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SERMON • SERMON 3252

'By Water and Blood'

1 John 5:6

… and you also love all His children! There cannot be a true love to the Father and a hatred to His family, that is impossible. Judge, therefore, by …

SERMON • SERMON 1126

A Song Concerning Loving Kindnesses

Isaiah 63:7

… the child. And this is one way in which, in all our afflictions, the Lord is afflicted, because He "does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of …

SERMON • SERMON 3266

The Priesthood of Believers

1 Peter 2:5

… I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father That is all that little children need to know at first. They may not know the …

SERMON • SERMON 38

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… We shall now address the text to THE CHRISTIAN—THE REAL CHILD OF GOD. The true believer, also, has a proneness to do as the church does—to …

SERMON • SERMON 3086

'Marvelous Things'

Psalm 98:1

… It is not now a penal infliction, but a necessary way of elevating our nature from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of …

SERMON • SERMON 2855

The Lesson of Uzza

1 Chronicles 13:8

… To be a child of God is the most blessed experience in the world, but it also involves stern discipline. When God makes you His child, you are …

SERMON • SERMON 935

The Sad Wonder

Mark 6:6

… I thought I was a child of God, but I am driven from His Presence, and I shall know no hope." But, Brothers and Sisters, it is not …

SERMON • SERMON 2755

Must He?

Luke 19:5

… As He looked at him, He felt as a mother does concerning her child when it is ill and she must nurse it. Or as you might feel …

SERMON • SERMON 722

The Captive Savior Freeing His People

John 18:8

… God cannot punish a man whom He has pardoned! And that criminal, being pardoned, is then adopted into the family and becomes a child. Now, if he shall …

SERMON • SERMON 3269

A Frail Leaf

Job 13:25

… his children, even so the Lord pities them that fear Him." If you have faith to bring your weakness before God with the sense of a child towards …

SERMON • SERMON 3346

Resurrection for the Just and the Unjust

Acts 24:15

… upon your wrath, but as you are birds in the same nest, children of one family, and one with God, do not fall out! And if you have …

SERMON • SERMON 16

Paul's First Prayer

Acts 9:11

… Out of darkness he bringeth forth light; out of the eater he getteth honey; yea, out of stony hearts he raiseth up children unto Abraham. Such was the …

SERMON • SERMON 3248

Gathering Without Planting

Joshua 24:13

… your children can get good books, that you are exonerated from speaking to them personally about their souls! Mother, you are the best instructor that your child can …

SERMON • SERMON 245

The Way to God

John 14:6

… As Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace burned the men who came to throw in the three holy children so must God, the consuming fire, burn and destroy us, even if …

SERMON • SERMON 3317

A Sweet Bow

Micah 7:18

… His family! We have sinned against the love of God, against the blood of Christ, against the sweet comforts of the Holy Spirit—and yet no child of …

SERMON • SERMON 190

The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of His Saints

Psalm 46:8-9

… youngest among you all, but that I might be permitted, as sometimes the child doth comfort its parents, to utter some few words of consolation which might cheer …

SERMON • SERMON 3348

Knowing and Doing

John 13:17

… Every Believer is a child of God. Happy are we if we live like one, if we exercise the privileges of heirs, if we come to our Father …

SERMON • SERMON 235

The Fainting Warrior

Romans 7:24

… It is one of the hardest things in the world to be a child of God; in fact, it is impossible, unless the Lord makes us his children

SERMON • SERMON 2451

"Blessed in Him"

Psalm 72:17

… an absolute certainty if we are the children of God, for it is not possible that one of the Divine family should perish—that one bought with the …

SERMON • SERMON 2759

The Pleasures of Piety

Psalm 104:34

… are born into the Divine family are the objects of our affection. 2. 3. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love …

SERMON • SERMON 3386

Christ Our Peace

Ephesians 2:14

… Then shall the weaned child play upon the hole of the asp and the lion shall eat straw like an ox. Oh, that the Prince of Peace would …

SERMON • SERMON 2861

'The Time Is Short'

1 Corinthians 7:29

… his children's children climb upon his knee and call him "Grandfather." Yet he remembers when, as it were but yesterday, he was himself a little child and …

SERMON • SERMON 316

A Sense of Pardoned Sin

Isaiah 38:17

… Now that I am his child, he has no axe to put me to death with—he cannot destroy his own children. But he uses the rod upon …

SERMON • SERMON 3539

Fine Pleading

Psalm 106:4

… for favor—for gratuitous mercy? Then, Friend, you are no child of God! Whatever else the children differ in, they never disagree in this—that "salvation is of …

SERMON • SERMON 279

Come and Welcome

Revelation 22:17

… would renounce your wildest mirth, your greatest joy, to become the meanest child in the family of God. Thus then it is the living water, it is the …

SERMON • SERMON 3034

Reasons for Seeking God

Amos 5:8

… What is much of our overweening affection to our children and to our relatives? What is our unsubmissive repining but idolatry? How is it that we rebel against …

SERMON • SERMON 861

Broken Bones

Psalm 51:8

… cause to suspect that you are a bastard in the family and not one of the true children of the living God! I use that hard expression, remembering …

SERMON • SERMON 1827

Exceeding Gladness

Psalm 21:6

… The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of Light in this as well as other things. I would recommend such Believers to …

SERMON • SERMON 466

The Loaded Wagon

Amos 2:13

… An- other child is dead! Ah, has that man yonder a dead child at home? And the wife is sick and nothing but starvation looks the family in …

SERMON • SERMON 2230

Loved and Washed

Revelation 1:5

… When I think of it, I feel that I can join with the children and say— "Oh, if there's only one song I can sing When in …

SERMON • SERMON 3243

The Vine of Israel

Psalm 80:14

… My tongue will not attempt to tell what came of it, when His blood was on them and on their children. Earth never saw a more terrible sight …

SERMON • SERMON 3363

Witnessing at the Cross

Luke 23:39-43

… You are God's beloved, accepted, forgiven, adopted child! Saved you are, and saved you shall be forever and ever if you believe! Instantaneous salvation! Immediate salvation! This …

SERMON • SERMON 3327

Our Lord's Heroic Endurance

Hebrews 12:3

… In the day when the trumpet sounds, when— "From beds of dust and silent clay, To realms of everlasting day," every obscure and despised child of God shall …

SERMON • SERMON 3463

Why Men Do Not Believe

John 5:46

… than he is! He has been scrupulously honest and has brought up his family, to the best of his knowledge, in the ways of integrity. He is a …

SERMON • SERMON 322

A Divine Challenge!

Exodus 8:1

… If the children of Israel had given up all they had, they were so poor they could not have ransomed their own bodies. The poor brick makers could …

SERMON • SERMON 10

The Kingly Priesthood of the Saints

Revelation 5:10

… There is a town where the children are running about the street, uneducated; we will go and take those children—kidnap them for Christ. We will have a …

SERMON • SERMON 2091

"Jesus Wept"

John 11:35

… Between indignation at the powers of evil, grief for the family who had been bereaved by death, sorrow over those who stood by in unbelief and a distressing …

SERMON • SERMON 3125

Fear of Death

Hebrews 2:15

… Then there is a son, John, who has a wife and four or five children—but he pinches himself so as to contribute a little. All the children

SERMON • SERMON 2905

The Father and the Son

1 John 1:3

… My little children, these things I write unto you, that you sin not. That you may abstain from it, abhor it and not indulge in anything that would …

SERMON • SERMON 3423

Beholding God's Church

Psalm 48:12-14

… that he may know how to teach his children, and especially to teach those who are born unto the family of God. Teach the young Christian what God …