Grace

The Sheep Before the Shearers

… cause it to be a means of grace to us.” Why not ask a blessing on the cup of bitterness as well as upon the cup of thanksgiving …

Eyes Opened

Genesis 21:19

… Those who love the Lord cannot endure to sit as blind men in His palace, but they long for all the sight which Grace can give them. First …

The Orphan's Father

Hosea 14:3

… I ask for mercy on that account." "But you have resisted and rejected Grace." "Lord, that is true. And I shall need all the more mercy because of …

The Son Glorified by the Father and the Father Glorified by the Son

John 17:1

… Do you even long for growth in Grace? Ask it only that you may glorify Him! If there is anything that you dare wish and pray for, put …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… No other being in heaven deserves to be there; even the angels are kept there, and God “chargeth his angels with folly,” and gives them grace, whereby he …

My Comfort In Affliction

Psalm 119:50

… in opposition to everything else—this promise of God, this Covenant of His Grace—"This is my comfort." Now read, "this" in another sense, as indicating that he …

Samuel and the Young Man Saul

1 Samuel 9:27

… take away your sin at this moment and He can also give you Grace so that you shall leave off the habits which up to now have bound …

Early Wedded Life (Continued)

… sympathy ; and he kneeled by the couch, and prayed that we might have grace and strength to bear the terrible trial which had so suddenly come upon us …

The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies with Him

Revelation 19:11-16

… rules the nations with a rod of iron! There is the crown of Grace, for it is from His royal hand that blessings are bestowed! There is the …

The Poor Man's Prayer

Psalm 106:4

… out His hands, but I regarded Him not and now the day of Grace is past and the Christ whom I despised laughs at my calamity—there is …

Christ's Finished Work

John 19:30

… And may God grant in His Grace, that before long you who have believed in Him, confessed Him, and loved Him here on earth, may cluster around His …

A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry

John 6:29

… the perfection of the stature of Christ is all within the babe in Grace who cries, "Lord, I believe. Help You my unbelief." I can well understand why …

The Blood-Shedding

… This is the grand truth of Christianity, and it is a truth which I will endeavour now to fix upon your memory; and may God by his grace …

Israel in Egypt

Revelation 15:3

… God forbid, my friends! “All the chosen race Shall meet around the throne, Shall bless the conduct of his grace, And make his glories known.” Part of the …

The Loaded Wagon

… Such as I have I give you; oh that God would give you with it the power, the grace to believe on Jesus at once. V. For if …

Lecture 2: On Commenting

… Classics and mathematics may exhaust us, but not the volume of our Father's grace, the charter of our joys, the treasure of our wealth. A man to …

The Fainting Soul Revived

Jonah 2:7

… Oh! that you had grace to come back by gentler means before these terrible actions are tried! So, then, Jonah did not think of God all this time …

A Typical Week’s Work (Continued)

… Spurgeon was at the lecture-hall in time to give out the "grace before tea." His presence was greatly prized by the earnest and energetic sisters who carried …

Plenteous Redemption

Psalm 103:7

… You will most certainly be brought safely home, by Jesu’s grace. Are you seeking Christ? Or rather, do you know yourselves to be sinners? If you do …

How To Keep the Heart

Philippians 4:7

… conscience bears witness with me, that I am a partaker of the precious grace of salvation, then happy am I! I am one of those to whom God …

The Evil and Its Remedy

Ezekiel 9:9

… so? I know thee who thou art; it is because as yet the grace of God has never touched thy soul that therefore thou sayest this. And here …

The Shulamite'S Choice Prayer

Solomon 8:6

… What crime on crime—what transgression on transgression have we been guilty of! Yet He has never failed us up to this moment. "By the grace of God …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… For God's election never pleases man until, through grace, his own heart has become an adoring receiver of that mercy which while in his natural state he …

The War of Truth

Exodus 17:9

… Oh! soldiers of Christ! take your swords from your scabbards! stand up for God and for his truth again, lest a free grace gospel should be forgotten. Let …

A Home for the Fatherless

… join with deacons and elders in leading the assembly to the throne of grace, and to plead with God about the matter. While that mighty man of prayer …

Omniscience

Genesis 16:13

… an hour; hard thoughts of God at such a period; rejection of his grace on such a day; stiflings of conscience at another time;” and so on to …

Our Expectation

Isaiah 53:10

… of souls, with eyes that never miss a single new-born lamb of Grace—what a mercy to have such a Shepherd to look after the whole flock …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… See the bounties of his providence; behold the plenitude of his grace! Wilt thou not love Jehovah, because he is Jehovah? But thou art most of all bound …

John Ploughman's Talk

… They have bottled up the sea of truth, and ON RELIGIOUS GRUMBLERS, 25 carry it in their waistcoat pockets; they have measured heaven's line of grace, and …

Faith Illustrated

… Almighty grace leads him to see that he is working in a wrong direction, that his toil is lost, that as well might Sisyphus seek to roll his …

Brief, Silent Prayer

Nehemiah 2:4

… others, "Am I not a lucky fellow?" but say, "Lord, give me more Grace and more gratitude, now that You do multiply Your favors." When you have got …

The Bed and Its Covering

Isaiah 28:20

… to preach against those who preach not the doctrine of free, sovereign, distinguishing grace. High doctrine will never cover you. It will only cover you head; it is …

Christ—Our Substitute

2 Corinthians 5:21

… We are content to remain among the vulgar souls who believe the old doctrines of grace. We are wolling still to be behind in the great march of …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878

… invites sinners, and therefore you mean to go in to the feast of grace, whoever may oppose. Stand to it that you will enter; and, as surely as …

Christ Triumphant

Colossians 2:15

… Our only question, and with that we conclude, is, have we a good hope through grace that we shall march in that tremendous procession? Shall we pass under …

Regeneration

John 3:3

… here.” I address myself moreover to the saints in heaven, redeemed by sovereign grace: “Children of God, are ye willing that the wicked should enter heaven as they …

The Heavan of Heavan

Revelation 22:4

… He suffered could not take away from that marred visage its majesty of Grace and holiness, nor withdraw from it one whit of that mental, moral and spiritual …

Lecture II: Anecdotes From The Pulpit.

… THE TWO CHAPLAINS.--You cannot do without the grace of God when you come to die. There was a nobleman that kept a deistical chaplain and his lady …

The Only Road

John 14:6

… otherwise we cannot come to the Father for the Glory entrance or the Grace entrance. It is because Christ is the life that we are able to come …

The Exaltation of Christ

Philippians 2:9-11

… bend the knees of men! Make us all the willing subjects of thy grace, lest afterward, we should be the unwilling slaves of thy terror; dragged with chains …