The Gospel

The Joy of Harvest

… God who ploughed the heart made it conscious that it needed the gospel, and the gospel seed was joyfully received. Do you recollect that auspicious day when at …

An Earnest Entreaty

Psalm 2:12

… I do not suppose there are many such here, who are actively and ostensibly revolting against the Gospel, yet there may be some such and, if there are …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… Many a minister has derived his first doctrinal knowledge from that book ; and, indeed, it has in it the very life-blood of the gospel. Let our youths …

The Smoke Of Their Torments

Genesis 19:27

… Behold here the solemnity of the Gospel ministry, the responsibility of those who listen to it and the need there is for earnestness in handling Divine things! Have …

Meditation on God

Psalm 104:34

… But you did not come here to listen to a merely moral essay—you came to hear something about the Gospel of God—and what I have already …

A Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… If I can but find the name of Christ extolled, and his simple gospel preached, this is all I desire.” Not so, the man whose heart is divided …

Beauty for Ashes

Isaiah 61:3

… Our grandfathers would have shuddered at reading from a disciple of Tom Paine sentiments which pretended ministers of the Gospel have given forth to the world! Things have …

Restless! Peaceless!

Isaiah 57:20

… Then, secondly, there is another class of sinners—not open transgressors, like the others I have mentioned—still, they have heard the Gospel and they have rejected it …

Holy Violence

Matthew 11:12

… He seemed to drain every city, every town, and every village, as he went along preaching the word of the gospel. These people, moreover, not like our common …

Holy Song From Happy Saints

Isaiah 5:1

… And the more we enjoy His Gospel, the more resolved we are to keep to the old-fashioned Gospel as long as we live." We could, indeed, sing …

Roads Cleared

Isaiah 57:14

… Before Christ went to Heaven, He said to His disciples, "Go you into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believes and is …

Thanksgiving And Prayer

Psalm 65:11

… Peter and the eleven that were with him became the reapers and three thousand souls fell beneath the Gospel sickle. There was great joy in the city of …

The Centurion's Faith and Humility

Luke 7:6-8

… Others of you will be engaged this evening in preaching the Gospel, and you are getting very faint-hearted because you do not see the success you so …

Farm Laborers

… I have read some sermons which could only have been meant for show, for there was not a grain of gospel in them. They were ploughs with the …

Christ’s First and Last Subject

Matthew 4:17

… Now we beg to state, at the opening of this first point, that repentance is of gospel parentage. It was not born near Mount Sinai. It never was …

The Blessed Christ

Matthew 21:9

… What if I cannot preach His Gospel in every land, yet where I can, I will preach it and pray God to raise up many to proclaim it …

The Believer A New Creature

2 Corinthians 5:17

… That is the gospel, and nothing else is the gospel, and those who do not preach that truth know nothing of God’s gospel at all; for it …

Unstaggering Faith

Romans 4:19-21

… Personally, I feel my own spiritual inability much more strongly than I did when I began to preach the Gospel. There was a novelty and an excitement, then …

The Man Who Shall Never See Death

John 8:51-53

… Thus the Gospel itself becomes "a savor of death unto death" to those who refuse it and the very word which proclaims eternal life threatens eternal death to …

Might Have Been, or May Be

John 11:37

… Believe that the Gospel is meant for such a case as this and that the living God, in Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit, can meet with this …

Baptismal Regeneration

Mark 16:15-16

… SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and …

What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper?

Jonah 1:5-6

… We have beheld the opening of places for the preaching of the gospel which had been closed for centuries. We have seen the theatre devoted to God on …

Sad Fasts Changed To Glad Feasts

Zechariah 8:19

… There is much that goes for Gospel, now, and if you could have a mile of it, you would not get an inch of consolation out of it …

Hiding Among the Stuff

1 Samuel 10:22-23

… John Newton, whenever he entered the pulpit to preach the Gospel of the Grace of God, must have felt astounded to find himself preaching it after having been …

Little-faith

… 79 The Gospel. 80 Believing Prayer. 81 Warfare for Sin. 82 How to read the Bible. 83 A View of Christ. 84 The Author and Finisher of Faith …

A Visit to Bethlehem

Luke 2:15

… LUKE2:1-19. [Remember, the Exposition was before the sermon.] We will now read the story of our Savior's birth as it is recorded in the Gospel …

Real Contact With Jesus

Luke 8:46

… You cannot always unload your burden outside and come in here with your hearts prepared to receive the Gospel. Ah, it is a terrible fight sometimes—a real …

Unparalleled Loving Kindnesses

Psalm 89:49

… The practical effect of a saving knowledge of the Gospel is a holy walk, a walk of communion with God! Dear Friends, do you walk in that way …

A Blessed Wonder

Matthew 8:10

… When a man receives honor of men, he too often finds it impossible to receive the Gospel as a little child. All these things met in the centurion …

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… Another is, because certain persons will be offended on account of these rough edges of the gospel. Some would say, “O keep them back! You need not preach …

Free Will—A Slave

John 5:40

… I have no narrower gospel than you have; only my gospel is on a solid foundation, whereas yours is built upon nothing but sand and rottenness. “Every man …

Gathering Without Planting

Joshua 24:13

… How is it that we have the Gospel preached today in this land without let or hindrance? We owe it largely to the humble men and women, tailors …

A Sweet Bow

Micah 7:18

… But He has sent an unconditional Gospel! He will have mercy upon whom He will have mercy, and He will have compassion upon whom He will have compassion …

A Present Religion

1 John 3:2

… Many a loose character would have no objection to go up to the temple and pray, and subscribe his name to the God of Jacob, if the gospel …

The Dumb Become Singers

Isaiah 35:6

… My grandfather used to tell a story of a person who once resided near him and called himself a preacher of the Gospel. He was visited by a …

Eyes Opened

2 Kings 6:17

… O God, I pray You, open the eyes of every sinner here to see Yourself, Your Son, Your Truth, Your Law, Your Gospel, Your holiness, Your Covenant! If …

The Gospel of Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

Romans 8:32

… The Gospel of Moriah, which is but another name for Calvary, was far clearer than the revelation made at the gate of Paradise, or to Noah in the …

The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God

Romans 8:7

… Measure me by the articles of the Church of England, and I will not stand second to any man under heaven’s blue sky in preaching the gospel …

Ebenezer!

1 Samuel 7:12

… Greater multitudes than ever flocked to listen to the word, and some here who otherwise might never have attended the preaching of the gospel, remain as living monuments …

His Own Funeral Sermon*

Acts 13:36

… This cornerstone of the Gospel must never be displaced or dishonored. The good news we are commissioned to declare is the same that Paul received and delivered—"that …