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Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.08.24

“Thy love is better than wine.”~ Song of Solomon 1:2 ~ Nothing gives the believer so much joy as fellowship with Christ. He has enjoyment as others have in the common mercies of life, he can be glad both in God’s gifts and God’s works; but in all these separately, yea, and in all of them added together, he doth… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.08.24

“The iniquity of the holy things.” ~ Exodus 28:38 ~ What a veil is lifted up by these words, and what a disclosure is made! It will be humbling and profitable for us to pause awhile and see this sad sight. The iniquities of our public worship, its hypocrisy, formality, lukewarmness, irreverence, wandering of heart and forgetfulness of God, what… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.07.24

“Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening. ~ Ezekiel 33:22 ~ In the way of judgment this may be the case, and, if so, be it mine to consider the reason of such a visitation, and bear the rod and Him that hath appointed it. I am not the only one who is chastened in… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.07.24

“For me to live is Christ.” ~ Philippians 1:21 ~ The believer did not always live to Christ. He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a propitiation for his guilt. From the moment of the new and celestial birth the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.06.24

“And the LORD shall guide thee continually.”~ Isaiah 58:11 ~ The Lord shall guide thee.” Not an angel, but JEHOVAH shall guide thee. He said He would not go through the wilderness before His people, an angel should go before them to lead them in the way; but Moses said, “If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.06.24

“Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” ~ 1 Peter 5:7 ~ It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel HE careth for me.” Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight which your Father… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.05.24

“And God saw the light.”~ Genesis 1:4 ~ This morning we noticed the goodness of the light, and the Lord’s dividing it from the darkness, we now note the special eye which the Lord had for the light. “God saw the light He looked at it with complacency, gazed upon it with pleasure, saw that it “was good.” If the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.05.24

“And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” ~ Genesis 1:4 ~ Light  might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, “Let there be light.” We who enjoy it should be more grateful for it than we are, and see more of God in it and by… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.04.24

“And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.” ~ Genesis 42:8 ~ This morning our desires went forth for growth in our acquaintance with the Lord Jesus; it may be well to-night to consider a kindred topic, namely, our heavenly Joseph’s knowledge of us. This was most blessedly perfect long before we had the slightest knowledge of Him.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.04.24

“Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” ~ 2 Peter 3:18 ~ GROW in grace not in one grace only, but in all grace. Grow in that root-grace, faith. Believe the promises more firmly than you have done. Let faith increase in fullness, constancy, simplicity. Grow also in love. Ask that your love… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.03.24

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”~ Luke 3:4 ~ The voice crying in the wilderness demanded a way for the Lord, a way prepared, and a way prepared in the wilderness. I would be attentive to the Master’s proclamation, and give Him a road into my heart,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.03.23

“I will give thee for a covenant of the people.” ~ Isaiah 49:8 ~ JESUS Christ is Himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts, He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? “In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Consider that… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.02.24

“Let the people renew their strength.”~ Isaiah 41:1 ~ ALL things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing continueth by itself. “Thou renewest the face of the earth,” was the Psalmist’s utterance. Even the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten their lives with labour, must drink of the rain of heaven and suck from the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.02.24

“Continue in prayer.” ~ Colossians 4:2 ~ IT is interesting to remark how large a portion of Sacred Writ is occupied with the subject of prayer, either in furnishing examples, enforcing precepts, or pronouncing promises. We scarcely open the Bible before we read, “Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord;” and just as we are about… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.01.24

“We will be glad and rejoice in Thee.” ~ Song of Solomon 1:4 ~ We will be glad and rejoice in Thee. We will not open the gates of the year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains of the harp of joy, and the high sounding cymbals of gladness. “O come, let us sing… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.01.24

“They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.” ~ Joshua 5:12 ~ ISRAEL’S weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land.… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.31.23

“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”~ Jeremiah 8:20 ~ Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life, and yet at this moment not saved! You know the way of salvation, you read it in the Bible, you hear it from… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.31.23

“They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.”~ Joshua 5:1 ~ Israel’s weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land. Perhaps… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.23

“Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?”~ 2 Samuel 2:26 ~ O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine end. You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because others… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.23

“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.”~ Ecclesiastes 7:8 ~ Look at David’s Lord and Master; see His beginning. He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Would you see the end? He sits at His Father’s right hand, expecting until His enemies be made his footstool. “As He… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.29.23

“What think ye of Christ?”~ Matthew 22:42 ~ The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is He to you “fairer than the children of men “the chief among ten thousand” the “altogether lovely”? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man exercise themselves with energy. I will judge of your… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.29.23

“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.”~ 1 Samuel 7:12 ~ The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet, “hitherto the Lord hath helped!” Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea, in honour, in dishonour, in perplexity, in joy,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.28.23

“I came not to send peace on earth, but a sword.”~  Matthew 10:34 ~ The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if to do the right, and to believe the I true, should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will count it but a small loss,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.27.23

“And the LORD shall guide thee continually.”~ Isaiah 58:11 ~ The Lord shall guide thee.” Not an angel, but JEHOVAH shall guide thee. He said He would not go through the wilderness before His people, an angel should go before them to lead them in the way; but Moses said, “If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.27.23

“Can the rush grow up without mire?”~ Job 8:11 ~ The rush is spongy and hollow, and even so is a hypocrite; there is no substance or stability in him. It is shaken to and fro in every wind just as formalists yield to every influence; for this reason the rush is not broken by the tempest, neither are hypocrites… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.26.23

“Lo, I am with you alway.”~ Matthew 28:20 ~ The Lord Jesus is in the midst of His church; He walketh among the golden candlesticks; His promise is, “Lo, I am with you alway.” He is as surely with us now as He was with the disciples at the lake, when they saw coals of fire, and fish laid thereon… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.26.23

“The last Adam.”~ 1 Corinthians 15:45 ~ Jesus is the federal head of His elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and representative of the race as considered under the law of works; so under the law of grace, every redeemed soul is one with the Lord… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.25.23

“And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.”~ Job 1:5… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.25.23

“Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”~ Isaiah 7:14 ~ Let us to-day go down to Bethlehem, and in company with wondering shepherds and adoring Magi, let us see Him who was born King of the Jews, for we by faith can claim an interest in Him, and can sing, “Unto us… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.24.23

“For your sakes he became poor.”~ 2 Corinthians 8:9 ~ The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but “though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor.” As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance he ministers to their necessities, so (the same rule holding… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.24.23

“The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”~ Isaiah 40:5 ~ We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.23.23

“The night also is Thine.”~ Psalm 74:16 ~ Yes, Lord, Thou dost not abdicate Thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost Thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; Thine eyes watch us as the stars, and Thine arms surround us as the zodiac belts the sky. The dews of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.23.23

“Friend, go up higher.”~ Luke 14:10 ~ When first the life of grace begins in the soul, we do indeed draw near to God, but it is with great fear and trembling. The soul conscious of guilt, and humbled thereby, is overawed with the solemnity of its position; it is cast to the earth by a sense of the grandeur… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.22.23

“The spot of His children.”~ Deuteronomy 32:5 ~ What is the secret spot which infallibly betokens the child of God? It were vain presumption to decide this upon our own judgment; but God’s word reveals it to us, and we may tread surely where we have revelation to be our guide. Now, we are told concerning our Lord, “to as… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.22.23

“I will strengthen thee.”~ Isaiah 41:10 ~ God has a strong reserve with which to discharge this engagement; for He is able to do all things. Believer, till thou canst drain dry the ocean of omnipotence, till thou canst break into pieces the towering mountains of almighty strength, thou never needest to fear. Think not that the strength of man… (more…)

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