More Spurgeon

I think that anybody who has been brought to find the Saviour, and who prayerfully studies the reasons for his salvation, can see the same truth that the Lord revealed to me. Because, first of all, you began to be thoughtful, did you not? Who made you thoughtful? You would never have found the Savour if you had not become thoughtful instead of careless and indifferent. Who made you think of divine things? What influence was it which wrought upon you, and caused you to feel that you must think about eternity, and heaven, and hell? Surely it was God the Holy Ghost going forth, in the name of Jesus Christ, and dealing with you in mercy.

Then you had a sense of your need and of your sinfulness. There was a time when you had no such sense; then, who gave it to you? Where do you think that repentance, that sorrow for sin, that desire after Christ, came from? Did all that grow in your own fallen human nature? Ah, believe me, that dunghill never brought forth such fair flowers as these! No, it was Christ who sowed the good seed in your soul; it was he who made you feel your need of him.

Lordship Preaching

"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 from the freedom of the will."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon quote

"It will be an ill day for the church and the world when the proposed amalgamation shall be complete, and the Sons of God and the daughters of men shall be as one: then shall another deluge of wrath be ushered in."

Worship

The following is an excerpt from Worship Matters, a book by Bob Kauflin Crossway

“In a letter written from prison, Paul requested Timothy to bring him “the books” (2Timothy 4:13). Charles Spurgeon, the 19th century “prince of preachers,” expressed amazement at such a request from Paul: ”He was inspired, and yet he wants books! He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wants books! He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He had a wider experience than most men do, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had heard things that it was not lawful for a man to utter, and yet he wants books! He had written a major part of the New Testament, and yet he wants books!”

Spurgeon then reminds us, “He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves he has no brains of his own.”

"Many preachers are utterly ignorant as to how the built of the people are living; they are at home among books, but quite at sea among men . . . Read men as well as books, and love men rather than opinions, or you will be inanimate preachers"
(Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 318).