The Bible

A Desperate Case—How to Meet It

Matthew 17:19-21

… Do we not read in Scripture, “Then goeth he and taketh unto him seven other spirits more wicked than himself?” It may be there is a gradation in …

Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts

Mark 3:5

… They have a cruelly keen eye for non-existent errors in Scripture: they find this mistake in Deuteronomy, and the other in Genesis. What great wisdom, to be …

Too Good to Be Saved!

Luke 18:14

… But, if that were to be the case, we would have to get the Bible altered, for this blessed Book tells us that there is only one way …

My Hourly Prayer

Psalm 119:117

… At other times God holds up His people by the ministry of the Word of God. I have often been told that when you have come in here …

The Hexapla Of Mystery

1 Timothy 3:16

… at all? God has never ordained it to be there! Where in Holy Scripture have we mention of a material altar in the assemblies of Believers? Our only …

Faith in Christ

Acts 16:31

… Since the late revival, when so many were drawn together to hear the Word of God, I should hope that there are few now among us who are …

The Everlasting Arms

Deuteronomy 33:27

… If there are wearisome months of sickness and disease awaiting you, go home and carry this text with you—"Underneath are the everlasting arms." Is not this Word …

Judgment Threatening But Mercy Sparing

Luke 13:7

… We do not believe in general redemption, but we believe in every word of this precious Bible—and there are many passages in the Scripture which seem to …

The Lifting Up of the Bowed Down

Luke 13:10-13

… If there is a dark passage in the Word of God, they are sure to read it and say, "That applies to me." If there is a thundering …

The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:3

… We must also feel the influence of the Word of God that we may speak what we know and testify what we have seen. Having received mercy we …

"The Sure Mercies of David"

Acts 13:34

… And the next Sabbath came almost the whole city together to hear the Word of God. There is something attractive about the Gospel. I do not think they …

Particular Redemption

Matthew 20:28

… I shall not be afraid to propound the great truth of the final perseverance of the saints; I shall not withhold that undoubted truth of Scripture, the effectual …

Job's Regret and Our Own

Job 29:2

… PORTIONS OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON—Revelation 2; 3:1-6. MR. SPURGEON takes occasion to inform his weekly readers that the funds in hand for sustaining the …

Zion's Prosperity

Psalm 102:13

… Here the great Truths of the Bible must be taught and he that uses not his pulpit to preach the Gospel has disgraced it, even though his talents …

Two Good Things

Psalm 119:71

… I hold the book before the fire of affliction and the writing comes out clearly—and I see in the Bible what I never would have seen if …

Three Arrows—or Six?

2 Kings 13:18

… seem a very insignificant thing and, yet, upon the catching of the Word of God may result either the attainment of faith or the absence of faith—and …

Joshua's Vision

Joshua 6:10-27

… Portion of Scripture read before Sermon—Joshua 6:10-27. "And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, thathe lifted up his eyes and looked, and …

Hands Full of Honey

Judges 14:8

… We have, in these days, so much to do that we must make practical use of every incident that comes before us in the Word of God. My …

Mr. Evil-Questioning Tried and Executed

2 Kings 5:12

… The Bible is an opponent, even unto death, of everything like boasting, or encouraging the hope of salvation by any efforts of our own. Righteous Self is doomed …

Comfort To Seekers From What The Lord Has Not Said

Isaiah 45:19

… But every Word of God is sure and steadfast, "yes, and amen in Christ Jesus." "The voice said, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh …

Pictures of Life

James 4:14

… If you would picture life, you must turn to the Bible—and this evening we will walk through the Bible-gallery of old paintings. You will find its …

Good Talk

1 Chronicles 16:9

… works as we find them in Holy Scripture. Do you read them? Alas, in how many a case the Bible is the least read book in the house …

A Question for a Questioner

Psalm 77:9

… He cries, "The more I pray, the more I go to hear the word, the more I read the Bible, the blacker sinner I seem to be. 'Hath …

Scourge For Slumbering Souls

Amos 6:1

… The majority of cases are those out of the streets and the world who had lived in the habitual neglect of the Word of God. They came in …

The Stone Rolled Away

Matthew 28:2

… It is not at all an uncommon thing to find in Scripture stones bid to speak. Great stones have been rolled as witnesses against the people. Stones and …

Christ's Connection With Sinners the Source of His Glory

Isaiah 53:12

… This is taught in the Bible—in fact, it is the chief theme of Holy Scripture. Whenever sin was to be put away, it was by the sacrifice …

Pleading For Prayer

Romans 15:30-33

… This verse is one of the most intense I ever remember to have read, even in so intense a book as this Holy Scripture. Observe the fervency of …

Evening, December 31

Je 8:20

… not saved ! You know the way of salvation, you read it in the Bible, you hear it from the pulpit, it is explained to you by friends, and …

A Vile Weed and a Fair Flower

Hebrews 13:5

… This renders the Bible such a rich storehouse of comfort to us! No Scripture is of private interpretation, but all Scripture is given for our personal appropriation! No …

Additions to the Church

… He did not speak to them about modern science and the ways of twisting Scripture into agreement with it. He cared nothing for the maundering of the Rabbis …

The Ever-Living Christ

Revelation 1:18

… That is, the constantScripturalness of the blessed Master's talk You know that, in His day, even the religious people did not quote Scripture as He did. The …

The Death of Christ

Isaiah 53:10

… But he who reads the Bible with the eye of faith, desiring to discover its hidden secrets, sees something more in the Saviour’s death than Roman cruelty …

Comfort Proclaimed

Isaiah 40:1

… distressed, no desponding ones? If you have not, then yonder Scripture might be rent out of the Bible, for it would be useless; but because I am sure …

John Ploughman's Talk

… Having sold their mod- esty and become wiser than their teachers, they ride a very high horse, and jump over all five-barred gates of Bible-texts which …

Nonconformity

From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7

… It was the age in which Chillingworth was promulgating his Episcopalian aphorism. “The Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants.” It was the age of …

Prayer 22 — The Presence of God

… Oh! that the Word of God might be with us when we are in the midst of an ungodly generation. May the Proverbs often furnish us with wisdom …

First Things First

… According to the Words of Christ Jesus our Lord, it is "The Kingdom of God and His righteousness." Just now I read to you a portion of Scripture …

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… The Bible is full of such cases. Eleazar, the servant and steward of Abraham, met with much honor at his master's hands. Deborah was a faithful nurse …

The Loaded Wagon

Amos 2:13

… There is something new, something important, something deeply impressive and worthy of attention, wherever we see a "Behold" in Sacred Scripture. I see this "Behold" standing as it …

A Cure for a Weak Heart

Psalm 31:24

… Holy Scripture discriminates—it makes some general promises, but its choicer words are given to persons of a special character. Judge for yourselves how far you come under …