SPURGEON BY TOPIC
Work & Service
Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
4,216 matching pieces across the archive. Study this subject in the Bible →
Plowing Rock
Amos 6:12
… useless labor, so let us pray to God to turn that rock into good soil. It needs a miracle to be worked and only God can work it …
SERMON • SERMON 259A Home Mission Sermon
Ecclesiastes 9:10
… The mountain was in labor, and labor it did. Now, I have been told that the secretary of the Chinese mission called upon the editor of the aforesaid …
SERMON • SERMON 2083One Lost Sheep
Matthew 18:12
… But every Believer should labor to acquire it. Seek the souls of men one by one. It is far easier work to me to speak to you all …
SERMON • SERMON 2632"What Shall the Harvest Be?"
Hosea 8:7
… Labor on, then, Beloved, "steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 706Fields White For Harvest
John 4:35
… know that there are other reapers at work? If the Christian does not work, there are others who will labor. If the Truth of God does not now …
SERMON • SERMON 1066A Call For Revival
Solomon 7:11-13
… uncomfortable service. She says, "I will lodge in the villages." There will she abide awhile, not paying a flying visit, but stopping until the good work is done …
SERMON • SERMON 3442'The Desire Of All Nations'
Haggai 2:7
… We do not labor in vain, neither do we spend our strength for nothing. We fall bacl upon the Doctrine of Divine worl-ing and Divine choice for …
SERMON • SERMON 832The Best Cloak
Isaiah 59:17
… Our Lord Jesus Christ realized this fact, for in mental labor He condensed whole centuries of holy thought and desire into those three short years of His service …
COMMENTARYPsalm 136
Psalm 136
… Even when the Lord uses men as his instruments, yet the wonder of the work is his alone; therefore let us not trust in men, or idolize them …
SERMON • SERMON 3192The Soul's Food and Drink
John 6:55
… Christ told these people not to labor for that which they could only get by labor—"Labor not for the food which perishes." Yet few men get their …
SERMON • SERMON 605Good Works In Good Company
Solomon 7:11-13
… It appears, from the words of the spouse, that the work of self-examination should be carried on in detail, if it is to be of real service …
SERMON • SERMON 2278Feeding on the Word
Isaiah 55:2
… The poor man spends his labor. But both of these ways come from self and they mean self-salvation—every man his own savior. This is not the …
SERMON • SERMON 1165The Christian's Motto
John 8:29
… We shall not do this by accident—we must give our whole souls to the work and labor mightily. No arrow reaches this target if the bow is …
SERMON • SERMON 2832Christ's Yoke and Burden
Matthew 11:30
… you that labor and are heavy laden." By that He means, "Do not suppose that because you are already laborers in another master's service, you can wear …
SERMON • SERMON 927Martha And Mary
Luke 10:38-42
… We cease to do work as to the Lord, we labor too much for the service's sake. The main thing in our minds is the service, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1783Pentecost
Acts 2:1
… I had forgotten till that moment that we have now reached the Levitical feast of Pentecost which contains, among its regulations, that no servile work is to be …
SERMON • SERMON 45Conversion
James 5:19-20
… is something to cheer the printers, and all of us who labor in that good work. One good brother wrote to me this week, “Brother Spurgeon, keep your …
SERMON • SERMON 463Sermon 463. Christ'S Servant—His Duty And Reward
John 12:26
… Now the Master comes forth boldly and begins to preach and teach and labor. If you would serve Him, follow Him! Labor for Him. In some way or …
SERMON • SERMON 1358All the People at Work for Jesus
… No need for regular plodding service in school and house meetings. No need to set our young men and women to work for Christ! The drill and organization …
SERMON • SERMON 472Believers—Lights In The World
Philippians 2:14-16
… If we imagine that the precepts of the Gospel were more stern in Apostolic times than in these later ages, we labor under a very gross and dangerous …
SERMON • SERMON 1979Three Sights Worth Seeing
1 Thessalonians 2:13-14
… If it were one soul saved by twenty years' work, we ought to feel that we could dance for joy, and count the service to be as nothing …
SERMON • SERMON 1699Supposing Him to be the Gardener
John 20:15
… It was not by its own nature that the garden was found in such a place; but by skill and labor it had been formed: even so the …
SERMON • SERMON 1599Everyday Religion
Galatians 2:20
… He says, "My Father works hitherto and I work." His was stern labor and sore travail—the zeal of God's House did eat Him up and the …
COMMENTARYPsalm 143
Psalm 143
… When the work of our own hand grieves us, let us look to the work of God's hands. Memory, meditation, and musing are here set together as …
SERMON • SERMON 1117The Father's Will
John 6:39
… You are told not to labor for that meat which no man can procure without labor, and you are told to labor for that bread which no man …
COMMENTARYPsalm 42
Psalm 42
… hold upon Christ, whereas it should be your work to reason yourselves into Christ as much as you can. Labour to strengthen your comforts, and reason thus, Why …
SERMON • SERMON 813The Privileged Man
Ezekiel 16:9-14
… work, it teaches me that the righteousness with which God covers His people is a work of labor, of skill, of care, of thought—not merely labor (though …
SERMON • SERMON 1936The Unkept Vineyard—or, Personal Work Neglected
Solomon 1:6
… Moreover, we have too much left the vineyard of holy service for God to go to ruin. I would ask you—How about the work your God has …
COMMENTARYPsalm 73
Psalm 73
… The clean hearted have all things work for their good. Ro 8:28. Mercies and afflictions shall turn to their good; the most poisonous drugs shall be medicinal …
SERMON • SERMON 2572Fellowship With Christ
1 Corinthians 10:16
… How they labor to put men away from them with their pomp, their tinsel, their gewgaws, and their parade! Christ, as the great Founder of a new dispensation …
SERMON • SERMON 3383The Plowman
Isaiah 28:24
… can say, "I have finished the work which You gave me to do." We prize that which costs us labor and service—and we shall set all the …
SERMON • SERMON 406The Infallibility of God’s Purpose
Job 23:13
… We have to labor too. How hard do some men labor who have to toil for their daily bread! Their bread is saturated with their sweat; they wear …
SERMON • SERMON 1205All For Jesus!
Colossians 3:24
… Let us thank God for the measure of service which He has worked in us, and let us earnestly ask Him to work in us still further to …
SERMON • SERMON 358The New Park Street Pulpit
Ephesians 1:13
… And I do not doubt but his testimony to you would be, that at least, during the first part of the labor it seemed not to be labor …
SERMON • SERMON 1684"Feed My Lambs"—a Sunday School Sermon
John 21:15
… The shepherding of lambs is daily, hourly work. When is a shepherd's work over? How many hours a day does he labor? He will tell you that …
SERMON • SERMON 2929A Challenge and War Cry
1 Corinthians 15:55-58
… We are to work for it. We are to work with quietness. I suppose to some that is very hard work, but they must labor after it, for …
SERMON • SERMON 3058The Joy of Harvest
Isaiah 9:3
… And now his hopes are all fulfilled in the harvest before him! His labor is all repaid. Many a time have his workmen plodded to and fro over …
SERMON • SERMON 462Creation—An Argument For Faith
Jeremiah 32:17
… can do through you and me, my Brother! O, let us labor, then! Let us work and toil. Let us think difficulties, delights, and troubles, but trifles. Let …
SERMON • SERMON 1948The Hedge of Thorns and the Plain Way
Proverbs 15:19
… Among the sanitary and salutary regulations of the moral universe there is none much better than this—that men must work. He who does not work is not …
SERMON • SERMON 981Carried by Four
Luke 5:16-26
… They need be strong, for the burden is heavy; they need be resolute, for the work will try their faith; they need be prayerful, for otherwise they labor …