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Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.15.25

“My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”~ Psalm 22:1 ~ We here behold the Saviour in the depth of His sorrows. No other place so well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as that in which His cry rends the air “My God, my God, why… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.14.25

“All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head.”~ Psalm 22:7 ~ Mockery was a great ingredient in our Lord’s woe. Judas mocked Him in the garden; the chief priests and scribes laughed Him to scorn; Herod set Him at nought; the servants and the soldiers jeered at Him, and brutally… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.13.25

“A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.”~ Song of Solomon 1:13 ~ Myrrh may well be chosen as the type of Jesus on account of its preciousness, its perfume, its pleasantness, its healing, preserving, disinfecting qualities, and its connection with sacrifice. But why is He compared to “a bundle of myrrh”? First, for plenty. He is not a… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.12.25

“My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.”~Psalm 22:14 ~ Our blessed Lord experienced a terrible sinking and melting of soul. “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?” Deep depression of spirit is the most grievous of all trials; all besides is as nothing. Well… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.11.25

“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.”~ Psalm 22:14 ~ Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our Lord felt Himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken Him with great violence, had… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.09.25

“And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him.”~ Luke 23:27 ~ Amid the rabble rout which hounded the Redeemer to His doom, there were some gracious souls whose bitter anguish sought vent in wailing and lamentations fit music to accompany that march of woe. When my soul can, in imagination,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.08.25

“If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”~ Luke 23:31 ~ Among other interpretations of this suggestive question, the following is full of teaching: “If the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself the dry tree shall fall into the hands of an angry God?”… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.07.25

“O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?”~ Psalm 4:2 ~ An instructive writer has made a mournful list of the honours which the blinded people of Israel awarded to their long-expected King. (1.) They gave Him a procession of honour, in which Roman legionaries, Jewish priests, men and women, took a part, He… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.06.25

“Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp.”~ Hebrews 13:13 ~ Jesus, bearing His cross, went forth to suffer without the gate. The Christian’s reason for leaving the camp of the world’s sin and religion is not because he loves to be singular, but because Jesus did so; and the disciple must follow his Master. Christ was “not… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.05.25

“On Him they laid the cross, that He might bear it after Jesus.”~ Luke 23:26 ~ WE see in Simon’s carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after Jesus. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.04.25

“For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”~ 2 Corinthians 5:21 ~ Mourning Christian! why weepest thou? Art thou mourning over thine own corruptions? Look to thy perfect Lord, and remember, thou art complete in Him; thou art in God’s sight as perfect… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.03.25

“They took Jesus, and led Him away.”~ John 19:16 ~ He had been all night in agony, He had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, He had been hurried from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; He had, therefore, but little strength left, and yet neither refreshment nor rest… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.02.25

“He answered him to never a word.”~ Matthew 27:14 ~ He had never been slow of speech when He could bless the sons of men, but He would not say a single word for Himself. “Never man spake like this Man,” and never man was silent like Him. Was this singular silence the index of His perfect self-sacrifice? Did it… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.01.25

“Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth.”~ Song of Solomon 1:2 ~ For several days we have been dwelling upon the Saviour’s passion, and for some little time to come we shall linger there. In beginning a new month, let us seek the same desires after our Lord as those which glowed in the heart of the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.31.25

“And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.”~ 2 Samuel 21:10 ~ If the love of a… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.31.25

“With His stripes we are healed.”~ Isaiah 53:5 ~ Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews; so that every time the lash came down these pieces of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.30.25

“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.”~ Lamentations 3:40 ~ The spouse who fondly loves her absent husband longs for his return; a long protracted separation from her Lord is a semi-death to her spirit: and so with souls who love the Saviour much, they must see His face, they cannot bear that He… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.30.25

“He was numbered with the transgressors.”~ Isaiah 53:12 ~ Why did Jesus suffer Himself to be enrolled amongst sinners? This wonderful condescension was justified by many powerful reasons. In such a character He could the better become their advocate. In some trials there is an identification of the counsellor with the client, nor can they be looked upon in the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.29.25

I called him, but he gave me no answer.~ Song of Solomon 5:6 ~ Prayer sometimes tarrieth, like a petitioner at the gate, until the King cometh forth to fill her bosom with the blessings which she seeketh. The Lord, when he hath given great faith, has been known to try it by long delayings. He has suffered his servants… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.29.25

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.~ Hebrews 5:8 ~ We are told that the Captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering, therefore we who are sinful, and who are far from being perfect, must not wonder if we are called to pass through suffering too. Shall the head be… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.28.25

I will accept you with your sweet savour.~ Ezekiel 20:41 ~ The merits of our great Redeemer are as sweet savour to the Most High. Whether we speak of the active or passive righteousness of Christ, there is an equal fragrance. There was a sweet savour in his active life by which he honoured the law of God, and made… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.28.25

“The love of Christ which passeth knowledge.”~Ephesians 3:19 ~ The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fulness, its greatness, its faithfulness, passeth all human comprehension. Where shall language be found which shall describe His matchless, His unparalleled love towards the children of men? It is so vast and boundless that, as the swallow but skimmeth the water, and diveth… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.27.25

“And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.”~ Matthew 15:27 ~ This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST. The Master had talked about the children’s bread: “Now,” argued she, “since Thou art the Master of the table of grace, I know that Thou art… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.27.25

“Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.~ Matthew 26:56 ~ He never deserted them, but they in cowardly fear of their lives, fled from Him in the very beginning of His sufferings. This is but one instructive instance of the frailty of all believers if left to themselves; they are but sheep at the best, and they flee when… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.26.25

“When He cometh in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”~ Mark 8:38 ~ If we have been partakers with Jesus in His shame, we shall be sharers with Him in the lustre which shall surround Him when He appears again in glory. Art thou, beloved one, with Christ Jesus? Does a vital union knit thee to Him?… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.26.25

“Jesus said unto them, If ye seek Me, let these go their way.” ~ John 18:8 ~ Mark, my soul, the care which Jesus manifested even in His hour of trial, towards the sheep of His hand! The ruling passion is strong in death. He resigns Himself to the enemy, but He interposes a word of power to set His… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.25.25

“The Son of man.”~ John 3:13 ~ How constantly our Master used the title, the “Son of man!” If He had chosen, He might always have spoken of Himself as the Son of God, the Everlasting Father, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Prince of Peace; but behold the lowliness of Jesus! He prefers to call Himself the Son of man.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.25.25

“Betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?”~ Luke 22:48 ~ The kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss. Whenever a man is about to stab religion, he usually professes very… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.24.25

“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit.”~ Luke 10:21 ~ The Saviour was “a man of sorrows,“ but every thoughtful mind has discovered the fact that down deep in His innermost soul He carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy. Of all the human race, there was never a man who had a deeper, purer, or more abiding… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.24.25

He was heard in that he feared.”~ Hebrews 5:7 ~ Did this fear arise from the infernal suggestion that He was utterly forsaken. There may be sterner trials than this, but surely it is one of the worst to be utterly forsaken? “See,” said Satan, “thou hast a friend nowhere! Thy Father hath shut up the bowels of His compassion… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.23.25

“I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”~ Luke 19:40 ~ But could the stones cry out? Assuredly they could if He who opens the mouth of the dumb should bid them lift up their voice. Certainly if they were to speak, they would have much to testify in praise of Him… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.23.25

“His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”~ Luke 22:44 ~ The mental pressure arising from our Lord’s struggle with temptation, so forced his frame to an unnatural excitement, that his pores sent forth great drops of blood which fell down to the ground. This proves how tremendous must have been the weight… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.22.25

“Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am.”~ John 17:24 ~ O death! why dost thou touch the tree beneath whose spreading branches weariness hath rest? Why dost thou snatch away the excellent of the earth, in whom is all our delight? If thou must use thine axe, use it upon… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.22.25

“He went a little farther, and fell on His face, and prayed.”~ Matthew 26:39 ~ There are several instructive features in our Saviour’s prayer in His hour of trial. It was lonely prayer. He withdrew even from His three favoured disciples. Believer, be much in solitary prayer, especially in times of trial. Family prayer, social prayer, prayer in the Church,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.21.25

“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?”~ Job 38:31 ~ If inclined to boast of our abilities, the grandeur of nature may soon show us how puny we are. We cannot move the least of all the twinkling stars, or quench so much as one of the beams of the morning. We speak… (more…)

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