Heaven

From Twenty-five to Thirty-five

Matthew 20:3

… He can effect His eternal purposes without our help and He can as easily effect them even if we choose to resist Him. He is infinitely greater than …

David's Holy Wonder at The Lord's Great Goodness

Psalm 31:19

… Now think, Christian, of what God has laid up for them that fear Him! First, how much He laid up in His eternal purpose when He chose His …

The Marvelous Magnet

John 12:32

… Never forget this! He is the eternal God, but bind with that Truth of God the fact that He was nailed to a Roman cross. It is on …

Noah's Flood

Matthew 24:39

… a day of Divine Grace to light you to Heaven! For remember it will not last forever. May eternal love save any of us from perishing in devouring …

A Song, A solace, A Sermon and a Summons

Psalm 136:1

… At the fatal portal of Eden when they were first driven forth into the world in judgment, the sweet promise came like the breath of Heaven upon them …

The Rough Hewer

Hosea 6:4

… Depression of spirit followed upon weakness of body and suddenly the curtain seemed to lift and the man was compelled to look into the eternal future—black and …

Gathering to the Center

Mark 1:45

… The kingdom of Heaven is like unto a net which men cast into the sea and it gathers fish of every kind. There is a day coming in …

Twelve Covenant Mercies

Isaiah 55:3

… A Covenant which will land everyone who is interested in it in Heaven! No other Covenant will ever do this. I tried to expatiate upon that Covenant this …

A Feast for the Upright

Psalm 84:11

… Is God omnipresent? Is God immutable? Is God eternal? Is God infinite? He is ours in all those respects! The Lord God is a sun and shield and …

The Royal Pair in Their Glorious Chariot

Song 3:6-11

… They love Jesus; and love in the esteem of heaven is better than frankincense. Loving Christ they endeavor to be like him, till patience, humility, brotherly-kindness, truthfulness …

Lessons From Lydia'S Conversion

Acts 16:13

… But this I know—God will shake Heaven and earth sooner than suffer one elect soul to miss the predestined moment. When the eternal counsel runs—"On such …

Magdalene at the Sepulcher—an Instructive Scene

John 20:10-16

… A longing soul would break through angels and through devils, through Heaven and through earth to reach Jesus. We must have Him. We must behold the Well-Beloved …

The Two Appearings and the Discipline of Grace

Titus 2:11-14

… But soon an angelic messenger reminded them of prophecy and promise by saying, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into Heaven? This same Jesus …

Sorrow at the Cross Turned into Joy

John 16:20-22

… Whom had they in Heaven if Jesus were gone? Certainly there was none upon earth that they could desire beside Him. They were widowed and they wept and …

Pleading With the Indifferent

Lamentations 1:12

… He was the eye of Heaven, the very sun and star of the bright world! It was the seraph's bliss to do Him homage. King of kings …

Untrodden Ways

Joshua 3:4

… Suppose they should conquer the men of Jericho—the whole land was full of cities equally strong, "walled up to Heaven" they said, and therefore, apparently impregnable. Their …

Jesus About His Father’s Business

John 4:34

… Salvation-work is called the Father’s will. “It is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish …

A Blessed Gospel Chain

John 14:23

… Jesus says, "If any man loves Me." Have you realized Christ, personally, as still alive, gone into Heaven and soon to come again in all the glory of …

The Spirit's Work in the New Creation

Genesis 1:2

… you are ignorant of eternal life—ignorant of the one thing necessary to deliver you from Hell and lift you up to Heaven! Have you ever experienced within …

All At It

Acts 8:4

… And we should regard ourselves as such. "You are a royal priesthood." "He has made us unto our God kings and priests." As in Heaven there is no …

Christ—Our Substitute

2 Corinthians 5:21

… He prays, but heaven shuts out his prayer; he cries for water, but heaven and earth refuse to wet his lips except with vinegar. He turns his eye …

The Great Change.—Conversion

… As the days of Heaven upon earth, as the years of immortality, as the ages of glory, as the bliss of Heaven, so were the hours of that …

Broad Rivers And Streams

Isaiah 33:20-23

… Not a stone will be left unturned to blot out the remembrance of Christ's kingdom from under Heaven. But rejoice! Even if the dark day should come …

The Sure Triumph Of The Crucified One

Isaiah 52:13-15

… The blood of Jesus Christ will not miss of its foreseen result in reference to any individual under Heaven—and no end that was designed in the eternal …

Our Magnificent Savior

Isaiah 53:11

… While that crime is upon you, you must suffer for it," and— "Heaven's Eternal Darling bleeds." Because sin was laid on Him and the Father would not …

Thrice Happy Day!

Haggai 2:19

… My God, were there a choice between Your blessing and Heaven, I would sooner choose Your blessing and be out of Heaven, than be in Heaven, if such …

Epilogue — The Golden Key of Prayer

… You are not content to go to hell, you want heaven. You want washing in the precious blood. You want eternal life. Dear friends, I pray you take …

John Mark—or, Haste in Religion

Mark 14:50-52

… Is not this Satan's great net in which men, like the silly fishes of the deep, are taken to their eternal destruction? O you dove, pursued by …

"Is the Spirit of the Lord Straitened?"

Micah 2:7

… We never personally go a step towards Heaven and we never lead another one inch in the way apart from the Holy Spirit! We must have the Holy …

Psalm 117

Psalm 117

… who know and serve God the Saviour, eternal life and blessedness are brought, assured in this life, and prepared in heaven. Mollerus. Whole Psalm. This Psalm, the shortest …

Foundation Work

1 Kings 5:17

… And today all things are worked according to the purpose of His eternal will. The foundation of redemption was securely laid in the Covenant of Grace, of which …

Intercession and Supplication

Jeremiah 14:22

… other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved." It is Christ or nothing! It is faith in Christ or eternal destruction! It is laying …

Good News for the Destitute

Psalm 102:17

… Once he was so strong that he used to think if Heaven were to be merited by good works he could do it, or, if not, if eternal …

Rest, Rest

Matthew 11:28-30

… Had not the Saviour said a little before, “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and …

Jesus No Phantom

Matthew 14:26

… For to know Him is life eternal. But an equally and probably a more common error is to make a phantom of Christ. More or less we have …

Psalm 72

Psalm 72

… Where Jesus is there is peace, lasting, deep, eternal. Even those things which were once our dread, lose all terror when Jesus is owned as monarch of the …

The Tabernacle—Outside The Camp

Exodus 33:7

… Your conversation must be in Heaven; your motive must be derived from Heaven, and your life must be, not in profession, but in reality, "a life of faith …

A Strange Yet Gracious Choice

Psalm 135:4

… God never acts unreasonably, yet He does not find His reasons for acting in men, but within Himself, in the heart of His compassion, in the eternal counsels …

Saying Versus Doing

Matthew 21:28-30

… While the preacher has been setting before them life and death, eternal joy and everlasting misery and has been entreating the Holy Spirit to decide them for Christ …

The Saint'S Horror At The Sinner'S Hell

… Our mortality is immortal, till the Eternal wills its death. "Return, you children of men" can be spoken by none but our heavenly Father, and when He gives …