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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 690A 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 474Faith 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 1148The 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 2064Essential 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 807Good 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 2321The 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 …
DEVOTIONALJune 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 …
DEVOTIONALJuly 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 312Personal 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 2358The 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 2635Depths 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 652Jesus 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 965Purging 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 1866The 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 3045Believers 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 405The 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 1118The 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 2465Our 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 835A 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 148Five 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 851Nearness 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 3087A 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 1546Men 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 …
DEVOTIONALMorning, 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 3522Christ 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 3226Figs 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 …
DEVOTIONALEvening, 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 2478Christ'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 1171The 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 282Christ’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 3044Spiritual 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 960Iconoclast
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 …