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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 2070Christ'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 618The 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 2012Grace 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 893Strong 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 2732Believers 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 2878Good 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 1276Unconditional 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 836Sown 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 2624Secondhand
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 2089Profitable 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 2941Mary'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 274Paul'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 1168The 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 1183Is 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 1131Clearing 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 3149The 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 2310Howling 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 1947Who 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 421Metropolitan 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 2744Lost 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 1364Nevertheless, 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 2718The 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 941The 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 2935Christ'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 1805Strength 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 2082A 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 2155The 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 2555The 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 1091Prayer 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 94To-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 1405A 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 19David'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 2573Unparalleled 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 2864God 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 708The 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 2879The 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 …