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Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men
Romans 2:16
… Moreover, the Lord keeps the scaffold standing till he hath built up the fabric of his church. Not yet are the elect all called out from among the …
SERMON • SERMON 2350"Take, Eat"
Matthew 26:26
… Oh, that some outcasts might be gathered together! It shall make our hearts cry, "Hallelujah," indeed, if there is a building up of the Church and an ingathering …
SERMON • SERMON 684Hope, Yet No Hope—No Hope, Yet Hope
Isaiah 57:10
… Be of good courage! Angels are singing, Heaven is rejoicing over YOU! The Church on earth is glad concerning you! And one day, when the great Shepherd shall …
SERMON • SERMON 1953A Testimony To Free and Sovereign Grace
Psalm 37:39
… And yet we have lived to see the very person we admired rolling in filth, character gone and hope gone! This happens in the Church sadly too often …
SERMON • SERMON 1010Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness
Matthew 4:15-16
… What wonders God has done by that blessed church in Golden Lane, under our dear brother Orsman? What conversions have taken place in connection with the mission churches …
SERMON • SERMON 1359Happiness—the Privilege and Duty of Christians
Deuteronomy 33:29
… You are a fool to have ever joined the Church—there is no stability about you. You are a mere flash in the pan. You blazed like a …
SERMON • SERMON 1136"Forever With The Lord"
Philippians 1:23
… In vain they ring the bells till the Church tower rocks and reels. In vain the dishes smoke and the red wine sparkles. In vain the guests shout …
SERMON • SERMON 2168The Test of Taste
1 Peter 2:3
… His own works, as well as the Holy Scriptures, attest to His Godhead—the whole Church of Christ believes in Him as very God of very God and …
SERMON • SERMON 528Chastisement—Now And Afterward
Hebrews 12:11
… Here am I, laid aside upon a bed of sickness just when the Church wants me, just when I proceeded most triumphantly in a career of usefulness." This …
SERMON • SERMON 2135The Warnings and the Rewards of the Word of God
Psalm 19:11
… If the whole Church of God threatened to go to pieces, it would be no business of ours to bind it up by an unhallowed compromise! If you …
SERMON • SERMON 2099Concerning the Consolations Of God
Job 15:11
… common liar." Do you find in the preacher and the members of his Church any confirmation of this silly assertion? We can personally assure you that the joys …
SERMON • SERMON 1889The Blood of Sprinkling (Second Sermon.)
Hebrews 12:24
… Perhaps your hope lies in saying so many prayers, and going to church, or attending chapel; or you are so unwise as to trust to a minister or …
SERMON • SERMON 1143Death for Sin and Death to Sin
1 Peter 2:24
… The Romish Church, with all her errors, and they are countless, has always had in her midst a band of loving, adoring spirits who have entered into the …
SERMON • SERMON 1800Heaven Below
Revelation 7:16
… In this delight we unite with the general assembly and Church of the firstborn. Jesus, on the Throne of God, is to our hearts and songs the central …
SERMON • SERMON 439The Danger Of Doubting
1 Samuel 27:1
… All the Scriptural examples are quite the other way, and think I might say, as the pastor of this Church, that the most sorrowful cases of excommunication we …
SERMON • SERMON 1206Heart-Knowledge of God
Jeremiah 24:7
… We shall only be a drag upon the Church in any position if we are destitute of the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus. But if we are …
SERMON • SERMON 1565Maschil Of Ethan, A Majestic Song
Psalm 89:1
… built temples by the force of song! So shall God build up His Church and so shall He build us as living stones into the sacred structure and …
SERMON • SERMON 2210The Agreement Of Salvation By Grace With Walking In Good Works
Ephesians 2:9
… they somehow or other brought in that article of a standing or falling Church. They seldom finished a sermon without declaring that salvation is not by works, but …
SERMON • SERMON 1057Untrodden Ways
Joshua 3:4
… Ask your fathers, the elders of the Christian Church, whether these griefs of yours are new, and they will smile and tell you that they have done business …
SERMON • SERMON 845Consecration to God—Illustrated by Abraham’s Circumcision
Genesis 17:1-2
… This brings to my remembrance the words in the book of Revelation, concerning the church in Laodicea: “Though art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold …
SERMON • SERMON 1589A Hasty Expression Penitently Retracted
Psalm 31:22
… heart! This it is which endears the Book of Psalms to the whole Church and makes the explanation of that volume so important. Nothing more sweetly cheers the …
SERMON • SERMON 2187Jesus—"All Blessing and All Blessed"
Psalm 72:17
… old fellow," said one who met a man who had lately joined the Church, "I hear you have given up all your pleasures." "No, no," said Jack, "the …
SERMON • SERMON 3072An Observation of the Preacher
Ecclesiastes 7:8
… I have another year less in which to serve the Church, the world and my God. I have spent another of my talents and have so much fewer …
SERMON • SERMON 1161Without Money and Without Price
Isaiah 55:1
… Why, the thief must have died unblest! Suppose that He had said to all men, it is absolutely essential that you join a Church and be baptized, or …
SERMON • SERMON 1969Pleading Prayer
Psalm 119:49
… will hear for Him! And if You cannot be a leader of the Church, you will be a follower, somewhere, but you will serve your Lord forever. This …
SERMON • SERMON 837“All These Things”—A Sermon with Three Texts
Genesis 42:36
… You are filling up in your bodies that which is behind of My sufferings for My body's sake, which is the Church. Be conformed to Me. Ask …
SERMON • SERMON 2423The Model Soul-winner
John 4:7
… to the everlasting good of some of you to do something for the Church of God, to do something for the Christ of God! Before you know where …
SERMON • SERMON 2786The Soul's Best Food
Isaiah 55:2
… of it." When, in the Revelation, He said to the angel of the church in Laodicea, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock," you know how He …
SERMON • SERMON 3156The First Beatitude
Matthew 5:3
… The charter of the Church is written upon the supposition that it is formed of the poor and needy and is without meaning if it is not so …
SERMON • SERMON 1747Marvelous! Marvelous!
Zechariah 8:6
… In the Romish Church you have miracles in abundance, such as they are, but they are, for the most part, needless parades of power. When St. Denis, after …
SERMON • SERMON 2966Resistance to Salvation
Mark 5:7
… That is very much what the devil wants nowadays when Christ's power is manifestly working in His Church! In past times the devil has moved his minions …
SERMON • SERMON 2322When Can We Find Comforters?
Nahum 3:7
… It is horrible that the Church of God should have her name disgraced, that the Christ of God should have His religion spattered by the iniquities of professing …
SERMON • SERMON 2069My Own Personal Holdfast
Micah 7:7
… But the Church is praying for him in Mrs. Mark's house and suddenly a light shines in the dungeon! An angel awakens him with a touch on …
SERMON • SERMON 2812Causes and Cure of Fainting
Isaiah 40:29
… We have a great many people who come among us and who even enter the Church who are splendid fellows for a short time. If they could get …
SERMON • SERMON 529The Cedars Of Lebanon
Psalm 104:16
… He may attend His Church twice every Sunday, or he may go to Chapel. He may read his Bible regularly and have family prayers in his house. He …
SERMON • SERMON 2251Our Compassionate High Priest
Hebrews 5:2
… When I was here one day this week, seeing friends who came to join the Church, there came among the rest a very diffident tender-hearted woman who …
SERMON • SERMON 650Judgment Threatening But Mercy Sparing
Luke 13:7
… We shall speak to those who are not saved—there are such in the professing Church everywhere. O may the Holy Spirit find them out by our word …
SERMON • SERMON 2666The Sorrowful Man's Question
Job 3:23
… But nothing more will be known of them unless you go to the parish church and see some memorial of them stuck up there. Job would have been …
SERMON • SERMON 517The Rainbow
Genesis 9:16
… The ancient Church said upon one occasion, "We see not our signs." And you and I have sometimes to say the same. But let us hasten to the …
SERMON • SERMON 727God Incarnate, The End Of Fear
Luke 2:10
… Spirit, the water, and the blood are the three standing testimonies in the church of God that Christ was God, and that He was also really, solidly, and …