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SERMON • SERMON 1880

A Lesson and a Fortune for Christian Men of Business

Hebrews 13:5

… I will gladly lie down on it." Let your faith be serenely confident and then the promise rested on is yours! If you can lie down upon a …

CHAPTER

Cambridge Life and Letters, 1850-1851

… The way to Heaven is faith, ‘looking unto Jesus;’ this faith is the gift of God, and none but those who have it know its value. Oh, may …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 127

Psalm 127

Faith brings calm with it, and banishes the disturbers who both by day and by night murder peace. "For so he giveth his beloved sleep." Through faith the …

SERMON • SERMON 2109

The Eye and the Light

Luke 11:33-36

… Knowledge, Divine Grace, the Truths of God, are the nurses of true faith. The light of God is needful to the life of God. We must know Christ …

SERMON • SERMON 1593

Rejecters Of The Gospel Admonished

Isaiah 28:12

… The Lord says, "Incline your ears and come unto Me; hear and your soul shall live," for, "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God …

SERMON • SERMON 527

The Red Heifer

Numbers 19:2

… Hyssop is always a type of faith. "Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean." Our faith, like a little sprig of hyssop, is dipped into the …

SERMON • SERMON 1003

Your Own Salvation

Philippians 2:12

… No other can be washed in Christ’s blood for you; no one can believe and let his faith stand instead of your faith. The very supposition of …

SERMON • SERMON 3191

The True Aim of Preaching

Acts 13:38

… Then you would say, "Ah, you may think as you like about it, but I have got the cash." So Christians can say, "Being justified by faith, we …

SERMON • SERMON 203

The Sympathy of the Two Worlds

… Even now “By faith we join our hands With those that went before. And greet the blood-besprinkled bands Upon the eternal shore.” All hail, bright spirits! I …

SERMON • SERMON 1190

A Song Among the Lilies

Solomon 2:16

… By faith I will neither toil nor spin in a legal fashion, but I will live by faith upon the Son of God, rooted in him. I would …

SERMON • SERMON 2928

Sham Conversion

2 Kings 17:25

… Are we really so? Have we real faith in Christ? Does our life prove that it is the living faith—the faith that produces good works? Brethren, if …

SERMON • SERMON 2877

Trials Expected and Conquered

Isaiah 43:2

… I am exceedingly sorrowful, almost to the death of my faith." Ah, but it shall not be quite to the death of your faith—the floods shall not …

SERMON • SERMON 1852

The Modern Dead Sea and the Living Waters

Ezekiel 47:8

… And, first, to encourage your faith, I bid you to CONSIDER THE PROMISE. The place where the promise is written, in plain black and white, upon the sacred …

PRAYER

Prayer 9 — Glorious Liberty

… joy of our lives that we have become the children of God by faith which is in Christ Jesus and we can in the deep calm of our …

SERMON • SERMON 2615

The Anxious Enquirer

Job 23:3

… No way that I know of will bring you faith in Christ as well as thinking of Him. I would advise you, conscience-stricken Sinner, to spend an …

SERMON • SERMON 1930

Is It True?

Daniel 3:14

… We are especially exercised with this question—these people have a faith which they refuse to acknowledge—will such a faith save them? Scripture evidently lays great stress …

SERMON • SERMON 2988

Great Pardon for Great Sin

Psalm 25:11

… Certainly, my dear Friends, you will never find any time inopportune for prayer if your heart is true and your faith in full force. The Mohammedans have their …

SERMON • SERMON 2673

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 2:2

… The faith of my hearers, if they are converted to God, shall not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." Can you not …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

… So far as they can be taught by word of mouth, or learned by the hearing of the ear, we are to communicate the faith and fear of …

SERMON • SERMON 1237

How They Conquered the Dragon

Revelation 12:11

… They went to Jesus by faith and received the atonement, the cleansing blood was sprinkled on them, it spoke peace in their consciences, it took away their sin …

CHAPTER

“In Labours More Abundant”

… I went on with " through faith," and then I proceeded to the next point, " and that not of yourselves." Upon this, I was explaining the weakness and inability …

SERMON • SERMON 490

Gracious Renewal

Psalm 51:10

… We wanted faith that we might come to Christ at first—only the like Grace can bring us to Jesus now. We wanted a word from the Most …

SERMON • SERMON 1281

"Do You Love Me?"

John 21:16

… The Lord does not even ask His follower about his faith which might well have been put under question, for he had with oaths said, "I know not …

SERMON • SERMON 883

Multitudinous Thoughts And Sacred Comforts

Psalm 94:19

… Cease from a too anxious consideration of the things which are seen and temporal, and gaze by faith upon the things which are unseen and eternal. Remember that …

SERMON • SERMON 1888

The Blood of Sprinkling

Hebrews 12:24

… It shows us a man who believes God, and, notwithstanding the enmity of his brother, brings to God the appointed sacrifice of faith, strictly following up, even to …

SERMON • SERMON 2427

"The Ark of His Covenant"

Revelation 11:19

… Stand still, then, and when you look up, if you cannot see that Temple because your eyes of faith are dim—if you scarcely dare to look within …

SERMON • SERMON 1040

What and Whence Are These?

Revelation 7:13-14

… Turn over the roll of the worthies of the Lord from the first hero of faith to the last, and you shall not meet with a sorrowless name …

SERMON • SERMON 2050

A Paradox

2 Corinthians 12:10

… They are instructed in the faith from pole to pole: they know both that which is afar off, and that which is nigh. An argument is a pleasure …

SERMON • SERMON 554

Enduring to the End

Matthew 10:22

… Amen.” A simple faith brings the soul to Christ, Christ keeps the faith alive; that faith enables the believer to persevere, and so he enters heaven. May that …

SERMON • SERMON 1919

The Very Bold Prophecy

Isaiah 65:1

… God Himself fills the vision of faith. Observe the words, "Behold Me, behold Me." We look to God in Christ and find all that our soul needs. If …

SERMON • SERMON 2808

The Disowned

Matthew 7:21-23

… But it is still wiser for him to leap over the chasm which divides him from the realities of eternity and, by the force of faith rather than …

SERMON • SERMON 2989

Near the Kingdom, or in It?

Mark 12:34

… There is still much unbelief in your soul, though there is a gleam of what looks like faith now and then. In fact, to put the matter very …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 40

Psalm 40

… Let us arm ourselves with the same mind; and panoplied in patience, armed with prayer, and girt with faith, let us maintain the Holy War. Verse 2. He …

SERMON • SERMON 1619

The Pentecostal Wind and Fire

Acts 2:2-4

… May God grant that the meditation of this morning will increase our faith in the Holy Spirit and inflame our desires towards Him so that we may look …

SERMON • SERMON 2105

Preparation for the Coming of the Lord

1 John 2:28

… There is no salvation except by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, "Look unto Me and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for …

SERMON • SERMON 2672

Neither Forsaken Nor Forgotten

Isaiah 49:16

… Behold, by faith, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity in Unity, Jesus, the Lamb of God. Look at Him on the Cross. Oh, what griefs He bore …

SERMON • SERMON 1701

Gladness For Sadness

Psalm 90:15-17

… The promises quicken our faith. Faith betakes itself to prayer—God hears and answers our cry! This is the chain of a tried soul's experience. Brothers and …

SERMON • SERMON 1829

The Singular Origin of a Christian

Ephesians 2:10

… He can take the infidel and create in him a mighty faith; the harlot and make her a pattern of purity; the lowest of the low and the …

SERMON • SERMON 50

The Holy Ghost—The Great Teacher

John 16:13

… Prayer and faith are sacred picklocks that can open secrets, and obtain great treasures. There is no college for holy education like that of the blessed Spirit, for …

SERMON • SERMON 2871

Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision

Luke 12:29

… I would advise everyone to often look to the foundation of their faith, to see whether they really have believed in Jesus and have in their heart the …