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Trusting Christ, weak faith, strong faith, and living by faith
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Reasons for Turning to the Lord
Hosea 6:1
… But such fair-weather faith as that is very often a mere sham. True faith believes in God when He is angry and trusts Him when the rod …
SERMON • SERMON 2575A Sermon of Personal Testimony
Deuteronomy 32:47
… But I want you to project your faith further and to believe in Jesus Christ for the whole of your life, for if you do so, you shall …
SERMON • SERMON 651A Sermon From A Rush
Job 8:11-13
… To have such strong faith that you never waver is one thing—but to be filled with such strong presumption that you never examine yourself is quite another …
DEVOTIONALJan. 3 — REST ON A PROMISE
Gen. 28:13
… If, my brother, thou canst in faith lie down upon a promise, and take thy rest thereon, it is thine. Where Jacob "lighted," and tarried, and rested, there …
DEVOTIONALJan. 23 — A COMPLETED SACRIFICE
Lev. 1:4
… shall Jesus become ours by the laying on of the hand of faith? "My faith doth lay her hand On that dear head of Thine, While like a …
DEVOTIONALJune 3 — SURE-FOOTEDNESS
Hab. 3:19
… 3:19 This confidence of the man of God is tantamount to a promise; for that which faith is persuaded of is the purpose of God. The prophet …
DEVOTIONALJune 11 — NO CAUSE TO BLUSH
Isa. 54:4
… 54:4 We shall not be ashamed of our faith. Carping critics may assail the Scriptures upon which we ground our belief, but every year the Lord will …
SERMON • SERMON 359The Tabernacle—Outside The Camp
Exodus 33:7
… If you would have much faith, you cannot have much faith while you are mixed with sinners. If you would have much love, your love cannot grow while …
DEVOTIONALApril 18 — HE NEVER FAILS
Josh. 1:5
… Since God will not fail me, my faith shall not fail; and, as He will not forsake me, neither will I forsake Him. Oh for a restful faith!
COMMENTARYPsalm 6
Psalm 6
… We probably lose but very little by our ignorance, and it may serve to confirm our faith. It is a proof of the high antiquity of these Psalms …
SERMON • SERMON 1290Godly Fear and Its Goodly Consequence
Proverbs 14:26
… He puts fear, because, after all, there is a something more tender, more touching, more real about fear than there is about some people's faith, which faith …
DEVOTIONALMay 9 — TRUST MEANS JOY
Ps. 33:21
… 33:21 The root of faith produces the flower of heart-joy. We may not at the first rejoice, but it comes in due time. We trust the …
DEVOTIONALMarch 10 — WALK IN LIGHT
John 12:46
… Shall He come in vain? If we have faith we have the privilege of sunlight: let us enjoy it. From the night of natural depravity, of ignorance, of …
SERMON • SERMON 1411Under Constraint
2 Corinthians 5:14
… Love never fails to bloom where faith has taken root. Beloved, you will feel the power of the love of Christ in your soul in proportion to the …
DEVOTIONALMay 20 — WE DARE NOT DOUBT
Isa. 45:2
… Only let us go forward by faith, and our way will be cleared for us. Crooks and turns of human craft and Satanic subtlety shall be straightened for …
DEVOTIONALNov. 25 — MOUNTAINS TURNED TO PLAINS
Zech. 4:7
… Let faith come in, and straightway the mountain disappears and becomes a plain. But faith must first hear the word of the Lord -- "Not by might, nor by …
SERMON • SERMON 880The Former and the Latter Rain
Jeremiah 5:24
… They may rest assured, if their faith is resting upon Christ, alone, it is well with them whether their conversion was gradual or sudden. But I say, many …
DEVOTIONALDec. 9 — THE "ALL" OF BELIEF
Mark 9:23
… The Lord can do everything; but when He makes a rule that according to our faith so shall it be unto us, our unbelief ties the hands of …
SERMON • SERMON 3490Sincere Seekers—assured Finders
1 Chronicles 28:9
… How do we get faith in anything? Why, surely by trying to know what it is! It would be very idle for me to stand here and say …
SERMON • SERMON 339The Sons of God
Romans 8:16
… 26 .—“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus,” declaring as it seems to me, and rightly enough, that all believers, all who …
SERMON • SERMON 3418An Unalterable Law
Hebrews 9:22
… If you can say from your very heart— "My faith does lay her hand, On that dear head of Yours, When like a penitent I stand, And here …
SERMON • SERMON 3195Christ Loosens From Infirmities
Luke 13:11-13
… Yes, and you, poor anxious spirit, though your faith is but as a grain of mustard seed, yet, if you have a simple faith in Christ, you are …
DEVOTIONALFeb. 22 — PAST DELIVERANCE BEGETS FAITH
I Sam. 17:37
… 22 PAST DELIVERANCE BEGETS FAITH "David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear …
SERMON • SERMON 2273Fickle Followers
Luke 9:57-62
… The faith that makes me feel my ruin, confess my sin and lay hold of eternal life because otherwise my merits will bring me to eternal death—this …
SERMON • SERMON 2185Our Manifesto
Galatians 1:11
… And yet this poor creature cannot lay hold upon Christ by faith. To your great joy, you set before her Christ in all His fullness of Grace and …
DEVOTIONALNov. 9 — NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE
Ezek. 34:30
… Assurance of faith can never come by the works of the law. It is an evangelical virtue, and can only reach us in a gospel way. Let us …
SERMON • SERMON 1024The Throne of Grace
Hebrews 4:16
… Suppose there should be defects of faith: he sees our little faith and still doth not reject it, small as it is. He doth not in every case …
DEVOTIONALDec. 11 — TRUST AND DO; DO AND TRUST
Ps. 37:3
… We should have faith, and that faith should work. Trust in God sets us upon holy doing: we trust God for good, and then we do good. We …
SERMON • SERMON 198The Heavenly Race
1 Corinthians 9:24
… What, then, is it, for which we ought to run in this race? Why heaven, eternal life, justification by faith, the pardon of sin, acceptance in the Beloved …
SERMON • SERMON 1614Dressing In The Morning
Romans 13:11-14
… Put it on! Put it on! This is a most vivid picture of what Faith does. She puts Christ about her and He covers all. Faith does not …
SERMON • SERMON 1518Beloved, and yet Afflicted
John 11:3
… Are you trusting him? If so, that faith of yours is the proof that he has loved you from before the foundation of the world, for faith is …
SERMON • SERMON 2112Peace—How Gained, How Broken
Psalm 85:8
… What peace you have had has come by faith. And when faith departs, peace goes, also. To doubt the Lord is folly. Even the least degree of it …
SERMON • SERMON 3435Sanctified Sorrow
Isaiah 54:11
… We ought to act upon faith and sing upon faith. The songs which are made at the sight of mercy are very sweet, but the songs that are …
SERMON • SERMON 1491Remember Lot's Wife
Luke 17:32
… Their flight was to be urged forward by faith in the angels' words. Faith may be as well exhibited by not looking as by looking. Faith is a …
SERMON • SERMON 38Storming the Battlements
Jeremiah 5:10
… I do believe a large proportion of professing Christians have their faith in the word of man, and not in the word of God. They say, “Such-and …
SERMON • SERMON 3469Martha and Mary
Luke 10:41-42
… 1 trust they are in the faith, though they are but babes in Grace. Their practical piety consists, to a large extent, in what they ought to do …
SERMON • SERMON 752The King In His Beauty
Isaiah 33:17
… Yet now, inasmuch as He has triumphed over all the powers of darkness upon the bloody tree, our faith beholds our King in His beauty, returning with dyed …
COMMENTARYPsalm 138
Psalm 138
… The first clause of the verse is the assurance of faith, and this second one reaches to the full assurance of understanding. God's work in us will …
COMMENTARYPsalm 26
Psalm 26
… Slippery as the way is, so that I walk like a man upon ice, yet faith keeps my heels from tripping, and will continue to do so. The …
COMMENTARYPsalm 57
Psalm 57
… He is quite safe, but yet he prays, for faith is never dumb. We pray because we believe. We exercise by faith the spirit of adoption whereby we …