Temptation

A Bad Excuse Is Worse Than None

Luke 14:18

… I tried to patch up a truce between my soul and my convictions. Satan is always ready to help men with excuses. This is a trade of which …

Songs For Desolate Hearts

Isaiah 54:1

… We are all going post haste, as fast as ever we can, towards Romanism and Romanism is next door to the abode of Satan himself. We are supposed …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… This is Satan's usual way. Whenever he is about to be cast out of anyone, he grows angry. And if he cannot destroy, he will worry, just …

He Ran, and He Ran

Mark 5:6

… Him much that He would not send them away out of the country. Satan clings to this world and to any place where he has had a signal …

Divine and Human Ordination

… the right-minded, except to be repulsed with a “Get thee behind me, Satan.” Confining myself to one branch of the subject, I ask, — Whence comes the whole …

Psalm 24

Psalm 24

… We do not belong to the world or to Satan, but by creation and redemption we are the peculiar portion of the Lord. Paul uses this verse twice …

A Traveller’s Letters Home

Standing where Satan’s seat is, in the midst of ten thousand idols, I beseech those who worship God in the spirit to wrestle in prayer for times …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… A prophecy of the conflict of the Messiah with Satan. Satan could not exact any debt or homage for him. 2. Of his refutation of his enemies. "I …

Psalm 58

Psalm 58

… Of all sins, no sin can call Satan father like to lying. All the corruption that is in us came from Satan, but yet this sin of forging …

John Ploughman's Talk

… He who plays when he should work, has an evil spirit to be his playmate; and he who neither works nor plays is a workshop for Satan. If …

A Refreshing Promise

Isaiah 27:3

… earthly joys are still more like a sirocco which burns as an oven. Satan's temptations scorch and wither our hearts unless the Water of Life is abundantly …

Glimpses of Essex and Cambridgeshire Life, 1853

… So Satan had laid all his sins for years past before him, and insinuated that they must end in his destruction. ‘But,’ said Will, ‘ I was enabled to …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… none who were present were likely to forget the unusual purpose to which " Satan's seat " was that day devoted. In August, 1858, Mr. Spurgeon paid his first …

Exposition of the Doctrines of Grace

… The heart of man is foul as the heart of Satan; the nature of man is foul as the nature of Satan; and the sin of man is …

Eccentric Preachers

… BsBHOir XIX. — Xhe Comer's Conflict with Satan . . . , 29S '** And as he was yet -a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… of God’s little ones shall perish, God Himself will cease to be, Satan will conquer the King of kings, and Jesus will no longer be the Savior …

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… Thus, she proves herself to be in league with Satan, for the purpose of keeping men under the bondage of sin to the everlasting ruin of their souls …

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers

Isaiah 51:2-3

… Where Satan’s seat is, even there can the Lord raise up advocates for his cause. The thick darkness of superstition shall not prevent the chosen one from …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Continued)

… Never mind; when Satan opens his mouth, he gives me an opportunity of ramming my sword down his throat.” (My Reply.) “St. Ann’s Terrace, “April, ’55. “My …

Thy Redeemer

Isaiah 41:14

… will help thee, I will help thee.” And then let us just frighten Satan, by cheering up our spirits through the power of the Holy Ghost, and buckling …

The Holy Spirit in the Covenant

Ezekiel 36:27

… What you learn from man, you can unlearn—but what you learn of the Spirit is fixed indelibly in your heart and conscience—and not even Satan himself …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… It was by great, very great politeness that the serpent beguiled Eve; and, unhappily, her posterity love ‘to have it so;’ so true is it that Satan is …

First Outlines of Sermons, 1851-1852

… THE STRICTNESS OF THE LAW…… “any thing that defileth.” Satan cannot. Sin cannot. What a matter of rejoicing to Christians! How can man enter? Not by ceremonies. Not …

Psalm 111

Psalm 111

… Once out of Egypt, ever out of Satan's thraldom.— John Trapp. Verse 9. Sent redemption...commanded his covenant. The deliverance was the more thankworthy, as being upon …

Our Place—at Jesus' Feet

Luke 7:38

… As many of us as have been renewed by Divine Grace we have been rescued from the slavery of Satan. And we have come into the sweet service …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers

… After I have had an ill night’s rest,—of course, through physical debility,—my mind is troubled, and then that old coward, Satan, who would, perhaps, not …

Psalm 26

Psalm 26

… The congregation or assembly of evil doers, signifies violent men in alliance and conclave for the overthrow of the innocent; such synagogues of Satan are to be held …

Law and Grace

Romans 5:20

… I defy Satan to lay hands on me, if I am a justified man. The state of justification is an unvariable one, and is indissolubly united to glory …

Psalm 75

Psalm 75

… sovereignty, and repair that mighty ruin which had been wrought on earth when Satan triumphed in Paradise. Barton Bouchier. Verse 4. Fools. The ungodly are spiritual fools. If …

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

… It may be, Satan smiles, and is pleasant to you while you sin; but know, he'll be bitter in the end. He that sings syren-like now …

The Son Glorified by the Father and the Father Glorified by the Son

John 17:1

… Think of sin, of Satan and of death—but all their hosts were defeated in that one pitched battle of which the Cross was the banner and the …

Roads Cleared

Isaiah 57:14

… or accepted in its real meaning and so men meet with stumbling blocks. Satan is always ready to prevent souls from finding peace in Christ. He will inject …

Psalm 126

Psalm 126

… from the power of their enemies, not temporal, but eternal, even from death, Satan and hell itself? Wherefore we take this Psalm to be a prophecy of the …

The Believer Not An Orphan

… could, but there is an Advocate with the Father who pleads for us. Satan would snatch from us every promise, and tear from us all the comforts of …

Samuel and the Young Man Saul

1 Samuel 9:27

… of the sermon that was likely to be of good to our souls, Satan would try to make us lose it. And as I do not know which …

The Unkept Vineyard—or, Personal Work Neglected

Solomon 1:6

… Brothers and Sisters, too many eat the unripe fruit of the vineyards of Satan—and the fruits of the Lord's vines they utterly despise! Think of our …

The Parable of the Sower

… that there is no hope of the seed finding a living root-hold. Satan is constantly passing over your heart with his company of blasphemies, lusts, lies, and …

The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies with Him

Revelation 19:11-16

… He looked upon it from Heaven's point of view and saw the conflict between good and evil, between Christ and Satan, between the Truth of God and …

The Parable of the Sower

Luke 8:4-8

… that there is no hope of the seed finding a living root-hold. Satan is constantly passing over your heart with his company of blasphemies, lusts, lies, and …

Psalm 32

Psalm 32

… So that they are truly penitent who have overcome sin and Satan in their spiritual combat, and have triumphed over them as vanquished enemies. Archibald Symson. Verse 11 …