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Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing
2 Samuel 3:39
… weakness, but on the immovable rock of Divine confidence! The reason why the Church of these days is such a poor trembling thing is because she always looks …
SERMON • SERMON 3390Hoping in God's Mercy
Psalm 33:18
… I wish that all the members of this Church were more on the alert after those who are beginning to hope in God's mercy. Some are. I …
SERMON • SERMON 6Sweet Comfort for Feeble Saints
Matthew 12:20
… As for a minister of the gospel, he is of some service; as for a deacon of the church, he is of some use; as for a Sabbath …
SERMON • SERMON 349The Wailing of Risca
Jeremiah 4:20
… They can be energetic in parish vestries or in the rifle corps, but in the church they give their name, but their energies are dormant. Ah! my dear …
SERMON • SERMON 3054Pardon and Justification
Psalm 32:1
… There is a backslider over there who has been cut off from the Church years ago. Behold his sad plight. As Achish said of David, "He has made …
SERMON • SERMON 3471The Three Hours' Darkness
Matthew 27:45
… THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT ARE EMBLEMATIC OF THE CHURCH OF GOD. Christ had hours of darkness and then there came the Light. The Church has her hours …
SERMON • SERMON 975The Parable of the Wedding Feast
Matthew 22:2
… It is for the honor of Jesus as entering into spiritual union with his church, that the gospel is prepared as a royal entertainment. Brethren, when I said …
SERMON • SERMON 1125The World On Fire
2 Peter 3:10
… Men have even come to occupy pulpits in churches when they do not believe the fundamental doctrines of the Church. We have heard them even claim a right …
SERMON • SERMON 1440The Great Emancipator
Exodus 4:22
… has redeemed from among men, and there is a Church of which it is written, "Christ loved His Church and gave Himself for it." Now, in the process …
SERMON • SERMON 2208The Statute of David for the Sharing of the Spoil
1 Samuel 30:21-26
… I am sorry to miss so many of our Church members who are laid aside by this sickness, [influenza—see postscript of Sermon #2207] but it is a …
SERMON • SERMON 2763The Glory of Grace
Ephesians 1:6
… If there were two indwelling spirits, there would be, and there must be, two sorts of people! But, in the true Church of Jesus Christ, there is "one …
SERMON • SERMON 3036Proving God
Malachi 3:10
… But mark, there will be some witnesses to attest it, and all the promises shall be fulfilled in the united experience of the Church. Such, then is the …
SERMON • SERMON 3070A Visit to Christ's Hospital
Psalm 107:17-22
… As He prospers you, prove that you are really His by your generosity towards His Church and His poor! In addition to sacrifice, the healed ones began to …
SERMON • SERMON 3326The Wondrous Covenant
Hebrews 8:10
… He values them above all things else! In fact, He keeps the world spinning for them! The world is but a scaffold for the Church. He will send …
SERMON • SERMON 2492Paul's Persuasion
Romans 8:38
… It is very amazing how the Church of Christ always seems to brighten up at the idea of death by martyrdom. The grandest, most heroic days in Christendom …
SERMON • SERMON 2697Angelic Interest in the Gospel
1 Peter 1:12
… Well, there is to come a general assembly, an ecumenical council of the entire Church of God. And when they shall all be there on the plains of …
SERMON • SERMON 1129The Heart Of Flesh
Ezekiel 36:26
… We have a Church in our land in which there are three distinct classes of men who all declare that they believe the whole of the Book of …
SERMON • SERMON 3383The Plowman
Isaiah 28:24
… Have they more than you? If you never join a Church till you find a perfect one, you will never join one this side of Heaven! And if …
SERMON • SERMON 493Gethsemane
Luke 22:44
… The world for which thou sacrificest thyself will cast out thy name as evil, and thy Church, for which thou dost pay the ransom-price, what is it …
SERMON • SERMON 1284The Sealing of the Spirit
Ephesians 1:13
… Have you ever noticed how Peter claimed for the uncircumcised the rights of Church membership in the 15th of Acts in the eighth and ninth verses? He says …
SERMON • SERMON 3368Fathomless
Psalm 36:6
… it happens—as it happened to one of our beloved friends in this Church this afternoon— that we have to stand at the open grave, and say, "Earth …
SERMON • SERMON 3330Two Choice Assurances
Genesis 15:1
… the Church and within this fold all the saints of God are gathered, not always in the visible, but always in the invisible and indivisible Church of Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 2111Filling With the Spirit and Drunkenness With Wine
Ephesians 5:18
… But at the same time, the solid people in the Church are those who possess their souls, who go about their business, suffer and labor with an inward …
SERMON • SERMON 1034The Only Atoning Priest
Hebrews 10:11-14
… I tell thee solemnly, thou wilt damn thyself by thy prayers, and thy tears, and thy repentings, and thy church goings, and thy chapel goings, as easily as …
SERMON • SERMON 2749Rehoboam the Unready
2 Chronicles 12:14
… And, first, dear Friends, is it not possible—I want to whisper this round among the members of this Church—is it not quite possible that there may …
SERMON • SERMON 43The Death of the Christian
Job 5:26
… As he used to say himself, “Methinks I hear the church bells of heaven ringing.” And methinks he did hear them when he came near the river Jordan …
SERMON • SERMON 13Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings
2 Corinthians 1:5
… Our afflictions are the sufferings of Christ mystical, the sufferings of Christ’s body, the sufferings of Christ’s church; for you know that if a man could …
SERMON • SERMON 2490The Danger of Carnal Security
Judges 18:7
… having no business with any man! Some of these people never join a church, for they do not care about its responsibilities. They are going to Heaven, so …
SERMON • SERMON 1230A Holy and Homely Resolve
Psalm 101:2
… Even when they are in Church they are under some restraint—they are constrained to show some deference to the place and the assembly. But at home they …
SERMON • SERMON 3379Rough, But Friendly
Genesis 42:25
… Before the Lord Jesus Christ shall come to give His Church her last and most transcendent blessing in His millennial reign of splendor, there are vials that are …
SERMON • SERMON 877Leaning On Our Beloved
Solomon 8:5
… The Christ of a great many professors is only fit to occupy a niche on the Church wall, as a dead, inactive, but revered person. Jesus is not …
SERMON • SERMON 2709Christ's Past and Present Witnesses
John 15:27
… Therefore, let me sum up all by saying— beloved Brothers and Sisters, members of this Church, and members of the one Church of Jesus Christ, be good witnesses …
SERMON • SERMON 1843A Question for a Questioner
Psalm 77:9
… A minister in America, some time ago, was going up the aisle of his church during a revival, when a young man earnestly cried to him, "Sir, can …
SERMON • SERMON 1193Girding on the Harness
1 Kings 20:11
… He has newly made the profession of his faith and has come forward to be baptized and united with the Church. He is girding on his harness and …
SERMON • SERMON 2854Lame Sheep
Hebrews 12:13
… You will be of great value in the Church of God if you acquire the art of compassion and are able to help those that are bowed down …
SERMON • SERMON 1330The Great Birthday
Luke 2:10
… We owe no allegiance to the ecclesiastical powers which have made a decree on this matter, for we belong to an old-fashioned Church which does not dare …
SERMON • SERMON 3038Justice Vindicated And Righteousness Exemplified
Romans 3:24-26
… He loved His Church and gave Himself for it, we know, "that He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any …
SERMON • SERMON 3113Gratitude for Great Deliverances
Psalm 102:19-22
… There are many sorrows, Brothers and Sisters, in this world, and there are many sorrows even in the Church of God! And yet, for my part, I see …
SERMON • SERMON 1626The Principal Wheat
Isaiah 28:25
… I think if we are truly Christians, we must, of necessity, be as much Christians outside the Church as in it. We shall try to make our eating …
SERMON • SERMON 1016Beauty for Ashes
Isaiah 61:3
… He mourns in Zion because of the deadness of the Christian church, its divisions, its errors, its carelessness towards the souls of sinners. He cries with Jeremiah, “How …