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Why Am I Thus?
Romans 7:22
… I cannot do it." Now, I know many of God's children have often suffered very severely and have passed through a great many trials and troubles because …
SERMON • SERMON 2612Questions and Answers Concerning Zion
Isaiah 14:32
… That is, they lie in state, each one in the mausoleum of his family. They went down to death and they were buried with all the honor and …
SERMON • SERMON 1439Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Little Child
Luke 18:17
… Children readily understand the Child Jesus. What is this matter of capacity? What capacity is needed? Capacity to believe? I tell you children have more of that than …
SERMON • SERMON 2653The Head and the Body
Ephesians 4:15
… Have you found it so in your own family? In many large families and even in small ones, there are sometimes most unfortunate jars and disagreements—and it …
SERMON • SERMON 1875The Preacher's Last Sermon for the Season
John 7:37
… LEAVING home in great weakness, I beg the loving sympathy of my friends towards my orphan family of 500 children. Generous donations at this season would be greatly …
SERMON • SERMON 1602Farm Laborers
1 Corinthians 3:6-9
… See to it that you can each bring in a solid report, but let no man be content with the mere child's play of oratory, or the …
SERMON • SERMON 1063Moses' Decision
Hebrews 11:24
… Surely they will not always maintain a confederacy with the allies of Rome but will be men enough to be free! If when Moses was a child he …
SERMON • SERMON 2193A Poor Man's Cry—and What Came Of It
Psalm 34:6
… The first thing a new-born child does is cry—and he usually does plenty of it for years after! You do not need to teach children to …
SERMON • SERMON 2907The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ
John 16:14
… Once, speaking to children, he said, "My dear children, it takes a great deal to bring a great mind down to your capacities." You cannot show me a …
SERMON • SERMON 239Jacob and Esau
Romans 9:15
… It does not say anything at all about nations, it says, “For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose …
SERMON • SERMON 516The Minister'S Stock-Taking
Acts 28:24
… In fact, you have no right to make a distinction, and to pray for your own child more than for anybody else's child. According to your scheme …
SERMON • SERMON 1624Welcome! Welcome!
Luke 9:11
… Child-piety is no rarity among us! We find it no cause of difficulty, but a wellspring of delight! Dear children, do not be afraid to come because …
SERMON • SERMON 2370"Christ First, Me Last—Nothing Between But Love"
Galatians 2:20
… You can only love, dear Mother, to a certain degree, though you love your child to the death. You can only love, dear Husband, up to a certain …
SERMON • SERMON 2449The Rule and Reward of Serving Christ
John 12:26
… as a little child, that you may be taught by Him. His own words are, "Except you are converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter …
SERMON • SERMON 673Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets
Deuteronomy 7:20
… Some have hornets in the family. Your child may be a hornet to you—your wife, your husband, your brother, the dearest friend you have—may be a …
SERMON • SERMON 2537A Warning to Waverers
James 1:6
… As for prayer, of course that is admirable—they are glad that their wives pray, they would be delighted to hear that their children pray and they, themselves …
SERMON • SERMON 1980Folly of Unbelief
Luke 24:25
… He knows that it is true of his children, as it is of ours, that folly is bound up in the heart of a child. He puts that …
SERMON • SERMON 498The Gladness of the Man of Sorrows
Psalm 45:7
… When he entered upon his public ministry, sorrows in troops beset him, so that the countenance once fairer than the children of men, became more marred than that …
SERMON • SERMON 1274For the Sick and Afflicted
Job 34:31
… the family? Have you always acted towards the children and the servants as you should have done as a master and a father? Question yourself. The child is …
SERMON • SERMON 2385Another Lesson From Manasseh's Life
2 Chronicles 33:10
… He has always been able to bring in enough for the wife and the family, but now he is out of a job and cannot get employment. He …
SERMON • SERMON 2476"This Thing Is From Me"
1 Kings 12:24
… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1886. "Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren, the children …
SERMON • SERMON 1437Others To Be Gathered In
Isaiah 56:8
… Now the Lord is gathering together in one the children of God which are scattered abroad. His Son Jesus Christ has descended and dwelt among us, working out …
COMMENTARYPsalm 80
Psalm 80
… Just as the mention of the names of his children has power with a father, so it is with the Lord. The three names were near of kin …
SERMON • SERMON 784The Rose and the Lily
Solomon 2:1
… I see in this one the death of a child, or the loss of a beloved relative. But I perceive in the other scale the great love of …
SERMON • SERMON 1733On Humbling Ourselves before God
1 Peter 5:6
… I believe that David was afflicted in his children because he had been proud of his children and had indulged them. When there is a breakage in the …
SERMON • SERMON 696Turning Back in the Day of Battle
Psalm 78:9
… SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington “The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.”— Psalm 78:9. I DO NOT …
SERMON • SERMON 1064Salvation All of Grace
Ephesians 2:8
… Remind Him of your wife, or child, or friend. Tell Him of Saul of Tarsus. Tell Him of the woman that was a sinner. Tell Him of Rahab …
SERMON • SERMON 2519When Should We Pray?
Luke 18:1
… Our family prayers—I am sure it is a grievous injury to a Christian household if it is not gathered regularly for prayer. Our prayers in the House …
SERMON • SERMON 1847Before Sermon, At Sermon and After Sermon
James 1:21
… He who harbors filth is making a hot-bed for the germs of disease and thus he is the enemy of his family and of his neighborhood. The …
SERMON • SERMON 2467Christ and His Co-workers
Mark 16:20
… Yet this is also according to human nature, for if there is a child in the family that the mother loves most, it is the one that was …
SERMON • SERMON 592The True Position Of Assurance
Ephesians 1:13
… They look upon themselves as being little children and such they are—but because they cannot speak plainly on account of having been so newly born, they therefore …
SERMON • SERMON 1977The Blind Beggar of the Temple and His Wonderful Cure
John 9:5
… Soon after her Baptism, she remarked that a certain noble family had given her the cold shoulder—and others who were very intimate had ceased to call. She …
SERMON • SERMON 581Children Brought to Christ, and Not to the Font
Mark 10:13-16
… Hence our Sabbath-schools, hence the use of the Bible and family prayer, and catechizing at home. Any person who shall forbid us to pray for our children …
SERMON • SERMON 872The Perseverance of the Saints
Philippians 1:6
… utter words like these, which were treasured up by the family and by myself especially—"This child," said he, "will preach the Gospel and he will preach it …
SERMON • SERMON 2643The Honored Servant
Proverbs 27:18
… s children as belonging to him! So ought we to think of everything that appertains to Christ—and if the Lord has, anywhere, a little child who needs …
SERMON • SERMON 1534Salvation By Works, A Criminal Doctrine
Galatians 2:21
… This foolishness is bound up in the heart of every child and who shall get it out of him? This erroneous idea arises partly from ignorance, for men …
SERMON • SERMON 2452Hope for the Worst Backsliders
Jeremiah 3:22
… Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and …
SERMON • SERMON 568What God Cannot Do!
Titus 1:2
… Look about you and see what a prolific family falsehood has! The children of the untrue are as many as the frogs of Egypt, and like those plagues …
SERMON • SERMON 508Comfort To Seekers From What The Lord Has Not Said
Isaiah 45:19
… And to him that knocks it shall be opened"? Or these, "If you, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more …
SERMON • SERMON 418Bread For The Hungry
Deuteronomy 8:3
… Once when he and his family had supped at night, there remained neither bread, meal, meat, nor money in the house. In the morning the young children cried …