Heaven

Travailing for Souls

Isaiah 66:8

… Doubtless, many a heart-rending appeal was made to heaven by mothers when their babes were torn from their breasts to be cast into the river. With what …

Learning in Private What to Teach in Public

Matthew 10:27

… We do not want to go to Heaven alone—we are most anxious to lead others to the Savior! I remember a very remarkable telegram which was sent …

Psalm 7

Psalm 7

… he could, therefore, with a clear conscience, make his appeal to heaven. He needs not fear the curse whose soul is clear of guilt. Yet is the imprecation …

The Ever-present Crisis

2 Peter 3:17

… You do not understand the infinite leisure of the Eternal One. The wondrous system of Divine Grace seems to have hardly room and scope enough in the few …

A Home for the Fatherless

… We trusted in God, and the house was built, to the eternal honour of Him who hears and answers prayer. And, mark you, it will be so in …

The Trees in God's Courts

Psalm 92:13-15

… I must take away some of his worldly goods that he may take more account of his treasures laid up in Heaven and set his heart more on …

Faith's Ultimatum

Job 13:15

… The lamp of the moon will grow dim in ages yet to come, but neither time nor age shall quench a solitary spark of Heaven-born Grace and …

Effectual Calling

Luke 19:5

… his house; Zaccheus becomes Christ’s follower, and enters into the kingdom of heaven. 1. Now, first, effectual calling is a very gracious truth. You may guess this …

A Sharp Knife for the Vine Branches

John 15:2

… It is the fruit the blessed feed upon in Heaven—peace with God, peace of conscience, peace with one's fellow men—"the peace of God which passes …

Pleading For Prayer

Romans 15:30-33

… continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word." This would be Heaven to me! But notice that at least half, and the first half of their …

Psalm 83

Psalm 83

… Up the hill sides the hanging woods glow like a great sacrifice, and the forests on the mountain's crown smoke towards heaven. Even thus, O Lord, do …

Psalm 143

Psalm 143

… His hands are outstretched to heaven, but at his girdle hangs a sharp sword, which rattles in its scabbard as he closes his psalm. DIVISION. This psalm is …

The Nobleman's Faith

John 4:46-53

… If you cannot come to Him for an eternal blessing, you may come to Him for a passing favor and He is ready to hear you. Though your …

Memorable Services away from Waterbeach

… deal more sheepish than the first.” The converts, who found the road to Heaven under his preaching, were so many that, when we remember them, we are like …

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

… The uncreated cannot create. “Nay,” but you say, “that man can create.” Yes, can hell create heaven? Then sin may create grace. What! will you tell me that …

Little Sins

Genesis 19:20

… But if the straight road to heaven be through flames, through floods, through death itself, they had sooner go through all these torments than turn one inch aside …

A Searching Test

Titus 1:15

… who are now depending for eternal life upon having gone to the "Sacrament of the Mass," and are expecting to enter Heaven because they have reposed their confidence …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878 (Continued)

… He would need neither cash nor clothes; and he could come down from Heaven every Sunday morning, and go back at night, so I advise you to invite …

Elijah’s Appeal to the Undecided

1 Kings 18:21

… you are afraid to do wrong, and yet you have no hope of heaven; you have the duties of religion without the joys; you have to do just …

On Conversion as Our Aim

… while supplication ascends to heaven with the force of united importunity; thus sinners are encompassed with a cordon of earnest entreaties, and heaven itself is called into the …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… And I heard a voice from Heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder : and I heard the voice of harpers …

Illustrations in Preaching

… If some of your hearers sleep on they will of necessity wake up in eternal perdition, for they hear no other helpful voice. While we thus commend illustrations …

An Urgent Necessity

Hosea 10:12

… Every drop of Grace comes from Heaven. You, Sinner, can never get any Grace unless He gives it you! Remember this, and wait upon Him for it now …

The New Heart

Ezekiel 36:26

… he hath bound them fast in the fetters of destiny, to abide in eternal torment. But wonder, ye heavens, the God who destroyed the angels stoops from his …

Jesus in Gethsemane

John 18:1

… If there are any who are only nominally in Christ and who, therefore, bear no fruit, their doom is certain, for, in order to final perseverance and eternal …

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… 16); “Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me” (John v. 39); “and take the helmet …

A Painful and Puzzling Question

Mark 4:40

… How is it that you have nothing to help you to die? It is faith which conducts the Christian into Heaven. We sing of "the realms of the …

Accomplices in Sin

1 Timothy 5:22

… Our children are our greatest care, A charge which You have given— In all Your Graces let them share, And all the joys of Heaven. If a centurion …

On the Choice of a Text

… ambassador fresh from the court of heaven. “Wait, I say, on the Lord.” _________________ 1 “A moment’s reflection upon the eternal consequences that may issue from the preaching …

Christ Loosens From Infirmities

Luke 13:11-13

… Oh, that the same miracle might be worked in them as in her! She typifies persons who are depressed in spirit, who cannot look up to Heaven and …

Salvation by Faith and the Work of the Spirit

Galatians 5:5

… If I ever get to Heaven it will be in no measure because I deserve to be there, but because God willed that I should enter Glory by …

Enquirers and Converts (Continued)

… Nor did his peace of mind subside ; for, until the Lord gave him a happy admission into eternal rest, he remained a vigorous believer, trusting and not being …

Psalm 130

Psalm 130

… For devotion is a fire that puts a heat into out' crying, and carries it up into coelum empyroeum —the heaven of fire, where God himself is. And …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… Thus the singers imprecate eternal silence upon their mouths if they forget Jerusalem to gratify Babylon. The players on instruments and the sweet songsters are of one mind …

Satan, Self, Sin and the Savior

Mark 5:9

… We generally have some in these seats who are anxious about their eternal safety, but who fear that they never can be saved—their sins are too many …

Search the Scriptures

Isaiah 8:20

… Seek ye in the word of God, and read, Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and these are they that testify of …

The Good Shepherd

Psalm 23:1

… Sometimes you have been brought into such straits that if it had not been for an interposition of Heaven, itself, you never could have had deliverance! You have …

The Lord's Famous Titles

Psalm 146:7-9

… Blessed be His name! And whenever the blind of the earth fall asleep in Jesus and enter into Heaven, they shall have no blindness in Glory. There, their …

The Call of 'Today'

Hebrews 3:7

… To resolve and re-resolve, and then to die—the same is the melancholy history of thousands of hearers who bid fair for Heaven a thousand times and …

Redeeming the Unclean

Exodus 13:13

… it not that the Mediator comes between—otherwise the Immaculate Perfection of the eternal God could not endure sin to be anywhere within His reach. He would sweep …