The Bible

Examination Before Communion

1 Corinthians 11:28

… Taking the Word of God as my guide, I judge myself to be a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, I am about to sit at …

Christ Is All

Colossians 3:11

… This little text is yet one of the greatest in the whole Bible, and I feel lost in its boundless expanse. It is like one of those rare …

A Sincere Summary—and a Searching Scrutiny

Psalm 119:168

… There is nothing in the Word of God to justify men in believing what they like, and anyone who neglects to search out the Truth of God commits …

The Greatest Exhibition of the Age

1 Corinthians 11:26

… If they had all gone to their Master, how much more quickly would they have understood His words! Take everything to Jesus! Try everything by the Word of …

Psalm 58

Psalm 58

… There is nothing in Scripture of that sympathy with God's enemies which modern traitors are so fond of parading as the finest species of benevolence. We shall …

Infant Salvation

2 Kings 4:26

… That this is possible is proved from Scripture instances. John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s would. We read of Jeremiah also …

Looking for One Thing and Finding Another

1 Samuel 9:3

… that has ears to hear, let him hear." The man listens! The Word of God pierces his soul and he is converted! I remember quite well, and the …

Crowding to Touch the Savior

Mark 3:10

… The warnings of the devil predict the success of the Word of God. When our Lord Jesus had done much, He was under a sacred necessity to do …

Psalm 85

Psalm 85

… In these two verses we have, beneath the veil of the letter, an intimation of the coming of THE WORD OF GOD to the nations in times of …

Psalm 147

Psalm 147

… The act of God, in the scripture before us, is the moral and spiritual health of man—of man, who had brought disease on himself—of man, by …

A Revival Sermon

Amos 9:13

… But, brethren, where we have seen one converted, we may yet see hundreds; where the Word of God has been powerful to scores, it shall be blessed to …

The Holy Spirit—the Need of the Age

Micah 2:7

… I cannot persuade him to hear the Word of God—I cannot do anything with him!" Dear mother, register that confession of inability and then, by faith, write …

The Holy Spirit's Threefold Conviction of Men

John 16:8-11

… The Holy Spirit was to go with the preaching of the Word of God TO CONVINCE MEN of three great prominent Truths of God. This was to be …

Songs For Desolate Hearts

Isaiah 54:1

… You have listened, you have read good books, you have turned over Scripture, but for all that there does not seem to be a text that speaks comfortably …

Dagon's Ups and Downs

1 Samuel 5:2-4

… And now, though it would be very wrong to make out the Word of God to be a mere set of allegories and so to deny that it …

Our Glorious Transforming

Ephesians 2:13

… Suppose you are a very experienced Christian, and a very intelligent reader of the Bible; suppose that for many years your have been able to maintain a consistent …

Psalm 98

Psalm 98

… Kitto's Pictorial Bible. Verse 6. With trumpets. Origen calls the writings of the evangelists and the apostles trumpets , at whose blast all the structures of idolatry and …

Little-faith

… 82 How to read the Bible. 83 A View of Christ. 84 The Author and Finisher of Faith. 85 The Glad Command. 86 Untiring Delight. 87 Divine Teaching …

The Personality of the Holy Ghost

John 14:16-17

… Were there no other proofs in Scripture, I think these would be sufficient for every sensible man. He would see that if the Holy Spirit were a mere …

Farm Laborers

1 Corinthians 3:6-9

… If we preach, it must be the true Word of God or nothing can come of it. More than that, all the strength that is in the laborer …

"My Garden"—"His Garden"

Solomon 4:16

… minister of God speaks not apart from the Word of God—and when He speaks the Word of God, the God of the Word is, Himself, there to …

The Glories of Forgiving Grace

Ephesians 1:7

… O poor weary Seekers, hear this inspired Word of God and be glad—"He delights in mercy." Come home! Come home, poor wanderer! It is harder work to …

The Golden Lamp and Its Goodly Lessons

Zechariah 4:1-3

… No strange doctrines, no vain traditions, no scientific conjectures, no poetical reveries, no thoughts of men, no excogitations of human brains, but the revealed Word of God, the …

The Blind Beggar of the Temple and His Wonderful Cure

John 9:5

… Salvation comes to us, not by sight of ceremonies, but by hearing the Word of God! The ears are the best friends the sinner has remaining to him …

The Dual Nature and the Duel Within

Romans 7:23

… When we are born again there is dropped into our soul the living and incorruptible Seed of the Word of God which lives and abides forever. It is …

The Prophet Like Unto Moses

Deuteronomy 18:15-19

… Brothers and Sisters, this is the Word of God unto you this morning, that very Word which He spoke on the holy Mount, when the Lord was transfigured …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Concluded)

… It bears the impress of the Deity, and so important is it that it is presented to us in the Scripture as a figure of the union that …

For the Candid and Thoughtful

Mark 12:34

… I am prepared to accept whatever is plainly taught in the Word of God, even should it reverse all my former beliefs, and deprive me of my most …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… And if, when you hear Him, you will not accept Him, it may be that you will not hear Him many more times—the Word of God may …

The Water and the Blood

John 19:34

… any other hypotheses than that which ratifies their own Scripture! If the Old Testament is the Word of God, it seems marvelous to us that men do not …

Psalm 83

Psalm 83

… In Scripture there are three reasons why the Lord keeps silence when his people are in danger, and sits still when there is most need to give help …

Bands of Love; or, Union to Christ

… flesh.” Thus, He became one with us in our nature, for in Holy Scripture all partakers of flesh and blood are regarded as of one family. By the …

Blessings Traced to Their Source

Psalm 87:7

… And in His mighty breast I see Eternal thoughts of love to me." Every Christian who is rightly taught, who understands the Word of God and is not …

Election and Holiness

Deuteronomy 10:14-16

… his praise, we do believe to be a doctrine legible in the Word of God to every man who cares to read that Book with an honest and …

Loving Advice for Anxious Seekers

James 1:5

… O Lord, teach thou me.” I do not mean by any word of mine to make you think little of Scripture—God forbid!—nor little of those who …

Serving The Lord

Romans 12:11

… antique, but forgetting that the Word of God is the standard and nothing is service which is not commanded in Holy Scripture. O that the Church, in all …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man (Continued)

… the two wide sets of shelves, the remainder being allotted to books on Bible lands. The shelves visible on the left-hand side of the picture in Vol …

The Great Assize

2Corinthians 5:10

… There is no need that I try to prove to you from Scripture that there will be a general judgment, for the Word of God abounds with proof …

The Fullness Of Christ—Received!

John 1:16

… you do not belong to those old-fashioned saints who lived in the Bible times— for all they had they received from Christ. They did not get the …

Pride Catechized

Job 34:33

… But if he speaks with the sound of his Master's feet behind him and what he says is the Word of God, then do not trifle with …