Grace

Psalm 102

Psalm 102

… and spiritually this deed of grace is accomplished by sovereign grace, which delivers us by pardon from the sentence of sin, and by the sweetness of the promise …

How May Faith Be Illustrated?

… Take, O friend, that which grace has provided for thee. You will not be a thief, for you have a divine permit: "Whosoever will, let him take the …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… Jesus Christ himself is a stumbling-block to some, and the doctrines of grace have been the occasion of offence to many. Grace alone can hold up our …

The Uses of the Law

Galatians 3:19

… He declares that God made a covenant of grace with Abraham long before the law was given on Mount Sinai; that Abraham was not present at Mount Sinai …

Good Cause for Great Zeal

Ezra 4:14

… And yet, great God, the treasures of Your Grace have been everlasting mines, deep as our helpless miseries were, and boundless as our sins. Why, sometimes we have …

A Bad King's Good Son

1 Kings 14:13

… And yet, in households of such wretches as Tiberius and Nero, there were found true and eminent saints of God! Grace sometime finds its choicest jewels on the …

The Centurion—Or An Exhortation To The Virtuous

Luke 7:4-9

… Let no man, wherever he may be thrown—though he is surrounded by those who tempt him—despair, especially if the Grace of God is in him. Let …

The Faithful Olive Tree

Judges 9:8

… Many, to obtain a higher wage, have left holy companionships and sacred opportunities for hearing the Word of God and growing in Grace. They have lost their Sabbaths …

A Precious Drop Of Honey

Isaiah 49:16

… Understand it so, and may each one of you, even though you are numbered among the little in Israel, have Divine Grace to draw forth marrow and fatness …

The Glory, Unity and Triumph of the Church

John 17:22-3

… Let us not be discouraged, for by Grace we are on the way and we will not rest till we reach the goal! O for Grace so to …

Secret Sins

Psalm 19:12

… Look it in the face; confess it before God, and may he give thee grace to remove that sin and every other, and turn to him with full …

Seeking the Souls of Men

… I have the heart-ache for them ; but, by God's grace, and your kind and generous help in looking after one another, I hope we shall all …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot Do

Mark 4:26-29

… Our subject on this occasion will mainly be the measure and limit of human instrumentality in the Kingdom of Grace. If we shall be taught of the Spirit …

Self-Humbling and Self-Searching

Solomon 1:6

… And I do believe that there are persons without the grace of Christ in their hearts who keep on talking about grace, and mercy, and practicing prayer, and …

The Relationship of Marriage

Jeremiah 3:14

… is Divine Grace that He should be married to any of us! But it is Grace at its highest pitch—it is the ocean of Grace at its …

A Savior Such As You Need

Hebrews 10:15-18

… I must not tarry, but conduct you at once to the text—IT IS THIS WHICH CONSTITUTES THE GLORY AND SUPERIORITY OF THE NEW COVENANT OF GRACE—NAMELY …

The Security of the Church

Psalm 125:2

… So-and-so, because he will contradict all this, and tell you that you are saved by grace, and that it is not of yourself but it is …

Thanksgiving And Prayer

Psalm 65:11

… Happy, happy are the people who worship such a God, whose coming is ever a coming of goodness and of Divine Grace to His creatures! We see, then …

Psalm 124

Psalm 124

… What a wonder of grace it is! What a miraculous escape that we who are so easily misled should not have been permitted to die by the dread …

The Joint Heirs and Their Divine Portion

Romans 8:17

… Is he full of love and grace? Then all thy love, as though there were not another to be loved, is mine, O God, and all thy grace …

Circumcision and Uncircumcision

Galatians 5:6

… But when faith comes, it quickens them and makes them live—it transforms them into blessed means of Grace and then God, in them, communes with the soul …

A Painful and Puzzling Question

Mark 4:40

… His text was, "The God of all Grace," and he said that God would give His people all Grace, "but," he said, at the close of each point …

Psalm 105

Psalm 105

… Talk ye of his wondrous works in creation and in grace, in judgment and in mercy, in providential interpositions and in spiritual comforting; leave out none, or it …

The Vital Force

Hebrews 10:38

… He lives—how? What is the Divine Grace which, as it were, magnetizes his entire system? What is that sacred conductor which brings down life from Him in …

The Faculty Baffled, The Great Physician Successful

Mark 5:25-28

… Under his treatment men are taught that pain and virtue are much alike—that starvation is a means of grace, dirt is devotion— and horsehair next to the …

Sincere Seekers—assured Finders

1 Chronicles 28:9

… Understand that you cannot save yourself—that you have no right to be saved—that if saved, it will be by His Sovereign Grace—therefore, cry humbly, but …

Black Clouds and Bright Blessings

Ecclesiastes 11:3

… In one part of the Church, God's Grace descends in a flood, while another part remains as dry and arid as the wilderness, itself. Even under the …

Our Leader Through the Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… All unhap-piness in the old Christian is not good evidence of Grace—by no means would such an assertion stand! And yet, if we sigh and cry …

Good Cheer From Christ's Call and From Himself

Mark 10:46-52

… You must not be comforted till He comforts you by working a miracle of Grace. I fear we pamper you too much in unbelief, applying balm that does …

Pride Catechized

Job 34:33

… new life, under a new Master, serving from a new motive because the Grace of God has renewed our spirit! "Should it be according to your mind?" No …

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

… O, therefore, thou the Great Shepherd of my soul, as thou art pleased of thy grace to lead me into them, so vouchsafe with thy grace to lead …

Psalm 133

Psalm 133

… Holy concord is as dew, mysteriously blessed, full of life and growth for all plants of grace. It brings with it so much benediction that it is as …

The Victory of Faith

1 John 5:4

… it says, “This is the victory.” Secondly, it mentions a great birth: “Whatsoever is born of God.” And, thirdly, it extols a great grace, whereby we overcome the …

A Gospel Promise

Ezekiel 36:27

… Where the Grace of God has created love between us and Christ, there is a window through which Christ can manifest Himself to us. Why He gave us …

A Promise and Precedent

John 16:14

… Im a miracle of Grace." Oh, for such a sight of Christ as that, for thus Jesus is glorified and we are truly blessed! II. Now secondly, I …

Later Literary Works

… may we not hope that, by the Holy Spirit’s grace, as the reader turns ‘morning by morning’ to our simple page, he will hear in it ‘a …

Hiding Among the Stuff

1 Samuel 10:22-23

… From this, if it really is so, we may learn that without the Grace of God the fairest life may yet become foul'and, however beautifully a young …

The Preacher’s Power, and the Conditions of Obtaining It

… Brethren, we shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the …

Members Of Christ

Ephesians 5:30

… Men who are quickened by Divine Grace and made alive unto God. Of them, he says, not by way of romance, nor of poetical exaggeration, but as an …

Jesus Only

Matthew 17:8

… After all the gospel preaching that there has been in the world, and the declaration of the precious doctrines of grace every Sabbath day; after the clear revelations …