Spurgeon on the Holy Spirit

It is a collection of twelve of Charles Spurgeon's sermons on the Holy Spirit, gathered into one volume. Arranged in four movements — who the Spirit is, his work in salvation, his work in the believer, and his power in the church — they teach that the Spirit is a divine Person, and that every true conversion, every true prayer and every true revival is his work.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) was the most famous English preacher of the nineteenth century, the 'Prince of Preachers,' pastor of New Park Street Chapel and then the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. His sermons were printed weekly from 1855, and the Holy Spirit was a theme he returned to from the first weeks of that printed ministry to the end of his life.

Yes, emphatically. 'The Personality of the Holy Ghost,' preached in January 1855 on John 14:16–17, opens the book by insisting that the Spirit is not a mere influence or power but a Person, truly God, who is to be loved, trusted and worshipped — and who can be grieved, as the sermon 'Grieving the Holy Spirit' warns from Ephesians 4:30.

It is one of Spurgeon's most searching sermons. From the picture of grass that withers when the breath of the Lord blows upon it, he shows that the Spirit first humbles a person — withering their confidence in their own goodness — before the incorruptible seed of the Word takes root and makes them new.

In 'The Holy Spirit's Intercession,' on Romans 8:26–27, he comforts believers who do not know how to pray: the Spirit helps their infirmities and intercedes for them with groanings that cannot be uttered. 'The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit' urges the church to pray for the Spirit to fall upon its preaching as he fell while Peter was still speaking.

No. The sermons are given as they were printed in the New Park Street and Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, with the Authorised Version that Spurgeon quoted. They were chosen from transcriptions of the original printed text, not from later editions that updated his Scripture quotations into modern English.

Each sermon stands complete on its own, so any of them is a fair start. 'The Personality of the Holy Ghost' lays the foundation for the rest, while 'The Holy Spirit's Intercession' and 'The Comforter' are the gentlest places to begin for a reader who comes looking for comfort.