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Sunlight for Cloudy Days
Psalm 40:17
… was Saul of Tarsus, the persecutor, breathing out threats and slaughter against the Church of God! But the Merciful One in Heaven, who saw his sin, thought on …
SERMON • SERMON 1406Remember!
Deuteronomy 15:15
… If there is a special and particular redemption, as we believe, by which Christ loved His Church and gave Himself for it, then as the specially blood-bought …
SERMON • SERMON 54Christ Our Passover
1 Corinthians 5:7
… How often do I meet with a man who thinks himself quite godly because he attends the church once on a Sunday, and who thinks himself quite righteous …
SERMON • SERMON 1417"Your Salvation"
Luke 2:28-30
… for Your own child by adoption and to incorporate him in Your holy Church." There are some who wickedly talk so, though we can hardly imagine that they …
SERMON • SERMON 1763Knowledge. Worship. Gratitude.
Romans 1:20
… They go to church or to some place of worship regularly, and sing psalms and hymns, and they may even have family-prayer at home; but their heart …
SERMON • SERMON 2775David Warned and Rewarded
Psalm 19:11
… They go to church, or to the meeting house, and they join with others in making confession of sin, yet, somehow, they do not seem to realize that …
SERMON • SERMON 1395Family Reformation—or, Jacob's Second Visit to Bethel
Genesis 35:1
… And as she comes from a high-church family I must let her have her little symbols—I do not know for sure that she has a teraph …
SERMON • SERMON 1217Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
2 Timothy 2:15
… And the whole family were the better—the man and his wife, and one of his children becoming members of a Christian Church some time afterwards. What an …
SERMON • SERMON 2003Young Man, Is This For You?
Luke 7:11-17
… her forever? Your father hoped that you would take his place in the Church of God—how is it that you do not even care to follow him …
SERMON • SERMON 2034Peter's Restoration
Luke 22:60-62
… Alas, one who was once a friend of yours has disgraced himself—he was a little while ago a member of the Church but he has shamefully turned …
SERMON • SERMON 2745Intercession and Supplication
Jeremiah 14:22
… near to God in powerful, prevalent intercession! With these two hands uplifted, this Church, like Joshua, shall utterly destroy Amalek, and the sun and moon shall stand still …
SERMON • SERMON 2981The Safeguards of Forgiveness
2 Samuel 12:13
… He who has delivered us from death by sin will also deliver us from the death ofsin and will present us to Himself "a glorious Church, not having …
SERMON • SERMON 1795Pleading and Encouragement
Ezekiel 18:23
… There were judgments later on in the church of God when Ananias and Sapphira fell dead for lying against the Holy Ghost, and when Elymas the sorcerer was …
SERMON • SERMON 1878A TRAITOR SUSPECTED AND CONVICTED
Romans 8:7
… of Christ"—the enemies beyond all others, for they have entered into the Church by treachery and thus have attacked the Lord in His own house—where they …
SERMON • SERMON 2183A Gracious Dismissal
Luke 7:50
… deal of wisdom here, which some of those who are leaders in the Church of God would do well to copy. Yes, I think that I shall go …
SERMON • SERMON 2127Love's Competition
Luke 7:42
… Give us a Church that loves Christ Jesus much—you will have mighty Prayer Meetings! You will have a holy membership! You will have liberal giving to the …
SERMON • SERMON 585A Mystery! Saints Sorrowing and Jesus Glad!
John 11:14-15
… from the pit of hell? I bless God there are many in this Church who were led to seek the Lord through answers to prayer. God was gracious …
SERMON • SERMON 599The Certainty And Freeness Of Divine Grace
John 6:37
… It is not coming to Baptism! It is not coming to the Lord's Supper! It is not coming to the Church. It is not coming to worship …
SERMON • SERMON 2409A Great Sermon by the Greatest Preacher
Matthew 3:17
… I have heard of a good woman who said that she could not come before the Church to tell of her love to Christ. And when they said …
SERMON • SERMON 1285Sihon and Og, or Mercies in Detail
Psalm 136:17-22
… above all, contrary to the Gospel life and the holy purity of the Church. Now, Brothers and Sisters, there are other judgments yet to come—judgments which we …
SERMON • SERMON 2167Jehovah's Valuation of His People
Isaiah 43:3
… Republics and systems shall come and go—and all shall be the scaffold for the building of the house of God which is His Church! All events shall …
SERMON • SERMON 3486God's Desire for Us, and His Work in Us
Psalm 51:6
… Just as our body is, so to speak, the world, the earth in which our spirit dwells, so this big earth is the body in which the Church …
SERMON • SERMON 2130The Deceitfulness of Sin
Hebrews 3:13
… do it? Is not this the heartbreak of pastors, the dishonor of the Church, the crucifying of our Lord afresh? O Lord, preserve us from it, lest any …
SERMON • SERMON 1946Eternal Life Within Present Grasp
1 Timothy 6:12
… listen to this just now! They are going in for amusements and the church is vying with the theater! Oh that we would lay hold on eternal life …
SERMON • SERMON 1012The Unbeliever’s Unhappy Condition
John 3:36
… His notion is that he will do his very best, attend the church or the meeting-house very regularly, subscribe occasionally or frequently, and go to heaven partly …
SERMON • SERMON 3097A Suitable Watchword
Psalm 12:1
… Lord.'" I give this prayer to you, my Brothers and Sisters in the Church, elders and youngsters, overseers and deacons—to you, Brothers and Sisters, who teach the …
SERMON • SERMON 2804Disobedience to the Gospel
Romans 10:16
… Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved." These are no dogmas of the church—they are the plain Truths of God that I find in the Scriptures and …
SERMON • SERMON 3145Paul in the Tempest
Acts 27:18-25
… Spurgeon, upon parts of this passage, are as follows—Sermons #1070, Volume 18—WRECKED, BUT NOT RECKLESS; #2952, Volume 51—THE CHURCH—THE WORLD'S HOPE and #1355 …
SERMON • SERMON 968Life In Christ
John 14:19
… PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON—Colossians 3. * This text has been sent us by a venerable clergyman of the Church of England, who has for many years …
SERMON • SERMON 896The Coming Resurrection
John 5:28
… The doctrine of the Resurrection in the early Church was the main battle-ax and weapon of war of the preacher. Wherever the first missionaries went they made …
SERMON • SERMON 1445Wake Up! Wake Up!
Romans 13:11
… lean one, upon another, upon the custom of their set and sect, and Church and community. They have never dared to study Scripture for themselves and follow it …
SERMON • SERMON 2803The Saddest Cry From the Cross
Matthew 27:46
… For instance, in his charge to the Ephesian elders, the Apostle Paul said, "Feed the Church of God, which He has purchased with His own blood"—an incorrect …
SERMON • SERMON 348Consolation in Christ
Philippians 2:1
… Whatever the Holy Ghost may not be, he is evermore the Comforter to the Church; and this age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in which …
SERMON • SERMON 2441The Lord's Knowledge, Our Safeguard
2 Peter 2:9
… They have joined the Church, they wear the name of Christian, they are even honored among Christian men—but the Lord knows the unjust—no garb of religion …
SERMON • SERMON 2765Marvelous Light
1 Peter 2:9
… You must have noticed, in reading the New Testament, that you never find the officers of a Church called priests. Whenever that term is used by way of …
SERMON • SERMON 2675Jehovah's Challenge
Jeremiah 32:27
… that He cannot deliver His people! You need not suppose that a little Church, or a little island, or a little nation shall be domineered over by the …
SERMON • SERMON 355Portraits Of Christ
Romans 8:29
… like He till we have a heart on which the name of the Church is written, and a breast which bears the names of all the redeemed as …
SERMON • SERMON 2911'Cases of Conscience'
Psalm 38:4
… who have never known these horrors! I suppose there are many in this church, over which I am overseer, who have not experimentally known these terrors. They know …
SERMON • SERMON 2166Experience and Assurance
Psalm 63:7
… Look, yonder is the spire of a village church! Mark the cottages nestling around it! There flows a river and, hard by, a broad sheet of water, like …
SERMON • SERMON 612Jesus Washing His Disciples' Feet
John 13:6
… I believe this is done in this Church. I hope we are as free as possible from the feeling of caste—God deliver us from the last relic …