The Bible

Glory!

1 Peter 5:10

… It is easy to chatter according to human fancy, but if we would follow the sure teaching of the Word of God, we shall have need to be …

The Truly Blessed Man

Psalm 1:1-3

… of the Lord, the Word of God. Of course, David had not a fourth of what we possess—it was a very little Bible, then—but it has …

The Preacher’s Power, and the Conditions of Obtaining It

… Brethren, we shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the …

The Sealing of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13

… The best evidence that you are saved lies in the assurance of the Word of God that every Believer has eternal hope." Whether you feel that you are …

New Uses for Old Trophies

2 Kings 11:10

… Texts of Scripture are sometimes used by the adversaries of the gospel, and turned against us. I know some ministers who, when they meet with a passage that …

The Shank-bone Sermon—Or, True Believers and Their Helpers

Acts 18:27

… The good Bible student has lips like a springing well. When the Word of God dwells in a man richly his speech drops fatness. Those who speak Scripture …

Sermons — Their Matter

… the hearers when it is plainly the very word of God—not a lecture about the Scripture, but Scripture itself opened up and enforced. It is due to …

The Priesthood of Believers

1 Peter 2:5

… Make that choice on the principle of having consecrated feet! Do not go where you cannot hear the pure Word of God. A Jew heard of a good …

The Best Bread

John 6:48

… It is well to know everything that is revealed, for every Word of God is good and has its uses—and all Scripture is profit-able—but the …

"Your Rowers Have Brought You Into Great Waters"

Ezekiel 27:26

… There is our anchor! Every mind needs a fixed point—we must have Infallibility somewhere—my Infallible Guide is Holy Scripture. I know of no other anchor. The …

Pressing Questions of an Awakened Mind

Acts 9:5

… I found in the Word of God the duty of Believers' Baptism. I had never met with any Baptist friends in my life until I had, for myself …

The Witness of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… Wherever this Bible is opened there is a showing of Christ's death! Why, the whole Book is full of it! There is a crimson line of atoning …

Heedlessness In Religion

2 Kings 10:31

… God did not put the Bible into my father's hands that He might construct certain notions which should bind his son—He placed the Bible in each …

Sins of Omission

Jeremiah 11:8

… This morning we may spend a little time most profitably by looking into the glass of Holy Scripture to discover the spots upon our countenances. Perhaps some of …

Manoah's Wife and Her Excellent Argument

Judges 13:22

… to say, "We shall surely die." Before the minister shall preach the Word of God to thousands, he must be emptied and made to tremble under a sense …

Solitude, Silence, Submission

Lamentations 3:28

… If you give them the Word of God, they begin to pull it to pieces! They ask, "Is God so severe that He will mark our faults? Does …

Life and Pardon

Colossians 2:13

… They may entertain some liking towards theological study and Bible teaching, as a matter of education. But they do not view the Truths of God revealed in Scripture …

Jerusalem the Guilty

Luke 13:33

… Oh, no—that little box on his forehead is inscribed with texts of Scripture! A Bible precept supplies him with a bold pretext—"You shall bind them for …

'No Root in Themselves'

Mark 4:17

… food, to be feeling after it all through the Word of God, sending roots into every text of Scripture that is likely to afford us spiritual nutriment! What …

Death and Its Sentence Abolished

Colossians 2:13

… But the understanding, spiritually, is under a cloud of night which the Word of God calls "death." So also is the human will dead to spiritual things. When …

Fruitless Faith

James 2:17

… This is a sharp cut to some professors, but not a whit more sharp than the Scripture warrants! If we are of the world, what can we expect …

Preceding Grace

Galatians 1:15

… I will read the Bible. I will read it honestly. I will really see whether it is the Word of God or not. I will come to it …

The Light of the World

John 8:12

… They never read the Bible, or search into the history, the prophecy and the promises. They do not like an earnest ministry. They have a sort of happy …

The Anchor

Hebrews 6:17-20

… Of all the books of Holy Scripture it may be said, "these are written that you might believe and that believing you might have life." Even if God …

Refuges of Lies and What Will Become of Them

Isaiah 28:17

… Is it the hope which God has set forth in Scripture? Is it based and bottomed upon the work of the Lord Jesus? For if not, as the …

"Verily, Verily"

John 5:24

… Do not doubt Him, lest you do despite to that blessed, "Verily, verily," with which He prefaces the Word of God. The quickened ones are described in our …

Faith's Firm Resolve

Psalm 71:16

… I will go on studying the Word of God to get a clearer apprehension of its meaning. I will go forward pleading with the Lord to prove more …

A Clear Conscience

Psalm 119:6

… Turn to the Psalm, itself, which is far preferable to any reflections we could offer, inasmuch as the Word of God must ever excel the word of man …

None But Jesus—Second Part

John 3:18

… But this we know, since every word of God is assured, and the gifts of God are without repentance, though we should live another fifty years, yet would …

The Good Ananias—a Lesson for Believers

Acts 9:10

… But the danger is lest we should, on all hands, begin to pare away a little from the Word of God for the sake of an imaginary unity …

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

… I do not believe it is preaching Christ and him crucified, to leave out the main cardinal doctrines of the Word of God, and preach a religion which …

A New Song For New Hearts

Isaiah 12:1

… And if you had tracked me to my chamber, and to my Bible, and my knees, you would have heard groans and sighs which betokened a sorrowful spirit …

The Superlative Excellence Of The Holy Spirit

John 16:7

… years! Certainly we should not have had the Word of God in the simple compact form of a pocket Bible—it would have consisted of innumerable volumes of …

Unsound Spiritual Trading

Proverbs 16:2

… Where will you find an instance of a single saint in Scripture that ever fell into covetousness? Into all other sins have they fallen, but into this one …

Three Sights Worth Seeing

1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… the confidence of our heart that this is the word of God. You fall back upon Holy Scripture in the grief of an aching heart; but you cannot …

Faith Justifying Speech

Psalm 116:10

… For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord." If you believe the Bible, speak of it wherever you can. If you believe …

The Unrivalled Friend

Proverbs 17:17

… Whatever the Spirit of God and the Word of God may have taught you, my Brethren, out with it for Christ's sake and let it bring what …

The Census of Israel

Numbers 16:66

… in the Word of God to find a life written at any length without a record of infirmity and sin, for the biographies of Scripture are truthful and …

Spiritual Appetite

Proverbs 27:7

… There is the Bible, a book of infinite sweetness, God's letter of love to the sons of men! Is it not dreadfully dry reading? A three-volume …

A Loving Entreaty

Isaiah 43:26

… We shall mainly dwell upon the first invitation of the text—"Put Me in remembrance." If you will cast your eyes upon the Scripture, itself, you will be …