The Bible

How Saints May Help the Devil

Ezekiel 16:54

… Sins, too, they are that render the wicked callous in their sins, blunt the edge of our rebukes, and prevents the Word of God from working in the …

Christ—the Fall and Rise of Many

Luke 2:34

… I tremblingly believe in Peter's words concerning those who stumble at the Word of God, being disobedient, "whereunto also they were appointed." But I say again, though …

The Cholera Year in London

… Bible would be of no use to him now. If he could understand me, I could tell him the way of salvation in the very words’ of Scripture …

Epilogue — The Golden Key of Prayer

… With too many professors the ledger is so bulky that you cannot move it and the Bible, representing their devotion, is so small that you might almost put …

A Gospel Sermon To Outsiders

Mark 10:49

… And when you know the Truths of God more fully you will find faith comes to you by the hearing and the understanding of the Word of God …

"Sitting By"

Luke 5:17

… Persons have come here who had, themselves, no thought of coming, till some special matter drew them—and then the Word of God spoken has been so manifestly …

Opening Services

… They had now outshot the Bible, said these men—they had got ahead of the Bible! They were now more intelligent and wiser than the Bible. Well, let …

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… and forcibly, yet declared that he felt as if he could knock the Bible about the peoples' heads if he could by any means get this Doctrine into …

Conversion and Character

Acts 16:24-34

… No more of those delightful Prayer Meetings and Bible readings and opening up of the Scriptures. Surely there was cause for the deepest regret. It might have appeared …

Exposition: 1 John 3:1-10

… How it opens with a “Behold!” because it is such a striking portion of sacred Scripture, that the Holy Ghost would have us pay particular attention to it …

The Golden Key Of Prayer

Jeremiah 33:3

… With too many professors the ledger is so bulky that you cannot move it! And the Bible, representing their devotion, is so small that you might almost put …

The Withering Work of the Spirit

Isaiah 40:6-8

… but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”—Isaiah 40:6-8. “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of …

Spiritual Knowledge and Its Practical Results

Colossians 1:9

… The men that go after false doctrine are usually those who know little of the Word of God. Being untaught, they are unstable, ready to be blown about …

A Merry Christmas

Job 1:4

… And if I ought not to preach from such a passage, then the text ought not to be in the Bible. II. And now let us turn to …

Resurrection With Christ

Ephesians 2:4

… According to the teaching of sacred Scripture, men are dead, spiritually dead. Certain vain men would make it out that men are only a little disordered and bruised …

The Cry Of The Heathen

Acts 16:9

… Liberty flourishes by the preaching of the Word of God. Certain it is that wherever you find Protestantism, you find liberty, and wherever you leave Protestantism behind you …

The Security of the Church

Psalm 125:2

… Now, there are two sets of truths in the Bible. One set deals with man as responsible creature, the other class of truths deals with God as the …

Sept. 7 — THE REACH OF ALMIGHTY GRACE

Hosea 1:10

… But now, in the same places, from the same ministry and Scripture, we hear a voice, which saith, "Ye are the sons of the living God." Can we …

The Church of God and the Truth of God

1 Timothy 3:15

… We may be called by different names and, according to Scripture, we are to be separated, like sheep, into different folds, yet there is still only one flock …

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… By the way, there are some people who know no more of authors than what they hear quoted, and some who know no more of the Bible than …

The Final Perseverance of the Saints

Job 17:9

… The Scripture does not teach that a man will reach his journey's end without continuing to travel along the road. It is not true that one act …

Saved In Hope

Romans 8:24

… ACCORDING to our version "we are saved by hope," but that is scarcely in accordance with other parts of Holy Scripture. Everywhere in the Word of God we …

Diary, April to June, 1850

… I have richly deserved this, for I have not prayed, or studied my Bible as I ought. I confess mine iniquity, and my sin is ever before me …

Making Light of Christ

Matthew 22:5

… What! read the Bible? No I cannot; I have to be looking over this thing and that thing, and seeing how the markets go. I find time to …

The Sparrow and the Swallow

Psalm 84:3

… The spirit of liberty will always be maintained in this land as long as we have the open Bible, the family altar and the training up of our …

The Solar Eclipse

Isaiah 45:7

… People that never read their Bible, never prayed, never thought of going to God’s house, were hurrying off to a place of worship, or reading their Bibles …

Christ's One Sacrifice for Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… The Bible never tells us of any other way. Human thought or tradition has never discovered any other way. Find a people with a religion and you are …

The Pastor's Life Wrapped Up with His People's Steadfastness a Pleading Reminder for the New Year

1 Thessalonians 3:8

… to the doctrines and the practices which are taught us in the Word of God. I say to you by this discourse, "Now we live, if you stand …

An All-important Question

John 9:35

… They revel in reading the Bible through spectacles of various colors. When you and I read our Bibles, there are certain passages which seem perfectly plain to us …

Concerning Saints

Psalm 145:10

… There should be, in our public prayers, as there is in the Word of God, this distinction clearly made and manifested. There is a line which divides, today …

A Prayer for Everybody

Matthew 15:25

… And if the Bible is not blessed to me, I will go on my knees and cry to God for mercy and I will never cease crying to …

Gathering in the Chosen

Jeremiah 31:8

… When we first began to seek the Lord, we found that one of the channels in which the precious rivers were flowing was this precious Bible at which …

David's Dying Song

2 Samuel 23:5

… If you could take down your Father’s family Bible in heaven, you would find your name put in the register. O blessed thought! my name—positively mine …

How To Meet the Evils of the Age

… Some would like us to treat the Bible as if it were a peal of bells, sounding forth from a church steeple, which we can make to say …

Morning, September 19

Ga 5:1

… Galatians 5:1 This “liberty” makes us free to heaven’s charter— the Bible . Here is a choice passage, believer, “When thou passest through the rivers, I will …

Morning, September 1

Ps 73:24

… In his written Word thou hast this assurance in part fulfilled, for holy Scripture is his counsel to thee. Happy are we to have God’s Word always …

Morning, February 21

Heb 13:5

… Scripture, and you may yet continue sick unless you will examine and search the Scriptures to discover what “He hath said.” Should you not, besides reading the Bible …

Prodigal Love for the Prodigal Son

Luke 15:20

… But no, what is written in the Bible stands true for all time and for every sinner—"He fell on his neck, and kissed him"—kissed him eagerly …

Gray Hairs

Hosea 7:9

… We cannot very well perceive gray hairs without the use of the mirror, or our sins without the glass of the Word of God. Many professors search not …

The Tabernacle—Outside The Camp

Exodus 33:7

… The people may be considered to have been at that time under the Patriarchal dispensation which reaches on, if I understand Scripture aright, until the time of the …