-"Every Christian man has
a choice between being humble and being humbled."
-"God helps those who CANNOT help themselves." (Emphasis added)
-"What the sun is to the day, what the moon is to the night, what the dew is to
the flower, such is Jesus Christ to us. What bread is to the hungry, clothes to
the naked, the shadow of a great rock to the traveler in a weary land, such is
Jesus Christ to us. What the husband is to his spouse, what the head is to the
body, such is Jesus Christ to us."
-"There was never a sinner half as big as Christ is as a Saviour." (Christ is a
greater Saviour than man is a sinner)
-"It is the will of God that saves. It is the will of man that damns."
-"To be prepared to die is to be prepared to live. To be ready for eternity is
in the best sense to be ready for time. Who is so fit to live on earth as the
man who is fit to live in heaven?"
-"Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might
become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us
in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent."
-"Remember, he that believes shall be saved, be his sins ever so many. And he
that believes not must perish, be his sins ever so few."
-"I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this,
that I may die to self, and live wholly to him."
-"The Christian gains by his losses. He acquires health by his sickness. He
wins friends through his bereavements, and he becomes a conqueror through his
defeats. Nothing therefore, can be injurious to the Christian, when the very
worst things that he has are but rough waves to wash his golden ships home to
port and enrich him."
-"A man never believes in Jesus till he knows himself to be nothing."
-"There is something for us to do in the wilderness, and so we are kept out of
the heavenly garden for now."
-"We are often told that we limit the atonement of Christ, because we say that
Christ has not made satisfaction for all men, or all men would be saved. Now,
our reply to this is that, on the other hand, our opponents limit it, we do
not. The Arminians say, Christ died for all men. Ask them what they mean by
it. Did Christ die so as to secure the salvation of all men? They say, "No,
certainly not." We ask them the next question-Did Christ die so as to secure
the salvation of any man in particular? They say, "No." They are obliged to
admit this if they are consistent. They say, "No; Christ has died so that any
man may be saved if"-and then follow certain conditions of salvation. We say
then, we will just go back to the old statement-Christ did not die so as beyond
a doubt to secure the salvation of anybody, did He? You must say, "No;" you are
obliged to say so, for you believe that even after a man has been pardoned, he
may yet fall from grace and perish. Now, who is it that limits the death of
Christ? Why you... We say Christ so died that He infallibly secured the
salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not
only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility
run the hazard of being anything but saved. You are welcome to your atonement;
you may keep it. We will never renounce ours for the sake of it. (Sermon 181,
New York Street Pulpit, IV, p. 135)
-"A redemption which pays a price, but does not ensure that which is purchased -
a redemption which calls Christ a substitute for the sinner, but yet which
allows the person to suffer - is altogether unworthy of our apprehensions of
Almighty God. It offers no homage to his wisdom, and does despite to his
covenant faithfulness. We could not and would not receive such a travesty of
divine truth as that would be. There is no ground for any comfort whatever in
it." (Sermons, Vol. 49, p. 39)
Is salvation God's choice or
mans'?
-"I have
my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him
crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname
to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not
believe we can preach the gospel if we do not preach justification by faith
without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation
of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing unchangeable eternal, immutable,
conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel unless we
base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen
people which Christ wrought out upon the cross." (Autobiography: 1, The Early
Years, p. 168)
-"I am not a Calvinist by choice, but because I cannot help it." (Sermons, Vol.
18, p. 692)
-"Rebellion against divine election is often founded on the idea that the sinner
has a sort of right to be saved, and this is to deny the full desert of sin.
(Sermons, Vol. 24, p.302)
-"I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, "If any man ascribes
anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he
knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly."
-"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own
free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my
Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are Mine, and you shall be
Mine. I claim you for Myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and
not the freedom of the will."
-"I believe that Christ came into the world not to put men into a salvable
state, but into a saved state. Not to put them where they could save
themselves, but to do the work in them and for them, from first to last. If I
did not believe that there was might going forth with the word of Jesus which
makes me willing, and which turns them from the error of their ways by the
mighty, overwhelming, constraining force of divine influence, I should cease to
glory in the cross of Christ." (Sermons, Vol. 3, p. 34)
Immanuel
by C.H. Spurgeon
There are many of
C.H. Spurgeon's
writings and sermons scattered across the Internet. Some of these sites have no
other content besides his work, and yet some offer a variety of other material
or links to other organizations... It is with sadness that I warn you:
God is beginning to judge
the churches for their disobedience
to Him, and therefore I am only linking to Spurgeon material, and not to
anything else on these sites.
Jeremiah 23:2,
"Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my
people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited
them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 44:20-23,
"Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to
all the people which had given him that answer, saying, The incense that ye
burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your
fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the
LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind? So that the LORD could no
longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations
which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as at this day. Because ye have
burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed
the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day."
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