The Church

The Relationship of Marriage

Jeremiah 3:14

… When the Lord Jesus Christ became the Husband of His Church, He felt that He was under an engagement to us, and inasmuch as there were debts incurred …

Holy Violence

Matthew 11:12

… These people, moreover, not like our common church-and-chapel-goers,—content to hear, if they could, and yet more content to keep without hearing, if it were …

Lovest Thou Me?

John 21:15-17

… that our church-government is not scriptural. It is scriptural as far as it goes; but it is not according to the whole of Scripture; neither do we …

"Things To Come"

1 Corinthians 3:22

… Therefore, by the Cross and by the crown of Jesus, you lovers of truth and justice, you children of a free Church and a just God, charge home …

The Broken Fence

… This Broad-churchism is a breaking down of stone walls, and it will let in the devil and all his crew, and do infinite harm to the church …

A Troubled Prayer

Psalm 25:18

… Yet there is a sense in which the Church of God, under paternal discipline, is continually exercised with chastisement. Do you remember the Apostle's words about the …

Jesus About His Father’s Business

John 4:34

… After that came the church-meeting. A little before ten o’clock I felt faint, and I began to think at what hour I had had my dinner …

'Stewards'

1 Corinthians 4:1

… A difficulty arises in the church which might readily be settled by loving forbearance, but we "stand upon our dignity" and then the servant grows out of his …

The Pilgrim's Longings

Hebrews 11:15-16

… The very meaning of a church is, 'called out by Christ.' We have been separated. I trust we know what it is to have gone without the camp …

The Voice From Heaven

Revelation 11:12

… He cannot be completely content until He brings His body, the Church, into the Glory of its Head, and conducts His elect spouse to the marriage feast of …

The Victory of Faith

1 John 5:4

… Turn to the articles of the Church of England, and read it there. Church people come to me sometimes to unite with our church; I show them our …

At School

Psalm 143:10

… Perhaps they trouble them doctrinally, or as to the ordinances of the Christian faith, or as to matters of Church discipline. If they do not paste those pages …

A Practical Discourse

1 Kings 5:14

… Thus the Jew praises Jerusalem and thus the Christian praises the Church. The Church of Christ is, to His eyes, the most precious thing in the whole world …

Lessons From Christ's Baptism

Matthew 3:16

… Indeed, when the Spirit rested upon Christ, He rested upon the whole Church that was represented by Christ. You remember that David says the unity of brethren is …

Hiding Among the Stuff

1 Samuel 10:22-23

… He knows what it is to think so much about the management of the service, the ruling of the Church, the arranging this point, the setting of this …

Guests for the Royal Feast

Matthew 22:8-10

… What a mercy it is when an earnest Christian Church has no theme but Christ. When the pastor is set upon bringing sinners to Jesus and all the …

The Priesthood of Believers

1 Peter 2:5

… The antichrists go out from the Church of Christ. The raw material for a devil was an angel. To make a Judas, you must make him out of …

A Blessed Wonder

Matthew 8:10

… Talk not of the pyramids, the Colossus, the golden house of Nero, or the temple of Ephesus—for the living temple of God's Church is fairer far …

Salt For Sacrifice

Leviticus 2:13

… But do not be deceived! You may be a great man in the Church of God and hold office there—and even be a leader— but if you …

Fine Pleading

Psalm 106:4

… Yes, a whole Church has sometimes labored under it. Zion said, "My God has forsaken me. My God has forgotten me." Thus you may be, as you think …

The Vine of Israel

Psalm 80:14

… Go to the Ghetto, today, in the Jews' quarter in Rome, and see the Church, as I have done, in which a certain number of Jews were compelled …

Fear of Death

Hebrews 2:15

… Therefore, dear Friends, the Church of Christ loses this defense and the world loses this evidence when we are troubled by the fear of death. This fear ought …

The Whole Band Against Christ

Matthew 27:27

… There was a Simon in the early Church and it certainly was the lot of the Ethiopian to bear the Cross for many and many an age. This …

Psalm 59

Psalm 59

… Had he never been cruelly hunted by Saul, Israel and the church of God in after ages would have missed this song. The music of the sanctuary is …

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… And the argument is propounded by the prophet, not directing his speech to the church, but rather in his own person, bringing in the church suddenly turning her …

Christ's Prayer for Believers

John 17:20

… Peter nudges the Virgin Mary and says, "What a lie that is! I was never Head of the Church at all! Did I not fall into sin? I …

'A Prepared Place for a Prepared People'

John 14:2

… His union to the Godhead has found a place for His Church at the right hand of God, even the Father, where Christ sits—and all is as …

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… or are you boasting, "The Baptists are all"—"The Wesleyans are all"—"The Church of England is all"? As the Lord lives, if you are saying that, you …

Witnesses for God

Isaiah 43:10

… Oh, how some Christians dislike this! Even as to joining a Church, I frequently hear my Brother ministers say that we should make the way into the Church …

Making Light of Christ

Matthew 22:5

… Ah! church members, ye want a great deal of sifting; we have an immense quantity of chaff now mixed with the wheat; and sometimes I think we have …

Four Contrasts

Isaiah 43:1-4

… Is it not perfectly wonderful how close Christ has kept to His Church? Even when she had sinned, He would not leave her. When she had fallen and …

Preparing to Depart

2 Kings 2:11

… He was about to leave the State and the Church in very perilous times, so he talked fast to the man who was to bear the burden and …

The Planter of the Ear Must Hear

Psalm 94:9

… Read the long and cruel story of human malice against the Church of God— it mingles with the record of every nation—it is an awful history, written …

Ruins

2 Chronicles 28:23

… He would, of course, prefer the old-fashioned low church but, still, he was a very broad-minded man and he was willing to have a high church …

Jesus Meeting His Warriors

Genesis 14:18-20

… The Church at Laodicean was very far gone and how did the Master propose to cure it? Here it is—"Behold, I stand at the door and knock …

The Church'S Love To Her Loving Lord

Solomon 1:7

… We shall hope this morning to speak of our own experience, as well as of the Church who is here speaking. You will perceive that she begins with …

Harvest Men Needed

Matthew 9:37

… Alas, how many have been scatterers, rending Churches to pieces? Pray the Lord of the harvest to give His Church binders who can, by the power of the …

Over Against the Sepulcher

Matthew 27:61

… Times have come upon the Christian Church when the Truth of God seems to be fallen in the streets and the kingdom of Christ is in apparent peril …

Gadding About

Jeremiah 2:36

… It is well for the Church when there are many of her members, beside her pastors and deacons, who care for the souls of those who are born …

Laus Deo

Romans 11:36

… Upheld by the Holy Spirit, pastors, teachers and elders still abide with the Church—still the energy of the Spirit goes forth with the Word to the hearts …