The Bible

Majesty in Misery

Luke 22:63-65

… Why was Christ mocked in Jerusalem? Surely it was because you have mocked God with prayers that were no prayers, with hymns carelessly sung, with Scripture read as …

Justification by Faith

Romans 5:1

… I am innocent"? If the Law of God, as we are told by Scripture, has to deal not with our outward actions, alone, but with our words, and …

An Unparalleled Cure

Matthew 9:32

… If they read the Bible, it does not have that effect upon their conscience and their heart which it does when it is accompanied by the mighty working …

Instability

Genesis 49:4

… I wonder at David, at Jacob, and at every instance we have in Scripture of excellent men. Marvel! O ye angels, that God should ever make such bright …

The Special Prayer Meeting

Acts 12:12

… How largely might the Sunday schools in London be extended if all the better-instructed gathered together Bible classes in their own houses and taught them during the …

Consolation From Resurrection

Hosea 13:14

… Constantly in Scripture is this resurrection used as the figure of God's delivering and blessing His people. And especially as the figure of regeneration or the giving …

Personal and Effectual Calling

John 10:3

… There will often be, in a text of Scripture, the very message that is needed by a poor wearied spirit. How often, too, will the Lord prepare the …

The Ship on Fire—A Voice of Warning

Genesis 19:17

… judgment-seat, I have bidden you give immediate, instantaneous attention to the Word of God. Consider your ways, O sinners, born to die. Believe in the Lord Jesus …

Possessing Possessions

… Teachers of Bible classes and schools—a holy life must be your power in your classes or your words will be to your children as idle tales! If …

The Law's Failure and Fulfillment

Romans 8:3

… It is the history of the Bible, for why else was it written? It is the history of this building—why else was it built? It is the …

Railings

Deuteronomy 22:8

… Timid minds are afraid of these, but the highest doctrine in Scripture is safe enough because God has railed it—and as no man in the East need …

Facing the Wind

2 Thessalonians 3:13

… If you can say with Scripture warrant, "God permits this and I can do it, feeling that He permits it," you are doing well in so doing. Again …

Rehoboam the Unready

2 Chronicles 12:14

… But the Scripture does not give this as the reason why Rehoboam did evil. It does not say that he did evil because he had a bad mother …

Decision—Illustrated by the Case of Joshua

Joshua 24:15

… PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON—Joshua24:11-27; Psalm 101 HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK"—63 (SONG III), 671, 645.

'The Sun of Righteousness'

Psalm 19:4-6

… When you take the Bible remember that Christ is the center of the Scriptures. Do not put election in the center; some do, and they make a one …

Over Against the Sepulcher

Matthew 27:61

… What became of the Cross? You find in Scripture no further mention of it. The legends concerning it are all false upon the face of them. The Cross …

Sweet Peace For Tried Believers

John 16:33

… pleadings of men! This farewell discourse may occupy but a short space in Scripture, but the thoughts suggested by it are so many that I suppose that the …

A Day to Be Remembered

Luke 19:9

… must be re-regenerated, born again and again! But I never read in Scripture anything of the kind. A man may be born again once, but he cannot …

A Fatal Deficiency

Romans 8:9

… THIS is one of the most solemn texts in the whole Bible. It is so sweeping—it deals with all of us. "If any man have not the …

The Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… Watts did not believe this Doctrine, but he has expressed it most triumphantly in his paraphrase of Scripture where he writes— "Nor does it yet appear How great …

Obedience Better Than Sacrifice

1 Samuel 15:2

… So some of you say, "Well, I am not going to read your Bible. I am not going to listen to your talk about Jesus Christ. I do …

Fever and Its Cure

Luke 4:38

… If the Bible is not read. If the great Truths of the Gospel do not fill your meditations. If you sojourn much among ungodly folk and make them …

Pleading

Psalm 70:5

… PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON—Genesis 32; Luke 11:1-13 .

Profitable Mixture

Hebrews 4:2

… Henceforth continue to practice the holy art of mixing faith with the revelations of Scripture. Compound them as the dispensers do. Here is a choice drug but it …

Christ the End of the Law

Romans 10:4

… sacraments, prayers, Bible reading, hearings of the gospel, you may heap them together, high as the stars, into a mountain, huge as high Olympus, but they are all …

The Greatest Gift in Time or Eternity

Isaiah 55:4-6

… clearly as you and I can read them, for now, holding up this Scripture to the light of the Cross, and reading it by the lamps of those …

Satanic Hindrances

1 Thessalonians 2:18

… I find in the margin of my pulpit Bible by Bagster, this note, which may probably be correct: "Satan hindered Paul by raising such a storm of persecution …

Speaking on God's Behalf

Job 36:2

… follow wherever He leads! This seems to me, as I read the Word of God, to have been the course with all the early Christians. They believed and …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… One moment the big box would be empty, — the next, if I had but glanced down at Bible or hymn-book, and raised my eyes again, — there was …

Hindrances to Prayer

1 Peter 3:7

… I even fear that some allow public religious engagements to override private communion with God—they attend too many sermons, too many conferences, too many Bible readings, too …

The Christian’s Heaviness and Rejoicing

1 Peter 1:6

… This is one of the most unfortunate texts in the Bible. I have heard it quoted ten thousand times for my own comfort, but I never understood it …

Jehovah-Shammah

Ezekiel 35:10

… The wise men of this world have always something far superior to anything that the Bible can reveal. Even bishops make great discoveries and find out that perfect …

Psalm 36

Psalm 36

… the word of God is the grand medium by which we can attain a true and saving knowledge of God. What the sun and stars are to the …

'I Have Enough'

Genesis 33:9

… censure the servants of God in points wherein they are not condemned in Scripture. The elder brother, according to all Eastern customs, was the lord of the family …

Unbelievers Stumbling—Believers Rejoicing

Romans 9:33

… I have sometimes thought, dear Friends, that in some respects, if the Bible were proven to be false, I should never be ashamed of having believed it. If …

The Fifth Beatitude

Matthew 5:7

… Now, in order to put aside any such legal notion—which would be clean contrary to the entire current of Scripture and directly opposed to the fundamental Doctrine …

The Blood of Sprinkling (Second Sermon.)

Hebrews 12:24

… I would wake up with the sun in summer time to read my Bible, and such books as Bunyan's "Grace Abounding," Baxter's "Call to the Unconverted …

A Test for True Seekers

Jeremiah 50:5

… indeed it is part of the sermon, I come to that portion of Scripture which really forms my text—"They shall ask the way to Zion with their …

Powerful Persuasives

Matthew 11:27-28

… nor come to my sacraments to observe them, nor come to my Bible to study its teaching—interesting and advantageous as under some circumstances any or all of …

"God With Us"

Matthew 1:23

… A god who looks with complacency upon guilty men is not the God of the Bible, who is in multitudes of places set forth as burning with indignation …