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Cleansing—Wrong Or Right?
Job 9:30
… 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 315The Teaching of the Holy Ghost
John 14:26
… and then the Spirit introduces the educated ones to the general assembly and church of the firstborn whose names are written in heaven. Concerning this Teacher, these three …
SERMON • SERMON 1851Ruth's Reward—or, Cheer for Converts
Ruth 2:12
… I looked with veneration on every officer and member of the Church! I thought them all, if not quite angels, yet very nearly as good! At any rate …
SERMON • SERMON 3205Scales Taken From the Eyes
Acts 11:18
… Some church members never speak to anybody about spiritual things. You come into your pews and you like two seats if you can get them—like gentlemen in …
SERMON • SERMON 793Nearer and Dearer
Solomon 5:2-8
… Spiritual sickness is very common in the Church of God, and the root of the mischief lies in distance from Jesus— following Christ afar off—and yielding to …
SERMON • SERMON 1106"The Lord Is Risen, Indeed"
Luke 24:5
… I do not hesitate to say that a great deal of Church order among Dissenters and Episcopalians, Presbyterians and all sorts of denominations—and a great deal of …
SERMON • SERMON 236The Shameful Sufferer
Hebrews 12:2
… Bernard, and many of the early fathers of the Church, give such a picture of Christ’s scourging, that I could not endure to tell it over again …
SERMON • SERMON 1270"God With Us"
Matthew 1:23
… And as to the adversaries of the Truth of God without, God is with His Church and Christ has promised that He always will be with her, "even …
SERMON • SERMON 3143Shoes for Pilgrims and Warriors
Ephesians 6:15
… Wear it in the Church, wear it in all holy service, wear it in all fellowship with Christians and you will find your way among the brethren greatly …
SERMON • SERMON 2120The Security Of Believers—Or, Sheep Who Shall Never Perish
John 10:27-30
… It is true of our Lord Jesus that—"He loved the Church and gave Himself for it." But it is equally true of the Father—"God so loved …
SERMON • SERMON 2368The Living Care of the Dying Christ
John 18:8
… Many times have there been crises in the Church's history when it seemed as if the Truth of God would be destroyed. Then has come the opportunity …
SERMON • SERMON 1587Jesus At A Standstill
Mark 10:49
… Thank God He has built a Church in America, but He has not left us without witness. Because of the tears of His saints, "Jesus stood still." We …
SERMON • SERMON 1204The Reception of Sinners
Luke 15:22
… They were pricked in the heart at Pentecost and the same day baptized and added to the Church because they had found peace with God through Jesus Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 1863Departed Saints Yet Living
Luke 20:37
… DURING the past week, the Church of God and the world at large have sustained a very serious loss. In the taking home to Himself by our gracious …
SERMON • SERMON 1835The Man Christ Jesus
Hebrews 7:4
… The church is his body, "the fulness of him that filleth all in all." God the Father saw in the divine decree the mystical Christ, and he was …
SERMON • SERMON 3459More and More
James 4:6
… This is not an occasional display of His bounty, but it is the universal order of His government in the Church, "He gives more Grace." There is no …
SERMON • SERMON 930Away With Fear
Isaiah 41:10
… Oh, for your own sake, for your neighbor's sake, for the Church's sake, for the world's sake, for Christ's sake, for God's sake …
SERMON • SERMON 3491The Savior's Charity
Mark 10:51
… From the days of the Apostles and the fathers of the Church they have delighted to dwell upon any single item of it as it is described by …
SERMON • SERMON 2058"Eyes Right"
Proverbs 4:25
… Professors have little right to be in Christ's Church unless they are passionately in earnest to increase His kingdom by the salvation of their fellow men. O …
SERMON • SERMON 2202"Lo, I Come"—Exposition
Psalm 40:6-8
… These were for the childhood of the Church, the pictures of her first schoolbooks! But we are no longer minors and we have Divine Grace given us to …
SERMON • SERMON 3005Silken Cords
Hosea 11:4
… You have been going to church, or going to chapel, and you have been trying to keep the Commandments, but you cannot keep them. No man ever did …
SERMON • SERMON 2459"Better Than Wine"
Solomon 1:2
… What the Church of Christ needs, just now, to strengthen her, is more love to her Lord and her Lord's love more fully enjoyed in the souls …
SERMON • SERMON 1409The Shortest of the Seven Cries
John 19:28
… he drank in those olden times it was in the garden of his church that he was refreshed. What doth he say? “I am come into my garden …
SERMON • SERMON 1255How To Converse With God
Job 13:22
… Speak to the Lord, you that have His ear! Speak for us, His servants, who are His ambassadors to men! Speak for the Church, also! Plead for rebellious …
SERMON • SERMON 1382The Touch
Mark 5:28
… I cannot help reminding you of the Church at Laodicea, which was in so horrible a state that our Lord, Himself, said He must spit it out of …
SERMON • SERMON 832The Best Cloak
Isaiah 59:17
… O that the Christian Church were baptized in zeal! There is much in that promise, "He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." Not drops …
SERMON • SERMON 1056Perseverance Without Presumption
John 10:28
… He loved the Church and gave Himself for it, that He might present it unto Himself a glorious Church—and He will effect the purpose for which He …
SERMON • SERMON 2569The Backslider's Door of Hope
Hosea 2:15
… Perhaps there may have strayed in here some who were once professors, but they are not professors, now—some who were once members of a Christian Church, but …
SERMON • SERMON 1948The Hedge of Thorns and the Plain Way
Proverbs 15:19
… The sluggard evades the common law of society and equally does he offend against the rule which our Apostle promulgated in the Church—"If any would not work …
SERMON • SERMON 2722The Education of Sons of God
Hebrews 5:8
… You have, perhaps, dear Friend, been honored in the Church of God and there are many who love you for your works' sake, yet you may not, therefore …
SERMON • SERMON 1750The Luther Sermon at Exeter Hall
Galatians 5:6
… He believed in the blessings of Grace, "without money and without price," and he did not conceal his convictions! He nailed his Theses to the Church door where …
SERMON • SERMON 1690Chariots of Iron
Judges 1:19
… I know how it is with those who have been long in the Church— they wonder what is to become of it when the old folks die. "When …
SERMON • SERMON 2404"A People Prepared for the Lord"
Luke 1:17
… I have often marveled why the Church of Rome thinks it wrong that priests should be married when it is evident that the priests under the Law were …
SERMON • SERMON 3105The Search after Happiness
Psalm 4:6
… Come, Church Member, do not be too certain of your own regeneration. Come, Christian, put yourself in this scale—"If any man has not the Spirit of Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 1721Glory!
1 Peter 5:10
… Will not even angels be surprised and awed as they look on the Church and say to one another, "This is the bride, the Lamb's wife!" They …
SERMON • SERMON 1877Our Own Dear Shepherd
John 10:14
… Not only can He say, "I gave Ethiopia and Seba for you," but He "loved His Church and gave Himself for it." He regards His Church as being …
SERMON • SERMON 3006'The Lord Is My Shepherd'
Psalm 23:1
… Rowland Hill had a man in his church who used to go to theatres and when Mr. Hill questioned him as to how he could make a Christian …
SERMON • SERMON 2838God's Glory in Hiding Sin
Proverbs 25:2
… Further, He can do this without exacting any sort of compensation from the offender Marvelous is this Truth—too marvelous for some to believe! The Roman Catholic Church …
SERMON • SERMON 3164The Mission of Affliction
2 Samuel 16:11
… Now if you, dear Brother and Sister, want to shine before God and be among the illustrious elect who the Lord makes as stars in the Church's …
SERMON • SERMON 2292Abraham, A Pattern To Believers
Hebrews 11:9
… May the Lord in mercy convert all our children, and their wives, and their children—and may we have a church in a house, as Abraham had a …