The Bible

"Do You Love Me?"

John 21:16

… You read the Bible, but the Bible, apart from a personal Christ, was never anything more than a dead letter to you. You listened to many earnest entreaties …

A Visit From the Lord

Psalm 106:4

… Or, "Hallelujah." I cannot help remarking, here, that this is one of the most sacred words in the whole Bible and it ought always to be pronounced with …

The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption

Romans 8:15

… as I have already said, through the Word of God of which He is the Author. The Word contained in Scripture is quite enough for us if we …

A Sermon to the Lord's Little Children

1 John 2:12

… May we receive the Word of God with meekness, that we may grow thereby. I. First, I want the babes in Grace, the weak in faith, the lambs …

The Silver Trumpet

Isaiah 1:18

… Some of them go the length of asserting that there are no universal invitations in the Word of God. Their assertion, however, its not so forcible an argument …

Joy And Peace In Believing

Romans 15:13

… I find my name in the Bible. Why do you look at me? Have you never heard of the little child that sat reading the Bible, and someone …

Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing

2 Samuel 3:39

… But then what becomes of that passage, "They shall never perish?" If one of His sheep shall ever perish, that Word of God is either false, or else …

A Mingled Strain

Psalm 51:7

… The modern way of handling the Bible is to correct it here and amend it there—tear it to pieces—give a bit to the Jews, a bit …

The Unchangeable Christ

Hebrews 13:8

… It is an injury to the Word of God and, sometimes, a passage of Scripture loses much of its beauty, its true teaching and its real meaning, by …

Eccentric Preachers

… Sebmon Ti.—The Bible 83 *' I have written to him the great things of my law, httt they were connted aB a strange thing.*'— Hosea viii- 12. Sebmoh …

Death—a Sleep

1 Thessalonians 4:13

… Ignorance of the Bible often troubles men's hearts and consciences—and prevents them from finding that peace of God which a little more knowledge of it would …

A Memorable Interview

John 20:27

… He will make the Word of God which is uttered to be true. We shall not speak without our Master making the utterance of His Word to be …

Mysterious Meat

John 4:31-38

… Yet there is, in the Word of God, an intimation of another principle. As we read, "Man shall not live by bread, alone, but by every Word that …

Both Sides of the Shield

Exodus 17:8

… Nearly every doctrine in the Word of God is balanced by some other doctrine and many of the differences among the people of God have arisen from the …

Christ a Sanctuary

Isaiah 8:14

… Communion is set forth in Scripture by eating bread with one another. So the eating of manna with God is typical of communion, but we get no manna …

'Nunc Dimittis'

Luke 2:29-30

… you can preach the word of God you must prevail. Nothing has such marrow and fatness in it as a text of Scripture. It has a force of …

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

… If the Bible be printed in our own native language, and we can read it, he who neglecteth Holy Scripture. and ceaseth from its study, has lost one …

Achsah's Asking—a Pattern of Prayer

Judges 1:12-15

… There are some holy enjoyments, some gracious experiences, some deep doctrines of the Word of God, which it would be out of place to speak of before certain …

God's Memorial Of His People

Isaiah 49:16

… This is the reason—this is one reason that is given in Scripture—for conjugal love, because the woman was taken out of the man, and she is …

A Preacher from the Dead

Luke 16:31

… the Bible was true—when every strip of land in the far-off East has been an exposition and a confirmation of the prophecies of Scripture; if men …

The Believer Not An Orphan

… You may be made to know and to comprehend those knotty points in the Word of God which have hitherto puzzled you. You have but humbly to look …

True Worship

Psalm 50:14

… but it is not at all difficult if we turn to the Word of God. There we shall find, I think, great room for diversities of mode, but …

The Sitting of the Refiner

Malachi 3:3

… Those that are rooted up by the Word of God are best rooted up. We may always be practicing this kind of separating the tares from the wheat …

What Have I Done?

Jeremiah 8:6

… God is represented in Scripture as waiting to be gracious, or, in the language of the parable, when his prodigals are yet a great way off he sees …

The Christian's Glorious Inventory

1 Corinthians 3:21-23

… IT appears, from this Epistle, that the Christians at Corinth were very much divided on account of certain ministers who had, at different times, preached the Word of …

The Savior You Need

Hebrews 5:9

… And often they turn to the belief of orthodox doctrines and seek salvation in mere head knowledge of the Word of God, forgetting that Jesus once said, "You …

Psalm 43

Psalm 43

… And so if the word of a wise friend, how much more the word of God, with its many strengthening promises? Ps 20:2 119:28. The word …

All Or None—or, Compromises Refused— a Sermon With Five Texts

Exodus 10:26

… He takes his Bible—he begins to read a chapter. A very striking passage comes before his eyes. He is not more easy, for the text has fixed …

Springtime in Nature and Grace

Isaiah 55:10-13

… Yes, but the metaphor of my text cannot set forth the whole Truth, for this Word of God, which is the rain, is also the Seed. This Word …

A Gospel Worth Dying For

Acts 20:24

… We are, none of us, called to the Apostleship—and we may not all have been called to the public preaching of the Word of God—but we …

More and More, or Less and Less

Matthew 13:12

… That parable was spoken in reference to the hearing of the Word of God—and it is concerning the Word of God and its blessings that He says …

Buying the Truth

Proverbs 23:23

… First, in the matter of doctrinal truth, buy the truth Holy Scripture is the standard of the Truth of God. To the law and to the testimony; if …

Jesus Declining the Legions

Matthew 26:53

… In effect He says, "I will die rather than any Scripture shall be unfulfilled. I will go to the Cross rather than any one Word of God should …

'A Kind of First Fruits'

James 1:18

… Scripture does not talk of the Word of God as a dead letter. It says, "The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two …

The Fainting Warrior

Romans 7:24

… We are told in Scripture that our Saviour was “tempted in all points like as we are;” and yet we fall into the egregious error of imagining that …

Providence—as Seen in the Book of Esther

Esther 9:1

… They might, with equal justice, deny the Inspiration of a great number of chapters in the Bible, and of a far greater number of verses. Although the name …

God's Tender Mercy

Luke 1:78

… Almost every page of Scripture speaks to you, Sinner, with a message of love! And even when God speaks in terrible language, warning men to flee from the …

More and More

James 4:6

… This precious Word of God which I have before me, dear Friends, on which my heart is fondly set, and which my tongue gladly repeats, expresses a statute …

Jesus In Our Midst

John 20:19

… The Bible is one book in the dark and another book in the light. Do you not, sometimes, take up the Scripture and as you read it, feel …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… It is also high time for us all, as Christians, to work more carefully in precise obedience to the Word of God. Brothers and Sisters, we should never …