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Filling the Empty Vessels
Philippians 4:19
… I know some saints that have grown to be so deeply in debt to their Lord, to His Church and to the world, that they are hopelessly involved …
SERMON • SERMON 2098Where Go You?
Job 23:10
… Coming to see the elders of the Church is quite an ordeal. I am half afraid that they even feel it a trial to see me, poor creature …
SERMON • SERMON 1633Sarah and Her Daughters
Isaiah 51:2
… I DESIRE to thank God for having had the privilege of preaching in Exeter Hall, yesterday, to a large congregation from the whole of the second verse of …
SERMON • SERMON 2497A New Leaf for the New Year
Genesis 42:21
… There may be someone in this congregation who has had sore troubles, wave upon wave, affliction upon affliction. It will be a source of eternal gratitude to you …
SERMON • SERMON 1282Conversions Desired
Acts 11:21
… There is neither church nor congregation worthy of the name—frequently the place is never opened at all and the grass grows knee deep on the path to …
SERMON • SERMON 1922Concerning Death
Job 30:23
… Never a week passes over this Church without some of our happy fellowship being caught away to the still happier fellowship above! This week a youthful member has …
SERMON • SERMON 855Everyday Usefulness
John 1:42
… Nor shall we deal with the efforts of an entire Church, but with the pious fervor of individual disciples. If the Christian Church were in a proper and …
SERMON • SERMON 1862The True Tabernacle, and Its Glory of Grace and Peace
John 1:14
… Today let our congregation be a holy convocation; and as for ourselves, let us be holiness unto the Lord. We are consecrated men and women, seeing the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 648Degrees Of Power Attending The Gospel
1 Thessalonians 1:5
… I believe a very large majority of church goers know no more of what the preaching is about than did Jonathan's lad when he ran after the …
SERMON • SERMON 2203"Lo, I Come"—Application
Psalm 40:7
… I have heard of a preacher who was so fearful lest he should be thought personal, that he said to his congregation, "Lest any of you should think …
SERMON • SERMON 1027The Joy of the Lord, the Strength of His People
Nehemiah 8:10
… Let us be glad when in the congregation we unite in psalmody. It is a wretched thing to hear the praises of God rendered professionally, as if the …
SERMON • SERMON 1638Men Without Heart, Sight, or Hearing
Deuteronomy 29:4
… Alas, there are among us, in this congregation this day, and all around us in myriads, poor souls of whom this text is true, "The Lord has not …
SERMON • SERMON 523From Death To Life
1 Samuel 2:6
… As I look around me here, I miss some of my congregation, and in such a large congregation as this, there are at least two who depart every …
SERMON • SERMON 1901Mysterious Meat
John 4:31-38
… Many a man would say, "I could easily forget hunger and a thousand other inconveniences if called to preach to a vast congregation like that which assembles in …
SERMON • SERMON 1049Intercessory Prayer
Psalm 141:5
… I know you desire, Beloved, to be of real service in the Church of God. I trust we have no members of this Church who are satisfied to …
SERMON • SERMON 2246Come From the Four Winds, O Breath!
Ezekiel 37:9
… He watches His Church and if He sees, in the officers of the Church, or in the workers, something unholy. If He beholds practices tolerated that are not …
SERMON • SERMON 604The Man With The Measuring Line
Zechariah 2:1-5
… My heart is so taken up with the present state of my Church and congregation that I feel moved to use my text in its application to us …
SERMON • SERMON 926The Sine Qua Non
John 13:8
… The leper, once purged under the Law, was clean and might go into the congregation of the Lord's House. Yet as a clean man and as admitted …
SERMON • SERMON 1019Household Salvation
Acts 16:32-34
… You cannot preach, but you can gather a congregation for those who do. A little persuasion would succeed in many cases, and once bring them here, we would …
SERMON • SERMON 296A Revival Sermon
Amos 9:13
… Now you all know, beloved, what this means in the church. It prophecies that in the Church of Christ we shall see the most abundant ingathering of souls …
SERMON • SERMON 280The Chaff Driven Away
Psalm 1:4
… You are to the church just what the chaff is to the wheat. You are the outward husk, the congregation which surrounds the inner living nucleus of the …
SERMON • SERMON 1998Not Bound Yet
2 Timothy 2:9
… But the Word of God is not cold, nor lukewarm, nor in any way losing its old fire! "Such and such a congregation is as frozen as the …
SERMON • SERMON 2568Sabbath-work
John 5:9
… The devil in the man made a disturbance in the congregation. He cried, "Let me alone." Christ said, "Hold your peace and come from him." And I believe …
SERMON • SERMON 437A Sight Of Self
Isaiah 64:6
… And that, in fact, he is not fit to stand in the congregation of the righteous, nor to be numbered with God's chosen, for he is, in …
SERMON • SERMON 2481Faith Victorious
Matthew 15:21-28
… So far from being within the Church, she was not even within the congregation! She had no connection whatever with the whole Gospel system—except such a connection …
SERMON • SERMON 1505Prayer to God in Trouble an Acceptable Sacrifice
Psalm 50:15
… Many have a holiday faith which enables them to repeat the creed and say with the congregation, "I believe in God the Father Almighty," but in very deed …
SERMON • SERMON 2576Zion's Prosperity
Psalm 102:13
… We do not conceive it to be, necessarily, a sign of a church's prosperity when the congregation is large. We love to see people throng to hear …
SERMON • SERMON 2458Reasons for a Singular Question
Mark 10:51
… than women in this congregation—there are often five men to three women in the congregation—yet when they come to join the Church, the women are probably …
SERMON • SERMON 1475Crowning Blessings Ascribed to God
Psalm 65:11
… for the great mercies with which He has surrounded us as a Church and congregation from the first day even until now! I. And so our first head …
SERMON • SERMON 2601Small Things Not to Be Despised
Zechariah 4:10
… And I am sure that He does so in the great work of His Church. Long ago He began to build a spiritual temple for His own habitation …
SERMON • SERMON 2653The Head and the Body
Ephesians 4:15
… power to gather or hold a congregation together. They have fomented a quarrel within a month and split up the church into fragments in order to purge it …
SERMON • SERMON 943The Spur
John 9:4
… O that our light as a Church would shine upon this congregation! How I desire to see all my congregation saved! Let Believers be more in prayer, more …
SERMON • SERMON 1602Farm Laborers
1 Corinthians 3:6-9
… Church, God has blessed us so richly that in generations to come it will be spoken of as a wonder that God should so greatly favor a congregation …
SERMON • SERMON 1100Good News for the Lost
Luke 19:10
… We have sometimes heard men of the world ridicule what they are pleased to call the cant of the Church, but we take leave to say that there …
SERMON • SERMON 2193A Poor Man's Cry—and What Came Of It
Psalm 34:6
… I am afraid that many public prayers are a performance to please the congregation. And when they are mixed with music, it is hoped that they will influence …
SERMON • SERMON 516The Minister'S Stock-Taking
Acts 28:24
… Some preachers appeal much to the passions and think when the congregation are weeping, good is being done. I do not see the use of it at all …
SERMON • SERMON 2385Another Lesson From Manasseh's Life
2 Chronicles 33:10
… who know the Lord, you who can pray—"Lord, save the whole congregation!" What a congregation it is! Every Sabbath, morning and night, these masses gather here! Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 1064Salvation All of Grace
Ephesians 2:8
… Merit is an unknown word in the Christian Church—it is banished once and for all—and our only shouts over foundation or top stone are, "Grace, Grace …
SERMON • SERMON 1973God's Nearness To Us
Acts 17:27
… If you have but a grain of mustard seed of faith He will at once discern it! When the messenger of the Church cannot perceive it and before …
SERMON • SERMON 1569The Golden Lamp and Its Goodly Lessons
Zechariah 4:1-3
… us love the Church of God! We must never think that any one congregation, or any thousand congregations, can comprise the whole of that Church! It is not …