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Glorying in the Lord
1 Corinthians 1:31
… Under no peril and under no provocation has He cast away His people whom He did foreknow, so that this day the whole Church is persuaded that, "Neither …
SERMON • SERMON 3392Justification by Faith
Romans 5:1
… not by tears, nor prayers, nor humbling, nor working, nor Bible-reading, nor Church-going, nor Chapel-going, nor sacraments, nor priestly absolution, but by faith—which faith …
SERMON • SERMON 879An Assuredly Good Thing
Psalm 73:28
… I believe this Church would be visited with a very great ingathering if all the members of it made it a solemn matter of duty to draw near …
SERMON • SERMON 3397A Timely Expostulation
Luke 24:5
… that believes not shall be damned." What if the man always goes to Church, or always comes to a meeting? There is no exemption—if he believe not …
SERMON • SERMON 3413God's Mercy Going Before
Psalm 59:10
… I speak now especially to the members of this Church. It is a blessed thing to reflect upon, that in all Christian service, God will go before us …
SERMON • SERMON 2437Prayer, the Proof of Godliness
Psalm 32:6
… One such man in a Church may save it from ruin! I go further and say that one such man in a nation may bring down upon it …
SERMON • SERMON 75Final Perseverance
Hebrews 6:4-6
… Oh! no, sir,” you would say, “I will repent again and join the Church.” That is just the Arminian theory all over; but it is not in God …
SERMON • SERMON 3239Woe and Weal
Micah 7:9
… He was grieved at the low estate of the Church—a combination which ought to affect some of us a great deal more than it does. Alas, there …
SERMON • SERMON 2359Personal and Effectual Calling
John 10:3
… Beloved Friends, I used to have such a trustworthy memory that I not only knew the nearly 6,000 members of this Church by face, which I am …
SERMON • SERMON 1144A Mighty Plea
Psalm 27:9
… John Duncan, of Edinburgh," who was a beautiful character, and a famous Hebrew scholar, and has lately gone to Heaven, much to the loss of the Free Church …
SERMON • SERMON 3357Heedful Hearing
Luke 8:18
… there, or somewhere like it, to be buried, but that was all their church going and all their respect for the worship of God. Unhappy they—to have …
SERMON • SERMON 182Particular Redemption
John 6:44
… It is all in vain for you to be a church-goer or chapel-goer, a good keeper of the Sabbath, an observer of your prayers: it is …
SERMON • SERMON 887A Door Opened In Heaven
Revelation 4:1
… Come in and converse with me "? Brethren, if common Christian communion is very sweet and I know that as Church members we have found it so, how much …
SERMON • SERMON 2705Why Some Sinners Are Not Pardoned
Job 7:21
… causing him to become one of the fathers and patterns in the ancient Church of God! He was really doing for Job such extraordinarily good things that you …
SERMON • SERMON 2079Man Unknown To Man
Proverbs 14:10
… Not a share in the ecclesiastical privileges of a Church but the privilege—each one for himself—of becoming a child of God. We must personally open the …
SERMON • SERMON 2947Royal Emblems for Loyal Subjects
2 Samuel 23:4
… This He is as King, already, in His Church and as the rightful Monarch in the individual heart of the Believer. Whenever Christ comes into a soul, it …
SERMON • SERMON 3291The Sea! the Sea! the Wide and Open Sea!
Psalm 95:5
… When this weather-beaten mariner came forward to join the Church, he said, "I am come to get on the register, for I have got a new Owner …
SERMON • SERMON 2793Five Divine Declarations
Isaiah 45:24
… They will glory neither in their church, nor in their creed, nor in their good works, nor in the earnestness with which they serve the Lord—but only …
SERMON • SERMON 3065The Third Beatitude
Matthew 5:5
… I have known persons join the Church and after they have been a little while in it, they have said, "There is no love there." Now, when a …
SERMON • SERMON 1374"Forever With The Lord"
1 Thessalonians 4:17
… The Lord Jesus is with His Church in her tribulation for His name's sake and He will forever be so, for He forsakes not His saints. "Fear …
SERMON • SERMON 2376"I Will," Yet, "Not As I Will"
John 7:24
… This is Christ's prayer for all those who shall believe on Him, that they may be converted and brought into the one Church, together, with those who …
SERMON • SERMON 350A Blow at Self-Righteousness
Job 9:20
… The Romish Church indeed, often tells this so very plainly, that we cannot think it less than profanity. I have been informed that there is in one of …
SERMON • SERMON 2827The Redeemer Described by Himself
Isaiah 50:2-6
… So, if there is confusion in your mind, it is the confusion of Holy Scripture, itself, for we read, "Feed the Church of GOD, which He has purchased …
SERMON • SERMON 662Consolation In The Furnace
Daniel 3:25
… The same can be said of the Christian without any fable whatever! The ancient Church, in a favorite metaphor, described itself as a ship. Where should the ship …
SERMON • SERMON 2909Job's Sure Knowledge
Job 19:25
… Nothing could satisfy Him till He had come to this earth and been made one flesh with His Church. "For this cause," it is said concerning marriage, "shall …
COMMENTARYPsalm 69
Psalm 69
… Poor, fallen Israel shall have a portion in the mercy of the Lord; but, above all, the church, so dear to the heart of her glorious bridegroom, shall …
SERMON • SERMON 1543The Sheep Before The Shearers
Isaiah 53:7
… she saw her child bleeding? And surely Jesus might have said to His Church, "You are a costly spouse to Me, to bring Me all this shame and …
SERMON • SERMON 3389The Soul's Awakening
John 5:25
… No difference by nature between the brightest saint in the Church of God and the blackest sinner of the camp of Satan—all fallen, all desperately depraved at …
SERMON • SERMON 3444Keeping the Soul Alive
Psalm 22:29
… one of our classes! Lay hold of somebody tonight that belongs to the Church and try to make friends with him, for none of us can keep alive …
SERMON • SERMON 2262Christ's Curate In Decapolis
Mark 5:17-19
… sent after Satan and said, "That young man is a member of my Church." "Well," replied the devil, "I do not care where he is a member! I …
SERMON • SERMON 2516Jesus and His Brethren
Genesis 45:1-5
… Cry, "Stand back, O self! Stand back, O devil! Stand back, all care for the world! Stand back, even care for the Church just now! My heart must …
SERMON • SERMON 3338The Witness of the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:26
… We shall see Israel restored to her land when Israel is restored to the Mercy Seat—and we shall see great prosperity as a Church and the blessing …
SERMON • SERMON 603Delivered On Sunday Morning, December 4, 1864,
2 Corinthians 6:2
… profession! Oh, this is starving work! If your tendency is to live as Church members, if not altogether as worldly men, rouse yourselves from it, I pray you …
SERMON • SERMON 2036The Whole-Heartedness of God in Blessing His People
Jeremiah 32:41
… Pestilence, famine, earthquake, wars—all have some relation to the Church of God. All that happens, all that is yet to happen-whether it is the falling of …
SERMON • SERMON 2115The Drought of Nature, the Rain of Grace and the Lesson Therefrom
Jeremiah 14:3
… The long-descended priest of the Church of Rome, who can, for a shilling, grant you absolution—will you look to him? No, you have still some wit …
SERMON • SERMON 2080The Power of His Resurrection
Philippians 3:10
… We are often summoned to the house of mourning in this Church. We seldom pass a week without one or two deaths of beloved ones. Here is our …
SERMON • SERMON 3020Good Cheer From Grace Received
Matthew 9:20-22
… Rejoice, therefore, because your faith has made you whole! Is not this a theme for boundless gratitude? Come boldly into the Church! Come boldly to the Throne of …
SERMON • SERMON 2145Scriptural Salvation
Romans 10:11
… When I was in the Church of St. John Lateran, at Rome, I read a request for prayer for the repose of the soul of his Eminence, Cardinal …
SERMON • SERMON 2407Feeding on a Whole Christ
Numbers 9:11
… is the fellowship of the life which is in the Head of the Church! It pulses through all the members and must do so evermore. I hope to …
SERMON • SERMON 2266Blessing for Blessing
Ephesians 1:3
… and has put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the Head over all things in the Church, which is His body, the fullness of …