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'Flee From the Wrath to Come'
Matthew 3:7
… Your Baptism, your church or your chapel attendance, your eating of the Lord's Supper, your saying of collects, your family prayers, your giving of your guineas— everything …
SERMON • SERMON 3016Good Cheer From Forgiven Sin
Matthew 9:2
… But for Christians to go among such people to try to do them good is Christlike! The Church of Christ always fails in her duty when she looks …
SERMON • SERMON 1468The Philosophy and Propriety of Abundant Praise
Psalm 145:7
… O that in the whole of this congregation the text may become true—"They shall abundantly utter the memory of Your great goodness"—and having uttered it in …
SERMON • SERMON 1677A Great Mistake and the Way to Rectify It
Revelation 3:17
… the Church and He says to him, "You say, I am rich, and increased with goods." The self-complacent man had probably gathered together a wealthy congregation—wealthy …
SERMON • SERMON 2634"Jesus Only" —a Communion Meditation
Mark 9:8
… It was my privilege, this morning, to address a congregation, most of you being present, from the text, [Sermon #144, Volume 3— Waiting Only Upon God] "My soul …
SERMON • SERMON 2869Prayer Found in the Heart
2 Samuel 7:27
… and we have seen hearers fall back dead even while gathered in the congregation! God grant that we may not see it again! Still, the fact that it …
SERMON • SERMON 295The Treasure of Grace
Ephesians 1:7
… We may not divide the Church, saying, I am of Paul, I of Peter, I of Apollos; but we may acknowledge the instrument which God was pleased to …
SERMON • SERMON 2989Near the Kingdom, or in It?
Mark 12:34
… Fully believing that I have many in this congregation who are "not far from the Kingdom of God," I shall speak especially to them, or, rather, I pray …
SERMON • SERMON 284One Antidote for Many Ills
Psalm 80:10
… An active church will be a united church; a slumbering church will be sure to be a quarrelsome one. If any minister desires to heal the wounds of …
SERMON • SERMON 2090A Delicious Experience
Hebrews 4:3
… I will satisfy her poor with bread." Thus God and His Church are associated in happy fellowship. Neither the day nor the land is used as a type …
SERMON • SERMON 3037Christians Kept From Sin
1 Samuel 25:32
… Some of our Church members have gone to live in the country where they have been only able to worship with a cold and indifferent congregation where the …
SERMON • SERMON 3017Seeing God's Goodness Here
Psalm 27:13
… She can never go up to the House of God because the sound of the preacher's voice, or of the singing of the congregation would be more …
SERMON • SERMON 2924Preventing Grace
1 Samuel 25:32
… If ever you have to cast a brother out of the Church—if ever you have to relinquish the friendship of any man—do it as these men …
SERMON • SERMON 1164Now, A Sermon for Young Men and Young Women
Ezekiel 12:27
… The arrow of destruction has gone whizzing by your ear to find another mark! Have you never wondered why it spared you? Among this congregation there are persons …
SERMON • SERMON 2934Great Changes
Luke 13:30
… God deliver us from having an exclusively respectable congregation! I like to see men of all classes. I like to see the poor come in and I like …
SERMON • SERMON 1619The Pentecostal Wind and Fire
Acts 2:2-4
… Not a Church that would fight with the sword—with that weapon we have nothing to do—but a Church that should have a sword proceeding out of …
SERMON • SERMON 993The Northern Iron and the Steel
Jeremiah 15:12
… In the dark ages the enemy thought he had destroyed the church, but life came into the monk in his cell, and Luther shook the world. The church …
SERMON • SERMON 1324Unwillingness to Come to Christ
John 5:40
… His Church invites you and His Spirit invites you, for, "the Spirit and the Bride say, Come." We who have, ourselves, come, would all invite you, for it …
SERMON • SERMON 1949A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth
Luke 18:13
… He does not present to God his tears, his abstinence, his self-denial, his generosity to the Church, his liberality to the poor, or anything else—he simply …
SERMON • SERMON 1335A Cheery Word in Troublous Times
Acts 27:25
… He was always up here in the great congregation looking out, and then down in the Prayer Meeting below on the same errand. Many persons have been invited …
SERMON • SERMON 1701Gladness For Sadness
Psalm 90:15-17
… He was always a source of strength to his pastor and his Brothers and Sisters, always of great service to the Church, far more so than the mass …
SERMON • SERMON 685Heedlessness In Religion
2 Kings 10:31
… If we could once get a thoughtful believing church, we should not be long without having a reformed church. Beloved, it was because Luther was led by God …
SERMON • SERMON 1615Singing in the Ways of the Lord
Psalm 138:5
… And he who talks about being married to Christ and joined to His Church—and then says that he goes elsewhere to find his pleasure—is a traitor …
SERMON • SERMON 1985The Child Of Light Walking In Darkness
Isaiah 50:10
… SEE how the Lord inquires of His people? In every congregation He asks this question—"Who among you fears the Lord?" These are the wheat upon the threshing …
SERMON • SERMON 1357A Business-Like Account
Philippians 3:7-9
… Concerning zeal, persecuting the Church. Touching the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless." These are the things which were gains to him and the list is very …
SERMON • SERMON 404Intercessory Prayer
Job 42:10
… Intercessory prayer has healed diseases; —we know it did in the early church. We have evidence of it in old Mosaic times. When Miriam was smitten with leprosy …
SERMON • SERMON 3141Women's Rights—a Parable
Numbers 17:5
… It is a great satisfaction to remember how large a proportion of my congregation has come to Christ, but ah, there are many, many here who are—well …
SERMON • SERMON 50The Holy Ghost—The Great Teacher
John 16:13
… Give me the congregation whose faces are bright with joy, let their eyes glisten at the sound of the gospel, then will I believe that it is God …
SERMON • SERMON 1492The First Note of My Song
Psalm 103:3
… life—get your sins forgiven! Do not first make a profession, join a Church and put on outward religiousness. Get your sins forgiven! There David's Psalm begins …
SERMON • SERMON 955A Singular But Needful Question
John 5:6
… I am persuaded that instead of the question being an unnecessary one, it is in every congregation one of the first to be pressed upon the hearer's …
SERMON • SERMON 1322Rest For The Laboring
Matthew 11:28-30
… For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30 . [The Tabernacle was on this night thrown open to strangers, all the regular congregation …
SERMON • SERMON 1793The Glory in the Rear
Exodus 14:19-20
… this cloud would act as a vast umbrella tent, covering the whole of the great congregation, so that they could march without being faint with the heat. By …
SERMON • SERMON 1848The Looking Glass
James 1:23-25
… O Spirit of God, make it otherwise with my congregation! Save them from their own inconstancy! Let them not resolve and re-resolve and yet die in their …
SERMON • SERMON 611Zechariah'S Vision Of Joshua The High Priest
Zechariah 3:1-5
… s Day and only to minister before God when you stand in the congregation of the faithful. You are appointed priests like your Lord—forever—and you are …
SERMON • SERMON 2735Fountains of Repentant Tears
Mark 14:72
… Out of such a congregation and such a Church as this, it is not possible for anyone to know all that goes on, but we cannot help hearing …
SERMON • SERMON 2944Urging Lot
Genesis 19:15
… And I know that the young man said, "When I was converted, the minister wanted to get me into his church, but as long as I was unconverted …
SERMON • SERMON 1920Believers as Blessed as the Blessed Virgin
Luke 11:27
… I feel most happy to be addressing a congregation to whom I may say that the highest blessedness conceivable is to be attained by all who "hear the …
SERMON • SERMON 2818Jesus and His Forerunner
John 10:39-42
… And, again, one reason why our Lord was so successful on this occasion when many believed on Him was, no doubt, that He had a large congregation. I …
SERMON • SERMON 1788The Proof of Our Ministry
2 Corinthians 13:3
… The Corinthian Church was enriched with many gifts, but impoverished by slender Grace. This Church had elected to conduct its arrangements upon the principle of everybody speaking who …
SERMON • SERMON 290The Inexhaustible Barrel
1 Kings 17:16
… among the thousands of letters that I continually receive from my congregation, I meet with this very common question:—“Oh, Sir, I feel such little faith, such little …