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Unknown Depths and Heights
Luke 23:34
… Perhaps there are no powers of evil in the world greater than apostate churches—who can calculate the influence for evil that the Church of Rome exercises in …
SERMON • SERMON 99The Duty of Remembering the Poor
Galatians 2:10
… You see a man respectable in church; you always know him, don’t you? You are on the exchange, or walking down the street; you never find any …
SERMON • SERMON 892A Serious Reprimand
2 Kings 5:13
… They say, "after all, my Church attendance and Chapel attendance and prayers and almsgiving do not stand me in so good a turn as I could wish." I …
SERMON • SERMON 3234Strangers and Sojourners
Psalm 39:12
… Many of our Brothers and Sisters in Christ have already joined the general assembly and Church of the First-Born which are written in Heaven. 'Tis true that …
SERMON • SERMON 273Christ Triumphant
Colossians 2:15
… Dread defeat or glorious conquest awaits the Champion of the church. Which shall it be? We hold our breath with anxious suspense while the storm is raging. I …
SERMON • SERMON 130Regeneration
John 3:3
… You are a member of the church; you have been baptized; you take the Lord’s Supper; perhaps you are a deacon, or an elder; you pass the …
SERMON • SERMON 47Christ’s Prayer for His People
John 17:15
… Well, he soon came to the church, and although he was a pedlar, and always travelling about, he said, “I want to join your church.” They, remembering his …
SERMON • SERMON 824The Heavan of Heavan
Revelation 22:4
… hour than is known by all the divines of the assemblies of the Church on earth. O yes, our Catechisms and our creeds, and even our Bible—all …
SERMON • SERMON 496The New Song
Psalm 98:1
… strokes of Providence, even the most dire calamities that ever occurred to the Church, were only the on-march, the tramp of victories yet to come. I am …
SERMON • SERMON 313Terrible Convictions and Gentle Drawings
Psalm 32:3-4
… that a considerable proportion of these, and of the best members of our Church too, were brought to know the Lord not by legal terrors, but by gentler …
SERMON • SERMON 3399Good Talk
1 Chronicles 16:9
… The waking up of Christian life throughout the entire body of the Church of God—and the enlisting of the entire life of the Christian Church in the …
COMMENTARYPsalm 32
Psalm 32
… It is to be feared that the church of the present day, through a craving for excessive propriety, is growing too artificial; so that enquirers' cries and believers …
SERMON • SERMON 3550An Earnest Entreaty
Psalm 2:12
… which poor offenders who professed repentance, after some months of standing in the church yard, or perhaps outside of it, were at last allowed to take a peep …
SERMON • SERMON 1943Love Joying In Love
Solomon 5:1
… be rolled under the tongue as a sweet morsel! Yes, the Lord's Church is His Hephzibah, for, He says, "My delight is in her." The second thought …
SERMON • SERMON 512A Precious Drop Of Honey
Isaiah 49:16
… But the seed of Abraham is the grand type of the Church. And therefore we believe that every word here, in its widest and most extensive sense, belongs …
SERMON • SERMON 863The Stone Rolled Away
Matthew 28:2
… We have not some ministers set apart to whom is reserved the sole right of teaching in the Christian Church! We have no belief in a clergy and …
SERMON • SERMON 2997'Tempted of the Devil'
Matthew 4:1
… And you, Christian, will never be of great service in God's Church without temptation—you shall neither be able to strengthen the weak, nor to comfort the …
SERMON • SERMON 3278The Wordless Book
Psalm 51:7
… It must be a great Atonement which is yet to bring innumerable myriads into the unity of the faith and into the Glory of the Church of the …
COMMENTARYPsalm 9
Psalm 9
… We are to consider this song of praise, as I conceive, to be the language of our great Advocate and Mediator, "in the midst of the church giving …
SERMON • SERMON 932How God Condemned Sin
Romans 8:3
… We know that He is with His Church. He was dead, but He rose again. He has gone to Heaven, but His spirit is with us—King of …
SERMON • SERMON 3406Fullness of Joy Our Privilege
1 John 1:4
… I would like to see my Church members, all of them, good, hard, solid Bible students. Beloved, I would not be afraid of all the errors of Popery …
SERMON • SERMON 3546Assurance Sought
Psalm 35:3
… But whenever you speak about him you say, "What a wonderful thing!" Has it come to this, that in the Christian Church it is accounted a marvel for …
SERMON • SERMON 3387A New Year's Benediction
Hebrews 13:5
… nor forsake you." If we should getso old that we cannot serve the Church of God, even by a single word. If we should become so sick that …
SERMON • SERMON 352A Merry Christmas
Job 1:4
… Anthony's Church which were said to be both alike—the bell was pulled a long while, and was exceedingly dreary in its tone, and the preacher was …
SERMON • SERMON 2886Restless! Peaceless!
Isaiah 57:20
… instance paying no regard to the law of gravitation but leaping from a church spire, or falling down a precipice—you know what would come of such madness …
SERMON • SERMON 2263Christ's Plea for Ignorant Sinners
Luke 23:34
… We had been to Church regularly, or we had been to the Meeting House whenever it was open. We were christened; we were confirmed, or, perhaps, we rejoiced …
SERMON • SERMON 3280Christ's Prayer and Plea
Psalm 16:1
… incomplete, but that it never can be! Paul tells us that Christ's Church "is His body, the fullness of Him that fills all-in-all" so that …
SERMON • SERMON 402The Joint Heirs and Their Divine Portion
Romans 8:17
… All that the Church wants to-day is courage and devotion. Let but the Church know her rights and claim them, let her cease to assimilate herself to …
SERMON • SERMON 2247Praise for the Gift of Gifts
2 Corinthians 9:15
… If you have been a diligent servant of the Church and of your God, in whose strength have you done it? Is there not One who works all …
SERMON • SERMON 1463AThe Gazelles and the Deer
Song 2:7
… And as for the love of the Church, He who best knows it says, "How fair is your love, My Sister, My Spouse! How much better is your …
SERMON • SERMON 3229The Royal Savior
Acts 5:31
… The Lord Jesus Christ is a Prince among men, a Prince in His Church and a Prince in the highest heavens! Indeed, He is more than a Prince …
SERMON • SERMON 3533Recruits for the King
1 Samuel 22:1-2
… my heart grows big with a strong desire that I might see a Church in this place, pre-eminent for consecration to the Captain of our Salvation! I …
SERMON • SERMON 3485The Dejected Lover
Solomon 3:1-4
… The Lord deliver us from the lukewarmness of the Church of Laodicea, lest He should spew us out of His mouth! When she sought Him thus, she could …
SERMON • SERMON 3358'Grace and Glory'
Psalm 84:11
… Not one part of His bride, the Church, shall be destroyed! To every one of these, it is quite certain, He will give Divine Grace! And although some …
SERMON • SERMON 881The Believer A New Creature
2 Corinthians 5:17
… of the gospel—the article, as Luther used to say, by which a church stands or falls. We are saved by a simple faith in Jesus, but these …
SERMON • SERMON 2169The Man Who Shall Never See Death
John 8:51-53
… Last Monday was spent all day in the service of God and this Church, in the most hearty manner. Though a great sufferer, his spirit carried him over …
SERMON • SERMON 1081A Visit to the Tomb
Matthew 28:6
… And it may be well to say that some of us have been, this afternoon, to the funeral of a dear friend and deacon of this Church—and …
SERMON • SERMON 410Not Now, But Hereafter!
Job 21:29-31
… Thy right hand, O Lord, thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces thine enemies.” A God without justice is what this modern church is seeking after …
SERMON • SERMON 3341'The Oil of Joy for Mourning'
Isaiah 61:3
… above are your comrades—for "you are come to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in Heaven, and to God the Judge …
SERMON • SERMON 813The Privileged Man
Ezekiel 16:9-14
… of men! And the result of it is—what? A member of a Church, a wealthy man, who, when there is a collection, gives a four-penny piece …