Faith

A Warning Against Hardness Of Heart

Hebrews 3:13

… There is life in Him still! If your experience should seem to you to have been a delusion and your faith to have been presumption, Christ is a …

The Peacemaker

Matthew 5:9

… But that pardon must come to you through faith. So Jesus stands here this morning, points to the wounds upon His breast and spreads His bleeding hands and …

God Or Self—Which?

Zechariah 7:5

… By faith, he is to put himself in Christ's hands, that Christ may save him. Then after that he may do as much as ever he can …

Sight For Those Who See Not

John 9:39

… As to this faith of which I hear so much and this atoning blood which seems so mighty to cleanse, I seem as if I cannot perceive it …

The Star and the Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-2

… These were guided by the sight of a star; let us be guided by faith in the divine Spirit, by the teaching of his word and all those …

A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 2:2

… Thus you see the Christian is a soldier, and it is one of the main things in Christian life to contend earnestly for the faith, and to fight …

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… Will they be offered in faith by a tenth of those who will repeat them? I wish I could hope so. By many, the public prayer will be …

How To Become Fishers of Men

Matthew 4:19

… Fishing is an act of faith. I have often seen in the Mediterranean men go with their boats and enclose acres of sea with vast nets; and yet …

The Panting Deer

Psalm 42:1

… He could have worshipped alone, but sympathy has great power over the human mind—and to join with our Brethren of one faith is very helpful to our …

"After Two Days Is the Passover"

Matthew 26:2

… what your difficulty will be and He will pray for you that your faith fail not. Adore your Lord, then, for His foresight. I want you, next, to …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… and I always write this verse in all the albums— "Ever since by faith I saw the stream Your flowing wounds supply, Redeeming lo ve has been my …

Israel's God and God's Israel

Deuteronomy 33:26-28

… So, indeed, we may have the Holy Spirit most copiously if we have but faith enough to believe it and earnestness enough to seek it. Would God we …

Christ is Glorious—Let Us Make Him Known

Micah 5:4

… Your faith has seen him sweating great drops of blood in the garden of Gethsemane. You have looked on with amazement while he gave his back to the …

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… He no longer complains to God or argues with men, but tunes his harp to softer melodies, for his faith perceives that with the most afflicted believer all …

The Law Written in the Heart

Jeremiah 31:33

… The Law is never honored by fallen man till he comes from under its condemning rule, walks by faith and lives under the Covenant of Grace. When we …

Order and Argument in Prayer

Job 23:3

… Oh, waver not and let not faith stagger! When thou pleadest the name of Christ thou pleadest that which shakes the gates of hell, and which the hosts …

The Cast-Off Sash

Jeremiah 13:1-11

… Is it not to His honor that we, who were disobedient and obstinate and hard-hearted should, by His love, be subdued to the obedience of the faith …

Mutual Love Between Pastor and People

… By faith, I read over the door of our Tabernacle this text, ‘When He giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?’ When some of our members were first …

The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God

1 Timothy 1:11

… Grasping it by the hand of faith and feeling the power of it in your soul, you count it to be the best tidings that ever came from …

A Savior Such As You Need

Hebrews 10:15-18

… My Brothers and Sisters, when you and I have been, by faith, to the Cross, we do not ask with the ancient Israelites what connection there can be …

“Helensburgh House” and Garden

… My husband's whole life was "an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity ; " and if, in any of …

Election and Holiness

Deuteronomy 10:14-16

… fact that he gave it to them? Now, you say that God gives faith, repentance, salvation, because he foresaw that men would have it. He did not foresee …

Substitution

2 Corinthians 5:21

… A sinner, by faith, comes and puts his hand on Christ’s head, and confessing all his sin, it is not his any longer, it is put on …

Nazareth—or Jesus, Rejected by His Friends

Luke 4:28-30

… Now, surely these people, not needing to be taught the rudiments, not requiring to be instructed in the very elements of the faith, must have been a very …

A Free Salvation

Isaiah 55:1

… Beloved, all this is to be gained by faith in Christ—whosoever believeth in him who died upon the tree, and groaned away his life for us—shall …

Psalm 104

Psalm 104

… This ascription has in it a remarkable blending of the boldness of faith, and the awe of holy fear: for the psalmist calls the infinite Jehovah "my God …

“Forward!”

… Had they been able to compare spiritual things with spiritual, had they understood the analogy of the faith, and had they been acquainted with the holy learning of …

Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance

… The fire of our earnestness must burn upon the hearth of faith in the truths which we preach, and faith in their power to bless mankind when the …

What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper?

Jonah 1:5-6

… And the answer will be, “We fear not; he showed no signs of repentance or of faith in Christ.” Ah then, what must our conclusion be. Well sinner …

Struggles of Conscience

Job 13:23

… show of conscientious scruple, they make an excuse for the exercise of simple faith. That spiritual disease, which keeps sinners from Christ, assumes a different shape at different …

Psalm 149

Psalm 149

… Without fighting, faith wins and sings the victory. What a blessing to have our beds made into thrones, and our retirements turned into triumphs! Verse 6. Let the …

Psalm 128

Psalm 128

… behold it by faith in the promise; behold it by observation in the performance of the promise; behold it with assurance that it shall be so, for God …

Our Public Prayer

… Reverently hearing the word exercises our humility, instructs our faith, irradiates us with joy, inflames us with love, inspires us with zeal, and lifts us up towards heaven …

Psalm 81

Psalm 81

… How typical all this is of the believer's deliverance from legal bondage, when, through faith, the burden of sin glides into the Saviour's sepulchre, and the …

Open-Air Preaching — Remarks Thereon

… of course you must have what you can get, and you must in faith accept it as the very best. Hobson’s choice of that or none makes …

Beginning to Serve the Lord

… the chosen instruments of comforting distressed souls, and building them up in the faith. I love to see persons of some standing in society take an interest in …

Early Criticisms and Slanders (Continued)

… Where curiosity is stronger than faith, and astonishment easier to excite than reverence to edify, religious life must either be at a very low ebb, or associated with …

Psalm 135

Psalm 135

… You may perhaps say, that it required no great stretch of faith or knowledge, or any amount of bravery, to declare that God was great; but I think …

Memorable Services away from Waterbeach

… all the brethren and sisters who loved the marrow and fatness of the faith which some call Calvinism, but which we trace back to our Lord Himself and …

Glimpses of Essex and Cambridgeshire Life, 1853

… was pretty straight hitting. “Visiting him, one day, and finding him full of faith, and giving glory to God, on my expressing a strong desire for fellowship with …