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The Mysteries of the Brazen Serpent
John 3:14
… And now, to-day, I am about to address the mass of my congregation concerning that simple subject of faith in the Lord Jesus, whereby men are saved …
SERMON • SERMON 3094Heart Piercing
Acts 2:37
… Thus they were added to the Church, "and they continued steadfastly in the Apostles' Doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." All this followed …
SERMON • SERMON 3457All Are Guilty
Matthew 27:22
… And, perhaps, many of this congregation, though living in the land of Gospel Light, are quite ignorant of what the Gospel is. Oh, Sirs, is not this to …
SERMON • SERMON 2616Christ's Care of His Disciples
John 18:8
… Many, nowadays, say that we ought to blend the Church with the congregation and that it is a great pity to have any division between them. A great …
SERMON • SERMON 810The Faithfulness of Jesus
John 13:1
… Surely those sacred pleadings brought down upon the apostolic band those matchless blessings which qualified them in after years to be the spiritual fathers of the church and …
SERMON • SERMON 3100Homage Offered to the Great King
Psalm 72:15
… OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH because no man on earth will ever suspect me of making any personal allusion either to my own Church or congregation, or with regard …
SERMON • SERMON 122Christ About His Father’s Business
Luke 2:49
… They may go anywhere else, but they must not come anywhere near them, for it might affect their congregation, it might stir them up a little; and people …
SERMON • SERMON 3222'The Lamb of God'
John 1:29
… Judson went home to America from Burma, there was a large congregation gathered together and they requested the returned missionary, the veteran of so many years of service …
SERMON • SERMON 381Christian Baptism
Colossians 2:12
… And further, let the voters be all Christian people, let the suffrage be confined to those who really believe in Christ, and then if you as a Church …
SERMON • SERMON 1716The Bridegroom's Parting Words
Solomon 8:13
… It is the mystical word of the Church's Lord to His elect one! He calls her "Inhabitress of the gardens"—that is the word. So then, dear …
SERMON • SERMON 2289The Right Keynote for the New Year
Psalm 115:18
… To keep the Church of God on earth, the Church militant, in good marching order, and good working condition, and so to glorify God here is what we …
SERMON • SERMON 1245Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ
John 5:44
… or feel as I ought to feel, when I look round upon this congregation and remember that there are many here who are refusing Jesus Christ—and that …
SERMON • SERMON 174A Call to the Unconverted
Galatians 3:10
… in a chapel, and hearing a minister who is preaching to a large congregation. Think thou art sitting in thine own house, in thine own chair, and think …
SERMON • SERMON 3046One of the Master's Choice Sayings
Matthew 14:16
… The church of Rome is a church defiled with error and debased with superstition, but was there ever a nobler Christian woman in this world than Madame de …
SERMON • SERMON 2931Return! Return!
Jeremiah 3:12
… which is more suitable for your own private reading than for the general congregation—you will see that Israel had wandered from the Lord in the most shameless …
SERMON • SERMON 2965Prepared to Meet God
Amos 4:12
… of blessing—water would again leap out of the rock and the thirsty congregation would indeed be refreshed! O God, will You not touch men's hearts so …
SERMON • SERMON 2046Consolation From Resurrection
Hosea 13:14
… That which is true of the Church at large is true of any individual Church. Have faith in God. He can trim the expiring lamp. Even to Laodicea …
SERMON • SERMON 3545Our Glorious Leader
Luke 19:28
… A finger never suffers without the brain participating—and no humble member of the true Church of Christ ever suffers without Christ, the glorious Head, suffering in sympathy …
SERMON • SERMON 48Chastisement
Hebrews 12:5
… It is so seldom that God afflicts people, after all, compared with their faults, that we must not expect to find in this congregation, perhaps, one-half of …
SERMON • SERMON 3296Praise for Jesus
Genesis 49:8
… May the divisions of the Church be soon healed by a general gathering unto Christ who alone is the center of the Church. "Unto Him shall the gathering …
SERMON • SERMON 1216To Souls In Agony
Psalm 116:3
… To sinners under conviction I would address myself, for I know there are such in the congregation. I was glad to hear their cries the other night, and …
SERMON • SERMON 233Free Grace
Ezekiel 36:32
… If this day the Holy Spirit shall call out of this congregation a hundred men, and bring them out of their estate of sin into a state of …
SERMON • SERMON 2614Strange Things
Luke 5:26
… week that some out of our great congregation go Home. Sometimes, in a single week, six or seven of our Church members go to the great Father's …
SERMON • SERMON 3528A Promise and a Providence
Ezekiel 34:15
… If the intercession of Christ prevailed, then today the Church is one! I do not believe for a moment that the oneness which Christ intended was ever a …
SERMON • SERMON 2092God's Own Gospel Call
Isaiah 55:3
… Between the gathering of one congregation and another, someone among you will fall by death's javelin. Seek Him, my Hearers, while seeking time holds out. Before the …
SERMON • SERMON 890The Bellows Burned
Jeremiah 6:29
… There are others like he, I fear, in this congregation this morning! Like Israel, given up to successive afflictions, they have, for awhile, repented, but then have returned …
SERMON • SERMON 2170The Blessing of the High Priest
Numbers 6:22-27
… This was the custom in early times—the congregation was dismissed with the gracious words—"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and …
SERMON • SERMON 176The Prodigal's Return
Luke 15:20
… I have not one person in this congregation who is not perfectly assured that if he is to be saved he must leave off his drunkenness and his …
SERMON • SERMON 63Marvellous Increase of the Church
Isaiah 60:8
Marvellous Increase of the Church A Sermon (No. 63) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 27, 1856, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark …
SERMON • SERMON 1132The Seed Upon Stony Ground
Mark 4:5
… They were going to drag the Church behind them and drive the world before them—and very soon they would distance even the ministry which had been the …
SERMON • SERMON 2554The Spiritual Resurrection
John 11:43
… And we meet with instances, now and then, even in the Church, of some Brothers and Sisters who cannot exactly curb themselves—they have some of their grave …
SERMON • SERMON 3163Cumbered With Much Serving
Luke 10:40
… Church do? How can such a sum of money be raised? There is much more needed than we shall ever get!" The minister has come before his congregation …
SERMON • SERMON 1146Consolation For The Despairing
Psalm 31:22
… I feel, too, that I have a Scriptural warrant for introducing such a subject as this into the midst of a congregation where there are many joyous hearts …
SERMON • SERMON 3136Lessons From the Malta Fire
Acts 28:2
… The Church at one time seems to be all in earnest—her Prayer Meetings are crowded and fervent, her ministry seems full of life, zeal and enthusiasm. The …
SERMON • SERMON 2948Stephen and Saul
Acts 7:58
… Even in a congregation like the present, there may not be many, yet there may be some who are opposing the Gospel. There may be some here who …
SERMON • SERMON 3410Christ and His Hearers
Luke 15:1
… They were none of those who, like the old people in some parishes,go to Church in order to get the loaf of bread on the Sunday morning …
SERMON • SERMON 740Stephen's Martyrdom
Acts 7:55
… Stephen is first heard of as a distributor of the alms of the Church to needy widows. He exercised what was virtually, if not nominally, the deacon's …
SERMON • SERMON 3532Christ's Great Mission
Matthew 20:28
… It was but the other day I read a letter from the deacon of a church in which, speaking of his minister, he said, "We ought to understand …
SERMON • SERMON 1781Two Pauls and a Blinded Sorcerer
Acts 13:12
… It was the native country of Barnabas and, as he was, at first, the leader of the missionary party sent out by the Church of Antioch, it was …
SERMON • SERMON 3464True Worship
Psalm 50:14
… EVEN in the Christian Church we have great diversities of opinion as to what is the true form of worship. One stoutly cries, "Lo here," and another as …