The Church

A Summary of Experience and a Body of Divinity

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

… It was especially so at Thessalonica; but it is truly so in every church where the Spirit of God is uplifting men from the dregs of evil, delivering …

Christ's Yoke and Burden

Matthew 11:30

… This is the promise of Christ to His Church, both the Jewish and the gentile Church. He will deliver her from all her afflictions and distresses. And her …

Christ's Rest and Ours

Isaiah 11:10

… The first rest that I know of, that ever fell to the lot of our Well-Beloved, was His rest in His Church. We read in Zephaniah 3 …

Underneath

Deuteronomy 33:27

… He chose her and redeemed her to Himself—the very idea of a Church is from the Lord alone. As a temple He devised her architecture, saying, "I …

The Still Small Voice

1 Kings 19:12

… I hear that a certain Church is seeking for a very clever man—she thinks that God is in the wind. I hear the deacons say, "We must …

The Last Three Months at Mentone;–and Afterwards

… Before proceeding to the railway station, a touching memorial service was held in the Scotch Church, at the opening of which Mr. Spurgeon had preached a year before …

A Call to Holy Living

Matthew 5:47

… There are legitimate reasons why the world, the church, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself, may expect more from Christians than from the rest of mankind. And, the …

Jesus the Way

John 14:6

… We have it in the Catholic Church this very day. Certain hocus-pocuses pronounced by the priest and the thing is done. We have a similar sleight of …

The Lamb—The Light

Revelation 21:23

… When human history dawns and the history of God's Church commences, you still find Christ preeminent. All the types of the early Church are only to be …

God's Hidden Ones

Psalm 83:3

… Keep it up in the world if you are foolish enough to do so, but do not bring the evil into the Church of Christ! Here, at any …

Shutting, Sealing and Covering—or, Messiah's Glorious Work

Daniel 9:24

… Together with Christ, the Holy of Holies is now His Church and that Church was anointed or dedicated when the Holy Spirit fell at Pentecost, to be with …

The Known and the Unknown

Ecclesiastes 6:12

… What a blessing this is, not only in a nation, but in a church! If you were ever members of a church where they seemed to quarrel punctually …

Poverty and Riches

2 Corinthians 8:9

… They were a far richer community than the Church at Philippi, but He tells them that the Churches of Macedonia, out of their poverty, had often been generous …

A Bundle of Myrrh

Solomon 1:13

… To get them into the Church is a thousand mercies, and if they join the Sunday-school, of what value they are! Let me tell you that the …

A Voice From Heaven

Revelation 14:12

… They join a Church and they go by the law of that Church, though that Church's rule may be clean contrary to the will of Christ! But …

God's Advocates Breaking Silence

Job 36:2

… Though no voice is so sweet as the Divine, man is hardened against his God and it is the office of the whole Church with a thousand voices …

Receiving the Holy Spirit

Acts 19:2

… We are straitened in ourselves, not in God! O Brothers and Sisters, the Church is weak today because the Holy Spirit is not upon her members as we …

Enoch

Genesis 5:21-24

… And now we gather together in our Church capacity. We assemble around the table of fellowship, we unite in our meetings for prayer and worship and the center …

Psalm 135

Psalm 135

… Should not ministers be celebrated for celebrating the praises of Jehovah? Should not church officers and church members excel all others in the excellent duty of adoration? Should …

Bad Lodgers and How To Treat Them

Jeremiah 4:14

… Another time for seeing the Church officers with reference to union with the Church will pass away and another and another and yet they will be no nearer …

Golden Bowls Full Of Incense

Revelation 5:8

… How often in the family we go through the usual petitions, praying for ourselves and for the Church of God, and for the heathen, and so on—and …

Before Daybreak with Christ

Mark 1:35-39

… Let the preacher or the Church fail to pray and God will refuse to bless! Yes, and after conversions, unless there is, again, special prayer presented by the …

The Best Friend

Proverbs 27:10

… Many of you, I know, in this Church, and in other Churches, have a glorious heraldry in the line of the Lord's nobles. It is true that …

"Herein Is Love"

1 John 4:10

… The Church of God feels that the souls of the meanest are precious—that to save the most foul, the most ignorant, the most degraded, the most brutalized …

'The Zeal of the Lord'

Isaiah 9:7

… The zeal of all the Church could not secure it. Men might perish, notwithstanding every act, but God knows them who are His, and He will find them …

Micah's Message for Today

Micah 6:8

… Desire not to be the principal man in the Church. Be lowly. The best man in the Church is the man who is willing to be a doormat …

Hopeful, Yet Doubtful

Matthew 8:19

… Professing themselves to be wise, they thus become fools! Still, this is the point to which we come back and may God bring His Church there, and bring …

The Lion-slayer—the Giant-killer

1 Samuel 17:36

… Look at our Churches! Look at the Church at large—is there not enough red tape about to strangle a nation? Have we not committees enough to sink …

Rain and Grace—a Parallel

Job 38:25-27

… It is the source of the Church's energy and if public prayer is neglected, or if private prayer is slackened, or if family prayer is held back …

Dagon's Ups and Downs

1 Samuel 5:2-4

… Leave the Church alone, O you kings and princes, or persecute it if you will, for it will laugh your opposition to scorn! Do not pretend to propagate …

Unseasonable Prayer

Exodus 14:15

… His Church, today, is like a widow left forlorn. Her cries go up to God, pleading that He will vindicate her cause—and He will do so. He …

Faithful Stewardship

1 Corinthians 4:2

… Let a man so think of us as servants, but not merely as servants to the Church, certainly not as servants to men, but as servants of Christ …

Paul's Parenthesis

1 Corinthians 15:10

… They did not admit anybody and everybody into the Church. They guarded it as Christ's Church should be guarded, that unworthy people might not enter it. If …

Prayer, The Cure for Care

Philippians 4:6

… You know that the Church at Philippi was very dear to the Apostle's heart. He could never forget the time when he and Silas prayed with the …

The Road to Honor

1 Samuel 2:30

… Such a man honoring his God among his brethren shall be honored by God in the Church. If he has glorified God in the Church by his earnestness …

The Axe at the Root—A Testimony Against Puseyite Idolatry

John 4:23-24

… Remember that symbolical worship was suitable merely to the infancy of God’s church, and that now having received the Spirit of God to dwell in us it …

Am I Clear Of His Blood?

Genesis 4:10

… But oh, there are some of you, the members of this Church, over whom the angels of glory might weep, for what do you do for Christ? What …

Mahanaim—or, Hosts Of Angels

Genesis 32:1

… Those who are of the church of God below are as much a part of the host of God as the holiest angels above. Godly women who minister …

Accepted In The Beloved

Ephesians 1:6

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "He has made us accepted in the Beloved." Ephesians 1:6 . "THE Beloved!" This was a golden name which the ancient Church …

Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Little Child

Luke 18:17

… The seniors shook their heads at the idea of receiving children into the Church of the living God. Some even ventured to speak of converts as "only a …