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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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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.”
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1649. Freshness
| Answers in Genesis Charles Spurgeon discusses the excellency of freshness, the fear of its departure, and the hope of its continuance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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!”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2739. “I Have Enough.”
| Answers in Genesis It is very remarkable that there should be, in this chapter, a record of two people, who each said, “I have enough.” It is especially noteworthy that this was said by two brothers that differed so greatly from one another. It seems to me as if, on that occasion, the blessing of their father Isaac rested on them both.
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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.
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.
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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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.
2881. Feeble Faith Appealing To A Strong Saviour
| Answers in Genesis We now have to consider the tearful discovery: “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.” When did the man make this discovery? When he began to believe. Is it not an ironic thing that, as soon as he ever had a little faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, he discovered the great abyss of his unbelief?
58. Canaan on Earth
| Answers in Genesis It has generally been considered, that the passage of the Jordan by the Israelites is typical of death, and that Canaan is a fitting representation of heaven.
1926. Love’s Complaining
| Answers in Genesis He loves much, and therefore he never judges harshly. He loves much, and therefore he always judges jealously. Jealousy is the sure attendant of such love as his.
1867. Jubilate
| Answers in Genesis This is the very first of those sacred songs preserved in Scripture, and in some respects it is first in merit as well as in time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
2008. The Lord And The Leper
| Answers in Genesis A leper comes to him, and kneels before him, and expresses his faith in him, that he can make him whole. Now the Son of Man is glorious in his power to save.
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.
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.”
2454. The Secret Of Failure
| Answers in Genesis It is no new thing that we should be made a
laughing-stock to the enemies of the cross of Christ because we
cannot even do what we have formerly done, and are beaten in the very
field where previously we have achieved great and notable victories
for our Master.
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.
2593. A Welcome For Jesus
| Answers in Genesis The Lord Jesus Christ will not stay where he
is not wanted; just as he told his disciples, when they were
persecuted in one city, to flee to another, so he does himself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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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?”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.”
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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!
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.
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.”
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
2437. Prayer, The Proof Of Godliness
| Answers in Genesis All men are not godly. Alas! the ungodly are the great majority of
the human race. And all men who are to some extent godly are not
equally godly. The man who fears God, and desires to truly know him,
has some little measure of godliness.
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2468. Solitude, Silence, Submission
| Answers in Genesis Some are feeling the crushing
weight and heavy burden of their guilt. If you cannot do anything
else, dear friends, do what these two verses say, in order that,
afterwards, you may be able to take that grand gospel step of faith
in Jesus Christ which will certainly bring you into peace and joy.
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2469. The Incomparable Bridegroom And His Bride
| Answers in Genesis If we should, with very much earnestness, urge believers to good
works, let no one suppose that, therefore, we imagine that men are
saved by works. Let no one for a moment dream that, in urging the
believer to produce righteous fruit, we are at all teaching that
salvation is the work of man.
3082. Here I Am
| Answers in Genesis May our dear children all grow up as Samuel did; and, so that they may do so, may they in their early life be such children as Samuel was!
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3079. A Searching Question
| Answers in Genesis This is a question of universal pertinence. We may most honestly ask it of any man, because there is an owner both of the Church and of the world.
3077. Death, A Sleep
| Answers in Genesis For the most part, ignorance is the mother of misery, and if we had more knowledge, we should find it a tower of strength against many fears and alarms.
3059. The Poor Man's Friend
| Answers in Genesis God is the poor man's Friend; the poor man, in his helplessness and
despair, leaves his case in the hands of God, and God undertakes to
care for him.
2456. The Lamb Our Leader
| Answers in Genesis This is characteristic of saints: “These are those who follow the Lamb
wherever he goes.” This has always been the way of the saints; this
is the way the holy prophets went, the way of the martyrs, the way of
the reformers and confessors, the way of all who shall meet above
around the throne of God and of the Lamb.
577. Let Us Go Forth
| Answers in Genesis Spurgeon Sermon 577. Let Us Go Forth, delivered on Sunday Morning, June 26, 1864, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
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2527. David’s Five-Stringed Harp
| Answers in Genesis This Psalm was written by David when he was severely vexed by many
adversaries. These adversaries were bent on his destruction; they
could not bear that the son of Jesse should be favoured by God, and
that he should come to the throne; so they set their wits to work to
invent all kinds of slander against him.
506. Solid Food
| Answers in Genesis In most large houses we shall find humanity in all its stages. We shall see the infant, in his cradle; children laughing in their play, young men working with vigour, and the old man resting in peace.
2723. God’s Dealings With Egypt And Israel
| Answers in Genesis In this congregation, though no human eye can read all our characters, there is a clear division among us who are here. If some infallible “teller” could now divide the house into Ayes and Nays, separating those who are on God’s side from those who are not, the spectacle would be a very striking one.
2724. The Dew Of Christ’s Youth
| Answers in Genesis Everything has its dew in the morning, its burning heat at noon; we too, beloved, — those of us who have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, — is this not the case even with us? When we were first converted, we could not sing God’s praises loudly enough; we could not sufficiently leap for joy before the Lord.
543. Once a Curse but Now a Blessing
| Answers in Genesis The Jews have for many a generation been cursed by all people. For ages no one had a good word or a kind look for the Jew. In every nation they have been persecuted, and hunted like beasts of prey.
1793. The Glory In The Rear
| Answers in Genesis When the Israelites left the place of their bondage and came to the wilderness, a visible sign of the Lord’s presence and leadership was granted to them.
3004. The Christian’s Unveiling
| Answers in Genesis It is to that other and better land that I would, for a little while,
bear away your thoughts. We shall borrow the wings of our text; and,
like the eagle, soar towards heaven.
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2999. Battlements
| Answers in Genesis When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house, if any man falls from it.
2996. Enquiring Of God
| Answers in Genesis Although David knew that he was anointed to be king over Israel, he would not take a step towards his rightful position without first asking guidance from God.
2986. One Aspect of Christ’s Death
| Answers in Genesis This view of Christ dying as the great substitutionary sacrifice for sinners cannot be dispensed with for a single moment; it seems to us to be the very essence of the gospel.
2972. Forgiveness
| Answers in Genesis Not one redeemed soul would ever have seen the everlasting glory unless it had been for the pardoning mercy of God.
2962. Diamond Hinges — “As” And “So”
| Answers in Genesis Of our Lord Jesus Christ we can truly say, “He is our peace.” It is through him that “the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,” keeps our heart and mind always at rest.
2956. A Handkerchief
| Answers in Genesis It is often the wisest way to relieve minds that are swollen through grief to allow them to find the natural conclusion of their sorrow by asking them why they are weeping.
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2950. True and Not True
| Answers in Genesis Shut your ear to God, and he will shut his ear to you; but incline your ear, and come to him, and, sinner as you are, your soul shall live, for God will hear you.
2923. The Singing Army
| Answers in Genesis If we begin by doubting, our prayer will limp. Faith is the tendon of Achilles, and if that is cut it is not possible for us to wrestle with God, but as long as we have that strong sinew, that mighty tendon uninjured, we can prevail with God in prayer.
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2918. Facing The Wind
| Answers in Genesis First, then, brethren, our text contains a summary of Christian life. It is “well doing.” This is all you have to do — you who have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus and renewed in the spirit of your minds. You have to spend your lives in well doing.
2913. David’s First Victory
| Answers in Genesis Note well that David struck Goliath, and he struck him effectively not in the loins, or on the hand, or on the foot — but in a vital point he delivered the stroke that laid him low. He struck him on the brow of his presumption, on the forehead of his pride.
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2909. Job’s Sure Knowledge
| Answers in Genesis Job, in the midst of his false friends, had One whom he called his kinsman. “I know,” he said, “that my Kinsman lives.” We interpret that word “Kinsman” as meaning our Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to think of Jesus Christ as your Kinsman if you are really in him, for he is indeed the nearest akin to you of any.
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2906. Honour For Honour
| Answers in Genesis I hope you see clearly that it is your duty to honour God, so let us enquire in what way that duty comes home to each one of us. First, I think that we are to honour God by confessing his Deity in all our prayers, and praises, and, indeed, at all times.
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2905. The Father And The Son
| Answers in Genesis I do truly believe that, when Christ bore the sins of his people up to the tree, and away from the tree, the justice of God was more honoured than it would have been if all the elect had been sent to hell for ever. Glorify God, then, praise him, and let your whole soul extol him for this wonderful arrangement of grace.
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2901. Mourning At The Cross
| Answers in Genesis True evangelical repentance is not produced by mere conscience, however much the conscience may be aroused and instructed. The Spirit of God must operate on the heart; otherwise, the natural conscience cannot rise to the heights of true repentance.
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2893. An Instructive Truth
| Answers in Genesis The free-agency of man is a self-evident truth; but, at the same time, God is omnipotent, and he is still working out his wise designs in the whirlwind of human wrath, in the tempest of human sin, and even in the dark mines of human ambition and tyranny.
409. Fellowship with God
| Answers in Genesis Fellowship with God was one of the richest privileges of unfallen man. The Lord God walked in the garden, and talked with Adam as a man talks with his friend.
The Bitterness of the Cross
| Answers in Genesis If you have never felt the mournful effect of the sorrowful spectacle of the bleeding Saviour, you have still need to stand, and to look, and look, and look again until you do feel it, for so it will always be: “They shall look on me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn.”
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2695. Christian Conversation
| Answers in Genesis Beloved, engender controversy rather than have wrong conversation; better dispute over truth than agree about lies. Better, I say, it is to dispute concerning good doctrine, it is far more profitable to talk about the Word of God, even in a controversial manner, than to turn utterly away from it, and neglect it.
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2879. The Wide-Open Mouth Filled
| Answers in Genesis Brethren, if we had more sense of our need, prayer would be more of an instinct with us; we should pray because we could not help praying; we should pray more truly, if we prayed because there were groanings within us, caused by intense pain, and longings that came out of the consciousness of our dire necessities.
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2878. Good Cheer For The Needy
| Answers in Genesis Possibly, some of you think that you have been forgotten in the arrangements of providence. Listen, troubled one. If you can only wait with patience, and stand still, and see the salvation of God, you will find that the needy shall not always be forgotten.
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2871. Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision
| Answers in Genesis Children of God, do not be anxious. Do not be tossed up and down by your outward circumstances. If God does not prosper you, do not sink down as the vessel does when the tide ebbs away. Do not be so affected by external things as to get into a state of worry, and fretfulness, and care, and anxiety, and distress.
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2868. “Ready, Aye, Ready!”
| Answers in Genesis Again, the word “ready” frequently means promptly or quickly. In this sense also, God is ready to forgive. I know that some of you imagine that you must endure months of sorrow before you can be forgiven. It is not necessary that you should wait even another hour for this great blessing.
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2869. Prayer Found In The Heart
| Answers in Genesis Ah, dear friend, it is no worse to find a prayer in a book than to find it in your head! It is very much the same thing whether the prayer is printed or is extemporized; unless it comes from the heart, it is equally dead in either case.
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2867. The Life-Look
| Answers in Genesis I do not find fault with prayer or the reading of the Scriptures; God forbid! But I do complain of putting prayer and the reading of the Scriptures into the place of getting to God; for it is looking to him as he is revealed in Jesus Christ that will save the soul, and nothing short of that will do.
2380. Encouragements To Prayer
| Answers in Genesis Your nature requires you to have a god of some kind; and, to prevent your having a strange god, you must love Jehovah, the one and only living and true God.
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2811. Removal
| Answers in Genesis Throughout the history of the Church of Christ, there have been particular places where men of God have been compelled to fall on their knees, and pray this prayer of Moses. "If your presence does not go with me, do not carry us up there."
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2815. Good Cheer For Many Who Fear
| Answers in Genesis A hasty man is never a wise man; and it is equally true that a “fearful” man is never prudent. Fearful men are always hasty; they jump to conclusions. They say, with Jacob, “All these things are against me,” because they cannot see to the end of the Lord’s plans.
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2864. God Has Spoken! — Rejoice!
| Answers in Genesis Our text says, “God has spoken in his holiness.” Now, it sometimes happens that our greatest difficulty in believing a promise of God lies in his holiness. There is, for example, a promise of pardon to the soul that believes in Jesus.
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2851. Unseasonable Prayer
| Answers in Genesis There is a time for praying, but there is also a time for holy activity. Prayer is adapted for almost every season, yet not prayer alone, for there comes, every now and then, a time when even prayer must take a secondary place, and faith must come in, and lead us not to cry to God but to act as he tells us to.
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2850. The New Song And The Old Story
| Answers in Genesis A Christian man ought to be like a horse that has bells on his head, so that he cannot go anywhere without ringing them, and making music. His whole life should be a psalm; every step should be in harmony; every thought should constitute a note; every word he utters should be a component part of the joyful strain.
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2847. Barriers Obliterated
| Answers in Genesis When the Lord takes away his people’s sins, they are gone, and gone for ever. They shall not be remembered against them any more for ever. The glorious forgiving love of God is an indescribable theme, and it is altogether inexhaustible.
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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2835. Patients For The Great Physician
| Answers in Genesis Even though you are unworthy, have you not a need of a saviour? Being conscious of such a need is all the fitness and worthiness he requires. If you need Christ, you are fit to come to Christ. If you need to have sin forgiven, you are a fit subject for Christ to deal with.
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2830. A Good Man In An Evil Case
| Answers in Genesis It shall be our joy to take up our cross daily, and follow Jesus; but there are certain burdens of care and sorrow, of which the text speaks, especially the burdens which come from the slander, and reproach, and oppression of ungodly men, which we need not carry.
2816. Invitation To A Conference
| Answers in Genesis I am addressing all who have not yet believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. I have to say that your condition is a very sad one, and a very sinful one; you are standing up against the God of love, refusing to submit to him whose service is perfect freedom and joy.
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2813. Life, And The Path To It
| Answers in Genesis One great part of the joy of the glorified will be the perfection of their characters, for he who is holy must be happy. Perfection of holiness must mean perfection of happiness, the two things must go together. Sin and sorrow cannot be divorced, and holiness and happiness cannot be separated.
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2808. The Disowned
| Answers in Genesis Prayer is a vital evidence of Christianity, but prophecy is not. A thousand sermons would not prove a man to be a Christian, but one genuine prayer would. It is easy enough to speak to men, but quite another thing, from our innermost soul, to speak into the ear of God.
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2802. Lukewarmness
| Answers in Genesis If you have lived lukewarmly, the things of God will then, even though you are a child of his, darken your dying hour, and weigh down your spirit with a fearful load of sad reflections. Oh God, grant, I beseech you that your servant may always be free from that great sin of being lukewarm in your cause!
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2800. “Pray, Always Pray”
| Answers in Genesis A prayerless soul must be a Christless soul; but if we are really in Christ, we must have practised the sacred art of asking, and we ought to go on continually with it. If there is any difficulty in our minds, let us ask, for the Holy Spirit can solve it.
2794. A Refreshing Canticle
| Answers in Genesis The impression the love of Christ makes on the true believer is far greater than the impression made by anything earthly. Mere mortal joys write their record on the sand, and their memory is soon erased; but Christ’s love is like an inscription cut deeply into marble, its memory is deeply inscribed on our hearts.
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2793. Five Divine Declarations
| Answers in Genesis It is true that there are two ways in which men shall be made to bow the knee before God. Some of them will bow unwillingly when they shall feel the weight of his iron rod. Others shall bow joyfully before him when they shall feel the power of his grace.
2789. Perfect Justification And Perfect Pardon
| Answers in Genesis It is amazing, my brethren, how soon our unbelief finds a reason for fear lest we should be lost. It seems to find such a reason, often, when there is none. It will catch at any little circumstance in our daily life to make us imagine that God has forgotten us.
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2785. Christ’s Love For His Vineyard
| Answers in Genesis The Church is of no use whatever unless she produces the fruits of holiness and of gratitude to her Lord, her Divine Vinedresser. Better that she be not called a church at all than that she should pretend to be the Church of Christ, and yet produce no fruit for his praise.
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2784. “Non Nobis, Domine!”
| Answers in Genesis Sometimes, there come dark experiences, when there seems to be no reason that can suggest itself to us why God should give us deliverance, or bestow a blessing on us, except this one, — that he would be pleased to do it in order to glorify his own name.