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SERMON • SERMON 3101

A Plain Talk Upon An Encouraging Topic

Jonah 2:7

… THE experience of the saints is the treasure of the Church. Every child of God who has tried and proved the promises of God, when he bears his …

SERMON • SERMON 2070

Christ's Connection With Sinners the Source of His Glory

Isaiah 53:12

… The four-and-twenty elders, representing the ancient and the present Church cast their crowns at His feet. And the myriads of the redeemed whose robes are washed …

SERMON • SERMON 618

The Great Physician And His Patients

Matthew 9:12

… We are to go to church or to chapel and do all that we can and then Jesus Christ died for us and we shall be saved. Whereas …

SERMON • SERMON 2012

Grace Abounding Over Abounding Sin

Romans 5:20

… When I have read the stories of the martyrs in the first ages of the Christian Church and during the Marian persecution in England, I have adored the …

SERMON • SERMON 893

Strong Consolation

Hebrews 6:17

… do not try to disprove these facts, because the only answer that the Church of God would give to them, if they once attacked her real strength, would …

SERMON • SERMON 2732

Believers Tested by Trials

Job 23:8-10

… Read the record of the martyr days of the Church and you will understand that the Presence of God caused His persecuted people to be the happiest in …

SERMON • SERMON 2878

Good Cheer for the Needy

Psalm 9:18

… You would be the very paragon of virtue! You would push the world before you and drag the Church behind you. I do not know how high your …

SERMON • SERMON 2133

"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"

Matthew 27:46

… Did the Lord ever fail to support a martyr at the stake? Did He ever forsake one of His testifiers upon the scaffold? The testimony of the Church

SERMON • SERMON 1276

Unconditional Surrender

James 4:7

… not one ordinance of the church of God, not one doctrine of revelation, not one precept or warning other than it is. We shall never be at rest …

SERMON • SERMON 836

Sown Light

Psalm 97:11

… I mean there is a glory promised to the Church of God even upon this earthly globe. Time shall speed its flight and the day shall come of …

SERMON • SERMON 2624

Secondhand

John 18:34

… We have many friends who come, at different times, to join the Church, and their stories vary greatly. Some who come to see me cannot say much and …

SERMON • SERMON 2961

'Heirs of God'

Romans 8:17

… God are also first-born, for Paul writes of "the general assembly and church of the First-Born which are written in Heaven." The question of the time …

SERMON • SERMON 2089

Profitable Mixture

Hebrews 4:2

… Here we are "strangers and foreigners, as all our fathers were." So even here the Church is distinct from the world and cannot be made one with it …

SERMON • SERMON 2941

Mary's Magnificat

Luke 1:46

… So let it be with us. "My soul does magnify"—a Doctrine? A church! A priest?—God forbid! "My soul does magnify the Lord and my spirit has …

SERMON • SERMON 274

Paul's Desire to Depart

Philippians 1:23

… we shall soon join the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. Our companions now are but poor and despised, but …

SERMON • SERMON 1168

The Crown of Thorns

Matthew 27:29

… say, "Wherein have I failed to crown Him? Did I not join the Church? Have I not said that I am a Believer?" On, but if your hearts …

SERMON • SERMON 1183

Is Conversion Necessary?

2 Corinthians 5:17

… The phenomena of conversion are the standing miracles of the Church. "Greater things than these shall you do," said Christ, "because I go to My Father." And these …

SERMON • SERMON 1131

Clearing the Road to Heaven

Isaiah 62:10

… he remembered that there had been a large addition to the little Baptist Church at Bedford and he said to himself, "Now God has saved all the people …

SERMON • SERMON 3149

The Commissariat of the Universe

Psalm 104:28

… Many professors are always wishing that the Church would in-crease—they would like to see an aggressive work carried on against the world—why do they not …

SERMON • SERMON 2310

Howling Changed To Singing

Psalm 13:1

… Many and many a time I have had great troubles—who can be the pastor of such a Church without them? I have done my very best with …

SERMON • SERMON 1947

Who Is This?

Isaiah 62:11

… Now, I take up the gage of battle and deny the assertion! The Church, by a holy instinct, has referred the passage to our Lord's First, as …

SERMON • SERMON 421

Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

John 19:30

… their gifts and their gold, by their prayers and their vows, by their church-goings and their chapel-goings, by their baptisms and their confirmations to make themselves …

SERMON • SERMON 2744

Lost Through One-Saved Through One

Romans 5:16

… all those sins away the moment we believe in Jesus! The Roman Catholic Church divides sins into two sorts—mortal sins and venial sins. But to me it …

SERMON • SERMON 1364

Nevertheless, Hereafter

Matthew 26:64

… When they break out in the Church, how they stagger all the adversaries of Christ! They said—yes, they dared to say—that the Gospel had lost all …

SERMON • SERMON 2718

The Tenses

2 Corinthians 1:10

… If my goodness cannot reach the great Head of the Church, it shall at least wash the feet, for I do love You, O my God, and I …

SERMON • SERMON 941

The Tender Pity of the Lord

Psalm 103:13

… You, who are members of the same Church, do not criticize and judge each other so severely. Or if you are severe upon the fault, be gentle towards …

SERMON • SERMON 2935

Christ's Joy and Ours

John 15:11

… No church is pure enough for them. No ministry can profit them. No one else can reach as high as the wonderful position to which, in their self …

SERMON • SERMON 1805

Strength And Recovery

Zechariah 10:12

… and a blessing to many, for we have not many fathers in the Church of God. Aspire to live to the utmost of life's possibilities and let …

SERMON • SERMON 2082

A Free Grace Promise

Joel 2:32

… oh, then we should be saved!" You do not know anything about it: church officers are no more saved by their office than you are by being without …

SERMON • SERMON 2155

The Beginning of Miracles Which Jesus Did

John 2:11

… Our Lord will come to celebrate a wedding between Himself and His Church and all the wine they will drink at that high festival will be of His …

SERMON • SERMON 2555

The Stronghold

Nahum 1:7

… us to Heaven, I want to have a great number coming into the Church to fill up the vacuum. During the last few weeks that I have been …

SERMON • SERMON 1091

Prayer Certified Of Success

Luke 11:9-10

… offered at Nineveh—were they spiritual prayers? Did you ever hear of a Church of God in Nineveh? I have not, neither do I believe the Ninevites were …

SERMON • SERMON 94

To-morrow

Proverbs 27:1

… And there was one member of his church there, who said to himself, “What my minister has said is true. I should not like to see my babes …

SERMON • SERMON 1405

A Distinction with a Difference

Luke 1:18

… And what can be a better lesson than that of faith in God? You who are in the Church, dear Friends, preachers, elders, deacons and instructors of others …

SERMON • SERMON 19

David's Dying Song

2 Samuel 23:5

… Are you sure that if you were to die you would go to heaven? “Well, I regularly attend church or chapel, I cannot say that I make any …

SERMON • SERMON 2770

'Go in Peace'

Luke 7:50

… May we realize that the Holy Spirit is inhabiting His own Church at this moment and, especially, may all of us who believe in our Lord Jesus Christ …

SERMON • SERMON 2573

Unparalleled Suffering

1 Peter 3:18

… They had to bear very much of it in his day—they will have to bear some of it as long as the Church of Christ remains in …

SERMON • SERMON 2864

God Has Spoken!— Rejoice!

Psalm 108:7

… hers! I think that every young Christian should say, when he joins the Church, "Now, I do not want to be merely an average Christian. I am nothing …

SERMON • SERMON 708

The Blood Of Abel And The Blood Of Jesus

Genesis 4:10

… the cross, but it— "Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed Church of God Is saved to sin no more." Brothers and Sisters, when prevailing sin …

SERMON • SERMON 2879

The Wide-open Mouth Filled

Psalm 81:10

… William Carey cried, "India for Christ," and his prayer has kept on ringing right down the ages! And the Church of God is still praying, "India for Christ …