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SERMON • SERMON 639

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… The zealot, again, while unconverted, is generally, (if it is in his power), a persecutor. "Concerning zeal, persecuting the Church." Paul verily thought that he was doing God …

SERMON • SERMON 690

A Lesson From The Great Panic

Hebrews 12:27

… What then? Will you hold up your hands and cry, "The Church of God is gone?" Forbear the foolish utterance! God's Church is safe enough. Look yonder …

SERMON • SERMON 474

Faith Omnipotent

Mark 9:23

… His Church has become a very model of what a Church of God ought to be, a living, working body, from which he sends out missionaries to the …

SERMON • SERMON 1148

The Parent's and Pastor's Joy

… We practice no spy system among the members of our Church and yet somehow or other in this large Church of 4,500 members, it very rarely happens …

SERMON • SERMON 2064

Essential Points In Prayer

1 Kings 9:2

… To be driven from Church to Church, as some are, is a wretched business. To be like others, changing their views as often as the moon— happy nowhere …

SERMON • SERMON 807

Good News for Loyal Subjects

1 Corinthians 15:25

… He is the Headship of His Church, the Originator of Providence. His is the ruling of Heaven, and earth, and Hell, as the mediatorial Monarch. And until that …

SERMON • SERMON 2321

The Heavenly Singers and Their Song

Revelation 5:8-10

… God heal His one Church of all her unhappy divisions and any one Church of any latent differences that there may be, that our unity on earth may …

DEVOTIONAL

June 15 — HOME BLESSINGS EXTENDED

Ps. 128:5

… But then as a member of the church he desires to see the cause prosper, for he is as much concerned for the Lord's house as for …

DEVOTIONAL

July 10 — LOVE THE CHURCH

Ps. 102:13

July 10 LOVE THE CHURCH "Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come. For thy servants …

SERMON • SERMON 312

Personal Service

Psalm 116:16

… He meant it for his Church; and until his Church is prepared to grasp it, God will withhold the grown which he has prepared for her brow, and …

SERMON • SERMON 2358

The Unchangeable Christ

Hebrews 13:8

… Before the first star was kindled, before the first living creature began to sing the praise of its Creator, He loved His Church with an everlasting love! He …

SERMON • SERMON 2635

Depths and Heights

Hebrews 1:2

… Above all, we can scarcely conceive that any person who is a member or a minister of the Established Church and finding Divine Election in his own Church

SERMON • SERMON 652

Jesus The Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… There was first of all the Jewish Church, which was in His eyes His Rachel—His dearly beloved—and He toiled for her. But in the days of …

SERMON • SERMON 965

Purging Out the Leaven

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

… We should never think of saying that Paul was sacrificed for us, though it is true Paul did lay down his life for the Church of God to …

SERMON • SERMON 1866

The Sunday School and the Scriptures

2 Timothy 3:15

… Those children who have no such parents, the Church takes under her maternal care. I regard this as a very blessed institution. I am thankful for the many …

SERMON • SERMON 340

'Magnificat'

Judges 5:12

… I think that you as a church, and I as your minister, can indeed lead captivity captive this day. There has been no single church of God existing …

SERMON • SERMON 3045

Believers A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… An unholy professor is a downright curse both to the church and to the world and, as for a church of inconsistent members, Satan himself could not devise …

SERMON • SERMON 405

The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

… She gained nothing by it save pollution, degradation and shame, and that Church which asks the civil arm to help it, that Church which would make her Sabbaths …

SERMON • SERMON 1118

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… The Lord's will is not in the creed of the Baptist Church, or the Wesleyan Church, or the Congregational Church, or the Episcopalian Church. His will is …

SERMON • SERMON 2465

Our Omnipotent Leader

Matthew 28:18

… And the Church of God, when she is in her right senses, does not look for any other power. I mean that she does not cringe before kings …

SERMON • SERMON 835

A Cheerful Giver is Beloved of God

2 Corinthians 9:7

… If we should shun these—if these never entered into the course of our ministry at all—some solemn disease might break out among the Church because a …

SERMON • SERMON 148

Five Fears

Ecclesiastes 8:12

… These persons say, “I dare not join the church, because I am afraid I shall fall.” A friend mentions to them that they hold it to be their …

SERMON • SERMON 851

Nearness To God

Ephesians 2:13

… The Lord has been pleased to separate many of us to Himself and bring us into His visible Church so that we dwell within that "garden walled around …

SERMON • SERMON 3087

A Time of Finding for Lost Sheep

Ezekiel 34:16

… IT is a great mercy that God never leaves His Church. He has not made a Church as a watchmaker constructs a watch, which, after being wound up …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, August 6

Is 21:11

… is coming for the Church? Are the clouds lowering, or is it all clear and fair overhead? We must care for the Church of God with anxious love …

SERMON • SERMON 1546

Men Bewitched

Galatians 3:1

… It was an amazing event if a high Church or ritualistic place was set up. Everybody was astonished at it and, if you said, "This is the Church

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, December 2

Song 4:7

Morning, December 2 Go To Evening Reading “Thou art all fair, my love.” Song of Solomon 4:7 The Lord’s admiration of his Church is very wonderful …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, July 22

Je 3:14

… In love he espoused his Church as a chaste virgin, long before she fell under the yoke of bondage. Full of burning affection he toiled, like Jacob for …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, March 20

Song 2:8

Morning, March 20 Go To Evening Reading “My beloved.” Song of Solomon 2:8 This was a golden name which the ancient Church in her most joyous moments …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, August 19

Mic 5:4

Morning, August 19 Go To Evening Reading “He shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord.” Micah 5:4 Christ’s reign in his Church is …

DEVOTIONAL

Morning, December 26

1Co 15:45

… Thus, whatever Christ hath done, he hath wrought for the whole body of his Church. We were crucified in him and buried with him (read Col. 2:10 …

SERMON • SERMON 3522

Christ a Sanctuary

Isaiah 8:14

… Someone said to me, "I think that the Romish Church cannot be a Christian Church. I do not think that the Church of England is a Christian Church

SERMON • SERMON 3226

Figs and Olives

James 3:12

… So it is in the Church of God—all true Believers are members of the mystical body of Christ, but all the members have not the same office …

DEVOTIONAL

Evening, April 27

Ps 10:16

… As the Son of man, he is now head over all things to his church, and he reigns over heaven, and earth, and hell, with the keys of …

SERMON • SERMON 2478

Christ's Perfection and Precedence

Solomon 5:10

… Christ is the one Head of His Church—and His true Church is free from both the control and the patronage of the State—and so she shall …

SERMON • SERMON 1171

The Lord Chiding His People

Psalm 103:9

… I do not mean the discipline carried on by us through the minister, deacons and the Church itself. I refer to that solemn Church discipline which goes on …

SERMON • SERMON 282

Christ’s Estimate of His People

Solomon 4:10-11

… Now the church is a talking church, a preaching church, and a praising church; she has got lips, and every believer will find he must use his lips …

SERMON • SERMON 3044

Spiritual Transformations

Isaiah 4:13

… An unholy professor is a downright curse both to the church and to the world and, as for a church of inconsistent members, Satan himself could not devise …

SERMON • SERMON 1039

'Pray Without Ceasing'

1 Thessalonians 5:17

… Beloved friends, this church ought to pray without ceasing. We have been in years past notable for prayer. If ever a church has prayed it has been this …

SERMON • SERMON 960

Iconoclast

2 Kings 18:4

… There is much to be done in the Church of God. But there is much more to be done in our own hearts. First of all, there is …