Spurgeon Commentary: 2 Peter
Spurgeon’s Writings in Commentary Format
Benefit from the incredible wisdom of Charles Spurgeon, passage by passage. Spurgeon’s writings on the Bible fill dozens of volumes; his thoughts on particular passages are scattered across numerous books and sermons. This volume collects his thoughts on 2 Peter in a commentary format, with illustrations and applications culled from his sermons and writings.
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What This Commentary Offers
The Spurgeon Commentary: 2 Peter makes Spurgeon’s content accessible—there’s no longer a need to comb through many volumes looking for one nugget of wisdom. Spurgeon’s writings are now curated in a format that is tied directly to the biblical text.
The commentary directs you to places where Spurgeon explicitly cites or alludes to a verse, using specialized, technology-based research to offer you the best of Spurgeon. It highlights illustration content: illustrations accompany the commentary and are tagged with preaching themes, so the preacher looking for an illustration relating to either a topic or a verse will be able to find one easily. It highlights application content: each section of Scripture includes at least one application from Spurgeon based on those verses. It saves time: reading Spurgeon for pleasure is wonderful, but preachers and teachers working under deadlines need ways to streamline their sermon preparation process. This commentary does all this by trimming the excess out of Spurgeon’s sermon archive and increasing functionality, usability, and readability. Outdated language has even been updated, making Spurgeon’s writing easier than ever to understand.
Top Highlights
“The Lord must not only open the gates of heaven to us at the last, but He must open the gates of our heart to faith at the first. It is not enough for us to know that He must make us perfect in every good work to do His will. We must be taught that He must even give us a desire after Christ, and when this is given, He must enable us to give the grip of the hand of faith whereby Jesus Christ becomes our Savior and Lord.” (2 Peter 1:1)
“The more we know of God, the more grounds and reasons we shall have for enjoying grace and peace. The more we know of God and of Jesus our Lord, the more our enjoyment of grace and peace will be multiplied.” (2 Peter 1:2)
“There is indeed a blessed equality here, for the poorest little-faith who ever crept into heaven on its hands and knees, has a faith equal in value with the mighty Apostle Peter. I say, if the one be gold, so is the other; if the one can move mountains, so can the other; for remember that the privileges of mountain moving, and of plucking up the trees and casting them into the sea, are not given to great faith, but ‘if you have faith like a mustard seed’ (Matt 17:20), it shall be done. Little faith has a royal descent and is as truly of divine birth as is the greatest and fullest assurance that ever made glad the heart of man. Hence it ensures the same inheritance at the last, and the same safety by the way.” (2 Peter 1:1)
“The precious promises of our great God are expressly intended to be taken to him and exchanged for the blessings which they guarantee. Prayer takes the promise to the Bank of Faith and obtains the golden blessing. Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality. Some people pray a long time but do not get what they are supposed to ask for, because they do not plead the promise in a truthful, businesslike way.” (source)
Product Details
- Title: Spurgeon Commentary: 2 Peter
- Author: Charles Spurgeon
- Editor: Elliot Ritzema
- Series: Spurgeon Commentary Series
- Publisher: Logos Bible Software
- Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 86
C. H. Spurgeon (1834–1892) is one of the church’s most famous preachers and Christianity’s most prolific writers. He converted to Christianity in 1850 at a small Methodist chapel and began his own ministry immediately, preaching more than 500 sermons by the age of 20. Logos has collected his sermons in The Complete Spurgeon Sermon Collection (63 vols.).
Spurgeon was the pastor of New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle). Many of his sermons were published each week and regularly sold more than 25,000 copies in 20 languages. Spurgeon is still known as the “Prince of Preachers” by Reformed Christians and Baptists.
Spurgeon founded the Pastor’s College (now Spurgeon’s College) in London. Dwight L. Moody was deeply influenced by Spurgeon’s preaching, and founded the Moody Bible Institute after seeing Spurgeon’s work at the Pastor’s College in London.
By the time of Spurgeon’s death in 1892, he had preached almost 3,600 sermons and published, also under the name Charles H. Spurgeon, 49 volumes of commentaries, along with numerous books of sayings, devotions, and more. The Charles Spurgeon Collection (149 vols.) contains over 3,550 sermons from this gifted speaker and leader and his most-loved works like The Treasury of David, Lectures to My Students, The Sword and Trowel, and dozens of other volumes. Also available from Logos is Spurgeon Commentary: Galatians, and the Spurgeon Sermon Upgrade Collection (2 vols.).