Fear & Anxiety

The Curse Removed

Galatians 3:13

… Law's loud thunder—the sentence is completely reversed and there is no fear of it left! We must also say upon this point, that when Christ removes …

The Faculty Baffled, The Great Physician Successful

Mark 5:25-28

… This poor woman had, however, in her anxious desire to be restored to society and to health, gone first to one and then to another, and yet another …

The Man Who Shall Never See Death

John 8:51-53

… Here am I, a poor sinner, convicted of sin and awakened to a fear of wrath. What is there before my face? What am I compelled to gaze …

Psalm 28

Psalm 28

… David fears lest he should be bound up in their bundle, drawn to their doom; and the fear is an appropriate one for every godly man. The best …

An Unalterable Law

Hebrews 9:22

… The man who gets this pardon may know he has it Did he merely hope he had it, that hope might often struggle with fear. Did he merely …

Cheering Congratulation

Psalm 32:1

… Seeing how every anxious soul longs for forgiveness, clearly it must be a state to be greatly desired, and those who do attain it find it to be …

Christ Loosens From Infirmities

Luke 13:11-13

… This is a very proper fear when it leads to self-examination and comes to an end. But it becomes a very improper fear when it perpetually destroys …

Ho! Ho!

Isaiah 55:1

… not fear if you need the pardon of sin, or the renewal of your nature, or guidance in perplexity, or comfort in distress—you need not fear but …

Declension from First Love

Revelation 2:4

… It is not work merely, it is anxious work; it is casting forth the whole strength, and exercising all the energies for Christ. Could the Lord Jesus say …

The Christ-Given Rest

Matthew 11:28

… allowable to give to the creature! You shall be able to give without fear when you have once given the heart, itself, to Him who never fails, never …

The Drawings of Love

Jeremiah 31:3

… They are afraid of punishment, or they are anxious for a reward. Such is not the religion of Jesus Christ! It is said that the soldiers of Persia …

The Glorious Hereafter and Ourselves

2 Corinthians 5:5

… When shall the rowers of our spirit indulge themselves to the full without the fear of falling into sin? When shall my memory remember nothing but what will …

Beggars Becoming Princes

1 Samuel 2:8

… But when he sees himself as he is in God's sight, he is anxious to hide his head anywhere! He feels that he is such a man …

The Savior's Thirst

John 19:28

… first part of our Savior's suffering He was taken up with such anxious thought and with such internal anguish that He could not think of the thirst …

Sad Fasts Changed To Glad Feasts

Zechariah 8:19

… is not true, if it is only pleasant? Say, dear Heart, are you anxious after Truth—Truth in your head, Truth in your heart, Truth on your tongue …

A Good Man in An Evil Case

Psalm 55:22

… God shall preserve my soul from fear, Or shield me when afraid; Ten thousand angels must appear, If HE commands their aid." Possibly the special case in point …

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… There was scarcely light enough for the anxious seeker to see his Lord! And men were crushed by the Inquisition, by the practice of priestly confession, by the …

The Great Attraction

John 12:32

… fair breeze heavenward!, Jesus Crucified presents this to anxious souls. It attracts men, in the next place, from fear to faith. They have been accustomed to think of …

A Comforting Message for the Closing Year

Psalm 37:7

… Only rest in God, for Omniscience is watching for your good and Omnipotence is prepared to aid you! Beloved, I fear that we often place our confidence in …

"Beautiful Forever"

Psalm 149:4

… fellow-feeling with them and that we might pass through the world, not anxious to be noticed, but rather to be unnoticed!Not desirous to be great, but …

Turn or Burn

Psalm 7:12

… evangelical repentance is a fear of sinning. Legal repentance makes us fear the wrath of God; evangelical repentance makes us fear the cause of that wrath, even sin …

Mr. Fearing Comforted

Matthew 14:31

… As long as faith maintains its hold, fear is a stranger; but at times, during sundry great and sore troubles, the Christian begins to fear that surely at …

Memories of my Father (Continued)

… I fear I am not just now in the right order for sermonizing; but, if ‘silver and gold have I none,’ ‘such as I have give I you …

Real Contact With Jesus

Luke 8:46

… At any rate, there is no fear of falling when we are in that position for— "He that is down need fear no fall." Let your lowliness of …

A Song Concerning Loving Kindnesses

Isaiah 63:7

… Do we need to be told this? I fear we do, but if our sense of our own unworthiness is clear—if we know what worse than nothings …

The Lesson of Uzza

1 Chronicles 13:8

… When we have considered the cause of that failure, we shall note that this failure worked in David a great fear. And when we have meditated for a …

Must He?

Luke 19:5

… Christ might be yours? Then you shall surely have Him! Are you earnestly anxious to be reconciled to God by Jesus Christ? Then you may have that great …

A Young Man's Vision

Acts 2:17

… We must take care that we do not neglect heavenly monitions through fear of being considered visionary. We must not be staggered even by the dread of being …

The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of His Saints

Psalm 46:8-9

… Let us not fear, let us not tremble; the end of all things cometh at last, and that end shall certainly be the desired one, and all the …

A Sense of Pardoned Sin

Isaiah 38:17

… He is so anxious to maintain in its clearness the fact that we are saved by what Christ felt, and not by what we feel, the great truth …

The Touch

Mark 5:30

… But men do not think so and, consequently, they are not anxious for spiritual health. I may praise up my Master, as I gladly would, even to the …

A Happy Christian

Isaiah 58:11

… There is not much fear of our embracing any serious errors in the head when the heart is not in error, for there it is that heresies are …

The Wandering Bird

Proverbs 27:8

… Let the man take anxious thought before he goes, or else, perhaps, when he finds himself in Australia, he will long to be in New Zealand! And when …

Winnowing Time

Jeremiah 23:28

… to the Church without due care and anxious prudence, for "what is the chaff to the wheat?" I do fear that sometimes, during revivals, there have been great …

The Call of 'Today'

Hebrews 3:7

… Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. I left out the …

Hoping in God's Mercy

Psalm 33:18

… By the term, "the fear of God," we understand in Holy Scripture the whole of true religion. We do not mean by the fear of God, the slavish …

Christ's Motive and Ours

2 Corinthians 8:9

… you had a wife who, when you lay sick, watched you with such anxious care that she undermined her own health and brought herself down to the grave …

The Wailing of Risca

Jeremiah 4:20

… My dear children, I cannot help telling you, that as you must die, I am anxious that God’s Holy Spirit should graciously lead you to repent of …

A New Year's Retrospect And Prospect

Psalm 10:17

… For as the Heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. Look up into the blue sky—up, up beyond …

The First and the Second

Hebrews 10:9

… and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: and …