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Zealots
Luke 6:15
… how gloriously he contends for the Gospel of Christ! Look at Saul of Tarsus! No man more zealous against the Gospel than he, and he is second to …
CHAPTERChrist and His Table-Companions
… The Church will always want the same food, the same Christ, the same gospel. Out on ye, traitors, who tell us that we are to shape our gospel …
SERMON • SERMON 1762High Doctrine And Broad Doctrine
John 6:37
… We have, in the second place, to speak to you for a little time on THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL—"Him that comes to Me I will by no means …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 31
Jn 7:37
… To his conscience the atonement brings peace; to his understanding the gospel brings the richest instruction; to his heart the person of Jesus is the noblest object of …
CHAPTERWhere Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?
… I pity even a Sunday-school teacher, much more a minister of the gospel, who could not make use of such incidents as the terrible burning of the …
COMMENTARYPsalm 25
Psalm 25
… But since God has promised to be merciful to those who truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy gospel, shame will be the portion of those only who …
CHAPTERAnecdotes from the Pulpit
… Affectation of intellectual superiority and love of rhetorical splendour have prevented many from setting forth gospel truth in the easiest imaginable manner, namely, by analogies drawn from common …
COMMENTARYPsalm 50
Psalm 50
… This is the main end of the gospel, the great work of ministers, the gathering of sinners unto Christ. But then there is a gathering at the general …
COMMENTARYPsalm 87
Psalm 87
… The gates of Zion are the doctrines of the Gospel, the tabernacles of Jacob are the teachings of the law, the law was accomplished in the gospel; therefore …
SERMON • SERMON 262Distinguishing Grace
1 Corinthians 4:7
… To such the music of the gospel is like singing to a dead ear, and the dropping of the word is as dew upon a rock. There are …
CHAPTERThe Pastors' College
… the prayer been in vain, for some 330 men are now declaring the gospel of Jesus who were trained in this manner. Besides the students for the regular …
CHAPTERStambourne Meeting-House
… They were a people who could and would hear the gospel, but I don’t think they would have put up with anything else. They were as apt …
CHAPTERMr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man
… I have to read such books, I must read them sometimes to know what is said by the enemies of the gospel, that I may defend the faith …
CHAPTERA Typical Week’s Work
… In the course of his long ministry, many hundreds of thousands of persons, from all parts of the globe, heard him proclaim that gospel which became to multitudes …
CHAPTEREarnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance
… We cannot expect a gospel devoid of earnestness to have any mighty effect upon the unconverted around us. One of the excuses most soporific to the conscience of …
COMMENTARYPsalm 47
Psalm 47
… In the triumphs of his gospel. 4. In his favour to his saints. Verse 2. The terrors of the Lord viewed by faith as a subject of joy …
CHAPTERI Will Give You Rest
… This will enable us to put the gospel very attractively, for the evidence of our own experience will help others to trust the Lord for themselves. With the …
CHAPTEROn the Choice of a Text
… is cast in the Episcopal establishment, where the preacher usually refers to the gospel or the epistle, or the lesson for the day, and feels himself bound—not …
COMMENTARYPsalm 113
Psalm 113
… At the first proclamation of the gospel the name of the Lord was glorious throughout the whole earth; shall it not be much more so ere the end …
SERMON • SERMON 1759The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption
Romans 8:15
… We usually draw a distinction between Law-work and Gospel-work, but Law-work is the work of the Spirit of God and is so far a true …
COMMENTARYPsalm 84
Psalm 84
… but much more amiable are the Church of God and its ordinances in Gospel times, where Christ, the Great High Priest, is seen in the glories of his …
COMMENTARYPsalm 149
Psalm 149
… But whereas many Scriptures in the New Testament keep up singing as a gospel ordinance, none provide for the keeping up of music and dancing; the gospel canon …
COMMENTARYPsalm 85
Psalm 85
… In the gospel dispensation this truth is conspicuously illustrated. If to seeking sinners salvation is nigh, it is assuredly very nigh to those who have once enjoyed it …
SERMON • SERMON 64The Enchanted Ground
… 5:6 As the spiritual guide of the flock of God along the intricate mazes of experience, it is the duty of the gospel minister to point out …
SERMON • SERMON 3543Speaking on God's Behalf
Job 36:2
… It were better to be a galley-slave, chained to the oar, than to be a minister of the Gospel, if it were not for the strong consolations …
COMMENTARYPsalm 81
Psalm 81
… or in remembrance of the trumpet blown at the giving of the law; though it rather was an emblem of the gospel and ministry of it, by which …
SERMON • SERMON 842The Angelic Life
Matthew 22:30
… They should be like that angel who flew in the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospel to preach to every creature. And, as the angel sounded that …
CHAPTERMemorable Services at the Tabernacle, 1861-1874
… Greater multitudes than ever flocked to listen to the Word; and some here, who otherwise might never have attended the preaching of the gospel, remain as living monuments …
SERMON • SERMON 3272How to Become Full of Joy
1 John 1:4
… Read John's Gospel—not a bit of John and then a snippet of Mark—but read John through and find out what John is at. Remember that …
SERMON • SERMON 3209The Priceless Prize
Philippians 3:8
… souls, and flee away Like doves to Jesus' wounds! This is the welcome Gospel-Day, Wherein Free Grace abounds! God loved the Church and gave His Son To …
SERMON • SERMON 99The Duty of Remembering the Poor
Galatians 2:10
… God has a poor people, I take it, that he may display more the power of his comforting promises, and the supports of the gospel. If all God …
SERMON • SERMON 2778Consulting With Jesus
1 Kings 10:1-3
… The more needy the outcast, the louder does the Gospel trumpet blow that they who are ready to perish, may come and be saved. When the night is …
SERMON • SERMON 146The Good Man’s Life and Death
Philippians 1:21
… But “To die is gain,” is one of the Gospel riddles which only the Christian can truly understand. To die is not gain if I look upon the …
CHAPTERThe Well-Beloved's Vineyard
… If we are not serving God in the gospel of His Son with all our might and ability, then we have a heavy responsibility resting upon us. “Our …
SERMON • SERMON 816The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar
Ezekiel 13:10-12
… You shall have rest though you disobey, and it shall be well with you at the end even though you reject the Gospel of Christ." Not in so …
SERMON • SERMON 1002Now, and Then
1 Corinthians 13:12
… We have repented for this, and have fled for refuge to the hope set before us in the gospel. Day by day we see a little more of …
COMMENTARYPsalm 115
Psalm 115
… In these times, when the first victories of the gospel are only remembered as histories of a dim and distant past, sceptics are apt to boast that the …
SERMON • SERMON 3544The Only Road
John 14:6
… of God living in England as they could, living in Greece, before the Gospel had been preached there—yet every idea of God that is not drawn by …
SERMON • SERMON 3232Facts and Inferences
Psalm 37:35-37
… And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you." So, my dear Hearer, believe that Gospel, lay hold on the hope set before you …
SERMON • SERMON 1097Good Cause for Great Zeal
Ezra 4:14
… And oh, dear Friends, how can we tolerate it that so many should dishonor Christ by rejecting His Gospel? We cannot prevent their doing so, but we can …