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Fear, worry, anxiety, courage, and trusting God
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Jesus Putting Away Sin
Hebrews 9:26
… But Grace forbids that painful fear, Almighty Grace, which triumphs here.'" You know the healing came to the sin-bitten by looking at the serpent—not by looking …
SERMON • SERMON 1340Manoah's Wife and Her Excellent Argument
Judges 13:22
… The cloud which you fear makes the external wall of that secret chamber where the Lord reveals Himself! Before you can carry Samson in your arms, Manoah, you …
SERMON • SERMON 422The Peacemaker
Matthew 5:9
… But I fear the most of us would have to say, "Well, in many things I come short." However, this much I would add—if there are two …
SERMON • SERMON 1291The Best Burden for Young Shoulders
Lamentations 3:27
… always" is a Scriptural text—not the slavish fear, nor yet a fear that doubts God, but still a fear. There is a difference between doubting God and …
CHAPTERMeal-time in the Cornfields
… I used to hear people sing that hymn of Toplady’s, which begins— “A debtor to mercy alone, Of covenant mercy I sing; Nor fear, with thy righteousness …
SERMON • SERMON 580God Is With Us
Romans 8:31
… But what does God say to him—"Fear not, Abraham, I am your shield and your exceedingly great reward." This became his comfort—God had called him. He …
SERMON • SERMON 1509The Best of All Sights
Hebrews 2:9
… There remains nothing of all the past to cause a dread of punishment, or arouse a fear of desertion, for Christ who died always lives to make intercession …
SERMON • SERMON 438God Or Self—Which?
Zechariah 7:5
… Oh, my dear Hearers, I fear many of you would have been idolaters if that had been the custom of the country, and if so, what is the …
SERMON • SERMON 938A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ
2 Timothy 2:2
… Better for us that we changed our sentiments every day in order to be right, than that we held to them obstinately while we had some fear that …
SERMONSunshine in the Heart
Psalms 37:4
… We fear not God because of any compulsion, our faith is no fetter, our profession is no prison; we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty …
SERMON • SERMON 238Reform
2 Chronicles 31:1
… Yea, all of us, until renewed by divine grace, worship gods which our own hands have made, and we do not fear, and love, and obey the living …
SERMON • SERMON 781Christus Et Ego
Galatians 2:20
… Those monks and nuns who run away from the world for fear its temptations should overcome them, and seclude themselves for the sake of greater holiness, are as …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 31
Je 8:20
… The convenient time never has come, why should it ever come? It is logical to fear that it never will arrive, and that Felix like, you will find …
SERMON • SERMON 1687The Law Written in the Heart
Jeremiah 31:33
… I think I see the people at a distance, with bounds set about the mountain, crouching with abject fear and, at last, entreating that these words might not …
SERMON • SERMON 229Love
1 John 4:19
… When thou shalt stand in the cold floods of Jordan, thou needest not fear, for death cannot separate thee from his love; and when thou shalt come into …
SERMON • SERMON 715Children'S Bread Given To Dogs
Matthew 15:27
… Who holds the plank the tightest? Why the man who is the most afraid of being drowned! Fear frequently intensifies faith. The more afraid I am of my …
CHAPTERA Full Heart
… if thou art living in close communion with Christ, there will be no fear of thy having a dry heart. He who lives without prayer–he who lives …
CHAPTER“Helensburgh House” and Garden
… We could walk abroad, too, in those days, in the leafy lanes, without fear of being accosted by too many people, and this privilege brought us very great …
SERMON • SERMON 868Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac
Genesis 22:2
… A very severe trial, that, for in proportion as a man believes the promise and values it, will be his fear to do anything which might render it …
CHAPTERVarying Voices–Pro and Con
… There is no living man from whom a ranting, raving enthusiast would have so much to fear. A better judge of teaching, or preaching, or eloquence, than Lord …
CHAPTERPreface to the First Series
… Men in whom piety, zeal, and the indwelling Spirit are to be found need not fear refusal at our doors on account of poverty, if they possess those …
CHAPTERPosture, Action, Gesture, Etc.
… There can be no doubt that many men are made awkward through fear. It is not the man’s nature, nor his pulpit, but his nervousness which makes …
COMMENTARYPsalm 35
Psalm 35
… God may speak with his own voice; and thus he gave assurance to Abraham, "Fear not, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." Gen. 15:1 …
COMMENTARYPsalm 30
Psalm 30
… Seeing God is often angry with his own servants, what cause have those of you who fear him, to bless him that he is not angry with you …
CHAPTERStambourne Meeting-House
… in that respect, we could quote every line before the Westminster Assembly, and never fear that a solitary objection would or could be raised. The Stambourne style of …
COMMENTARYPsalm 62
Psalm 62
… They expect men to bow to them, and quake for fear in their presence; but men made bold by faith see nothing in them to honour, and very …
SERMON • SERMON 5The Comforter
John 14:26
… Oh, wherefore dost thou distrust him now? Away with thy fears; for he is a faithful Comforter. “Ah! but,” thou sayest, “I fear I shall be sick, and …
SERMON • SERMON 3498God's Gentle Power
1 Kings 19:11-13
… God will never give me your souls I fear. For these many years have I laboured for them, and they have not been given me. Well, good Master …
COMMENTARYPsalm 32
Psalm 32
… He who is saved from sin has no need to fear anything else. Verse 7. Thou art my hiding place. Terse, short sentences make up this verse, but …
COMMENTARYPsalm 68
Psalm 68
… You inspire awe and fear. Thy saints obey with fear and trembling, and thine enemies flee in dismay. From thy threefold courts, and especially from the holy of …
PRAYERPrayer 9 — Glorious Liberty
… We thank Thee, Lord, that Thou hast given them the spirit of bondage and made them to fear. We are glad that they should be brought to feel …
SERMON • SERMON 933Angelic Studies
Ephesians 3:10
… Do they not watch over the saints? Is it not written, that they "encamp round about them that fear the Lord"? Are they not charged to take care …
SERMON • SERMON 815Daniel's Undaunted Courage
Daniel 6:10
… And yes, on a yet more dread occasion, without fear and trembling, he had faced the king Belshazzar when the thousands of his guests were shouting to their …
SERMON • SERMON 256The Believer's Challenge
Romans 8:34
… Yet for our strong consolation, that we may never tremble or fear, God hath been pleased to give us these four eternal rocks, these four immovable foundations upon …
SERMON • SERMON 3512Are You Mocked?
Psalm 14:6
… And if it were true that all who fear God were poor, it might, perhaps, be rather to their credit than to their dishonour, for, at any rate …
SERMON • SERMON 3477Araunah's Threshing Floor
1 Chronicles 22:1
… If Jesus died for you, you have no cause for fear. Believe in Him—you have the witness in yourself. Your faith is the key of your fellowship …
COMMENTARYPsalm 73
Psalm 73
… Let such also as fear God and begin to look aside on the things of this world, know it will be hard even for them to hold out …
SERMONNonconformity
From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7
… You fear, my lords and gentlemen, that England would cease to be Christian if one sect ceased to belegally patronised! Oh! you fear this in the light of …
SERMON • SERMON 843Effectual Calling—Illustrated by the Call of Abram
Genesis 12:5
… If in all respects you prospered as the result of your religion, you might fear that you were not in the track of the people of God, for …
SERMON • SERMON 47Christ’s Prayer for His People
John 17:15
… Let us not then, my brethren, fear to advance through our trials: they are for our good; to stop here awhile is for our benefit. Why! we should …