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Particular Redemption
John 6:44
… Simply because she is that child’s parent she feels she cannot kill it. It is even so with a sinner. Coming to Christ is so obnoxious to …
SERMON • SERMON 176The Prodigal's Return
Luke 15:20
… Many children of God, who have imbibed these errors in early youth, have had to drag along their poor wearied and broken frames for many a day, whereas …
SERMON • SERMON 63Marvellous Increase of the Church
Isaiah 60:8
… Oh! does it not seem hard that the children should be in the kingdom before the parents? For if it be hard that a parent should see his …
SERMON • SERMON 3120A View of God's Glory
Exodus 33:18
… As a little child is willing to be led by his parent, so Abraham was willing to be led by God, even though that meant leaving his own …
SERMON • SERMON 944An Encouraging Lesson From Paul's Conversion
Acts 9:13-16
… for he is a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: for I will show him how …
SERMON • SERMON 1092A Holy Celebration
Exodus 12:42
… The young children were to be taught the meaning of that ordinance so that never in time should it be forgotten that God passed over His own people …
SERMON • SERMON 2530"A Peculiar People"
Psalm 4:3
… the lad cries, "O father, I feel so ill!" the loving parent says, "Come here, my child, and tell me all about it." That is what the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 1149My Restorer
Psalm 23:3
… should we resort but to the Strong for strength? Let the child abide by its parent, the scholar with the master, the patient by his physician, the poor …
SERMON • SERMON 925Individual Sin Laid On Jesus
Isaiah 53:6
… But inasmuch as the first fountain of evil came to us through our parent, Adam, there remained for God a loophole through which His Divine love might enter …
SERMON • SERMON 2176The Lord No More Angry with His People
Isaiah 54:9
… But we see the triumph of love when a wise parent, out of supreme affection, grieves himself by chastening his child. Your heavenly Father does not afflict willingly …
SERMON • SERMON 51Comfort for the Desponding
Job 29:2
… Doth a wife ask her husband to be moderately loving? Doth a parent expect his child to be moderately obedient? Do you seek to have your servants moderately …
SERMON • SERMON 3189The Tenderness of God's Comfort
Isaiah 66:13
… When the child has been doing wrong and the parent has chastised it, if the little lip curls, if the proud foot is stamped, if there is a …
SERMON • SERMON 3265Faith Tried and Triumphing
Job 13:15
… things work together for good! In fine, we trust Him as a child trusts its parent, that is, for everything. There are many things about Him that we …
SERMON • SERMON 499The Clean and the Unclean
Leviticus 11:2
… SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on …
SERMON • SERMON 573Baptismal Regeneration
Mark 16:15-16
… Are all persons who are baptized children of God? Well, let us look at the divine family. Let us mark their resemblance to their glorious Parent! Am I …
SERMON • SERMON 2265Harvest Joy
Isaiah 9:3
… you, and I will save your children." Here is a Divine promise for every parent to plead—"I will save your children." May the Lord give you Grace …
SERMON • SERMON 1221Opening the Mouth
Psalm 81:10
… Did you ever try your little child by holding fast in your hand something that he wanted? You wished to see whether he had perseverance enough to pull …
SERMON • SERMON 1046Covenant Blessings
Ezekiel 36:26
… But Isaac, the child of laughter, the child of joy, the heir of the promise, was born according to the power of God and not after the energy …
SERMON • SERMON 916A Generous Proposal
Numbers 10:29
… So I think you will find it if you are a child of God. All places are full of snares. Events, prosperous or adverse, expose you to temptations …
SERMON • SERMON 1095The Monster Dragged to Light
Romans 7:13
… The Baptist, like the child of God he was, turned round and rescued his persecutor just as he was sinking beneath the ice to certain death. And what …
SERMON • SERMON 1333"Rest in the Lord"
Psalm 37:7
… Maker and Destroyer! And yet I am His child! And as surely as a child may trust its parent and rest in its mother's bosom, so surely …
SERMON • SERMON 3447A Present Helper
Acts 18:10
… What do you think He said? Why, one of His farewell words was this, "Lo, I am with you always"—a dear and blessed legacy to His children …
SERMON • SERMON 3441God's Memorial Of His People
Isaiah 49:16
… A child forgotten of its parent, never feels the rod. I have been comforted sometimes when I have been smarting, to think I was not quite cast off …
SERMON • SERMON 439The Danger Of Doubting
1 Samuel 27:1
… You are very poor, are you? But still you take care of your children. What would you say to your child if he were sitting down at the …
SERMON • SERMON 2126Something Done for Jesus
Matthew 26:10
… Should not the child seek to honor Christ by being like the holy Child Jesus? Should not the parent devote his child to Christ, earnestly praying that he …
SERMON • SERMON 534The Mighty Power Which Creates And Sustains Faith
Ephesians 1:19-23
… What is more wonderful still, stones of the brook become children unto Abraham. The Lord takes the man who is like the leopard—covered with spots—and cleanses …
SERMON • SERMON 320Contentment
Philippians 4:11
… And shall a child be more faithful to an earthly parent than we are to our Father, who is in heaven? He has ordered everything for our good …
SERMON • SERMON 2996Enquiring of God
2 Samuel 2:1
… God is their Father and they are His children—minors who have not yet come of age. When a son is of age, it is respectful and often …
SERMON • SERMON 858The Fullness of Jesus the Treasury of Saints
John 1:16
… If He has ever blessed me to your souls and made me the spiritual parent of any that are in the skies, I do know that I had …
SERMON • SERMON 812The Deep-Seated Character of Sin
Jeremiah 17:1
… We are none of us today as God made us. "God made man upright, but he has sought out many inventions." Our first parent was the perfect man …
SERMON • SERMON 796Joshua's Obedience
Joshua 1:7
… You will find it so, husband, even in connection with your own wife and children if they are unsaved. Children have found this so in school. Traders find …
SERMON • SERMON 2993'That King Ahaz'
2 Chronicles 28:22
… became the children of God and we cannot escape it. And I think the poet Cowper was right when he said that "the trueborn child of God" would …
SERMON • SERMON 957Jesus No Phantom
Matthew 14:26
… Our wretched circumstances—the bare cupboard, our bodily weakness, the loss of that dear child or parent. All the distresses that await us, the dread of bankruptcy, or …
SERMON • SERMON 2971The Right Kind of Fear
Proverbs 28:14
… loving fear which every true, right-hearted child has towards its father—a fear of grieving so tender a parent—a proper feeling of dread which makes it …
SERMON • SERMON 1955Jesus Declining the Legions
Matthew 26:53
… child's sorrow is the parent's care! This makes a child's life easy—it would make ours easy if we would but act as children towards …
SERMON • SERMON 200The Wicked Man’s Life, Funeral, and Epitaph
Ecclesiastes 8:10
… Oh! it is a noble sight when with joy and gladness we see the young and the old, the gray-headed and the children, all of them pressing …
SERMON • SERMON 2130The Deceitfulness of Sin
Hebrews 3:13
… It is the parent of all other ills. All manner of evils draw their bitterness from this fountain of wormwood and gall. If a man had every possession …
SERMON • SERMON 2611A Lost Christ Found
Luke 2:44-46
… WHAT a precious treasure must the child Jesus have been to His parents! You who have children whom you love, not merely because they are yours, but because …
SERMON • SERMON 31The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness
Isaiah 26:9
… coming out; but when it gets dark and the child is still awake it cries for its parent. It cannot be amused by aught else. So in daylight …
SERMON • SERMON 538Caleb—The Man For The Times
Numbers 14:24
… As the child lives hanging upon the mother's breast and deriving its nourishment from the parent, so be it yours and mine to hang upon the wounds …