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Buying Without Money
Isaiah 55:1
… sinner to his Savior! Extravagant oratory has been the curse of the Christian Church—it has hidden the Cross under roses and taken men's minds away from …
SERMON • SERMON 1433An Anxious Enquiry for a Beloved Son
2 Samuel 18:29
… man is safe." He is in Christ, and he is in Christ's church, and he is seeking to serve God. He is beginning to work for the …
SERMON • SERMON 1560The Plain Man's Pathway To Peace
Matthew 9:27-30
… and they found peace at once! Several of the honored leaders of this Church came to the Lord in this simple manner. Only yesterday I was greatly pleased …
SERMON • SERMON 2173Little Faith and Great Faith
Matthew 14:31
… Peter, who has been exalted by some into the primate or pope of the Apostolic Church, though he claimed no such position. This is Peter, who was a …
SERMON • SERMON 1708The Holy Spirit's Threefold Conviction of Men
John 16:8-11
… vouched for the righteousness of the Lord Jesus, the course of the Apostolic Church became like that of the sun in the heavens! "Their line is gone out …
SERMON • SERMON 1399Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Genesis 4:9
… cannot fling the weight of that fact upon Divine Sovereignty until the Christian Church has done her utmost to make the Gospel known! If we had all done …
SERMON • SERMON 2132Christ Put On
Romans 13:14
… Does anyone demand how He could be an example for husbands? Hearken! "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for it …
SERMON • SERMON 1241Honest Dealing with God
1 John 1:8-10
… Though you compliment God by saying with the church service, "We are miserable sinners," you do not mean it at all; you mean that if you have sinned …
SERMON • SERMON 1577Sin Subdued
Micah 7:19
… Many Believers might do a great deal of service for Christ and His Church, but they are hampered by shame. They are ashamed, afraid, alarmed where there is …
SERMON • SERMON 1498Mistrust of God Deplored and Denounced
Numbers 14:11
… at this time, whole nations lie under popery or heathendom is that the Church has not faith enough for their conquest! There is no straitening in God—our …
SERMON • SERMON 766Believing To See No.
Psalm 27:13
… you tonight what God has enabled us to see of late as a Church. We met together one Monday night, as you will remember, for prayer concerning the …
SERMON • SERMON 853A Sermon for the Most Miserable of Men
Psalm 77:2
… your refusing to be comforted is very wrong because it is depriving the Church of what you might do for it. Oh, if you became a cheerful Christian …
SERMON • SERMON 2356The Truth Of God's Salvation
Psalm 69:13
… It was right that, having married His Church, He should go with her for better and for worse, and bear her sins in His own body on the …
SERMON • SERMON 596Praying And Waiting
1 John 5:13-15
… a prayer that will not be accepted before God! Let us as a Church pray more. O that the Spirit of prayer would come down upon us! Let …
SERMON • SERMON 987Marah; or, The Bitter Waters Sweetened
Exodus 15:23-25
… There is a prayer I mean to continue to offer until it is answered, that God would pour out on this church a missionary spirit. I want to …
SERMON • SERMON 677Faith Versus Sight
2 Corinthians 5:7
… They are as bad-tempered as when they first joined the Church. They are as changing, as narrow-minded, as critical, as easily "carried about with every wind …
SERMON • SERMON 1391A Golden Prayer
John 12:28
… that these words should be to all the Lord's people in this Church their slogan for another year and, indeed, their prayer throughout life. It will as …
SERMON • SERMON 2602Good News for the Aged
Matthew 20:6
… So-and-So were to die? What would the Church do?" Why, do as it did before—live on its God! For— "When all created streams are dry …
SERMON • SERMON 1000Number One Thousand; Or, “Bread Enough and To Spare”
Luke 15:17
… If we could call forth from his seat a weak believer in God, who is almost unknown in the church, one who sometimes questions whether he is indeed …
SERMON • SERMON 1791Helps to Full Assurance
1 John 5:13
… The Church of Rome teaches that no man can be assured that he has eternal life, except some few to whom supernatural revelations may be given. That sort …
SERMON • SERMON 622Traveling Expenses On The Two Great Roads
Jonah 1:3
… I will not say a word on that point." Or, he has it laid upon him to cry against the monstrous evils in the State Church—but he …
SERMON • SERMON 2535A Singular Plea in Prayer
Psalm 41:4
… service, I saw a young Brother whom I mean to propose to the Church and who. last Sunday came to me, after the morning sermon, and said, "Sir …
SERMON • SERMON 947Seeking For Jesus
John 6:24
… I will cry unto You till I receive an answer of peace." Intelligence of such a vow would make a Church rejoice in hope—trusting that the time …
SERMON • SERMON 2529Compassion on the Ignorant
Hebrews 5:2
… This is the standing miracle in the Church of God—and unless we see it continually worked, we have not the clearest evidence that our religion is supernatural …
SERMON • SERMON 2472The Best of the Best
Solomon 2:1
… What a wonderful unity there is between Christ and His Church! She actually takes His name—"The Lord Our Righteousness." 17, 18. For thus says the LORD; David …
SERMON • SERMON 1597The Priest Ordained by the Oath of God
Hebrews 7:20-22
… Being endowed more richly with the Spirit of God, the modern Church should attempt grander works than Israel ever thought about and so there should be a shining …
SERMON • SERMON 1719The Tent Dissolved and the Mansion Entered
2 Corinthians 5:1
… Every man of the shepherds was safe and untouched—the event was, to them, a matter which caused a Te Deum to be sung in the village Church …
SERMON • SERMON 1294The Anchor
Hebrews 6:17-20
… hope that the tried ones have! Much of the unbelief in the Christian Church comes out of the easy lives of professors! When you come to rough it …
SERMON • SERMON 2641God's Heart the Source of All Blessing
2 Samuel 7:21
… were thus favored? Why were you given to Christ and put into His Church? Yes, why, but that it was according to the heart of God? And when …
SERMON • SERMON 673Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets
Deuteronomy 7:20
… possible that you are not attending to God's business, and therefore His Church is a loser and therefore He makes you a loser in your own business …
SERMON • SERMON 1408The Reason Why Many Cannot Find Peace
James 4:7-10
… They think that so much Chapel-going, Church-going, sermon-hearing, Prayer Meeting-attending, Bible reading and so on, will certainly work up something like a claim upon …
SERMON • SERMON 784The Rose and the Lily
Solomon 2:1
… Yet at the same time He is our Lord, "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the Church: and …
SERMON • SERMON 2453A Hard Case
Job 33:14-18
… remember one who is, I believe, at this moment a member of this Church. He said, "I leaned against some iron railings, for I could hardly hold myself …
SERMON • SERMON 1367Strong Faith
Romans 4:20
… condition that they could push the whole world before them and drag the Church after them—I do not know what they think they could not do! Yes …
SERMON • SERMON 2556Life Proved by Love
1 John 3:14
… and mothers—that they may be considered to have been born in the Church. They, I am assured, have no need of any conversion, and they never ought …
SERMON • SERMON 1303The Believer in the Body and Out of the Body
2 Corinthians 5:5-10
… We do a great deal because it is customary, or because Church opinion expects it. But to do holy acts directly for Christ, simply and alone for love …
SERMON • SERMON 1555The Glories of Forgiving Grace
Ephesians 1:7
… Why, then, should we go to Church and say that we are "miserable sinners?" Believers are not miserable sinners! They are full often happy in a sense of …
SERMON • SERMON 1768First, King of Righteousness, and after That, King of Peace
Hebrews 7:2
… the Jews." He would not set up a carnal kingdom of their sort. Church and State, truth and force united in some form or other, must have been …
SERMON • SERMON 1386Sins Of Ignorance
Leviticus 5:17
… text we have the Lord's mind and judgment—not that of the Church or of some eminent Divine—but of the Lord God Himself and, therefore, let …
SERMON • SERMON 1703Hands Full of Honey
Judges 14:8
… He has shouted victory "over all our foes." "It is finished" was His note of triumph and now He stands in the midst or His Church with His …