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The One Foundation
1 Corinthians 3:11
… Whatever community, congregation, hierarchy, sect, or corporation may call itself a Church, or even the Church, if it is not built upon Christ, is not a Church at …
SERMON • SERMON 2129Pleading, Not Contradicting
Matthew 15:27
… May we find that case repeated this morning in this Tabernacle! May our Lord Jesus come into this congregation with power to cast out the devil and may …
SERMON • SERMON 929The Model Home Mission and the Model Home Missionary
Acts 10:38
… God will bless His Church by the power of the Holy Spirit, for all the power lies there—but He will have His Church travail—or the blessing …
SERMON • SERMON 2143The Shining of the Face of Moses
Exodus 34:29-36
… And Moses called unto them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. And afterward all the children of …
SERMON • SERMON 829The Perfuming of the Heart
Romans 5:5
… oversight of the Believers! Never for a single moment does He forget His Church. His heart always beats high towards His elect, and at every moment He shows …
SERMON • SERMON 1559Tokens For Good
Psalm 86:17
… There are others who say, "I cannot hold up my head among my Brethren as I used to do and so I stay away from the congregation." As …
SERMON • SERMON 1925Jesus and the Children
Mark 10:13-16
… Surely, if these come into the Church in any great numbers, the Church may be spoken of in terms of reproach! The outside world will call it a …
SERMON • SERMON 2701Jesus Joyfully Received
Luke 19:6
… I would not pick my congregation even if I might do so—I would much rather that they should come, as they do come, by God's choice …
SERMON • SERMON 2217Three Names High on the Muster Roll
Daniel 3:16-18
… Every minister who has a congregation of any considerable size must have met with such people. I remember one who, being at a Prayer Meeting where there was …
SERMON • SERMON 3139A Promise for the Blind
Jeremiah 31:8
… To say nothing of the Church of Rome, the Puseyites, or Arminians—to go no further than the present congregation—there are many spiritually blind here! Oh, men …
SERMON • SERMON 1470A Question for Hard-hearted Hearers
Amos 6:12
… We have such in this congregation—the Lord have mercy upon them! While I am speaking, I hope the description will come home to them and that each …
SERMON • SERMON 562“Alas For Us, If Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth”
1 Corinthians 15:19
… to the general assembly and Church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven, if we have not joined the great congregation of the perfect in actual …
SERMON • SERMON 1738"Glory Be Unto the Father"
Ephesians 1:3
… in the midst of the congregation will I praise You." Thus did our Mediator bow before the Throne of God and admit to the Truth of God then …
SERMON • SERMON 2679Christ's Indwelling Word
Colossians 3:16
… congregation as I have, so as to give the separate instruction that is needed by each one. This work must be done by the members of the Church …
SERMON • SERMON 2175"So It Is"
Job 5:27
… He so spoke that a Methodist in the congregation presently cried out, "The parson is converted!" And so the parson was. He admitted it and praised God for …
SERMON • SERMON 2846'No Root in Themselves'
Mark 4:17
… It is a comparatively easy thing to increase the Church roll, but it is only God's almighty Grace that can preserve to the end those whose names …
SERMON • SERMON 2977Plowing Rock
Amos 6:12
… believe! A great master of the art of preaching once said, when his congregation complimented him on having delivered a fine discourse, "There is another sermon lost." He …
SERMON • SERMON 486The Sinner's End
Psalm 73:17
… But I say, brethren, are there not men and women here, members of this Church, doing nothing for Christ; no soul saved this year by you, Christ unhonoured …
SERMON • SERMON 138Prayer—the Forerunner of Mercy
Ezekiel 36:37
… It has been so in the history of the modern Church. Whenever she has been roused to pray, it is then that God has awaked to her help …
SERMON • SERMON 2134The Rough Hewer
Hosea 6:4
… are they afterwards? These throng the Inquiry Room but never unite with the Church. They make a great display of emotion but it is all a flash in …
SERMON • SERMON 2693Priest and Victim
Hebrews 7:27
… God forbid that we should entertain it for a single moment! Much, it is said, in the offering of the "mass" in the Roman Catholic Church, depends upon …
SERMON • SERMON 2933Dead, Yet Alive
Romans 6:11
… though we thus speak." I pray that every member of this Church and of Christ's Church at large, may be very careful in his living, very watchful …
SERMON • SERMON 2149Everlasting Love Revealed
Jeremiah 31:3
… I used to hear the preacher, but then I heard my God! I used to see the congregation but then I saw Him who is invisible. I used …
SERMON • SERMON 2334Our Service For Christ Never Finished
Luke 17:7-10
… THESE words are not addressed to the general congregation. You notice that the chapter begins, "Then said He unto the disciples." Even they felt as if Christ's …
SERMON • SERMON 2083One Lost Sheep
Matthew 18:12
… The sin of men is their claim upon the Church of God. The more sin, the more reason for Divine Grace. Oh that the Church would feel it …
SERMON • SERMON 3029God's Tender Mercy
Luke 1:78
… The precious promises contained in this chapter belong in the first place to the Church of God, but, as that which belongs to the Church really belongs to …
SERMON • SERMON 193The World Turned Upside Down
Acts 17:6
… Do you see that very respectable gentleman yonder, who has never omitted to attend his church or his chapel twice every Sunday ever since he became a man …
SERMON • SERMON 1581Silver Sockets—Redemption the Foundation!
Exodus 30:11-16
… The tabernacle was a type Of THE CHURCH OF GOD as the place of Divine indwelling. What and where is the Church of God? The true Church is …
SERMON • SERMON 2119Magdalene at the Sepulcher—an Instructive Scene
John 20:10-16
… But now go yet further and cry, "Speak, Lord! Speak Yourself! The angel of the Church has spoken and You have sealed his message, but now, we entreat …
SERMON • SERMON 2902Holiness Demanded
Hebrews 12:14
… is good and hate that which is evil shall never stand in the congregation of the righteous! Sinner, it is a settled matter with God that no one …
SERMON • SERMON 2957Advance!
Deuteronomy 1:6
… Did you ever go into a congregation—it has not been my lot to see such a sight often, but I have seen such a sight— where the …
SERMON • SERMON 1898Mouth and Heart
Romans 10:9
… you strive to do it over again? Look how that fable of the church of Rome concerning her unbloody sacrifice of the "mass" insults the one great sacrifice …
SERMON • SERMON 956Think Well And Do Well
Psalm 26:3
… I have hated the congregation of evildoers. And will not sit with the wicked.....Lord, I have loved the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your …
SERMON • SERMON 3144'The True Sayings of God'
Revelation 19:9
… All who believe in Him, in whatever visible Church they may be, make up the one Church of Jesus Christ which He has redeemed from among men with …
SERMON • SERMON 342Grace Reviving Israel
Hosea 14:5-7
… He goes to join a church; there is another branch. He sits down to the Lord's supper: there is another branch. And so the little lily, which …
SERMON • SERMON 1137To Sunday School Teachers And Other Soul-winners
James 5:19
… have gone from us! Seek those who still linger in the congregation but have disgraced the Church and are put away from us, and rightly so, because we …
SERMON • SERMON 2042The Maintenance of Good Works
Titus 3:3-8
… It is not a bad plan of the Church of England—to put up the Ten Commandments near the communion table where they can be clearly seen. Some …
SERMON • SERMON 2785Christ's Love for His Vineyard
Solomon 8:12
… But, Brothers and Sisters, it sometimes happens that in a church there is no glory at all. The church is so badly off, the congregation is so small …
SERMON • SERMON 2255God Justified, Though Man Believes Not
Romans 3:3
… The Church of God owes very little to kings and princes and nobles. She owes far more to fishermen and peasants. Jesus said, "I thank You, O Father …
SERMON • SERMON 1684"Feed My Lambs"—a Sunday School Sermon
John 21:15
… This is not my Church, but Christ's. The exhortation which Paul gave was, "Feed the Church of God," and Peter, himself, wrote in his Epistle, "Feed the …