Category Archives: Morning’s With Spurgeon

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.24

“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…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.29.24

“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…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.28.24

“The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.”~ Galatians 2:20 ~ When the Lord in mercy passed by and saw us in our blood, He first of all said, “Live”; and this He did first, because life is one of the absolutely essential things in spiritual matters, and until… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.27.24

“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…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.26.24

“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…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.25.24

“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 ~ 12.24.24

“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…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.23.24

“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…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.22.24

“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…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.21.24

“Yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant.”~ 2 Samuel 23:5 ~ This covenant is divine in its origin. “HE hath made with me an everlasting covenant.” Oh that great word HE! Stop, my soul. God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with thee; yes, that God who spake the world into existence by a word; He,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.20.24

“Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” ~ Jeremiah 31:3 ~ Sometimes the Lord Jesus tells His Church His love thoughts. “He does not think it enough behind her back to tell it, but in her very presence He says, ‘Thou art all fair, my love.’ It is true, this is not His ordinary method; He is a… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.19.24

“The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.”~ Proverbs 16:33 ~ If the disposal of the lot is the Lord’s whose is the arrangement of our whole life? If the simple casting of a lot is guided by Him, how much more the events of our entire life especially when we are… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.18.24

“Rend your heart, and not your garments.” ~ Joel 2:13 ~ Garment-rending and other outward signs of religious emotion, are easily manifested and are frequently hypocritical; but to feel true repentance is far more difficult, and consequently far less common. Men will attend to the most multiplied and minute ceremonial regulations for such things are pleasing to the flesh but… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.17.24

“I remember thee.”~ Jeremiah 2:2 ~ Let us note that Christ delights to think upon His Church, and to look upon her beauty. As the bird returneth often to its nest, and as the wayfarer hastens to his home, so doth the mind continually pursue the object of its choice. We cannot look too often upon that face which we… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.16.24

“Come unto me.”~ Matthew 11:28 ~ The cry of the Christian religion is the gentle word, “Come.” The Jewish law harshly said, “Go, take heed unto thy steps as to the path in which thou shalt walk. Break the commandments, and thou shalt perish; keep them, and thou shalt live.” The law was a dispensation of terror, which drove men… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.15.24

“Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her.”~ Ruth 1:14 ~ Both of them had an affection for Naomi, and therefore set out with her upon her return to the land of Judah. But the hour of test came; Naomi most unselfishly set before each of them the trials which awaited them, and bade them if they cared for… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.14.24

“They go from strength to strength.”~ Psalm 84:7 ~ They go from strength to strength. There are various renderings of these words, but all of them contain the idea of progress. Our own good translation of the authorized version is enough for us this morning. “They go from strength to strength.” That is, they grow stronger and stronger. Usually, if… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.13.24

“Salt without prescribing how much.”~ Ezra 7:22 ~ Salt was used in every offering made by fire unto the Lord, and from its preserving and purifying properties it was the grateful emblem of divine grace in the soul. It is worthy of our attentive regard that, when Artaxerxes gave salt to Ezra the priest, he set no limit to the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.12.24

“His ways are everlasting.”~ Habakkuk 3:6 ~ What He hath done at one time, He will do yet again. Man’s ways are variable, but God’s ways are everlasting. There are many reasons for this most comforting truth: among them are the following—the Lord’s ways are the result of wise deliberation; He ordereth all things according to the counsel of His… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.11.24

“Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.”~ 1 Thessalonians 5:24 ~ Heaven is a place where we shall never sin; where we shall cease our constant watch against an indefatigable enemy, because there will be no tempter to ensnare our feet. There the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. Heaven is the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.10.24

“So shall we ever be with the Lord.”~ 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ~ Even the sweetest visits from Christ, how short they are and how transitory! One moment our eyes see Him, and we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, but again a little time and we do not see Him, for our beloved withdraws Himself from us; like… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.09.24

“Therefore will the Lord wait that He may be gracious unto you.”~ Isaiah 30:18 ~ GOD often DELAYS IN ANSWERING PRAYER. We have several instances of this in sacred Scripture. Jacob did not get the blessing from the angel until near the dawn of day he had to wrestle all night for it. The poor woman of Syrophenicia was answered… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.08.24

“Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.”~ Revelation 3:4 ~ We may understand this to refer to justification. “They shall walk in white”; that is, they shall enjoy a constant sense of their own justification by faith; they shall understand that… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.07.24

  “Base things of the world hath God chosen.”~ 1 Corinthians 1:28 ~ Walk the streets by moonlight, if you dare, and you will see sinners then. Watch when the night is dark, and the wind is howling, and the picklock is grating in the door, and you will see sinners then. Go to yon jail, and walk through the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.06.24

“As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.”~ 1 Corinthians 15:48 ~ The head and members are of one nature, and not like that monstrous image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream. The head was of fine gold, but the belly and thighs were of brass, the legs of iron, and the feet, part of iron and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.05.24

“Ask, and it shall be given you.”~ Matthew 7:7 ~ We know of a place in England still existing, where a dole of bread is served to every passerby who chooses to ask for it. Whoever the traveller may be, he has but to knock at the door of St. Cross Hospital, and there is the dole of bread for… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.04.24

“I have much people in this city.”~ Acts 18:10 ~ This should be a great encouragement to try to do good, since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because God has ordained you… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.03.24

“There is no spot in thee.”~ Song of Solomon 4:7 ~ Having pronounced His Church positively full of beauty, our Lord confirms His praise by a precious negative, “There is no spot in I thee.” As if the thought occurred to the Bridegroom that the carping world would insinuate that He had only mentioned her comely parts, and had purposely… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.02.24

“Thou art all fair, my love.”~ Song of Solomon 4:7 ~ The Lord’s admiration of His Church is very a wonderful, and His description of her beauty is very glowing. She is not merely fair, but “all fair.” He views her in Himself, washed in His sin-atoning blood and clothed in His meritorious righteousness, and He considers her to be… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.01.24

“Thou hast made summer and winter.”~ Psalm 74:17 ~ My soul begin this wintry month with thy God. The cold snows and the piercing winds all remind thee that He keeps His covenant with day and night, and tend to assure thee that He will also keep that glorious covenant which He has made with thee in the person of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.30.24

“And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.”~ 2 Chronicles 25:9 ~ A very important question this seemed to be to the king of Judah,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.29.24

“Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people . . . Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.”~ Leviticus 19:16, 17 ~ Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told. Whether the report be true… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.28.24

“For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.”~ 3 John 3 ~ The truth was in Gaius, and Gaius walked in the truth. If the first had not been the case, the second could never have occurred; and if the second could not be… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.27.24

“Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord.”~ Zechariah 3:1 ~ In Joshua the high priest we see a picture of each and every child of God, who has been made nigh by the blood of Christ, and has been taught to minister in holy things, and enter into that which is within the veil. Jesus has… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.26.24

“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”~ Ecclesiastes 9:10 ~ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,” refers to works that are possible. There are many things which our heart findeth to do which we never shall do. It is well it is in our heart; but if we would be eminently useful, we must not be… (more…)

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