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Constant, Instant, Expectant
Romans 12:12
… Prevalent prayer is frequently spoken of in Scripture as an agony—“striving together with me in your prayers.” We frequently speak of it as “wrestling,” and we do …
SERMON • SERMON 1273The Oil of Gladness
Psalm 45:7
… PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON Exodus 30:22-33 ; 29:5-7 , 21 ; Psalm 45:1-8 ; Isaiah 61:1-3 . The reader is earnestly requested to …
SERMON • SERMON 1010Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness
Matthew 4:15-16
… Though they may have denied the Deity of Christ, though they may have doubted the inspiration of Scripture, though they may have fallen into many traps and pitfalls …
SERMON • SERMON 2182Jehovah-Shammah—a Glorious Name for the New Year
Ezekiel 48:35
… May it always be said of this Church, "the Lord is there," and, therefore, they are sound in the faith, reverent towards Holy Scripture and zealous for the …
SERMON • SERMON 2085A Dirge for the Down-grade and a Song For Faith
Isaiah 66:10
… The plenary inspiration of Holy Scripture as we have understood it from our childhood is now assailed in a thousand insidious ways. The fall of Adam is treated …
SERMON • SERMON 1851Ruth's Reward—or, Cheer for Converts
Ruth 2:12
… PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON—Ruth 2:1-14; Proverbs 3
SERMON • SERMON 1299Love's Birth and Parentage
1 John 4:19
… According to Scripture it must be first in the most eminent sense because it is eternal. The Lord chose His people in Christ Jesus from before the foundations …
SERMON • SERMON 2083One Lost Sheep
Matthew 18:12
… We hear grand theories of a theocracy of a kind unknown to Holy Scripture—a semi-political dominion of the Lord over masses wherein the individuals are unregenerate …
SERMON • SERMON 1039'Pray Without Ceasing'
1 Thessalonians 5:17
… PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON'1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 5.
SERMON • SERMON 2902Holiness Demanded
Hebrews 12:14
… Now I pray you to remember that against such men as these there are many passages of Scripture most distinctly leveled. I think this is one among many …
SERMON • SERMON 1859The Cross Our Glory
Galatians 6:14
… forbid that I should glory in my birth, my education, my proficiency in Scripture, or my regard to orthodox ritual. God forbid that I should glory except in …
SERMON • SERMON 2042The Maintenance of Good Works
Titus 3:3-8
… In another Scripture you are told to be careful for nothing but here you are bid to be careful to maintain good works. We read, "casting all your …
SERMON • SERMON 1589A Hasty Expression Penitently Retracted
Psalm 31:22
… The Scripture says, "According to your faith be it unto you." Suppose that text had run like this, "According to your unbelief be it unto you." Ah, me …
SERMON • SERMON 2477Darkness Before the Dawn
Solomon 2:17
… I do not think that any passage of Scripture more often recurs to my heart when I am alone. And just now I feel that there is a …
SERMON • SERMON 1863Departed Saints Yet Living
Luke 20:37
… Many inquire, "Shall we know our friends in Heaven?" Why should we not? The saints in Heaven are never spoken of in Scripture as moving about anonymously—their …
SERMON • SERMON 2122A Straight Talk
Luke 14:20
… PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON— Luke 14 .
SERMON • SERMON 2025The Tender Enquiry of a Friend
Jeremiah 47:5
… The Scripture is, "Believe—trust—confide—rely. Trust in Jesus—and you are saved." Despairing and desponding are not commanded in the Gospel but they are forbidden by …
SERMON • SERMON 2390A Royal Funeral
John 19:38-42
… I cannot stop to tell you about all the beauty and the instruction which cluster around a garden—the gardens of Scripture, especially, are most fruitful subjects, and …
SERMON • SERMON 930Away With Fear
Isaiah 41:10
… To whom are these words spoken? For we must not steal from God's Scripture any more than from man's treasury. We have no more right to …
SERMON • SERMON 1902The Happy Duty of Daily Praise
Psalm 114:1
… We have a sweet contentment in God as He is revealed in Holy Scripture. It is not everybody that can say this, for a great many professors nowadays …
SERMON • SERMON 1075A Root Out Of A Dry Ground
Isaiah 53:2
… Its scribes were dreaming over the letters of Scripture, insensible to its inner sense—and its elders were driveling forth traditions of the fathers—and so sinking lower …
SERMON • SERMON 2251Our Compassionate High Priest
Hebrews 5:2
… They have to be satisfied with those blessed parts of Scripture where a lamb may wade. They must not meddle with those parts where leviathan has to swim …
SERMON • SERMON 2159The Holdfasts of Faith
Romans 4:16
… The preacher begs the reader, before perusing the sermon, to read the two portions of Scripture which were used in the public service— Genesis 15:1-6 and …
SERMON • SERMON 727God Incarnate, The End Of Fear
Luke 2:10
… There are many instances recorded in Scripture in which the foremost men of their time trembled and felt a horror of great darkness when special manifestations of God …
SERMON • SERMON 1895Love Abounding, Love Complaining, Love Abiding
Isaiah 43:1-4
… You ought to be well nourished this morning, for I have set before you, in these passages of Scripture, quite as much as the largest capacity will be …
SERMON • SERMON 1406Remember!
Deuteronomy 15:15
… We should naturally conclude, without any reference to Scripture, that if a Christian man kept always in mind his former and his present state, it would render him …
SERMON • SERMON 2722The Education of Sons of God
Hebrews 5:8
… There is not a word of Scripture to support the novel notion that some children are born so good that they do not need regeneration or conversion. I …
SERMON • SERMON 3140The Glory of Our Strength
Psalm 89:17
… Well then, if you cannot speak to God, sit still and let Him speak to you! Read a portion of Scripture and then, perhaps, some suggestive verse or …
SERMON • SERMON 2007Holding Fast the Faith
Revelation 2:12
… I consent to Your teaching and from my soul I love You and accept all that You do reveal." For the doctrines revealed in Holy Scripture the true …
SERMON • SERMON 1285Sihon and Og, or Mercies in Detail
Psalm 136:17-22
… There is, moreover, a reason for every repetition in Scripture, for we may say of the ornaments of poetry, when we find them in the sacred Volume, that …
SERMON • SERMON 1600A Greater Than Solomon
Luke 11:31
… God gave him wisdom and largeness of heart, says the Scripture, like the sand of the sea: ‘and Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children …
SERMON • SERMON 1854The Foundation and Its Seal—a Sermon for the Times
2Timothy 2:19
… The Jews were known to write texts of Scripture upon the doorposts of their houses—in this, also, we have an illustration of our text. The Lord has …
SERMON • SERMON 2968'His Great Love'
Ephesians 2:4
… You will find it recorded in Scripture that "it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart," but …
SERMON • SERMON 459A Sermon For Men Of Taste
1 Peter 2:1-3
… I scarcely need observe, that in Scripture, the Holy Spirit uses natural things as figures by which to set forth spiritual mysteries. Inasmuch as our language was ordained …
SERMON • SERMON 513The Young Man'S Prayer
Psalm 90:14
… But Holy Scripture guides you aright, by dictating to you an evangelical prayer, such as God will deign to accept—"O satisfy us early with your mercy." Young …
SERMON • SERMON 2803The Saddest Cry From the Cross
Matthew 27:46
… life of Christ, yet is He so completely God and Man that, often, Scripture does speak of things that must belong to the Humanity only as if they …
SERMON • SERMON 487A Tempted Savior—Our Best Succor
Hebrews 2:18
… I know it is written that "God is not tempted, neither tempts He any man." Yet I read in Scripture, "It came to pass that God did tempt …
SERMON • SERMON 1271Pride Catechized and Condemned
1 Corinthians 4:7
… bits sent home to him out of the promises, such precious words from Scripture applied to his heart. Dear friend, are you apt to think that there is …
SERMON • SERMON 2910The Harvest and the Vintage
Revelation 14:14-20
… on such the second death has no power." Sometimes, in Scripture, the resurrection of the just and of the unjust is represented as taking place simultaneously and, at …
SERMON • SERMON 623Satan Considering the Saints
Job 1:8
… NOTE.—At the request of several subscribers, we intend in future to mention the passage of Scripture read at the service, or some other more suitable to be …