Faith

The Dejected Lover

Solomon 3:1-4

… Could you wonder at it? How could He walk with you while you were casting into His ear a foul suspicion against His truthfulness and His love? Faith …

Over the Mountains

Song 2:16

… We may be rich in faith and love, and yet have so low an esteem of ourselves as to be much depressed. It is plain, from this sacred …

The Divine Discipline

Deuteronomy 32:11

… The whole of their training, while it educated and developed their patience and their faith, had also the high purpose of teaching them gratitude and to bind them …

Spiritual Liberty

2 Corinthians 3:17

… Bring nothing with you, except faith. Bring as much faith as you can get, and you are welcome to all that is in the Bible. There is not …

A Rich Life

… fear what man shall do unto me.” When the apostle Paul would nourish faith, he does it by feeding us from Scripture with the examples of Abraham, of …

Mercy, Omnipotence, and Justice

Nahum 1:3

… My faith looks back to see, The burden he did bear, When hanging on the cursed, And knows her guilt was there?” Can you by humble faith look …

The Upper Hand

Romans 6:14

… Oh, what unspeakable joy! Though you were the servant of Sin, you have now received the faith once delivered to the saints and you have obeyed, from the …

Sad Fasts Changed To Glad Feasts

Zechariah 8:19

… heavy and when your heart is sad, there is nothing like the old faith to put cheer and life into you. How often have I read Elisha Coles …

Salvation to the Uttermost

Hebrews 7:25

… And, above all, it signifies praying to God and putting faith in him . This is coming to God; and those that have come to God in that fashion …

One Aspect of Christ's Death

John 15:13

… And I would take this Doctrine just as I would the Doctrine of Justification by Faith, as being the test of a standing or falling church, and of …

The Solar Eclipse

Isaiah 45:7

… The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your minds, the fainting of your hopes, all these things are but the parts of God’s plan for making …

Stumbling at the Word

1 Peter 2:8

… I am glad to be associated with all of you in your various works of faith and labors of love—and I have often learned more about Christ …

Guests for the Royal Feast

Matthew 22:8-10

… Not his poverty, but his proud behavior would disqualify him! Dear Friend, are you willing to be saved in God's way, through faith in Christ Jesus? Then …

Comfort for the Tempted

1 Corinthians 10:13

… Christ." Well, so was Master John Knox, that grand preacher of justification by faith. When he lay dying, he was tempted to glory in his own bravery for …

Rivers Of Water In A Dry Place

Isaiah 32:2

… And so may you be carried along and excited by a revival, but unless you receive the Lord Jesus into your soul by faith, you will perish after …

Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts

Mark 3:5

… If there be any company which deadens us as to spiritual things, which hinders our prayers, shakes our faith, or damps our zeal, let us get out of …

Faintness and Refreshing

1 Kings 19:8

… There is, Beloved, a limit to the Doctrine of the Prayer of Faith. We are not to expect that God will give us everything for which we choose …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… I say not that it is a valid excuse for them to make, — for very little time is needed for the exercise of repentance and faith; — but I …

Free Will—A Slave

John 5:40

… Columbus had faith, therefore he went. He who hath faith in Christ goes to him. But you don’t know Jesus; many of you never saw his beauteous …

Wonders

Joel 2:26

… A great many matters which now appear mysterious and complex concerning which we can only walk by faith, for our reason is baffled, will be so clear to …

Prodigal Love for the Prodigal Son

Luke 15:20

… Even the eyes of our faith are dim compared with the eyes of God's love. He sees a sinner long before a sinner sees Him! I do …

'The Time Is Short'

1 Corinthians 7:29

… Do you know what reflection this fact suggested to me? "Surely, then," I thought, "I have some opportunity to follow out the work of faith, the patience of …

Early Religious Impressions

… Children have eminently a simplicity of faith, and simplicity of faith is akin to the highest knowledge; indeed, I know not that there is much distinction between the …

Satan's Arrows and God's

Lamentations 3:12

… he that believes on the Son has everlasting life." Faith does justify the soul—"being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ …

Spiritual Resurrection

Ephesians 2:1

… Ye are not yet united to him by a living faith. Ah! then, I grieve to say it, ye are dead! ye are dead! As much dead as …

The Lord's Famous Titles

Psalm 146:7-9

… I try to grasp it, but, somehow, I cannot get at the Truth of God." Come, in prayerful faith, to God, Himself, tonight, and He will explain it …

Our Lord's Heroic Endurance

Hebrews 12:3

… The former Chapter gives us the names of many of these glorious bearers of testimony, who all by faith achieved great wonders and so bore witness to the …

Too Little for the Lamb

Exodus 12:3

… Or if we do, we must look upon the delay as a further trial of our faith and we must intensify our prayer until it becomes an agony …

Help for Seekers of the Light

Isaiah 59:9

… It may be you have been brought in connection with that Church which vainly rests its faith upon the figment of Apostolic succession and the empty parade of …

The New Nature

1 Peter 1:23-25

… Do not say, “I am a Baptist, I have professed my faith and was immersed.” That you may be, and not be born again Do not any, “I …

The Mighty Arm

Psalm 89:13

… you have never been crushed? Is it not a marvel that though your faith has been as a bruised reed it has not been broken—and though your …

A Proclamation from the King of Kings

Jeremiah 3:12

… In fact, it has become so common in many Churches, that they have not faith enough to hold to the Scriptural doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints …

Presumptuous Sins

Psalm 19:13

… Boast not, then, O Christian; by faith thou standest. “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” But if this need to be the prayer …

Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church

Zechariah 6:13

… His offering is like that of Cain; God hath no respect to his sacrifice, for without faith it is impossible to please God. We care not who it …

Man's Ruin and God's Remedy

Numbers 21:8

… Nay, if I had to preach this morning salvation by faith apart from the person of Christ, you would be in as bad a condition as if there …

The Day of Atonement

Leviticus 16:34

… Now, when that goat was put to death and the blood flowed forth into the golden bowl, then, Brothers and Sisters, you saw before your eyes of faith …

Divine Love and Its Gifts

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… the article would not have sufficed—he must use a word of possession. Faith looks to Jesus and finds salvation in that look. Then she grows into Assurance …

The Old Way of the Wicked

Job 22:15-17

… But mark where the flaw was in his religion! Abel brought a bloody sacrifice, a lamb, indicating his faith in the great atoning sacrifice which was to be …

A Challenge and a Shield

Romans 8:34

… sin, though guilty and unclean, we nevertheless shall have faith to believe in the Christ that died—a faith so strong and confident that we shall dare to …

How to Read the Bible

1 Timothy 4:13

… I have known some rejoice greatly in the Doctrine of Election who were never elected, and some who were very pleased with the Doctrine of Justification by Faith …