vol. 3 contd

“‘By their fruits shall you know them,’ is an Infallible test of doctrines as well as of disciples! And if any of you have embraced any form of doctrine which hinders you from being watchful, prayerful, careful and anxious to avoid sin, you have embraced error and not the Truth of God, for all God’s building tends towards holiness, towards carefulness, towards a gracious walk to the praise and Glory of God!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2904

“None but the Spirit of God can make a man call himself a sinner and mean it. Nothing but the Irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit can ever bring a man as low as the Word of God would have him lie. If you can feel, in your soul, tonight, that your iniquity is great, that it deserves God’s wrath, displeasure and punishment—if you can pray from your very heart, ‘O Lord, pardon You my iniquity, for it is great’—I shall have hope of you that the first sparks of the Divine Light have fallen into your soul, never to be quenched, but to blaze out in the brightness of salvation forever!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2988

“To preach to sinners a salvation which they cannot obtain would be to tantalize them. We do not so, but to every person in this Tabernacle tonight and to everyone anywhere else whom this message may reach, we have to say this, ‘If you will confess your sins to God and then put your trust in Jesus Christ, His Son, you shall be saved—even you, whoever you are, and whatever sins you may have committed!’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3069

“O you who profess to serve the Lord, mind that you serve Him faithfully, for it is ‘the living God’ whom you serve, the God who is not to be mocked with hypocritical service! O you who know that you are not reconciled to Him, remember that it is to ‘the living God’ that you are not reconciled! And recollect that solemn and true declaration, ‘It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.’ And that other, ‘Our God is a consuming fire.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2964
“Some say, ‘If the people want to hear the Gospel, let them go to church or chapel—they can always hear the Gospel when they like.’ That is not Christ’s way! We are to go and seek them! Open-air preaching is a blessed institution and though you may block up a thoroughfare sometimes, it is better to do that than that the thoroughfare to Hell should be crowded!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3050

“O dear Friends, all this is contrary to the spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! There is far more power with God in the humble acknowledgment of sinfulness than in a boastful claim of cleanliness—much more power in pleading that Grace will forgive than in asking that Justice should reward—when we plead our emptiness and sin, we plead the truth—but when we talk about our goodness and meritorious doings, we plead a lie! And lies can never have any power in the Presence of the God of Truth.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2978
“There is a wide difference between physical force and spiritual force. God does not save an unwilling man, but He makes him willing in the day of His power.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2880

“The aim, end, and objective of God in salvation is to glorify His own character! Therefore, if His choice may be said to be guided by any principles which we can at all understand, that choice would be guided to select those who would the most magnify His Grace and glorify His own name. Well now, if God would do that great work of pardoning sin in such a way as to glorify His own name, the most fitting persons to be saved are the biggest sinners!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2988

“You can be sure of this, though the devil may come out against you and assail you in fashion which shall utterly stagger you, God has not forgotten you! Jesus has gone up on high and He is pleading for you that in this, your time of utmost weakness and need, the Grace of God shall be sufficient for you and make a way of escape for you out of all your troubles and temptations!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3003

“The idolatrous church of Rome calls itself the only true church, outside which none can find salvation, but although the church in Rome was once a bright and glorious church, God forsook it and for many a day it has been the very center of apostasy and abomination!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3051

“Some of you have been to everybody else for salvation except to the Lord Jesus Christ. You have been to Rome and you have been to Oxford, and you have been to self and I hardly know where you have not been! Yet, notwithstanding that, you may come to Christ even now! He will not refuse you even now! Going to Canterbury has not saved you, but going to Calvary can. You have found no help in the city on the seven hills, but you may find immediate help on the little hill outside Jerusalem’s gate—the little mound called Calvary, where the Savior shed His precious blood for all who will put their trust in Him!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3069

“A church in agony for souls wants only to see men converted—she does not care how or by whom the work is done as long as the people are brought to Christ! Then is the Lord alone exalted.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2922

“If Christ did ask anything of you or me, if He did but ask repentance of us, unless He gave us that repentance, His salvation would be of no use to us! But He asks nothing. All He bids us do is to take Him as everything—and be nothing ourselves. So, to the empty-handed sinner, He is such a full Christ that we may well say, ‘He is like a morning without clouds.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2947

“There is not a true minister of Christ but would willingly lay himself down to die if he could thereby see multitudes saved from eternal wrath! We live for this. If we miss this, our life is a failure. What is the use of a minister unless he brings souls to God? For this we would yearn over you and draw near unto God in secret, that He would be pleased in mercy to deliver you!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3070

“Remember, Sinner, that there will never be a tear of acceptable repentance in your eyes till you have first looked to Jesus Christ!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2901
“Praising God is one of the best ways of keeping away murmuring!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3025

“There are some of you who are in trouble and probably your chief trouble arises from the fact that you will not absolutely submit to the Lord’s will. I pray that the Holy Spirit may enable you to do so, for trouble loses all its sting when the troubled one yields to God!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2893

“There is room in Christ’s heart for all who come to Him, so let many come now.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3051
“Almost saved is altogether lost! There are many in Hell who once were almost saved, but who are now altogether damned. Think of that, you who are not far from the Kingdom. It is being in the Kingdom that saves the soul, not being nearthe Kingdom.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2989

“Christians, being born-again—born from above—become as little children, otherwise they could not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. They were very great people once, but they are very little now. They thought, at one time, that they were really growing as they grew bigger in their own estimation, but now they understand that they are growing in the best fashion when they are growing smaller!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071“The seal of an American Missionary Society is an ax standing between an altar and a plow, with the motto, ‘Ready for either’—ready to work in God’s field yoked to the plow, or ready to fall beneath God’s sacrificial axe and to smoke upon God’s altar—ready, with Paul, to be offered up when the time of our departure is at hand! We have not a true idea of the rights of God over us, or even of our own condition before Him unless we feel that we are the sheep of His pasture and that He may do with us exactly as He wills.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3006

“We go down to our graves, as Esther went to her bath of spices, to be prepared for the embrace of the great King! And, in the morning of the Resurrection, this poor body of ours, all fair and lustrous, shall be reunited with our glorified spirit and we shall behold the face of the King in His beauty and be with Him forever and ever! ‘God is not the God of the dead’ and, therefore, those of whom He is the God will never die!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2964

“I tell you, though you are poor and ignorant, and perhaps can scarcely read a word in the Bible—for all that, you may be better instructed in the things of God than doctors of divinity if you go to the Holy Spirit and are taught of Him!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2990
“Oh, you can sing, even by the rivers of Babylon, if you have but faith! You may lie on your sick bed and feel great pain, yet your spirit shall not smart, but shall dance away your pain if your heart is but looking in simple confidence to Christ.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2890

“Brothers and Sisters, praise is God’s due when He takes as well as when He gives, for there is as much love in His taking as in His giving! The kindness of God is quite as great when He smites us with His rod as when He kisses us with the kisses of His mouth. If we could see everything as He sees it, we would often perceive that the kindest possible thing He can do to us is that which appears to us to be unkind.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3025

“The Gospel teaches, indeed, that when a man believes in Christ, the sin of the past is all blotted out and Christ’s righteousness is given to him so the man is not saved by what he is, nor damned for who he was, but he is ‘saved through Jesus Christ and through Jesus Christ alone.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2938

“The way of sense is to get everythingnow—the way of faith is to get everything in God’s time. The worldly man lives on the present—the Christian lives on the future.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3072
“If anyone asks, ‘How can a man have power with God?’ The answer is, ‘Not because the power is in him, but he can have power with God by reason of something that is in God.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2978
“It is the Word of God that will restore you, Backslider. I hope it will do so this very hour and that, soon, you will come to us, and say, ‘Take me into the Church again, for the Lord has restored me to fellowship with Him through His blessed Word.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2870
“I have heard it said that a sinner sucks in happiness, such as it is, with the mouth of an insect, but that a Believer drinks in bliss with the mouth of an angel—and it is so.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2879

“There are countries where there is found salt from which the pungency has completely gone. It is an altogether useless article and if there are men who ever did possess the Grace of God , and who were truly God’s people, if the Divine life could go out of them, they would be in an utterly hopeless case. Perhaps there are no powers of evil in the world greater than apostate churches—who can calculate the influence for evil that the Church of Rome exercises in the world today?”—Volume 53, Sermon #3069

“Beloved, we must not confuse the Persons of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit is not the Son of God. Jesus, the Son of God, is not the Holy Spirit. They are two distinct Persons of the one Godhead. But there is such a wonderful unity and the blessed Spirit acts so marvelously as the Vicar of Christ, that it is quite correct to say that when the Spirit comes, Jesus comes, too.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2990

“Midnight services, hunting after the poor sinners in the streets at midnight, the opening of Ragged Schools and Reformatories—all these things are the fulfilling of the word, ‘The Son of Man is come to seek that which was lost.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3050

“We must be looking for Christ to reveal the exceeding riches of His Grace and Glory—not after vanities to display the pleasure of this present evil world—or else our souls will soon lose the force and strength of piety and we shall have good reason to cry, ‘Quicken me in Your way.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3026

“Oh, that God would teach us, by His Grace, to estimate the true value of our actions, not by their outward appearance, but by the desire of our heart that prompts us to them. For if we are kept back from sin merely by motives of respectability, or because our fellows are looking upon us, we are as guilty before God as if we had actually committed the sin because our heart still goes after its filthy idols!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3006
“There is no sleep in Hell. Oh, what a blessing sleep would be if it could enter the habitation of the damned!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3072

“Self-righteousness often lies concealed far down in the heart of man—but whenever he ventures to speak it out, the very way in which he talks of it condemns him.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2932
“‘Behold,’ says the risen and glorified Jesus, ‘I stand at the door and knock.’ It is at the door of Laodicea, the door of that Church which was lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, and it is at your door, O lukewarm Christian, that Christ is now knocking!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2965
“I think there is scarcely such a day on earth to be had in Christian experience as that first day when we came to Christ and knew Him as our Savior!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2947
“How glad I am when I can receive husband and wife into the Church at the same time! And I am still more glad when there is a little train of their sons and daughters behind them all coming together to confess their faith in Christ!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3051

“I wish that Darwin’s theory might be carried out in us as Christians until, as he talks of an oyster developing into an Archbishop of Canterbury, we who at our conversion were little better than the oyster, should go on developing, developing and developing in spiritual things until we should know what John meant, who said, ‘It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He appears we shall be like He, for we shall see Him as He is.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2926

“What does a beggar ask for? The poorest beggar that I ever met never asked me, so far as I remember, for anything less than a drink of water and a bite of bread—but here is a man who does not ask God for anything so little as that—he asks for life itself! ‘Quicken me.’ The beggar has life—he only asks me for means to sustain it. But here is a poor beggar, knocking at Mercy’s door, who has to ask for life itself! And that beggar represents me—represents you—represents, I am sure, every Christian who knows himself. You may well ask, every day, for spiritual existence! It is not, ‘Enlarge me, Lord. Enrich me in heavenly things,’ but, ‘Oh, do keep me alive! Quicken me, O Lord!’”[Psalms 119:37.]—Volume 53, Sermon #3026

“The preacher’s work is only half done when he has exhorted his hearers to stand fast—he must then fall upon his knees and pray for them. And you who teach others in the Sunday school and elsewhere, must remember that whatever you exhort your scholars to do, you should always pray to God to lead them to do it.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2991

“Do but know that God gave His Son for you, dear Friend—know that Jesus Christ is yours and the logic of your prayer is clear enough, and forcible enough, when you say, ‘What can You deny me, O my Father? You have given me Your Son, so, by His blood and wounds, by His life and death, and resurrection Glory, give my spirit the Grace it needs, since You have given me Jesus Christ.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2978

“The greatest freedom of thought is to think only God’s thoughts—and the highest freedom of living is to live according to the rule of holiness in the ways of the Most High.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3072
“I venture to prophesy that within 10 years from this date, the whole of this country will be permeated by Popery. [These words spoken by Brother Spurgeon on October 16, 1866.] The advance that Romanism has made during the last 10 years is so terrible that if it continues to increase at only half that rate, my prophecy will prove to be a true one. The very name of Protestantism will die out unless God sends us a revival of Evangelical religion, for the fashion of the age is so set towards that which is gaudy, sensuous and sensational—and the whole trend of ecclesiasticism is so directly towards ceremonialism, that if we who love the old faith, do not bestir ourselves, we and our fellow countrymen will plunge into the Stygian bog of Popish superstition!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3006

“You might as well hope to be saved by the mumblings of a witch as by the doings of a priest! You might as well hope to enter Heaven by blasphemies as by a priest mumbling over certain words which he thinks to have virtue in them! God, even our God, has denounced again and again those who delight in these errors and who keep back the blood of Jesus and the power and merit of His righteousness. Do not, I pray you, any of you think that this is the way to Heaven, for it is not. ‘Jesus said unto him, I am the way.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2938

“If Christ can draw one soul to Himself, why can he not draw twenty? And if He can draw twenty, why not twenty thousand, and why not thousands of millions? Why should not we live to see many millions of souls converted to God? Let us pray to the Holy Spirit to present the irresistible attractions of Christ to the hundreds of millions in the whole human race!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3051

“Revelation 8:14—‘ And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.’ That is spiritual fornication, as we understand it in the Old Testament—man’s idolatry—the setting up of visi
ble objects of worship instead of the invisible God. And what is there, in all the world, that is so idolatrous as the so-called ‘religion’ of Rome?
She multiplies her idol gods to great excess—her crosses and her crucifixes, her saints and her “sacraments” and her relic—her ‘old cast clouts’and her ‘old rotten rags.’ The Papacy is the most pagan of all the paganisms that have ever existed on the face of the earth—but it is to come to an end, for the mouth of the Lord has said so.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2910

“Growing Christians reckon themselves to be nothing, but full-grown Christians count themselves less than nothing! And when we feel ourselves to be ‘less than the least of all saints,’ then we are indeed making good progress in the Divine Life. To grow less and less in your own esteem is the right kind of growth. Naturally, we grow up from childhood to manhood but, spiritually, we grow down from manhood to childhood—yet it is not really growing down, but growing up as we increase in humility.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071

“I heard of a converted wife who despaired of her husband’s salvation, but she used to be always very kind to him. She said, ‘I am afraid he will never be converted.’ But whatever he wished for, she always got for him, and she would do anything for him, ‘for,’ she said, ‘I fear that this is the only world in which he will be happy and, therefore, I have made up my mind to make him as happy as I can in it.’ But you, Christians, must seek your delights in a higher sphere because you cannot be happy in the insipid frivolities of the world, or in the sinful enjoyments of it!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3026

“Remember, Believer, that the Lord loved you long before the foundation of the world. You are so insignificant in the scale of being that if He had quite forgotten you, you might not have wondered. And yet, before the mountains were created, or He had kindled the morning star, in the glass of His decrees He beheld you and even then He loved you… Dwell on that wondrous Truth of God, that God has loved you with an everlasting love. Suck the honey of consolation out of that glorious fact! Surely if your faith is at all in exercise, you will find much sacred sweetness there.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2991

“Be it remembered that even the work of the Holy Spirit, if it is depended upon as a ground of acceptance with God, become as much an antichrist as though it were not the work of the Holy Spirit at all! Dare we so blaspheme the Holy Spirit as to make His work in us a rival to the Savior’s work for us? Shame on us that we should thus doubly sin!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3007

“The great and mighty angels were passed by and we, who are but worms of the dust, were looked upon with eyes of favor and love! And Satan, knowing this, and being jealous of the love which lights upon men, cannot endure the Presence of Christ.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2966

“Dear Soul, if you have begun to find out that even in the Christian Church there are many opinions concerning many things, do not trouble yourself about those things. This is enough for you—Your faith has saved you; go in peace. There may be some who are galled to contend for this or that point of the faith but, as for you, poor child, if, with your broken heart, you have found the Savior, and if you love Him with an inward, warm and hearty love, do not spoil that love by getting into a controversial spirit—‘Your faith has saved you; go in peace.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2876

“The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! ‘You are the light of the world.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3069

“Man, how dare you say that there is no hope for you? If the iron gates of Hell were shut upon you and God had hurled the key of the Pit into the infinite abyss, thenyou might say that there was no hope for you. But as long as there trembles in the air that blessed invitation of Christ, ‘Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,’ it is only a lying voice that tells you that there is no hope for you!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3027

“Has He [God] given you a promise and shall He not fulfill it? Yes, and fulfill it again, and again, and again, as long as you shall need to have it fulfilled, for His promises are inexhaustible and full of manifold riches of blessedness to the believing soul!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2991
“It is possible for even a good man to fail one who trusts him, but it is quite impossible for God to fail the soul that has relied upon Him.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2978
“I am persuaded that the man who loves Christ best is just the man who is most discontented with his own love. When a man lives wholly for Christ, he is the very man who still looks for something yet beyond and desires to serve Christ still more.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2919

“God forbid that I should say anything in praise of ignorance! Yet I think that I might, in spiritual things, give it greater praise than I could give to ‘philosophy’ or ‘science’ falsely so-called. Happy and wise were the shepherds to whom the angels came and sang and spoke concerning the birth of Jesus, for in their simplicity, they went straight away to Bethlehem and found the newborn King! But the wise men (happy, too, for a star came to guide them), in their very wisdom seemed to make mistakes, for they went to Jerusalem and enquired, ‘Where is He that is born King of the Jews?’ and so, for a time, they lost their way—and caused Herod to seek the life of the Holy Child Jesus!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071“Yes, the name of Jesus has wondrous power over all the hosts of Hell! So, Brothers and Sisters, let us not be discomfited nor dismayed by all the armies of Satan, but let us with holy courage contend against all the powers of evil, for we shall be more than conquerors over them through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2966 “There is no cure for the love of sin like the blood of Christ!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2887

“It spoils a man for satisfaction with this world to have had heart-ravishing dealings with the world to come. I mean not that it spoils him for practical activity in it, for the heavenly life is the truest life even for earth, but it spoils him for the sinful pleasures of this world—it prevents his feeding his soul upon anything but the Lord Jesus Christ’s sweet love.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3007
“I pray God that those professors who do nothing for Him may be miserable! ‘That is a very unkind prayer,’ say some of you. No, it is not, for it is meant for your good. See, if you get to be happy in your idleness, you will stay in that sinful state. But if you are unhappy while you are doing nothing for the Master, I think you will be the more likely to say to Him, ‘Lord, what will You have me to do?’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3027

“If you are not on the side of Christ you are on the side of His enemies, for this is a fight which admits of no neutrality. And if you cannot feel that you would, like Stephen, defend the cause of Christ, then I fear you only lack the opportunity and the circumstances, if not to stone Stephen, yet, at least, to let those who do the dreadful deed lay their clothes at your feet!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2948

“Even when the Believer sins, the Holy Spirit does not utterly depart from him, but is still in him to make him smart for the sin into which he has fallen. The Believer’s prayers prove that the Holy Spirit is still within him. ‘Take not your Holy Spirit from me,’ was the prayer of a saint who had fallen very foully, but in whom the Spirit of God still kept His residence, notwithstanding all the foulness of David’s guilt and sin.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2990

“I pity the poor creatures who believe in popish miracles, but I have now learned to think that those who can believe in such frauds are not half such idiots as the men who try to teach us that inanimate matter has fashioned itself into those marvelously beautiful shapes in which we see it all over this wondrous world which God created ‘in the beginning.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071

“You say that you have done nothing wrong and that you are right. But suppose that tomorrow you were to be called to stand at God’s Judgment Bar—would you feel comfortable at the prospect? ‘Oh, no!’ you say. I felt sure that must be your answer. Indeed, all the religions in the world that teach the doctrine of salvation by worksare at least honest enough not to pretend to ensure for any man present salvation!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2932

“Brothers and Sisters, often, to will is present with us, but how to perform that which we would, we find not! The understanding is convinced and that leads the van. Firm affections are awakened and they follow after. But there is a weaker passion which would, if it dared, consent to sin—and that is this flesh of ours in which there dwells no good thing! It is this dangerous rear, this weakest part of our nature, which we have most cause to dread.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3028

“I was preaching in Bedford, and I prayed that God would bless the sermon and give me at least some few souls that afternoon. When I had done, there was an old Wesleyan brother there who gave me a good scolding, which I richly deserved. He said to me, ‘I did not say, ‘Amen,’ when you were asking for a few souls to be converted, for I thought you were limiting the Holy One of Israel! Why did you not pray with all your heart for all of them to be saved. ‘I did,’ he added, ‘and that was why I did not say, ‘Amen,’ to your narrow prayer.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2978

“I look upon Samson’s case as a great wonder, put in Scripture for the encouragement of great sinners. If such a man as Samson, nevertheless, prevails by faith to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, so shall you and I!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3009

“David further says, concerning his iniquities, ‘They are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.’ Well, when our heart fails us, let us recollect the mercy which has helped us so long—and let us cast ourselves again upon that mercy for all that lies before us.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2916

“It is really scandalous when nurses and others tell little children idle tales and foolish stories which the children believe to be true. We should be very careful and jealous concerning the faith which a little child has in its elders and never do or say anything to weaken their belief.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071

“I am glad to hear that crowds are going to listen to the Gospel preached and sung by our two American Brothers, Moody and Sankey. God grant that in their services, there may not be merely the excitement of multitudes gathering together, but the power of the Spirit of God working upon the hearts and consciences of the hearers, for where that is felt, there is sure to be a stir in the city!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2939 “Christ came into the world to preach the Gospel, but He came on a greater errand than that, namely, to provide a Gospel that could be preached—and He knew that the time was approaching when He must provide that Gospel by dying upon the Cross.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2874

“I see before me many, very many veterans. Your gray hairs tell of your nearness to Heaven. I trust your locks are whitened with the sunlight of Glory! Oh, be not afraid! You shall find it a blessed thing to sleep in Jesus—and even as you go to that last bed, you shall not tremble, for He shall be so manifestly with you that you shall not be afraid!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3028

“Do you not see, dear Friends, that there is not only all you can need, but all you think you can need wrapped up in a sentence, ‘I will come to you’? ‘It pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell,’ so that when Christ comes, in Him ‘all fullness’ comes! ‘In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,’ so that when Jesus comes, the very Godhead comes to the Believer!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2990

“I wish I could depict…between unconverted persons and Christians, for there is a contrast between them, a contrast which will come to this one day—there will be a great gulf fixed between them, across which there will be no passage. At the Last Great Day, the righteous shall be upon the right hand of the Judge and the wicked on His left hand and Christ, Himself, shall stand between them, so that the division shall last as long as Christ Himself shall live!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2948

“We die, but it is not any longer as a punishment. It is the fruit of sin, but it is not the curseof sin that makes the Believer die. To other men, death is a curse—to the Believer, I may almost put it among his Covenant blessings, for to sleep in Jesus Christ is one of the greatest mercies that the Lord can give to His believing people!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3009

“‘Know you not that we shall judge angels?’ And then the devil shall receive his final sentence and be forever banished to Hell! There he will be bound, no more to wander… no more to dress out his antichrists and to work with his puppets, the Pope of Rome and the false prophet, Mohammed—no longer able to beguile the multitude and lead them astray—no longer able to go through Christ’s fields by night and to sow his tares in the midst of the good wheat—but kept in prison, forever bound in chains, to continue as an eternal and awful evidence of the wrath of God against transgression!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2966

“In the crusade against the powers of darkness, with the salvation of sinners for my one undivided aim, little care I for anything but the lifting up of my Master’s Gospel and the proclamation of the Word of mercy through His flowing blood!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2979

“A hope that is founded upon a lie is a vain hope, but a hope that is founded upon a promise of God is a good hope. It is a good hope because it is a hope of good things—so good, my dear Friend, that you cannot find anything to match them in the whole world. It may well be called a good hope, for it is the hope of perfection, the hope of being transformed into the image of Christ, the hope of everlasting delight.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2991

“Looking at the history of the whole Church, it is cheering to us to see that God has never sustained a defeat. And when His army seems to have been repulsed for a time, it has only been drawn back to take a more wondrous leap to a yet greater victory!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3028

“Do you not know that the higher you rise, even in the Church of Christ, the more responsibility you have and the heavier burdens you have to carry? Do you not also know that the way to be really great is to be little—and that he who is greatest of all is the one who has learned to be least of all? He who is chief in the Church of Christ is he who serves the Church most and who is willing to go lowest for Christ’s sake! Cultivate that kind of greatness as much as you like, but put aside the other, and be not of ambitious mind even in your Lord’s service!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2871

“Beware of a mere ancestral religion which may be of no more value than the ancestral religion of the Chinese! Do not suppose that you are personally right in the sight of God because you have had a godly mother and father, or godly grandparents? Christ’s message to all who have not been regenerated by the Holy Spirit is, ‘You must be born-again.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #3008

“Christ not only comes to those who seek Him, but, in the splendor of His Grace, He is often found of them that sought Him not! Yes, those who cried, ‘Let us alone,’ are not let alone, for Grace brings them beneath her blessed sway.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2892

“When Christ is preached, there is a defiance given to the enemies of the Lord. Every time a sermon is preached in the power of the Spirit, it is as though the shrill clarion woke up the fiends of Hell for such a sermon to say to them, “Christ is come forth again to deliver His lawful captives out of your power! The King of kings has come to take away your dominions, to wrest from you your stolen treasures, and to proclaim Himself your Master.””—Volume 52, Sermon #2979

“Brothers and Sisters, the way to maintain fellowship with Christ is very simple. If you desire to retain in your mouth all day the flavor of the“wines on the lees well refined,” take care that you drink deeply of them by morning devotion.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3046 “No Christian is ever safe when his soul is so slothful or drowsy that it needs quickening. Of course you do not understand me to mean that his soul is in danger of being lost. Every Christian is always safe as to the great matter of his standing in Christ, but he is not safe as regards to his standing and happiness in this life. Satan does not often attack a Christian who is living near to God—at least, I think not. It is when the Christian gets away from God and gets half-starved and begins to feed on vanities, that the devil says, ‘Now I will have him!’—Volume 53, Sermon #3026

“If the mind of Christ is in His people, it will make them so far superior to other men that it must be inferred that some superior energy is in them and that superior energy is none other than the love of Christ.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2872

“It is one of the characteristics of the Doctrines of the Gospel that the older a man gets, the more he loves them. I always find that the older saints become more Calvinistic as they ripen in age—that is to say, they get to believe more and more that salvation is all of Grace. And whereas at first they might have had some rather loose idea concerning free will and the power of the creature, the lapse of years and fuller experiences gradually blow all that kind of chaff away.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2991

“…remember that all those who have continued in a state of nature have, without exception, perished. Not one, however high in station, however excellent in morality, however profound in learning, however lofty in fame has ever been able to pass the threshold of Heaven except through the blood and merit of the Lord Jesus Christ!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2894

“In this present age idol temples are being set up almost everywhere by our Ritualistic clergy! And a form of idolatry that is on a par with the fetishism of ignorant Africans has come back to this land, for they make a god out of a bit of bread. And after worshipping their idol, eat it up—a process which can only be fitly described in such sarcasm as Elijah would have poured upon it if he could have stood in the midst of these modem priests of Baal as he stood among their prototype of old!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071

“Some of us sat, this morning, at the close of the public service, around our Master’s Communion Table, where we broke bread in His name, as is our custom on the first day of the week, [1867] but, my fellow communicant, ‘Do you believe in the Son of God?’”—Volume 52, Sermon #3008

“As the poor widow’s two mites drop into the treasury of the Lord, He receives her gift with as sweet a smile as that which He accorded to the lavish gifts of David and Solomon. In His Church, Christ teaches us that if we have more than others, we simply hold it in trust for those who have less than we have—and I believe that some of the Lord’s children are poor in order that there may be an opportunity for their fellow Christians to minister to them out of their abundance.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2888

“That true man of God, Dr. Hawker—I am told by a friend of mine who visited him one morning—was asked to go and see a military review that was then taking place at Plymouth. The doctor said, ‘No.’ My friend pressed him and said, I know you are a loyal subject and you like to see your country’s fleets—it is a noble spectacle.’ The doctor said, no, he could not go and, being pressed until he was ashamed, he made this remarkable answer, ‘There are times when I could go and enjoy it, but my eyes have seen the King in His beauty this morning, and I have had so sweet a sense of fellowship with the Lord Jesus that I dare not go to look upon any spectacle lest I should lose the present enjoyment which now engrosses my soul.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3026

“I sometimes hear people say, as an excuse for professors going to doubtful places of amusement, ‘You know, they must have some recreation.’ Yes, I know, but the re-creation which the Christian experienced when he was born-again has so completely made all things new to him, that the vile rubbish called recreation by the world is so dull to him that he might as well try to fill himself with fog as to satisfy his soul with such utter vanity! No, the Christian finds happiness in Christ Jesus—and when he needs pleasure, he does not depart from Jesus.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3046

“I have known some people who have wished for trouble—it is a great pity that anybody should be so foolish as that. I remember one who used to think that he was not a child of God because he had not had much trouble. He used to fret all day long because he had nothing really to make him fret!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2912

“Make no idol of your child, or your wife, or your husband, for by putting them into Christ’s place, you really provoke Him to take them from you! Love them as much as you please—I would that some loved their children, their husbands, or their wives more than they do—but always love them in such a fashion that Christ shall have the first place in your hearts.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071

“If you want to defy the devil, don’t go about preaching philosophy! Don’t sit down and write out fine sermons with long sentences, three quarters of a mile in length! Don’t try and cull fine, smooth phrases that will sound sweetly in people’s ears. The devil doesn’t care a bit for this! But talk about Christ! Preach about the suffering of the Savior! Tell sinners that there is life in a look at Him and straightway the devil takes great offense.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2979
“We have a proverb which reminds us that, ‘Rome was not built in a day,’ and we cannot always expect the new Jerusalem to be built in men’s hearts in a single hour!. There are some who are struck down at once, as Saul was afterwards, but there are others, against whose strong fortress the battering ram of the Truth of God must come with all its might year after year—and it is only when God strikes the effectual blow of Divine Grace that, at last, they yield, subdued by Almighty Love!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2948

“A man may be and I think sometimes will be in doubt as to whether he really believes in Jesus, but chronic doubt is a sin that is not to be tolerated. Constant questioning as to whether you are saved, or not, is an unhealthy state for any of you to be in. You cantell and you oughtto tell whether you believe in Christ, or whether you do not believe in Him.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3008

“Some of you ought to thank God that He does not let you have a very easy or merry time. He does not let you settle on your lees, but keeps on emptying you from vessel to vessel. The reason for this is that He has designs of love for you and He means that you never should rest till you rest in Him.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2966

“What does the Gospel ask of us? It certainly asks nothing of us but what it gives to us. It never asks of any man a sum of money in order that he may redeem his soul with gold. The poorest are as heartily welcomed by Christ as the richest! And the beggar who could count all his money on his fingers is as gladly received as the millionaire who has his stocks and his shares, his lands and his ships! Poor men are bid to come to Jesus ‘without money and without price.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3029

“I have some sort of respect for a downright honest infidel, like Voltaire or Tom Paine, but I have none for the man who goes to college to be trained for the Christian ministry and then claims to be free to doubt the Deity of Christ, the need of conversion, the punishment of the wicked and other Truths of God that seem to me to be essential to a full proclamation of the Gospel of Christ.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071

“Old saints get what is called ‘a sweet tooth.’ They love the sweet things of the Covenant. They like their meat to have a rich savor. I am not old yet, but I confess that I get more and more fond of the sweet things of the Gospel of Grace and cannot endure the novelties that are so current and so exceedingly popular nowadays. Oh, no! Tell me of my Father’s eternal love, tell me of my Savior’s precious blood, tell me of the Spirit’s sacred indwelling and my heart is glad! But tell me anything short of this and my soul is not fed.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2991

“The message we have to deliver to you is not this—‘ere is Christ and you may have Him or leave Him, as you please—and it is left to your own choice which you will do.’ No! But it is this—‘In the name of God we command you to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and it will be at your peril that you will reject Him, for He is soon to came to be your Judge. And if you reject Him as your Savior, He will certainly destroy you in that day.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2939

“We, as Baptists, have no objection to your bringing everything that is taught to the test of the Bible, for we know that we would be the gainers if you were to do that. But instead of using the plumb line of the Bible, many people have a newly-invented test—the Book of Common Prayer, or Minutes of the Conference, or something else equally valueless! Now, whatever respect I have for books of that sort, I prize my Bible infinitely above them all and above all the volumes of decrees of popes, councils and conferences put together!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2904

“Possibly you have not succeeded with God because you have not sunk low enough before Him. You unconverted ones, especially, if you put your mouths in the very dust, that will be the best attitude for you to assume. If you still have some relics of strength, you will not receive Divine Strength. If there are some remnants of the pristine idea of human merit tolerated in your heart, the robe of Christ’s righteousness will not be wrapped around you!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3010

“The Believer has received Christ into his trust, and this he did at his spiritual birth. He received Christ into the arms of his faith. He took Jesus Christ to be, henceforth, the unbuttressed pillar of his confidence, the one Rock of his salvation, his strong castle and high tower. And, in this sense, every soul that is saved has ‘received Christ Jesus the Lord.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3030

“Many of us are about to gather around the Communion Table to celebrate the death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This ordinance should help us to keep ourselves from idols, for if there is any place where idols disappear, it is at the foot of the Cross!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071

“Believers ought not to be solitary stones, lying by themselves—they should be built up into “a holy temple in the Lord, built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.” So, dear Friends, if you are on “the Lords side,” admit it and join with those who also are on that side.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2884

“You cannot see God till your heart is changed, till your nature is renewed, till your actions, in the tenor of them, shall become such as God would have them to be.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2902

“Fear is often the mother of courage. To fear God makes a man brave. To fear man is cowardly, I grant, but to fear God with humble awe and holy reverence is such a noble passion that I would we were more and more full thereof, blending, as it were, the fear of Isaac with the faith of Abraham! To fear God will make the weakest of us play the man, and the most cowardly of us become heroes for the Lord our God!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2979

“The heart’s belief is to be so potent and energetic a thing that it constrains us to confess openly what we have received inwardly—no confession is worth anything unless it is the outcome of the Grace by which we have received the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011

“Sometimes an attack of this kind is made upon us—‘It is no use trying to teach the Gospel to children. We cannot suppose that they can understand its deep mysteries.’ I heard that said only the other day. Well, I can say that we have tried it and we have found that whether you choose to call them great mysteries or not, children do understand the Gospel and seem, sometimes, to comprehend it better than their fathers do just because they are so childlike! This qualification for entering the Kingdom of Heaven is not fully-developed manhood, but rather that we should become as little children. And unless we do become childlike, we cannot enter the Kingdom.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2991

“Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2932
“Beloved, here is a test for us—is our religion a receiving religion, or is it a working and an earning religion? An earning religion sends souls to Hell. It is only a receivingreligion that will take you to Heaven.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3030

“I am not a believer in that Apostolic succession which is supposed to come by the laying of human hands upon human heads, but I believe that there has always been, in the Church of God, a succession of faithful men so that, when one has died, another has been called to take his place. And I believe that it will always be so until Christ Himself shall come.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2948

“Many people seem to think that it is a very sorrowful thing to be a Christian, that believers in Christ are a miserable, unhappy lot of folk who never enjoy themselves. Well, I must admit that I do know some little communities of people who reckon themselves the very pick of Christians and who meet together on a Sunday to have a comfortable groan together, but I do not think that the bulk of us, who worship in this place, could be truthfully charged with anything like that! We serve a happy God and we believe in a joyous Gospel, and the love of Christ in our hearts has made us anticipate many of the joys of Heaven even while we are here on earth!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2966

“Faith is, in one sense, the gift of God, but, in another sense, it is a mental act for which we are responsible. God gives us faith, but He does not believe for us. He does not give us faith as we give our children bread, but He, by the gracious operation of His Holy Spirit, makes us willing in the day of His power—and then we will to believe in Jesus and we do believe in Him.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3008

“No matter how excellent your reasoning may seem to be, and how clear it may be to the eyes of the flesh, it is always pride to doubt God! And to believe God, though, to the carnal mind which can never understand the bravery of faith, it may look like presumption, is always a badge of the truest and most reverent humility.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3030

“It is also the good news of pardon that inclines the heart to prayer. You would never have heard of a man praying for mercy if there had been no mercy to be obtained! If Jesus had never died and the Gospel had never been sent into the world—if there had been no proclamation of pardon, it would never have been said of Saul of Tarsus, “Behold, he prays.” No, prayer arises in the soul as a result of the telling of the glad tidings that pardon is to be had. And prayer, like faith and repentance, is a large part of “the fear of the Lord.” The man who truly prays is certainly one who fears God.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2882

“You need not bring anything with you when you come to Christ, only come and trust Him, and all your needs shall be supplied. Whatever your souls can need to bear them safely through the troubles of earth—and bring them to the bliss of Heaven—you shall have it freely given to you if you do but come flying with the wings of faith to find a house and a home in Jesus Christ.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3041

“It is a blessed thing to be such a fool that you do not know anyone to trust in except your God. It is a sweet thing to be so weaned from your wisdom that you fall into the arms of God.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2979
“Obedience to God is a flower that never grew on nature’s dunghill! It grows only where the Spirit of God has tilled the soil and planted the root from which it springs.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3008

“You have most effectually cut the throat of all your hopes of ever being saved by the Law of God! O Man, why do you try to do this when Christ has kept the Law for all who trust Him? Do you think that Christ would have come all the way from Heaven to keep the Law for you if you could keep it for yourself? If you could be your own Savior, what need was there for Him to be stretched upon the Cross and to bleed, and agonize, and die?”—Volume 52, Sermon #2992
“There is one who asks, ‘Who is this?’ who is really seeking the Savior, but cannot find Him. You say that you have been praying a long time, but have not yet found peace? Do you not know that this is not the way to find peace? The way to obtain peace with God is not by praying, but by believing.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2939

“Do you know a man who keeps his wheat year after year and never puts it through the mill? Let me tell you that my God puts all His wheat through the mill—and you must all go between the big stones and you must have your crushing! You will never come out fit to be offered unto the Lord unless you have been between the stones—there must be ‘the trial of your faith.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2967

“The Gospel invitation rings through this building every Sabbath day— ‘Come and welcome, come to Jesus, Sinner, come!’ We not only invite you, but we earnestly press you, in Christ’s name, to come and put your trust in His great Sacrifice, assuring you that, if you do, you shall find an everlasting and blessed home for your souls.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3041

“The most powerful enemy of the Church can do nothing without God’s permission!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2893

“There is, by nature, nothing in man to win the heart of Christ. What form, what comeliness is there in human nature in His sight? Shall blackness win the heart of Him who is without blemish and without spot? Shall loathsome leprosy be attractive to the Divine Being? Shall deformity so charm the eyes of Jehovah that He shall love it? It cannot be! The onlyreason for God’s love to us is that He will love us. From that fountain of His own dateless love springs our effectual calling and everything else that comes to us!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2880

“Neither does the Lord ask of us any severe penances and punishments in order to make us acceptable to Him. He does not require you to put your bodies to torture, or to pass through a long series of outward and visible mortification of the flesh. You may trust Christ while you are sitting in your pew—and if you do so, you shall be at once forgiven and accepted!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3029

“Some men wear their religion as men wear their hats—where it can be snatched by a thief, or be blown away by the winds of temptation, or be laid aside to suit their own convenience when they get into the devil’s drawing room. But the true Christian carries his religion in his heart. And as his heart is always safe in the very center of his being, so is his religion.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2992

“The nearer you get to perfection, the more horrified you feel because of the sin that still remains in you! And the more horror you feel at your sin, the more intense will be your gratitude to the bleeding Savior who has put that sin away. And, in consequence, the more intense will be your love to Him.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2873 “The result of faith and confession is salvation.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011

“The most profound astronomer admires the Sun of Righteousness! The best-taught geologist has no quarrel with the Rock of Ages! The greatest mathematician marvels at Him who is the sum total of the universe! He who knows the most of the physical, if he knows aright, loves the spiritual and reverences God in Christ Jesus! To imagine that to be wise one needs forsake the Incarnate Wisdom is insanity! No, to reach the highest degree of attainment in true learning, there is no reason for departing from Christ.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3046

“The grandeur of the Atonement of Christ is a proof that its objective was the removal of sin, however great that sin may be! The Son of God is Himself the Savior of sinners! There must, therefore, be a colossal greatness about sin to need the Son of Godto remove it, and to need that the Son of God shoulddiebefore the more than Herculean labor of putting sin away could be performed. But, having put away sin by the Sacrifice of Himself, He is now able to save even the greatest of sinners.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980

“I always court the trials if they are sent by a Brother in friendliness of spirit. It is only the bitterness with which they come that sometimes makes my blood boil about it. But I must look to the God that sends it and not to the man who may happen to be the second cause! Whether as individuals, or as a Church, or as a denomination, we shall have to say at last, ‘O Lord, Youhave, tested us. Blessed be Your name that You have!’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2967

“The saints in Jerusalem did not know where Stephen’s successor was, but God saw him among Stephen’s enemies and He brought him out and Saul was a mightier Apostle than Stephen could ever have been! The Church lost Stephen, but she gained Saul—and that was a very good exchange for, though nothing may be said that would be derogatory to such a high-souled man as Stephen was, yet the Church of Christ has never had a servant who, taking him for all in all, has been so useful to her as the famous Apostle Paul who was once that young man named Saul!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2948

“Do not delude yourself with the idea that there is a great deal for you to doand to feelin order to fit yourself for coming to Christ. All such fitness is nothing but unfitness! All that you can do to make yourself ready for Christ to save you is to make yourself more unready! The fitness for washing is to be filthy—the fitness for being relieved is to be poor and needy. The fitness for being healed is to be sick and the fitness for being pardoned is to be a sinner! If you are a sinner—and I guarantee you that you are—here is the Inspired Apostolic declaration, ‘This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3029

“A great many people go to the Bible to find texts in it to endorse a system of divinity which they have already embraced. That is not honoring God. The right course is to get your system of divinity out of the Bible under the unerring teaching of the Holy Spirit.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2906

“When you go home tonight, eat your supper and go to bed to the glory of God. And when you get up in the morning, do not think about what you are going to do at night. Do what comes to you when you begin the day’s work and keep right straight on. If you can see a step at a time, that is about as far as you need to see. Do not begin prying into the future, but just go straight on from day to day, depending on God for the mercy and Grace and strength of the day. That is the way to live and I am persuaded that is the way to die!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2916

“God knows that I would sooner break stones on the road than be a minister if it were not for the hope of winning souls! I know of no life that has more trouble in it. I know of no occupation that brings more awful despondency of spirit upon a man’s mind than my ministry brings upon me. So, if God does not enable me to win souls by it, I pray Him to deliver me from it!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2894

“There are no slaves like those who serve their enemies and those are the greatest slaves who are slaves to their own soul-destroying lusts.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2992
“There is nothing standing between you and the pardon of your sins but your unbelief—and if you will but shake that off, you shall march triumphantly through the gate of Glory.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3009

“If a thing is not right—if it is not right all round, it is sin, you can be sure of that. I heard the other day of a man who was said to be a splendid Christian God-wards, but a wretched creature man-wards. But there cannot be such a monstrosity as that. Such a man as that was not a Christian at all. Our righteousness, if it is real and true, must be an all-round righteousness towards men as well as towards God!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3071

“I believe there are many Truths in Scripture that are just like two pictures on a stereoscopic slide—they are really one—only you and I have not the stereoscope! When we get to Heaven, we shall get a stereoscope and then they will appear to be one. And we shall see that conflicting Truths of God, such as free-agency and Divine Sovereignty, were only different views, after all, of the same Truth taken from a little different angle. And we shall see how God gave us both the Truths and how foolish we were to go against them.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2967

“Hear this Gospel, Sinner! You have no good works and you will never have any until you repent of sin and trust the Lord Jesus Christ! If you try to have any, they will all break down because the motive at the back of those supposed good works will be this—you will do them in the hope of thereby saving yourself. What is that but sheer selfishness—dead selfishness, which cannot be acceptable with God?”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980

“I see an old gentleman, over there in Rome, with a triple crown on his head. We do not want him, for “Christ is All.” He says that he is the vicegerent of God. That is not true, but if it were, it would not matter, for “Christ is All,” so we can do without the Pope!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2888

“There is not one Heaven for the great sinners and another for the little ones—but there is the same Heaven for those who have been the greatest sinners, but who have repented and trusted in Jesus, as there is for those who have been kept from running into the same excess of riot. Let us admire the wondrous tenderness of Divine Grace in its dealings with the very chief of sinners!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3029

“All the flowers in God’s spiritual garden bloom double. There never was any mercy of His which had not many other mercies wrapped up in it. Every one of them contains far more blessing than we thought it did.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2883

“Do I speak to any Ritualist who finds himself awkwardly situated here? Do I speak to any Romanist who has entered into a place where not the works of the law, but the righteousness of Christ is preached? Let me remind you again, very solemnly, my Hearer, that those fine hopes of yours built upon the maneuvers of the priests and upon your own performances shall utterly fail you in that day when most you shall need them! Your soul shall then stand in shivering nakedness when you most need to be well equipped before the eyes of God. These men know not true holiness!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2902

“It is ours to do what Jesus bids us, just as He bids us and because He bids us, for His command is our authority!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2939 “Surely we may praise and bless the Lord whenever we see His Law written upon a human heart because it is God’s Law, because it is God who wrote it and because it is the Spirit of God who is the Agent, through the Word, by whom that writing is put there! Let us join in hearty thanksgiving to Father, Son and Spirit, the Covenant-keeping God who writes His Law in our hearts.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2992

“As the volcano is but the index of a mighty seething ocean of devouring flame within the heart of the earth, so any one sin is only a token of far greater sinfulness that seethes and boils within the cauldron of our nature! ‘Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #3009

“Another blessed sharpener of our sense of sin is a consciousness of sin’s tendency—knowing what sin really is and what it would do if it could have its way without those blessed checks which Omnipotence put upon it. What would sin do if it could? What didit do when God gave it liberty? It took God Himself and accused Him, brought Him before its bar and there the sinner dared to sit and judge his God—yes, and to condemn his God and even to slay his God!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2873

“Would those in my congregation be saved? They must all be saved by one way! Do they object to Christ as the plan of salvation? Then they must be damned, for there is no other hope for them! Do they think this too hard? Do they think the revealed plan of salvation too humbling? Then they must sink, even as the sons of Adam sank beneath the mighty flood and all flesh was utterly consumed by the overwhelming billows. There is but one way!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3042

“Most people like those things in which there are plenty of great armies. But there arechosen men who always stand where there is nothing to rest upon but the bare arm of God. This seems to be the test of the Christian when he can dare to say, ‘This is the field of usefulness which God has put in my way. Though my strength is not sufficient, I have faith. Here I am, and I will do it.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2967

“The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ…Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3030

“Sirs, if you will only trust the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall receive the immediate pardon of your sin and with that pardon will come heartfelt gratitude to Him who gives you the pardon! And with that gratitude will come intense hatred of everything that He hates, and fervent love of everything that He loves. And then you will do good work! But from what motive? Why, out of gratitude to Him—and not being the result of selfishness, they will really be good works, for they will be done with the view of pleasing God—not as a means of getting something for yourself.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980

“I know this, if the Lord had not first loved me, I never would have loved Him. And if there is any good thing in men whatever, it must have been implanted there by the Holy Spirit. If salvation is of works, then I can never have it—and if it is the reward of natural goodness, then I shall never have it. I feel that it must be of Grace, and of Grace alone.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2948

“Sin in a Christian is quite as much sin as it is in anybody else! Indeed, it is a great deal more sinful, for never does a black stain seem so black as when it falls on spotlessly white linen—and never is sin as sinful as when it is committed by one who is greatly loved by the Lord and is the subject of peculiar favor.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2933

“You would not teach your children, I suppose, to say their prayers backwards and begin at, “Amen.” And you are beginning at the wrong end when you want, first of all, to know your election instead of commencing with repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2920”

“Never let us doubt the universal benevolence of God. Let us hold it as a fundamental Doctrine that ‘the Lord is good to all; and His tender mercies are over all His works.’ And let us firmly believe that if any man shall be consigned to carnal misery, it will be because it is just that he should so suffer and he has brought his terrible doom upon his own head, for, as the Apostle Peter tells us, God is ‘not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.’ Yet, we must never forget that inside this universal love there is a private, secret, distinguishing, discriminating love which is set only upon those whom God chose, before the foundation of the world, to be His own peculiar people.—Volume 52, Sermon #3012

“If God were now to give to any man all the blessings that He means to bestow upon him in a few years’ time, it would ruin him!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2879

“Do not think, Beloved, because we preach election, that we preach the election of a few? I find that this is a common mistake. Someone will say to me, ‘I don’t like your Calvinism, Sir, because it says that there are a few elected and that nobody else will be saved.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3042
“The Law of God is perfect! Let us say nothing against it. But it is not so glorious as the Law which Christ has brought in and which He exhibited in His own Person. The glory of the Law was great, but the glory of Christ’s Gospel is far greater! Remember, Christian, that there is to be written on your heart the whole of God’s Law, but it is the spiritof that Law—not the letter of it—which is to be written there. And what that spirit is, you know, for our great Teacher epitomized it in one word, and that one word is ‘LOVE.’ Love that furnishes the impulse while it prescribes the duty.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2992

“If you really desire to have Christ’s love shed abroad in your heart, that is a proof that Christ has already fixed His love upon you! If your head is now beaten upon by the fierce sunlight of God’s wrath, you may come and find a shelter in the great rock of Christ’s atoning Sacrifice!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3031

“I do not think that a Christian knows much of doing business on the great waters if he does not feel, sometimes, as if he would give all he has to have as good a hope as the meanest lamb in Jesus’ fold has.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2967

“Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next. Why it elevates and glorifies the secular duties which otherwise would trail in the mire if our conversation, our citizenship is in Heaven, even while we are on the earth!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2916

“Faith in the storm is true faith! Faith in a calm may be, or may not be, genuine faith.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2893

“Come, heavenly Wind, and breathe upon these dry bones! Quicken them into life and activity so that where there was nothing but death, there may be a living army to serve the living Lord! And, blessed be His holy name, He will do it for, wherever there is a true, heart-felt prayer for His Presence, He is already present, dictating that prayer!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980

“If some of the prayers I have heard at Prayer Meetings—though I must say that the fault is less in this place than in most others with which I have become acquainted—if some of the prayers at certain Prayer Meetings were less doctrinal, less experimental and more argumentative with God, they would be more like true prayer should be, for true prayer is just pleading with the Most High, spreading our case before Him, and then pressing our suit with all the arguments we can muster!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3010

“The richest blessing that you ever get from Christ is no new thing—it is just a continuation of His old habits and practices and if He were, at this moment, to lift His hands and give us some special blessing—as I pray that He may—it would only be another link in a long chain of which every link is more precious than the most valuable diamond in the world!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2949

“I think it would have been less painful to have been burned alive at the stake than to have passed through those horrors and depressions of spirit which some of us passed through while we were seeking pardon, but seeking it in the wrong way.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3031

“Whenever we repair to the Lord’s Table, which represents to us the Passover, we ought not to come to it as to a funeral. Let us select solemn hymns, but not dirges. Let us sing softly, but none the less joyfully. This is no burial feast! These are not funeral cakes which lie upon this table, and yonder fair white linen cloth is no winding sheet. “This is My body,” said Jesus, but the body so represented was no corpse!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2982

“When Christ came and redeemed us, there was, on His part, no display of physical or mere brute power. There was a display of power, but it was the power of goodness, the power to suffer, the power to be patient, the power to love. As if God said to men, ‘Sinners and rebels as you are, I love you more than you hate Me. And great as your badness is, My goodness shall overwhelm your badness, My pardoning mercy shall overpower your power to transgress.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2876

“O beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, love without beginning is indeed sweet, but there is a still more luscious sweetness in love without end!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2880

“The same Truth of God is taught in the memorable sentence which I quoted to you just now—‘He that believes and is baptized shall be saved.’There is no saving efficacy in Baptism, yet belief and baptism are joined together by our Lord Jesus Christ and again I say, ‘What, therefore, God has joined together, let not man put asunder.’ I would not like to attend to one duty and neglect another when I found my Master laying both upon me. The path of obedience is always the path of happiness and if any God-given command should ever seem to your imperfect apprehension to be less important than another, remember the wise words of the mother of Jesus to the servants at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, ‘Whatever HE says unto you, do it’—and do it conscientiously, gladly, promptly, because He commanded it, even though you cannot see any other reason for doing it.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011
“You will find it recorded in Scripture that ‘it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart,’ but you never read that He repented of redemption! Nowhere in Scripture is there such a passage as this, ‘It grieved the Lord at His heart that He had given His Son to die for such unworthy ones.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2968

“Who is so honored as the venerable Christian who has his sons and his grandsons around him? He is a king, every inch of him, though, perhaps, he never earned more than a day-laborer’s wages. As he lays his hands upon the heads of his children’s children and implores his God to be their God, also, I seem to see a Patriarch stand before me in a grandeur which an emperor might envy! God will honor you in your family if you honor Him there.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2906

“Nor is Christ’s Kingdom limited to the Church in Heaven and the Church on earth, for He reigns today over all things. ‘All power,’ said He, ‘is given unto Me in Heaven and in earth.’ Providence is at the disposal of the Nazarene!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2940

“We hold a happy festival when we break bread on the first day of the week. We come not here trembling like bondsmen, cringing before the Lord as wretched condemned serfs! They eat on their knees—we approach as freemen to our Lord’s banquet, like His Apostles, to recline at length or sit at ease—not merely to eat bread which may belong to the most sorrowful, but to drink wine which belongs to men whose souls are glad. Let us recognize the rightness, yes, the dutyof cheerfulness at this commemorative supper and, therefore, let us sing a hymn!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2982

“Self-esteem naturally keeps Jesus out of the heart. And the more our self-esteem increases, the more firmly do we fasten the door against Christ. Love of self prevents love of the Savior!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3033
“The Lord, then, has a people whom He regards with a special love which is not shed abroad in the hearts of others. These people He set apart for Himself from eternity.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3012

“Unless your heart is in your prayer, it is a wicked one, and God will not answer it! He must hear it, but it will be only in indignation and He will say to you, ‘What have I done that you should thus provoke Me to My face and bring to Me mere empty shells when the kernel of the heart is altogether absent?’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2950

“Jesus Christ lifted up upon the Cross has such mighty power that if a man had all the sins of mankind resting upon him, yet, if he did but look to Christ by faith, his sins would be all gone in a moment!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980

“You may rest perfectly sure that falling back on the Doctrine of Election in order to exonerate you from what God commands you to perform is but a pitiful pretense! You are commandedto believe and what God commands no Doctrine may teach that it is unfit for you to do! May God help you to believe, for this Doctrine comes not to excuse you. The Gospel commandsyou and Election through the Holy Spirit enablesyou.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2920

“I can perfectly understand God’s pitying me. I can perfectly understand God’s having compassion on me. But I cannot comprehend God’s loving me—nor can you.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2968

“I was told once, ‘When you sow seeds in your garden, put them in a little water overnight—they will grow all the better for it.’ So, if you have been sowing your seed, put it into tears and it will make your seed germinate better. ‘They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Steep your seed in tears and then put it into the ground—and you shall reap in joy. No bird can devour that seed! No bird can hold it in its mouth! No worm can eat it, for worms never eat seeds that are sown in tears.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2896

“Self and the Savior can never live in one heart. He will have all, or none. So, where self is on the throne, it cannot be expected that Christ should meekly come and sit upon the footstool.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3033

“Many churches, nowadays, have given up the old-fashioned custom which once prevailed in Baptist churches, of candidates coming before the Church and making a public avowal of their faith before their fellow Believers and, through the abandonment of that Scriptural method, they have bred a race of cowardly good-for-nothings who hardly dare to say that their souls are their own, who never know what their religious convictions are, but are turned this way and that with every wind that blows, like so many weather-cocks!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011

“Ah, my Brothers and Sisters, when you think of unbelief as aiming her darts at Jesus Christ, the Well-Beloved of our soul, surely you will say that it is a shameful sin and a disgraceful crime against Infinite Love!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2890

“There are two sides to all the moral questions in the world. There is holiness, for instance. You all know on whose side that is. And there is unholiness—and you have no difficulty in deciding on whose side that is.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2884
“Sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal must be more musical in the ears than the mere chattering of formalists, or the pretended prayers of those who hope to gain thereby. He hears not prayers in which men sin as they pray and insult Him when they appear to be devout.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2950

“Where, Beloved, can we find richer instruction than at the Table of our Lord? He who understands the mystery of Incarnation and of Substitution, is a master in Scriptural theology. There is more teaching in the Savior’s body and in the Savior’s blood than in all the world! O you who wish to learn the way to comfort and how to tread the royal road to heavenly wisdom, come to the Cross and see the Savior suffer, and pour out His heart’s blood for human sin!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2982

“I utterly abhor that so-called, ‘piety,’ which belongs only to places and to dates! Your ‘holy’ places, and your ‘holy’ dates, and your ‘holy’ water, and so on are all alike anti-Christian and Popish! To the Christian, every day is alike holy, every place alike holy and everything alike holy. He is a sanctified man and all things that are around him are sanctified to God’s service and to his fellow creatures’ good and, to that end, he confesses Christ with his mouth at all times.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011

“God knows, to an ounce, just what His children and His servants can carry and He never overloads them. It is true that He sometimes sends them more trouble than they could have carried by themselves, but then, as He increases the weight of their burden, He also increases the strength of the back upon which He places it!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2912

“Though you are ready to lie down in despair. Though you suppose that Hell yawns for you and will soon receive your guilty soul—He can turn this shadow of death into the morning of peace and joy!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3034

“Jesus Christ, the Seed of the woman, sets His foot upon the monster, Sin, and breaks its head. And if you believe in Jesus, that pierced foot of His shall crush the life out of your sin and you shall be delivered from its power. Oh, that you might have Grace to trust in Jesus for instantaneous pardon, instantaneous regeneration, instantaneous deliverance from nature’s darkness into God’s most marvelous light! If you are as prostrate as Peter’s wife’s mother was, you ought not to lie still any longer when Christ is ready to give you such a lift as that!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980

“Sweet above all other things is love—a mother’s love, a father’s love, a husband’s love, a wife’s love—but all these are only faint images of the love of God!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2968

“Be not surprised, young converts, if you find sin to be terribly fierce within you and if, sometimes, it seems even to be stronger than Divine Grace! It is not really so, but it may sometimesappearto you to be so. And rest assured of this—that sin in you is so strong that unless God the Holy Spirit shall help you, it will get the victory over you. It will fail to get the victory over you because God will help you, but if He did not, the smallest soldier in the army of sin would be too strong for you, however powerful you may think yourself to be!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2933

“Love is the Law of the Gospel! ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength; and your neighbor as yourself.’ This is the Law of the Christian, and this is the Law which is written on his heart! This is the sum and substance, the distilled essence of all the Ten Commandants. You may forget those Ten Commandments, O Believer, if you will but remember this new Law which is written on your heart, ‘Love, love, love!’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2992

“Depend upon it, our sins will come home to us sooner or later! Jacob must have bitterly regretted that he had ever wronged Esau. There was a long interval between Jacob going away and his coming back, but his sin came home to him! And if you are a child of God and you do wrong, it is more certain to come home to you, in this life, than if you were one of the ungodly! As for them, they are often left to be punished in another world, but if you are a child of God, you will be chastened here for your iniquity.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3010

“Brothers and Sisters, if you never doubt your Lord till you have just cause to do so, you will never doubt Him at all! And if you never have any mistrust of His goodness till He betrays your confidence in Him, you will never mistrust Him!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2877“To the unbeliever, it will prove a terrible thing that Jesus ever came into the world! He is a precious cornerstone to those who build upon Him, but those who stumble upon Him shall be broken—and if this Stone shall fall upon any man, it shall grind him to powder!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3034

“I would that the men who can so well write popular songs and give to the people attractive words and tunes to sing in the street or in the home, would consecrate their talents to a better purpose by writing hymns and spiritual songs to the praise and glory of God. We would then be the richer in our Psalmody, as, indeed, we always are when God sends us a true revival of religion, for revivals of religion always bring with them new hymns and spiritual songs.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2941

“If the resurrection of Christ is not credible, there remains nothing credible in history! I go further than that, and say that the news of yesterday, which you read in this morning’s paper, you had no right to believe if you do not believe in Christ’s resurrection, for the evidence in its favor is not half as strong as the evidence concerning the resurrection of Christ from the dead.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2950 “Holiness excludes immorality, but morality does not amount to holiness, for morality may be but the cleaning of the outside of the cup and the platter, while the heart may be full of wickedness. Holiness deals with the thoughts and intents, the purposes, the aims, the objectives, the motives of men. Morality does but skim the surface, holiness goes into the very caverns of the great deep—holiness requires that the heart shall be set on God and that it shall beat with love to Him.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2902

“How often that is still the cry of sinners, ‘Let us alone. Why do you not hold your own views and let us alone?’ Yes the devils, and those whom they control, still say, ‘Let us alone.’ But it is a part of the Gospel to attack that which is not the Gospel—and it is as much the duty of the minister of the Gospel to denounce error as to proclaim the Truth of God. If we do so, the old cry will still be heard, ‘Let us alone. Let us alone.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980

“Since you who so constantly hear the Gospel must have it made to you either a savor of death unto death or of life unto life, I pray that the Eternal Spirit may show you the wisdom of seeking God by Jesus Christ—and of seeking Him now!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3034

“We should openly acknowledge Jesus Christ, my Brothers and Sisters, if only for ourown sakes, for really, it does a Christian great good to say openly, ‘I love the Lord.’ It gives happiness, comfort, satisfaction, rest of heart and lasting joy to confess Christ before men!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011

“It is a grand thing to be able to bury in eternal forgetfulness every unkind word or act that has ever caused us pain. If any of you have any thought of anger in your heart against anyone—if you have any feeling of resentment—if you have any recollection of injuries. If there is anythingthat vexes and grieves you, come and bury it all in the grave of Jesus—for if He loved you when you were dead in sins—it cannot be half so wonderful for you to love your poor fellow sinner whatever ill treatment you may have received at his hands!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2968

“A Christian silent when others are praising His Master? No! He must join in the song. Satan tries to make God’s people dumb, but he cannot, for the Lord has not a tongue-tied child in all His family! They can all speak and they can all cry, even if they cannot all sing—but I think there are times when they can all sing—yes, they must, for you know the promise, “Then shall the tongue of the dumb sing.” Surely, when Jesus leads the tune, if there should be any silent ones in the Lord’s family, they must begin to praise the name of the Lord!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2982

“Our converts are worth nothing. If they are converted by man they can be unconverted by man! If some charm or power of one preacher can bring them to Christ, some charm or power of another preacher can take them from Christ. True conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit and of the Holy Spirit alone!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2920

“Jesus never forgets the price He paid for the redemption of even one soul! I think I hear Him say, my Brothers and Sisters, ‘By My agony and bloody sweat, by My Cross and passion, by My death and burial, I will have him as My own, for I cannot have suffered all these things in vain.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2889

“Some men go to God and ask only for temporal favors and, possibly, they do not obtain them. He who would be content with this world will probably never get it—but he who craves spiritual good may ask with the absolute certainty of receiving it!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2879

“Providential care extends not only to the righteous, but also to the wicked—yes, and not only to the wicked among men, but to the very beasts of the field. You know what I said to you, the other Sabbath morning, about the God who makes the grass to grow for the cattle. [See Sermon No. 767, Volume 13—IN THE HAY FIELD—Read/download the entire sermon, free of charge at http://www.spurgeongems.org.] It is the same great Provider who feeds the young ravens when they cry, and the hungry lions when they roar for their food. God’s Providence not only extends to mankind in general, and to the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and the innumerable fish in the sea, but also to every atom of matter in the universe.”— Volume 52, Sermon #3012

“Christ’s ministers may all go home, for their office is useless, if there is no forgiveness of sins!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2882
“He who is his own guide is guided by a fool. He that trusts to his own understanding proves that he has no understanding.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2893
“You, also, must often have heard of the death of friends—and some day people will tell the survivors that you, too, are gone. With unremitted sin upon you, you know where you will go, do you not? I need not tell you where they are driven whose sin has never been forgiven— and whose sin never will be forgiven—as they have passed out of this world unwashed in the precious blood of Jesus!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2951

“I believe, Brothers and Sisters, that it is the duty of all converts to test the various sections of the professing church by the Word of God and then to cast in their lot with that part which holds the Truth of God most fully and clearly. And, having conscientiously done that, to rally with the hosts of God in the great battle against wrong.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2884
“To ask the way to Zion, then, means to seek to come to Christianfellowship,to desire to be united in Christian bonds with Brothers and Sisters who love each other because they love one common Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, their blessed Savior!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035

“Trouble, like a sharp spade, digs up the earth that is about our roots and then we bring forth more fruit. Were it not for the thorns in our nest, we would be so content with its soft lining that we would sit in it till we died. But the sharp thorns prick our breasts and then we turn our eyes aloft and learn to try our wings, ready for the time when they shall have fully grown and we shall mount to joys above! ”—Volume 52, Sermon #2993

“You who have the most familiarity with Christ and enjoy the most holy fellowship with Him may soon become the very leaders of the hosts of Satan if your Lord withdraws His Grace!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3013
“The more work we have to do with men for God, the longer we ought to be at work with God for men. If you plead with men, you cannot hope to prevail unless you first plead with God.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980

“Look at that great crowd gathered in Smithfield! Who is that poor wretch standing in the middle? Many of those around him look upon him with the utmost scorn and derision. They have chained him up to a stake, and they are bringing dry firewood, for they are going to burn him to death! Who is that man? People in the crowd cry out that he is a dreadful heretic who deserves to die! But if you turn to Foxe’s Book of Martyrsyou will find his name recorded there among the noble army who died as heroes of the Cross. Because he suffered for Christ, God has honored him and, at this present day, who among us would not rather be the martyr who was burned than the cardinal who was the means of getting him burned? Who would not rather have been numbered among the faithful multitudes in the valleys of Piedmont whose names are all unknown, than have been the Duke of Savoy, or the King of France, or the Pope of Rome who conspired together to put them to death?”—Volume 50, Sermon #2906

“You have never had half as many trials from God as you have manufactured for yourself. Death, which you so much dread, is nothing compared with the thousand deaths that you have died through the fear of death.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2890

“And though I like some of the new tunes very much and am glad that they are so popular, yet, for my own part, I like a good old Psalm tune much better. It seems to me like going away from the snows of Lebanon to seek after the stale cisterns of earth when we leave the old music, and the old hymns, and the old Psalms for any of your modern melodies. Still, if you can praise God better with the new songs, do so, but let it always be done reverently.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2941

“Those who ask the way to Zion also thereby confess that they are not yetsaved. It is a great work, a Divine work, to bring His people to confess that they are not yet saved, for the most of mankind have the notion that, somehow or other, all is well with them in the sight of God.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035

“We should openly acknowledge Jesus Christ, my Brothers and Sisters, if only for ourown sakes, for really, it does a Christian great good to say openly, ‘I love the Lord.’ It gives happiness, comfort, satisfaction, rest of heart and lasting joy to confess Christ before men! I have not the time to tell you of all the blessings that I personally received through publicly acknowledging that Christ was my Savior. One thing I may say, however, I believe that up to that time I was one of the most timid persons in the world! I never spoke to anybody and never ventured to give an opinion upon anything without tears coming into my eyes. But, from that happy day when I walked into the water, at Isleham Ferry, to be baptized into the name of Christ, I have never been afraid of any man in the world, nor of the devil, either, while engaged in the pursuit of the things of God! My Baptism was a sort of crossing of the Rubicon for me. I had burnt my boats, drawn my sword and thrown away the scabbard—so there was no possibility of going back—and I never wished to do so. And I believe that others, who are always timorous, trembling and afraid, would derive perpetual benefit from once and for all boldly openly acknowledging themselves to be on the Lord’s side!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011

“There is a sin which is unto death, but those who commit it never ask for mercy, or desire it. They are dead even while they live, their conscience is seared as with a hot iron, and they rush to Hell willingly.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2951

“Afflictions also are often to the benefit of Believers in leading themto search for sin. Our trials should be search warrants, sent to us from God that we may search and find out the secret evil that is within us—the offense that we have hidden, the lie that is in our right hand.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2993

“If Thomas will not believe that Christ is risen until he has put his finger into the print of the nails in His hands and thrust his hand into his Savior’s wounded side, that is bad enough—but it is worse if you who do believe that He is risen and who do not doubt any one of the doctrines that He has taught you, still have unbelief mingled with the faith which you possess! Whether that supposed faith is all true, or not, is more than I can say, but, with so much faith as you profess to have, how can you still continue to doubt?”—Volume 50, Sermon #2890“If you are not yet saved, I pray that you may be made to know that you are not. It is only God’s gracious Spirit who can convict a man who thought all was well with him, that he is lost. Only the Holy Spirit can prove to him that he is not a Christian, though he thinks he is one! And when he is made to realize this, he will probably soon be transformed into that which he now fancies that he is—a true child of the living God!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035

“He [David] was a grand man, one in whom the Grace of God shone very conspicuously, but he was a man of like passions with ourselves and we have reason to thank God that he was—because his experience becomes all the more instructive to us from the fact that while it teaches us that God can and will forgive us if we repent of our great and gross sins, yet it also teaches us that sin is an evil and a bitter thing, and that, though the guilt of it may be removed, the evil consequences of it will cling to us and be a subject of sorrow to us till God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2981

“Keep to a cause that is despised if you believe it is a right one and love it all the more because it is despised!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2969

“I charge you, sons and daughters of Adam, to remember that since your father, Adam, even in his state of innocence, could not direct his own way aright, but lost Paradise for us all, there is no hope that, in your fallen state, you can find your way back to Paradise! No, but you will keep on wandering further and further and further from the way of peace and holiness, for, ‘it is not in man who walks to direct his steps’[Jeremiah 10:23.]”—Volume 50, Sermon #2893

“I used to think that believing in Christ was some mysterious thing and I could not make out what it was—but when I heard that it was just this—‘Look unto Me, and be you saved,’ I found that the only reason why it was so hard was that it was so easy!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2898
“I have known such a clatter of worldliness or pride, or some other noise in the soul of man, that the still small voice of the Holy Spirit has been drowned to the serious detriment of the disciple.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2927

“Shall others fight to win the prize and shall you, as a coward, abide by the stuff? God forbid! Instead thereof, the Lord help you to confess Christ in the day of His rejection that you may be honored with Him in the day of His exaltation! God help you to take His part in the midst of the sinners of the world, that you may be with Him when the acclamations of cherubim and seraphim, and the innumerable host redeemed by His blood, shall make all Heaven ring and ring again with the music of His matchless name!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011

“Brothers and Sisters, there is no teaching, no ministry, even of the best-taught servant of God, that can do you such good as sanctified experience will! You must learn for yourselves—under that blessed schoolmaster, Mr. Affliction—you must study the sacred science of Divinity! It is good to go to his school, for the lessons to be learned there are so beneficial. One of his scholars wrote, ‘Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept Your Word.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2993

“Morality is a sweet, fair corpse—well washed, robed and even embalmed with spices—but holiness is the living man, as fair and as lovely as the other, but having life! Morality lies there, of the earth, earthy, soon to be food for corruption and worms—holiness waits and pants with heavenly aspirations, prepared to mount and dwell in immortality beyond the stars!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2902

“It is usually a sure sign that we are in love with the Master when we are in love with His servants and when we find delight in the company of His people. It is surely because there is a secret drawing of our hearts towards Him.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035
“If God were to give you all earthly good and yet took His Presence from you—which He will do if sin is within you, and unrepented of—the loss of His Presence would be a greater loss than the loss of the whole world, or even of Heaven itself!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2981
“A way is none the less right because it is rough. Indeed, often it is all the more sure to be the right way because it is so displeasing to flesh and blood.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2969
“‘There is no devil,’ said one, ‘like having no devil.’ That is to say, there is no temptation like the temptation of not being tempted!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3013

“You tried Believers must not imagine that God does not love you as much as He did in the days of your spiritual youth when He did not test you as He does now. He loves you quite as much as He did then and He trusts you even more than He did then because He has made you stronger than you used to be! He gives you the honor and privilege of marching with the vanguard of His army, or leading the forlorn hope, or standing foot to foot with old Apollyon.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2912

“We fell, federally, in Adam, and we fell, actually, by our own sin. But Christ has put us back where Adam was in his state of innocence. No, He has done more than that for us, for man was but man before he fell, but now man is linked to the Eternal in the Person of the God-Man, Christ Jesus, so we are nearer to God than Adam was before he fell!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2951
“Christ is superlatively sweet to us and the next sweetest thing in all the world is Christ’s dear Cross. He is, Himself, most precious, but next to the kisses of His lips are the blows—the love pats—of His pierced hands.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2993

“One’s eyes might weep tears of blood when we think how unhappily some children are placed in the very first moment of their advent into society. Glory be to God, however, there are some of these that shall be first. God will find His jewels in the dens, alleys and slums of London—and take up to His Eternal Throne those that were the sons of harlots and the children of the thief—that they may sing forever of His amazing Grace.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2934

“Remember this—there never was a saint who repented as much as he should have, for repentance should be perfect and no Christian has ever attained to that height.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035

“O dear Friends, let us never be satisfied with any kind of worship which does not take up the whole of our inner and higher nature! It is what you are within that you really are before the living God! And it is quite a secondary matter how loud the chant may be, or how sweet the tune of your hymn, or how delightfully you join in it unless your spirit, your soul, truly praises the Lord! You can sometimes do this in ‘songs without words’—and he that has no voice for singing can, after this fashion, magnify the Lord with his soul and spirit.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2941

“A man never talks rightly of God’s works till he knows God’s ways. And it is idle to talk of them if there is no doingat the back of the talking.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2969

“A man clad in armor may go walking through the woods and may never feel the thorns, but another man who has had his armor taken off, will be scratched and torn to pieces! Sinners clad in the armor of sin feel not the thorn of Christ’s desertion—but saints who have thrown this armor aside and are tender of heart, feel even His slightest frown.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3013

“Oh, that we felt more the weight of our ministry! It is, perhaps, the great fault of this age that so many who do preach, yet preach with so little earnestness and are not sufficiently alive to the value of immortal souls! Oh, that the Holy Spirit would make our ministry to be ‘the burden of the Lord’ upon us!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2993

“Though your faith is no bigger than a mustard seed, so that you can hardly see it, it will bring salvation to you! Even if you cannot see it, God can. If you do but touch the hem of Christ’s garment, virtue will flow out of Him to the saving of your soul!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035
PRAY THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL USE THESE QUOTES TO BRING MANY TO A SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST.