The Bible

The Warning Neglected

Ezekiel 33:5

… You have heard the Word of God preached to you. You cannot say, when you come before God, “Lord, I knew no better.” There is not a man …

Jacob's Model Prayer

Genesis 32:9-12

… First, then, concerning JACOB'S MODEL PRAYER, which is one of the earliest that is recorded in Holy Scripture—at least in such detail. I commend it for …

A Present Helper

Acts 18:10

… Only trust Him and when you go about His business, the Holy Spirit shall be your strength! He will be with you to back up the Word of …

Messrs. Moody and Sankey Defended; or, A Vindication of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Galatians 5:24

… Moody and Sankey, but against all evangelical ministers; not against them only, but against our common protestantism; and yet more, it is against the inspired word of God …

Restraining Prayer

Job 15:4

… With this overwhelming congregation and with the terrible reliability of so numerous a church, and with the Word of God spoken here published within a few hours, and …

The Lord's Famous Titles

Psalm 146:7-9

… You may keep on reading Scripture and you will continually find that it is true, "The Lord looses the prisoners." I want some of you who are here …

The Plowman

Isaiah 28:24

… When we were boys at school, the reading of a Chapter in the Word of God, or the death of a playmate, or an address at a Bible …

Enlivening and Invigorating

Psalm 119:25

… He pleads the Word of God. What that Word was that David had to appeal to, it would rather puzzle me to tell you. His Bible was not …

Filling With the Spirit and Drunkenness With Wine

Ephesians 5:18

… Hear what they say—"I have always been regular in my attendance on the means of Divine Grace, have read my Bible, have acted consistently with my profession …

Stephen and Saul

Acts 7:58

… Now, as far as we see in the Bible, this is Saul's first introduction to anything like real Christianity. We have not his name, before this verse …

The Withered Fig Tree

Matthew 21:17-20

… We are not of those who come to the Word of God with the cool impertinence of the critic, thinking ourselves wiser than the Book, and therefore able …

Young Man, Is This For You?

Luke 7:11-17

… But with the Bible in your hand and a conscience in your bosom you cannot but fear the worst if you remain apart from Jesus and the life …

Once A Curse But Now A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… The men who pretend to doubt the existence of a God, who question the Inspiration of the Scripture, deny the Deity of Christ, or impugn the veracity of …

Why Men Reject Christ

Luke 9:52

… I tried Bible reading. I tried diligent attendance to the means of Grace. I tried a change in my manner of life. I tried everything I could think …

Separating the Precious From the Vile

Exodus 11:7

… the Bible support this sum of all villanies, but slavery, the thing which defiles the Great Republic such slavery is quite unknown to the Word of God, and …

Teaching for the Outer and Inner Circles

Mark 4:33

… a passage of Scripture, by anointing our eyes with eye-salve that we may see! What sights have we beheld in the Word of God! We have been …

Beginning to Serve the Lord

… There was little time for gathering much from books; my chief library was the Word of God and my own experience, but I spoke out from my very …

'Go in Peace'

Luke 7:50

… Certainly, she could not have read the New Testament, for it was not written then! She may not have known much about the Bible, but she knew Him …

Mourners, Inquirers, Covenanters

Jeremiah 50:4

… Perhaps we may show them from this Scripture how others sought and how others found—and this may be a guide and a comfort to them—for although …

For the Sick and Afflicted

Job 34:31

… which we do not like to read? If there are— if any text has a quarrel with you, quarrel with yourself; but yield wholly to the word of …

The Rule of Christ

2 Samuel 23:4

… Suppose I were to go about, and say, "Oh, the Bible is a dreadful book. It says, 'There is no God'"? Somebody would very probably say to me …

Cheering Words

John 15:9

… It is commonly and currently believed among all who accept the Bible as true, that from everlasting to everlasting the love of God is set upon His Son …

Household Sin and Sorrow

… There is much mischief done in believing that we are to follow the promises of Scripture apart from the Law of God! There was a man who once …

A Blessed Gospel Chain

John 14:23

… Indeed, what have you to do with any of the privileges revealed in the Bible, or with any of the blessings promised there, as long as you are …

Imitators of God

Ephesians 5:1

… Many precepts of the Word of God are thought by men of the world to be unpractical, but even in those instances, they are in error, for the …

Very Singular

2 Samuel 17:23

… Ought the best of sciences to be left to the last? Should self-knowledge and acquaintance with God be treated as secondary importance? Should not the Word of …

Obeying Christ's Orders

John 2:5

… have certain passages of Scripture read at the family altar because they have rather troubled their consciences. If there is anything in the Bible that quarrels with you …

Children'S Bread Given To Dogs

Matthew 15:27

… I have directed them to passages of Scripture which have been the means of giving light to thousands. Yet these persons, month after month, remain in as much …

The Gospel in Power

1 Thessalonians 1:5-10

… Word of God comes to you as word only, today, it will one day be something more than that, for it is an undoubted Truth of Scripture that …

A Delusion Dispelled

Ezekiel 14:20

… These examples I have given you from the Bible. Were I to try and turn over the pages of my recollection, I could give you many miserable proofs …

Christ Our Passover

1 Corinthians 5:7

… THE more you read the Bible, and the more you meditate upon it, the more you will be astonished with it. He who is but a casual reader …

The Backslider's Door of Hope

Hosea 2:15

… There are openings up of the Word of God by the blessed Spirit. There are the tokens of Divine Love even in Providence in a thousand varied forms …

The Fourfold Treasure

1 Corinthians 1:30

… The man who does not believe the Bible does not know so much as thou dost. Blush not, though with mimic wisdom the unbeliever tries to laugh or …

Migratory Birds

Jeremiah 8:7

… Even the Inspired Word of God has not always the same effect when it is read. Therefore, cherish every tender emotion that you feel. You know what was …

The Echo

Psalm 27:8

… But since what the Word of God commands is always most to our interest—at once the wisest and the best thing that we could possibly do—it …

Perfection in Christ

Colossians 1:28

… Perfection in Jesus Christ! What effect ought it to have upon our hearts if it really is ours? Perfection! What do we know of it from Scripture? We …

Preaching! Man's Privilege and God's Power

Mark 6:20

… Yet often in Scripture we find the Word of God compared to a light. "The people that sat in darkness saw a great light." "Unto them that dwell …

Lingerers Hastened

Genesis 19:16

… Are we to be more gentle than the Apostles? Shall we be wiser than the inspired preachers of the Word of God? Until we feel our minds overshadowed …

The Bliss of the Glorified

Revelation 7:16

… Take the first: "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more." We are never so to strain Scripture for a spiritual sense as to take away its …

No Quarter

1 Kings 18:40

… if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them." When will Christians see this? The Bible, and the Bible alone …