genesis
          Saving faith does not always come suddenly. Some men are saved, as Saul of Tarsus was; they are struck down in the midst of their sins, and converted in a remarkable and unusual way; but with many others there is, first, a faint twilight; then, eventually, a little more; and, at last, the sun has fully risen on them.
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      • • 3008. An All-Important Question | Answers in Genesis
          Do you believe in the Son of God?
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      • • 2657. All the Promises | Answers in Genesis
          Kindly observe the position of the promise, which is a very exceptional one. It is a kind of link between the divine thought and the divine act. It is not at all a necessary link so far as God is concerned, but it is often a most necessary and consoling link to us.
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      • • 2310. Howling Changed To Singing | Answers in Genesis
          Sometimes it seems as if all the showers were poured on the top of the sunshine, and the sunshine itself were quenched, and could scarcely cheer us.
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      • • 1977. The Blind Beggar Of The Temple, And His Wonderful Cure | Answers in Genesis
          At the gate of the temple sat a blind beggar, who must have been a notable character; for he possessed remarkable shrewdness and mother wit.
      • 1978-trust/1 page
      • • 1978. Trust | Answers in Genesis
          We are not ordained to be saved apart from faith, but those who are predestinated to eternal life are ordained to receive it through faith in Christ Jesus.
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      • • 1384. Speak For Yourself. A Challenge! | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on John 9:21.
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      • • 3127. A Promise And Precedent | Answers in Genesis
          “He shall glorify me: for he shall take of what is mine, and shall show it to you.”
      • 3126-pictures-life/1 page
      • • 3126. Pictures Of Life | Answers in Genesis
          If you would picture life, you must turn to the Bible, and this evening we will walk through the Bible-gallery of old paintings.
      • 3125-fear-death/1 page
      • • 3125. Fear Of Death | Answers in Genesis
          It is a very natural thing that man should fear to die, for man was not originally created to die.
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      • • 3119. Mistakes Concerning God | Answers in Genesis
          God is speaking here to a bad man, who had been committing all kinds of evil deeds.
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      • • 3118. What Had Become Of Peter? | Answers in Genesis
          We can very well understand that there would be great excitement. It was the most improbable thing in the world that Peter should escape from custody.
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      • • 3117. Eyes Opened | Answers in Genesis
          The believer in Christ sees much more than any other man sees.
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      • • 3116. Preparing To Depart | Answers in Genesis
          Taking Elijah’s case as a guide, we propose tonight to say a few words—and may God make them to edification—about preparing for our departure.
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      • • 3113. Gratitude For Great Deliverances | Answers in Genesis
          In due time, God, who had special favour towards his people, though he had severely struck them, would look down on them.
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      • • 3110. Faintness And Refreshing | Answers in Genesis
          We have here a memorable proof that God does not always answer prayer literally, though he always does in effect.
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      • • 3109. Sowing And Reaping | Answers in Genesis
          Do not be deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that he shall also reap.
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      • • 3108. The House Of Mourning And The House Of Feasting | Answers in Genesis
          The maxim that happiness lies between two extremes is, I believe, the dictate of prudence, and has the sanction of God's Word.
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      • • 2455. A Cure For A Weak Heart | Answers in Genesis
          You perceive, dear friends, that David had trusted in the Lord; in very severe and exceptional trouble God had delivered him; and at the close of that deliverance he wrote this Psalm, to be sung by the faithful of all time and every clime, and then he gave this exhortation which grew out of his own experience.
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      • • 1968. Jubilee Joy; Or, Believers Joyful In Their King | Answers in Genesis
          Let us take care to blend a holy gratitude to God with our fervent patriotism. May it be ours to praise and bless the God who has sent us these favours.
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      • • 2203. “Lo, I Come”: Application | Answers in Genesis
          I speak to the unconverted mainly; but while I do so I shall hope to be refreshing the grateful memories of those already saved.
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      • • 1053. Testimony and Experience | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the role personal testimonies and experiences have in bringing people to faith in God.
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      • • 1674. Brought Up From The Horrible Pit | Answers in Genesis
          This morning I shall have to show that this text of ours is most fit to be the language of the Lord, our representative and Covenant-Head.
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      • • 810. The Faithfulness of Jesus | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains the amazing love Jesus showed to His followers.
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      • • 3063. Jotham's Special Honour | Answers in Genesis
          This is a very exceptional expression which is used here concerning Jotham.
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      • • 3052. Christ's Loneliness And Ours | Answers in Genesis
          It seems that faith held them firmly to Christ; but, as soon as fear prevailed, they were scattered, and left their Master alone.
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      • • 50. The Holy Ghost—The Great Teacher | Answers in Genesis
          One of the diseases of the present generation of mankind, is their secret but deep seated godlessness, by which they have so far departed from the knowledge of God.
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      • • 1773. What Is Your Life? | Answers in Genesis
          We have a very clear conviction that others will die, but as for ourselves, we put far from us the evil day, and do not care to dwell upon a subject.
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      • • 576. Quiet Musing! | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon addresses the need for Christians to think deeply about important issues.
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      • • 567. Labor in Vain | Answers in Genesis
          People who try to earn their way to heaven are laboring in vain.
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      • • 1238. The Special Prayer Meeting | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the prayer of the early church.
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      • • 2216. The Lad’s Loaves In The Lord’s Hands | Answers in Genesis
          Our blessed Master will not desert the people in their spiritual need, any more than he failed that hungry throng, in their temporal need, long ago.
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      • • 1515. A Woman Of A Sorrowful Spirit | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on 1 Samuel 1:15.
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      • • 2576. Zion’s Prosperity | Answers in Genesis
          A selfish man in trouble is extremely hard to comfort, because the source of his joy lies entirely within himself.
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      • • 2577. Living On The Word | Answers in Genesis
          The main thing for every one of us is life. What would it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own life?
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      • • 1132. Good News for the Destitute | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon describes the state of the spiritually destitute.
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      • • 1049. Intercessory Prayer | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon urges his listeners to intercede in prayer on behalf of both believers and unbelievers.
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      • • 1519. At School | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon speaks upon the prayer and then upon its answer.
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      • • 1250. There Go The Ships | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Psalm 104:26.
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      • • 1241. The Priest Dispensed With | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon answers three questions: How did we come to be believers? How do we know that believers are saved? And how do we know that we are believers?
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      • • 2633. The Two Pivots | Answers in Genesis
          The Lord was not ashamed to be called his people’s God, because they had faith in him.
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      • • 257. The Scales of Judgement | Answers in Genesis
          There is a weighing time for kings and emperors, and all the monarchs of earth. Though some of them do not appear to be accountable to man, they must surely be tried at the judgment bar of God.
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      • • 250. War! War! War! | Answers in Genesis
          If this exhortation is not found in the very same words, coming from the lips of Jesus, nevertheless the whole tenor of the Word of God is to the same effect—“Fight the Lord’s battles.”
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      • • 225. Satan’s Banquet | Answers in Genesis
          Friendship first—the oily tongue, the words softer than butter, and afterwards the drawn sword.
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      • • 218. Self-Examination | Answers in Genesis
          The Corinthians took to themselves great credit for skill in learning and in language, and as most men do who are wise in their own esteem, they made a wrong use of their wisdom and learning.
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      • • 219. An Appeal to Sinners | Answers in Genesis
          It was a singular group which had gathered around our Saviour, when these words were uttered, “This man receives sinners.”
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      • • 1556. The Waterpots At Cana | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on John 2:7.
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      • • 2890. Unbelievers Rebuked | Answers in Genesis
          Please consider, dear friends, how many times some of us have doubted our Lord. The sin of unbelief becomes all the greater because it is so frequently committed. God be thanked that it is not so with all Christians: for there are some who walk in faith and dwell in faith.
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      • • 2993. “That King Ahaz” | Answers in Genesis
          It is absolutely certain, dear friends, that whatever our personal characters may be, we shall have to know, by practical experience, the meaning of the word trouble.
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      • • 1140. My Restorer | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon describes the true position of every believer.
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      • • 1131. Let Him Alone | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon warns about the danger of listening to a sermon on Sunday while living no differently every other day of the week.
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      • • 823. Noah’s Flood | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains that just as there was no escape from the Flood except for the Ark, there will be no escape from future judgment unless one is in Christ.
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      • • 224. Samson Conquered | Answers in Genesis
          Samson is, in many respects, one of the most remarkable men whose history is recorded in the pages of inspiration.
      • 217-declension-from-first-love/1 page
      • • 217. Declension From First Love | Answers in Genesis
          It is a great thing to have as much said in our commendation as was said concerning the church at Ephesus.
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      • • 1939. Shaven And Shorn, But Not Beyond Hope | Answers in Genesis
          Samson was never overcome with drunkenness; and yet he greatly sinned, which goes to show that total abstinence is not by itself enough to form a character.
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      • • 1940. The Best Bread | Answers in Genesis
          There is a tendency about us all to get away from Jesus, and to look rather to the streams than to the Fountain-Head.
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      • • 3103. A Pastoral Visit | Answers in Genesis
          Certainly our text does not give any credence to the calling of certain buildings “churches.”
      • 3102-forerunner/1 page
      • • 3102. The Forerunner | Answers in Genesis
          The Jewish high priest went within the veil once a year, and represented the people there, but he was never their forerunner.
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      • • 3097. A Suitable Watchword | Answers in Genesis
          This was a prayer of David. It was offered under trying circumstances. He had been treacherously betrayed again and again.
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      • • 3094. Heart Piercing | Answers in Genesis
          Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
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      • • 3093. The Church Of God And The Truth Of God | Answers in Genesis
          The time is coming when it shall be openly shown who is on the Lord’s side; at this very hour, separations are taking place everywhere.
      • 3091-pedigree/1 page
      • • 3091. Pedigree | Answers in Genesis
          Paul was proud of his extraction as a Jew. Taking this expression in its literal sense, I feel that he had much to be proud of.
      • 3090-loving-law-israel/1 page
      • • 3090. Loving The Law Of The Lord | Answers in Genesis
          David had a very small Bible, but he thought it was a very precious one.
      • 3087-time-finding-lost-sheep/1 page
      • • 3087. A Time Of Finding For Lost Sheep | Answers in Genesis
          It is a great mercy that God never leaves his Church.
      • 3086-marvellous-things/1 page
      • • 3086. Marvellous Things | Answers in Genesis
          The invitations of the gospel are invitations to happiness. In delivering God’s message, we do not ask men to come to a funeral, but to a wedding feast.
      • 3083-comfort-prayers-feeble/1 page
      • • 3083. Comfort For Those Whose Prayers Are Feeble | Answers in Genesis
          Young beginners in grace are very apt to compare themselves with advanced disciples, and so to become discouraged.
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      • • 2272. Longing To Find God | Answers in Genesis
          This is one reason why the man who is earnestly seeking after God is often misunderstood. He does not speak as one would speak who was cool and calm.
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      • • 2526. “Speak, Lord!” | Answers in Genesis
          The child Samuel was favoured more than all the family in which he lived. Do you seem to be very insignificant? Yet you can hardly be more so than was this child of Hannah’s love. Do you have many troubles? Yet you have no more, I daresay, than rested on young Samuel
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      • • 1882. Retrospect — “The Lord Has Blessed.” | Answers in Genesis
          Brethren, the best advice that I can give to each man among you is, that he should endeavour to make the best of the portion which God has given him.
      • 2079-man-unknown-to-man/1 page
      • • 2079. Man Unknown To Man | Answers in Genesis
          Men are microcosms, or little worlds: each man has his distinct sphere, where he dwells by himself.
      • 2134-rough-hewer/1 page
      • • 2134. The Rough Hewer | Answers in Genesis
          Alas! too many of our hearers complicate this sweet simplicity. They will not be content to take the plain way; they love more winding paths.
      • 401-jacobs-waking-exclamation/1 page
      • • 401. Jacob’s Waking Exclamation | Answers in Genesis
          Through his own foolish wisdom Jacob had been compelled to leave his father’s house. Perhaps we are scarcely able to judge the sorrowful feelings which this banishment would create in his soul.
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      • • 392. Trust in God—True Wisdom | Answers in Genesis
          Wisdom is man’s true path—that which enables him to accomplish best the end of his being, and which, therefore, gives to him the richest enjoyment, and the greatest scope for all his powers.
      • 2983-a-wonderful-transformation/1 page
      • • 2983. A Wonderful Transformation | Answers in Genesis
          Unfelt trial is no trial; certainly, it would be an unsanctified trial. Christ never meant Christians to be stoics.
      • 418-bread-for-the-hungry/1 page
      • • 418. Bread for the Hungry | Answers in Genesis
          This notable text shall teach us two lessons this morning. Its first utterance shall be concerning providence, and its second, concerning the life of grace in the heart.
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      • • 2435. The Everlasting Arms | Answers in Genesis
          If you are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, you may take these precious words home for yourself, and you may live on them; you may eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and rejoice in all the refreshment that they bring to your spirit.
      • 1021-heavens-nurse-children/1 page
      • • 1021. Heaven’s Nurse Children | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses how God adopts us, nourishes us, and causes us to grow in Him.
      • 1268-trial-by-the-word/1 page
      • • 1268. Trial By The Word | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about the importance of trial, the peculiarity of the believer’s trial, and the continuance and the conclusion of the trial.
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      • • 1259. The Story Of A Runaway Slave | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon talks about Onesimus.
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      • • 902. Safe Shelter | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon elaborates on the protection God provides for His people.
      • 1527-perfect-sanctification/1 page
      • • 1527. Perfect Sanctification | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the eternal will, the effective sacrifice, and the everlasting result accomplished by that will through the sacrifice of the body of Christ.
      • 91-christ-exalted/1 page
      • • 91. Christ Exalted | Answers in Genesis
          At the Lord’s table we wish to have no subject for contemplation except our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, and we have been usually considering him as the crucified One.
      • 1897-holding-firm-our-profession/1 page
      • • 1897. Holding Firm Our Profession | Answers in Genesis
          While we hold firm the profession of our faith, the blessed truths of that faith may also hold us firm as an anchor holds a ship!
      • 682-future-punishment-a-fearful-thing/1 page
      • • 682. Future Punishment a Fearful Thing | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon explains that the Bible teaches eternal punishment for the unrepentant. How will you respond to this truth?
      • 673-secret-sins-driven-out-by-stinging-hornets/1 page
      • • 673. Secret Sins Driven Out by Stinging Hornets | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon spiritualizes the conquest of Canaan and makes application for Christians.
      • 1263-a-god-ready-to-pardon/1 page
      • • 1263. A God Ready To Pardon | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses God’s readiness to pardon.
      • 1254-hold-your-shield-firmly/1 page
      • • 1254. Hold Your Shield Firmly | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses confidence.
      • 1423-divine-interpositions/1 page
      • • 1423. Divine Interpositions | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses God’s miraculous interpositions in the affairs of this life, His providential interpositions of another kind, and His gracious interpositions given for the salvation of men.
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      • • 2712. Bonds Which Could Not Hold | Answers in Genesis
          Do not think, beloved, that the most learned fools can be a match for him who overcame death itself. There is a truth on which I wish to insist with great earnestness; it is this. Since Christ could not be held by the bonds of death, it is not possible to keep in bondage anything that belongs to him.
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      • • 393. The Church—Conservative and Aggressive | Answers in Genesis
          It has been thought desirable that I should state a few particulars relative to the institution.
      • 1436-wake-up-wake-up/1 page
      • • 1436. Wake Up! Wake Up! | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on Romans 13:11.
      • 1427-what-the-church-should-be/1 page
      • • 1427. What The Church Should Be | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon expounds on 1 Timothy 3:15.
      • 1401-believers-free-from-the-dominion-of-sin/1 page
      • • 1401. Believers Free From The Dominion Of Sin | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses the unique position of believers, the special assurance made to them, and the remarkable reason given for this statement.
      • 1392-jacob-worshipping-on-his-staff/1 page
      • • 1392. Jacob Worshipping On His Staff | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses Jacob’s blessing, the worshipping; and the attitude.
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      • • 1544. Mahanaim, Or Hosts Of Angels | Answers in Genesis
          Charles Spurgeon discusses God’s multitude of servants on the side of believers.
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      • • 2116. The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob In His Change Of Dwelling-Place | Answers in Genesis
          The Lord met the weakness of his servant’s faith, and sent him consolations suited rather for Jacob than for Israel.
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      • • 2117. The Father’s Love For His Dying Son | Answers in Genesis
          The Father feels boundless love for him who came down from heaven, took upon himself our nature, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.
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      • • 496. The New Song | Answers in Genesis
          There must be new songs on new occasions of triumph. It would have been absurd for Miriam with her timbrel to conduct the music of the daughters of Israel to some old sonnet learned in Egypt.