Holiness

Psalm 41

Psalm 41

… How heartily the dogs unite to hunt the stag! Would God we were half as united in holy labour as persecutors in their malicious projects, and were half …

The “Down-grade” Controversy Foreshadowed

… We are not to be pugnacious, always contending for every crotchet of our own ; but wherein we have learned the truth of the Holy Spirit, we are not …

Spiritual Transformations

Isaiah 4:13

… For many centuries the Holy Land has been covered with thorns and briers. Travelers tell us it is so exceedingly barren that except upon the dreary desert of …

Psalm 126

Psalm 126

… The pilgrims went from blessing to blessing in their psalmody as they proceeded on their holy way. Happy people to whom ever ascent was a song, every halt …

Psalm 115

Psalm 115

… Now there is a double reason given of David's and other holy men's deprecation of death in the Old Testament; one in relation to themselves, qui …

Psalm 49

Psalm 49

… their graces, the beauty of holiness, the spiritual beauty of the inner man, yea, and the spiritual beauty of their outward holy actings shall not consume in the …

Psalm 35

Psalm 35

… It were well if we were more demonstrative in our holy rejoicings. We rob God by suppressing grateful emotions. Verse 10. As if the tongue were not enough …

Psalm 104

Psalm 104

… The universe is his tabernacle; the heavens visible and invisible are the curtains which shroud his holy place. He hath laid the beams and foundations of his holy …

Psalm 14

Psalm 14

… With instructive alterations, David has given us in Psalm 53 a second edition of this humiliating psalm, being moved of the Holy Ghost thus doubly to declare a …

Psalm 71

Psalm 71

… We have here THE PRAYER OF THE AGED BELIEVER, who, in holy confidence of faith, strengthened by a long and remarkable experience, pleads against his enemies, and asks …

Psalm 92

Psalm 92

… no hour is too early for holy song. Loving kindness is a most appropriate theme for those dewy hours when morn is sowing all the earth with orient …

Psalm 72

Psalm 72

… Many a so called Holy Alliance has come to the ground ere many moons have filled their horns, because craft formed the league, perjury established it, and oppression …

Psalm 66

Psalm 66

… God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation. All praise from all nations should be rendered unto the Lord …

The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

… The Scriptures do not make the truth; but they reveal it in a way in which our poor, feeble intellect, when enlightened by the Holy Spirit, is able …

Lecture V: The Sciences As Sources Of Illustration.

… The Scriptures do not make the truth; but they reveal it in a way in which our poor, feeble intellect, when enlightened by the Holy Spirit, is able …

Psalm 109

Psalm 109

… deal in thy righteousness with all those who spitefully assail the characters of holy men, and cause all who are smarting under calumny and reproach to come forth …

Psalm 107

Psalm 107

… If we have not the salt of holiness we shall soon receive the salt of barrenness, for the text in the Hebrew is—"a fruitful land into saltness …

The Ceremony of Laying the...

… Persecution, in truth, they did not court, neither did they shrink from enduring it with gentle patience and holy boldness, when public indignation was aroused, and legal indictments …

Psalm 91

Psalm 91

… There is the dweller in the dark world, in the favoured land, in the holy city, in the outer court; but the holy of holies is the "secret …

John Ploughman's Talk

… Holy thoughts breed holy words and holy actions, and are hopeful evidences of a renewed heart. Who would not have them ? To keep chaff out of a bushel …

The Personality of the Holy Ghost

John 14:16-17

The Personality of the Holy Ghost A Sermon (No. 4) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 21, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel …

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… They are not of the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit teaches us not to magnify outward rites, but Christ. And that teaching is not of the Holy …

The Holy Spirit's Chief Office

John 16:14

… If this is one of the things that are taken and shown to you by the Holy Spirit, it will fill you with holy delight! I am sure …

"Honey In The Mouth!"

John 16:14

… First, WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES. It is clear, Beloved Friends, that the Holy Spirit deals with the things of Christ. As our brother, Archibald Brown, said, when …

The Paraclete

John 14:16

… The comforts of the Holy Spirit do not depend upon health, strength, wealth, position or friendship. The Holy Spirit comforts us through the Truth, and the Truth does …

The Great Teacher and Remembrancer

John 14:26

… If the Christian were fully equipped to know and understand the Divine mind without the teaching of the Holy Spirit, then the Holy Spirit would not have been …

Work in Us and Work by Us

Colossians 1:29

… Repentance is the work of the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit never repented. What had He to repent of? He has done no ill. It cannot be …

A Promise and Precedent

John 16:14

… All I can say is that the Holy Spirit is represented here as receiving the things of Christ. Now the Holy Spirit is continually spoken of in the …

Come From the Four Winds, O Breath!

Ezekiel 37:9

… Living unto God is the earliest experience of the redeemed—afterwards comes joy in God by the Holy Spirit. I. Now, first, in using this text, as I …

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

… This one thing I know, brethren, that whilst as a preacher I can tell you all, that the Holy Spirit must work all our works in us, and …

The Entreaty of the Holy Spirit

Hebrews 3:7

… The first point which it presents for serious consideration is this—THE SPECIAL VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. "As the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear …

Degrees Of Power Attending The Gospel

1 Thessalonians 1:5

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "For our Gospel came not unto you in word only, but also inpower, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance …

The First Recorded Words of Jesus

Luke 2:48

… Secondly, the Holy Child's home. Thirdly, the Holy Child's occupation, and fourthly, the Holy Child's lesson to any of us who may be seeking Him …

The Leafless Tree

Isaiah 6:3

… No church can die while it has a holy seed in it, and no church can live that has not the holy seed, for “the holy seed is …

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… And is it not, I say a tender and touching thing, that the Holy Spirit should direct his servant Paul to say to us “Grieve not the Holy …

Pentecost

Acts 2:1-4

… If, after having pleaded with God to send His Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit did come, there are many who would not believe it. There are others who …

Evening, October 12

Jn 14:26

Evening, October 12 Go To Morning Reading “The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost.” John 14:26 This age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in …

Limiting God

Psalm 78:41

… These three classes all in their degree limit the Holy One of Israel. I. In the first place, I say we limit the Holy One of Israel by …

The Wicked Man’s Life, Funeral, and Epitaph

Ecclesiastes 8:10

… SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens “And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy and they …

Stephen's Martyrdom

Acts 7:55

… 740) Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, MARCH 17, 1867, by C.H.SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked …