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A Mingled Strain
Psalm 51:7
… The first will be this—THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THE LANGUAGE OF A SINNER IS MOST SUITABLE TO A CHILD OF GOD. There are seasons when it is …
SERMON • SERMON 3545Our Glorious Leader
Luke 19:28
… He was but poorly clad—He was in all respects the child of poverty. First cradled in a manger, and then laid for His last sleep in a …
SERMON • SERMON 1705The Hearing of Faith
Galatians 3:2
… Those who say that though they are children of God, they may perish, after all, have not the true Gospel ring about them. If they are children of …
SERMON • SERMON 205A Lecture for Little-Faith
2 Thessalonians 1:3
… The manna ceased when the children of Israel entered into Canaan. they had none to carry with them there: they began to eat the corn of the land …
SERMON • SERMON 132Christ—The Power and Wisdom of God
1 Corinthians 1:24
… I know your characters, and have watched you with a father’s love; for, child though I am, I am the spiritual father of some here whose years …
SERMON • SERMON 3140The Glory of Our Strength
Psalm 89:17
… After such a painful experience as that, will the mother ever make an idol of another child? Yes, there are some who have done that, to their own …
SERMON • SERMON 214His Name—Wonderful!
Isaiah 9:6
… He is a child born, with reference to his human nature; he is born of the virgin, a child. But he is a son given, with reference to …
SERMON • SERMON 2618"Straightway"
Matthew 4:20
… O dear parents, do begin at once, that they may become God's children while yet they are your children! A little boy once said, "Father, please take …
SERMON • SERMON 3362Fearing and Trusting—trusting and Not Fearing
Psalm 56:3
… I consider him truly humble—and he is the child who really deserves the mother's fondest love! Now, deal with God as you would have your children …
SERMON • SERMON 2295God's People—or Not God's People
Hosea 2:23
… You know that your dear children often speak very poorly and badly, and other people do not much care to listen to their talk. But to a father …
SERMON • SERMON 3364Surveying the Field
Nehemiah 2:12
… If it is to teach a class of children, lay those children on your heart! Think a great deal about them. Think about them by night, as Nehemiah …
DEVOTIONALMarch 14 — TENDER COMFORT
Isa. 66:13
… How she enters into her child's grief! How she presses him to her bosom, and tries to take all his sorrow into her own heart! He can …
SERMON • SERMON 1270"God With Us"
Matthew 1:23
… God, for God has introduced Himself to you! Are you children? Then come to God in the Child Jesus who slept in Bethlehem's manger. Oh, you gray …
SERMON • SERMON 2895A Blessed Gospel Chain
John 14:23
… I am speaking of that complacent love which God, as a Father, has towards His own children. You know that you often say to your child, "If you …
SERMON • SERMON 1939Shaved and Shorn, But Not Beyond Hope
Judges 16:22
… I think that I must be a child, for I have the taste that a child has. This is children's meat and I do so enjoy it …
DEVOTIONALMarch 6 — GUARDIAN OF THE FATHERLESS
Hos. 14:3
… When a child is left without its natural protector, our God steps in and becomes his guardian: so also when a man has lost every object of dependence …
SERMON • SERMON 2586A Far-reaching Promise
Acts 2:39
… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1883. "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that …
SERMON • SERMON 700Order and Argument in Prayer
Job 23:3
… We shall not have the reserve of a slave but the loving reverence of a child, yet not an impudent, impertinent child, but a teachable obedient child, honouring …
SERMON • SERMON 2606Choice Teaching for the Chosen
John 6:45
… The teaching of Scripture is that Christ died for His chosen. "Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it." God's promise, "All your children shall be …
SERMON • SERMON 1794"Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!"
Song 6:13
… for God's people are originally his children. Though they are prodigals, and have gone into a far country, they always were his children; even when they spent …
SERMON • SERMON 1819A Sweet Silver Bell Ringing in Each Believer's Heart
Micah 7:7
… You know God as you know your child; but as you look at your boy, you cry, "My child, my child," and you mean a great deal by …
SERMON • SERMON 2517From Twenty-five to Thirty-five
Matthew 20:3
… We begin here with the children. Matthew 19:13-15 . Then were there brought unto Him little children, that He should put His hands on them, and pray …
SERMON • SERMON 1347How Is Salvation Received?
Romans 4:16
… had no children. Year followed year and in the course of nature he grew old and his wife was long past the age of child-bearing—and yet …
SERMON • SERMON 1812A Wonder Explained By Greater Wonders
Lamentations 3:57
… dear child and so He said nothing to him to wound him, but everything to comfort him! Tenderly He cried, "Fear not!" You mothers leave your children, for …
SERMON • SERMON 709Kicking Against The Pricks
Acts 9:5
… And though the child may not be able either by word or deed to express what he feels, there are evil moments with some children when passion seems …
SERMON • SERMON 1790Receiving the Holy Spirit
Acts 19:2
… a child of God! Do not play with the devil's children. Many people around this place are sore put to it to keep their children from bad …
SERMON • SERMON 2715Christian Resignation
Matthew 26:39
… I thought how often the children of God shun pain, reproach and rebuke—and think it to be a strange thing when some fiery trial happens to them …
SERMON • SERMON 2374Blessed Discipline
Psalm 94:12-15
… We have had God's children under instruction. Now let us think of GOD'S CHILDREN EDUCATED. The Lord has chastened and taught His child for this purpose …
SERMON • SERMON 90Men Chosen—Fallen Angels Rejected
Hebrews 2:16
… Now, you have said all creatures are his children. Well, I am a creature, and, therefore, I am his child. I want to know, my friend,” says Satan …
SERMON • SERMON 3264God's Care of Elijah
1 Kings 17:4
… The child of God cannot escape the rod even though he is an Elijah. He may call down fire from Heaven to consume the sacrifice, but no fire …
SERMON • SERMON 3197The Sweetness of God's Word
Psalm 119:103
… Like those poor hungry children that we have seen standing outside a shop where the savory meat is just within the window—they can see it and smell …
SERMON • SERMON 1606Ziklag—or David Encouraging Himself In God
1 Samuel 30:6
… When the child of God feels that he is in that predicament and in great trouble, too, it is not strange that he is greatly distressed. At the …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 29
Je 17:17
… The best of God’s saints must drink the wormwood; the dearest of his children must bear the cross. No Christian has enjoyed perpetual prosperity; no believer can …
SERMON • SERMON 1426The Lifting Up of the Bowed Down
Luke 13:10-13
… Alas, we know certain of the children of God who are at this moment in much the same condition! They are perpetually bowed down and though they remember …
SERMON • SERMON 1504The Swift Camels
1 Kings 4:20-28
… child, but it goes further—that child in later life spreads the evil by his example and transmits it to his descendants. Yes, to his children's children …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 19
Job 23:3
… The longing desire of an afflicted child of God is once more to see his Father’s face. His first prayer is not “O that I might be …
SERMON • SERMON 1052The Sphere Of Instrumentality
John 11:39
… within him, that he cannot be a child of God. Tear off that bandage and tell him that all the children of God experience an inward strife and …
SERMON • SERMON 829The Perfuming of the Heart
Romans 5:5
… You have all things if you have your Father's love, O child of God! Here all your aspirations may sit down content—to be loved of God …
SERMON • SERMON 1367Strong Faith
Romans 4:20
… the confidence which our children repose in us. Why, even when the man is utterly unworthy of respect, you will see the little child still believing in his …
SERMON • SERMON 3341'The Oil of Joy for Mourning'
Isaiah 61:3
… is waiting to bless you! When I was a child I remember how at a school festival the children were instructed to bring their own mugs with them …