The Church

Evening, March 20

Eph 5:25

Evening, March 20 Go To Morning Reading “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.” Ephesians 5:25 What a golden example Christ gives to …

Angelic Studies

Ephesians 3:10

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom …

Jehovah-Shammah

Ezekiel 35:10

… God is eternal, He is in the Church and His Church is immortal, too. Who shall quench immortality? Where is the sword that can snap the links of …

Farm Laborers

… We begin by considering that THE CHURCH IS GOD’S FARM. The Lord has made the church his own by his sovereign choice . He has also secured it …

The Lily Among Thorns

Solomon 2:2

… We take it for granted that the Song of Solomon is a sacred marriage song between Christ and His Church and that it is the Lord Jesus who …

'Make This Valley Full of Ditches'

2 Kings 3:16-18

… My Brothers and Sisters, this is just the position of every Christian Church. Every truly Christian Church not only is dependent upon God, but feels it, and there …

Fathers In Christ

1 John 2:13

… From this text I am to preach principally to the fathers, but as the Church has not many fathers, I may be supposed to have a slender audience …

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… THE PERPETUAL TRIUMPHS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST. The Church began with feeble numbers, with small wealth. I might add, with comparatively little talent, but she was …

Where Is the Lord?

Isaiah 63:11-14

… I read it, next, as a sketch of the Church's history. There have been times with the Church as at Pentecost and the Reformation, when, though she …

The Lamb In Glory

Revelation 5:6

… That adoration begins with the Church of God. The Church of God, in all its phases, adores the Lamb. If you view the Church of God as a …

Esther's Exaltation—or, Who Knows?

Esther 4:13

… The Church in Rome was once a Church of high commanding influence for good—you know what it has become. Some other churches are on the way, I …

Prayer 14 — "Bless The Lord, O My Soul!"

… Once more we pray Thee, bless Thy Church. Lord, quicken the spiritual life of believers. Thou hast given to Thy Church great activity, for which we thank Thee …

The Holdfast

Proverbs 4:13

… In this Church we try, as far as we can, in receiving Church members, to receive none but those who give clear evidence of a change of heart …

Jesus Known by Personal Revelation

Matthew 16:13-17

… Jesus says, in verse eighteen, "I will build My Church." It is very significant that our Lord should connect with the Church the right idea of Himself. In …

Sacred Memories

Jeremiah 51:50

… First, we will use the text with reference to THE JERUSALEM HERE BELOW WHICH SHOULD COME INTO OUR MINDS, that is, the Church of God on earth. The …

Preparation for the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:28

… It was one of those churches that had given up the one-man system, where everybody talked as he liked—a very knowing Church, and a Church of …

Converts, and Their Confession of Faith

Isaiah 44:5

… If there are few added to the Church, then I will go that the Church may not be discouraged in its Christian efforts." Oh, I like to have …

Salvation by Grace

Ephesians 2:5

… From those who join us in church fellowship, I frequently hear such remarks as this, "I attended my church every day in the week. I repeated the prayers …

Pentecost

Acts 2:1-4

… We are not observers of days and months, but it happens to be the season of the year in which the early Church was accustomed to celebrate the …

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… Certain sins against the Holy Spirit continually exist in a degree in the Christian Church. Unholiness of life grieves the Holy Spirit. When Christian men walk not according …

Holding Fast the Faith

Revelation 2:12

… But to the visible Church, which at its best estate is never altogether pure, He appears in severer form. To a Church He comes as Captain of the …

Memories of Maidstone and Newmarket

… It was a Church of England school. I had never seen anything of Church of Englandism till that time; but there was a turning in my life, through …

Commendation for the Steadfast

Revelation 3:8

… But, dear friends, as this expression was used to the angel of the church at Philadelphia, whom I suppose to be the minister of the church, I do …

The March!

Numbers 10:35

… First, then, THIS HAS BEEN THE WATCHWORD OF THE CHURCH OF GOD IN ALL AGES. The people of God in the wilderness were the picture of God's …

Jehovah-Shammah—a Glorious Name for the New Year

Ezekiel 48:35

… Show me a church that quarrels, a church that is split up into cliques, a church that is divided with personal ambitions, contrary doctrines and opposing schemes—and …

The Two "Comes"

Revelation 22:17

… It is not, "the Spirit and the Church say, Come!" But, "the Spirit and the bride," for she says, "Come!" always more fervently when she realizes her near …

Winnowing Time

Jeremiah 23:28

… Your admission into the Church by infant sprinkling. Your admission into the Church by confirmation. Your admission into the Church by the right hand of fellowship, or your …

Grace Preferred to Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:31

… THERE are among us many who have recently joined the visible Church of Christ. We have heartily welcomed them and we desire to always entertain, concerning them, a …

Elijah's Plea

1Kings 18:36

… A certain Church does not prosper. I wish that every Church would let this question go through all its membership—do we, as a Church, acknowledge the Headship …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… The Meeting House is now a Church, and in the Church the simplicity of Scriptural worship is overlaid with the inventions of human wisdom. I hate sensuous worship …

The Form of Sound Words

2 Timothy 1:13

… And now, for the good of the Church itself , I want you all to “hold fast the form of sound words.” Would you wish to see the Church …

God's Answer to Persistent Prayer

1 Kings 18:41

… The world shall be saved, but the Church must first be quickened. The nations shall be converted, but the Church of God must, first of all, be awakened …

The Middle Passage

Habakkuk 3:2

… Even so was it in the Christian Church of the first ages, so far as it was a visible organization. It began well—what hindered it? It was …

'The Sun of Righteousness'

Psalm 19:4-6

… He is the center of the Church too. Not the pastor, not the church itself, not any rule or government, no bishop, no priest, and no Pope can …

War With Amalek

Exodus 17:8

… Secondly, as a representation of the history of each separate Church. And thirdly, as a very excellent description of the history of the entire Church of the living …

The God of Peace

Romans 15:33

… Error is the root of bitterness in the church. Give us sound doctrine, sound practice, sound church government, and you will find that the God of peace will …

The Lamb Our Leader

Revelation 14:4

… When the old dragon had done His utmost against the Church of God and the thick darkness of the Middle Ages rested alike on the Church and the …

The Waterer Watered

Proverbs 11:25

… No matter, so long as Christ is preached, whether you throw your strength into that Church or into this Church. Here, as being members with us, we have …

The Preservation of Christians in the World

John 17:15

… Oh, how little like Christians some of you are—sitting down, side by side, and yet not knowing one another! The Church is meant to be a place …

"By All Means, Save Some"

1 Corinthians 9:22

… And, moreover, when new converts are brought into the Church, the fact that they are brought in by instrumentality tends to make their fusion with the Church an …