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Fear, worry, anxiety, courage, and trusting God

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SERMON • SERMON 2754

Strange Dispensations and Matchless Consolations

Hosea 2:14

… Night succeeds day and in the thick darkness you still travel on—fear and hope together winging your feet. Day dawns again, but you are as far from …

SERMON • SERMON 840

Do Not Sin Against the Child

Genesis 42:22

… Fathers and mothers who sin against your children, I fear you will be lost, yourselves. But before that doom overtakes you, I pray you remember that you will …

SERMON • SERMON 865

Deep Calls Unto Deep

Psalm 42:7

… He crossed the brook Jabbok in fear and hastened by night over Jordan and withdrew to a dry and thirsty land where there was no water. He was …

SERMON • SERMON 3414

'Brief Life Is Here Our Portion'

Psalm 39:4

… We have, every now and then, expressed a longing to depart—not so much, I fear, because of our eagerness to be with Christ, as because we have …

SERMON • SERMON 1096

Divine Love and Its Gifts

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him." Pity is one degree below love and often leads to it, but it …

SERMON • SERMON 362

None But Jesus—Second Part

John 3:18

… But what if it should wear out? What if that righteousness should lose its virtue in the eternity to come? Oh beloved! we entertain no fear about that …

SERMON • SERMON 3014

A Sermon From a Sick Preacher

1 Peter 2:7

… Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man …

SERMON • SERMON 913

Method and Music, Or the Art of Holy and Happy Living

Colossians 3:17

… And I fear some of us must confess sorrowfully that we preach at times as though the preaching were to be our work and not the work of …

SERMON • SERMON 2153

The Iniquity of Our Holy Things

Exodus 28:36-38

… He takes more solace in them that fear Him than in all creation besides. "Unto you that believe Christ is precious"—but you that believe are also precious …

SERMON • SERMON 3122

Craving the Best Things

1 Samuel 21:9

… There is no fear of his ever sinking into Hell. A jewel of the Redeemer's crown shall never be cast to the swine, that they may tread …

SERMON • SERMON 206

Everybody's Sermon

Hosea 12:10

… the sand along the sea-shore and even the sea observes the landmark. “Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which …

SERMON • SERMON 3321

God in Heaven, and Men on the Sea

Psalm 65:5

… Trusting in God, we shall come to our desired haven in due time and shall not miss our way! We need not fear shipwreck, for He that taught …

SERMON • SERMON 3102

The Forerunner

Hebrews 6:20

… Well then, as Christ is there, at His Father's side— "The Man of Love, the Crucified"— let us not fear to enter where we have the right …

SERMON • SERMON 3457

All Are Guilty

Matthew 27:22

… And if we had gone as far as Pilate, I fear there is not one of us but would have gone farther! To come to close quarters with …

SERMON • SERMON 75

Final Perseverance

Hebrews 6:4-6

… Thou need’st not fear, beloved; if thou has the Holy Ghost, thou hast that which ensures thy salvation; if thou, by an inward communion, canst participate in …

SERMON • SERMON 2660

Suffering Outside the Camp

Hebrews 13:12

… Do you not fear Me? says the LORD. Willyou not tremble at My Presence, which, have placed the sand for the boundary of the sea by a perpetual …

SERMON • SERMON 3264

God's Care of Elijah

1 Kings 17:4

… Let them now that fear the LORD say that His mercy endures forever You have tried it—you have proved it! The mercy of God has followed you …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 97

Psalm 97

… In God's presence the solid earth quakes, astonished by his glory it is convulsed with fear. To the advent of our Lord and the setting up of …

SERMON • SERMON 2614

Strange Things

Luke 5:26

… But she is among us now, washed and sanctified—and she delights to serve her God and honor and glorify Him! What changed that woman? Was it fear

SERMON • SERMON 3528

A Promise and a Providence

Ezekiel 34:15

… When Jehovah says, "I will," banish every doubt and fear and now, for time and for eternity, cast yourself upon your God. He says, "I will feed My …

SERMON • SERMON 2571

The Climax of God's Love No. 2571

Hosea 2:16

… But the Christian is delivered from all fear of Hell and he hates sin, itself, because he fears to grieve the God he loves. In the Church of …

SERMON • SERMON 2629

God's Work in Man

Hosea 2:16

… I must grow better, or else I shall die and share eternal torment." So he tries to do better through fear. Not so the Christian! He tries to …

SERMON • SERMON 2793

Five Divine Declarations

Isaiah 45:24

fear to live, or to die, for, "there is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." No, more—such a man may, without fear

SERMON • SERMON 830

Gray Hairs

Hosea 7:9

… Oh, I pray you make the trial, for it would be better for you to doubt and fear than to go to Hell blindfolded with carnal security! Young …

SERMON • SERMON 668

Unity In Christ

John 17:20

… Such love exists among the people of God, and if anybody says it does not I can only fear that the speaker is unfit to judge. If I …

SERMON • SERMON 662

Consolation In The Furnace

Daniel 3:25

… He has done his worst and now what have we to fear?" When persecution rages, it is wonderful what liberty it gives to the child of God! Never …

SERMON • SERMON 2742

Question and Exclamation

Jeremiah 3:19

… Which, somehow or other, were always the Israelites' fear and trust. They always looked upon horsemen as the most powerful friends or foes in the day of battle …

SERMON • SERMON 13

Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings

2 Corinthians 1:5

… I must die; Christ puts his arms around me, and says, “Fear not, beloved; to die is to be blessed; the waters of death have their fountain head …

SERMON • SERMON 2552

"Take Heed, Brethren"

Hebrews 3:12

… Oh, that none of us, as professors of the faith of Christ, may be like Israel in the wilderness! I fear there is too much likeness—God grant …

SERMON • SERMON 3073

Thrice Happy Day!

Haggai 2:19

… There's not a foe before whose face I'd fear His cause to plead"'? Can you make again, tonight, that solemn declaration of allegiance to your God …

SERMON • SERMON 21

Christ’s People—Imitators of Him

Acts 4:13

… Not of force; not of compulsion; not through fear of the whip; not through legal bondage; but through pure, disinterested love and gratitude to God, they lay themselves …

SERMON • SERMON 3379

Rough, But Friendly

Genesis 42:25

… When things apparently go bad, they know they really go well, and when things apparently go well, we are very apt to fear and tremble for all the …

SERMON • SERMON 2036

The Whole-Heartedness of God in Blessing His People

Jeremiah 32:41

… Viewed in that light, we have before us a text of exceeding glory, one of those great Scriptures that make me fear and tremble for all the goodness …

SERMON • SERMON 2197

Christ's Resurrection and Our Newness Of Life

Romans 6:4

… It is your joy to obey out of love and not from slavish fear. This life is swayed by new motives. You now live to please God—before …

SERMON • SERMON 2894

The Sinner's Only Alternative

2 Kings 7:4

… Or you can go to Christ, but your fear is that you will still perish. Yet you can but die if you go to Him and He rejects …

SERMON • SERMON 1149

My Restorer

Psalm 23:3

… Why? Because "He leads me." In the prospect of death I am calm and free from fear. Why? Because He is with me, His rod and staff they …

SERMON • SERMON 3038

Justice Vindicated And Righteousness Exemplified

Romans 3:24-26

… And so," he said, "if you keep to that old theme, there is no fear but what there will be enough hungry souls to come and feed upon …

SERMON • SERMON 3431

The King Passing Over Kidron

2 Samuel 15:23

… And yet, good as he was, his subjects disowned and turned against him! And, in fear of them, "the king, himself, also passed over the Brook Kidron." It …

SERMON • SERMON 1974

The Suffering Savior's Sympathy

Hebrews 2:18

… He said, "Fear not, little flock," which shows that His flock is little and timid. He says, "Fear not, little flock," because they have great tendency to fear

SERMON • SERMON 3088

The Storm and the Shower

Zechariah 13:7

… You that fear the LORD, praise Him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify Him; and fear Him, all you the seed of Israel For He has not …