Heaven

Burden-bearing

Galatians 6:2

… You cannot get to Heaven by your mother's godliness, or by your father's graciousness—there must be a work of Grace in your own souls. No …

Shoes of Iron, and Strength Sufficient: A New Year's Promise

Deuteronomy 33:24-25

… Be as near heaven as is possible for those who dwell on earth. Have you not the shoes to climb with? Wherefore tarry down below? I will not …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… The Psalm opens with a prayer, Ps 38:1; continues in a long complaint, Ps 38:2-8; pauses to dart an eye to heaven, Ps 38:9 …

The Lowly King

Zechariah 9:9

… wondrous stoop; yet it would be nothing compared with the condescension of the eternal God in bowing from his lofty throne to redeem and sanctify the sons of …

To the Saddest of the Sad

Exodus 6:9

… He will sanctify you and cleanse you, and he will bring you to heaven, even you who have lien among the pots and have been defiled in the …

Man's Extremity, God's Opportunity

Deuteronomy 32:36

… But may God make it to us as the dew and the small rain from Heaven, that it may be a savor of life unto life! 3-5 …

The Choice Of A Leader

Luke 6:39

… He, with his eyes open, follows the All-Seeing One and, with his mind illuminated, becomes a disciple of the Eternal Light! It is clear that the most …

Unbinding Lazarus

John 11:43

… Out of the foolishness of preaching the wisdom of God shines forth! The Glory of the eternal God is seen in that Gospel which we preach in much …

The Curse and the Curse for Us

Galatians 3:10-14

… Remember the hour when the concentrated essence of darkness and of eternal night gathered about His blessed Person while He hung exposed to death upon the tree. Darkness …

The Two Debtors

Luke 7:41

… I know that if I am ever to enter Heaven, I must be holy. And I also know that holiness must be worked in me by Your Holy …

The Prayer of Jabez

… Better go to heaven, halt and maimed, than go marching on in confidence down to hell. “Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed!” My God, I will envy …

Obadiah; or, Early Piety Eminent Piety

1 Kings 18:12

… Elijah flashed over the sky of Israel like a thunderbolt from the hand of the Eternal, and naturally he would be somewhat impatient of those whose movements were …

Forgetting God

Hosea 13:6

… far, so good—but he may fall into the sin of making a Heaven of that house and garden—and so they will be the cause of sin …

Joseph of Arimathaea

Mark 15:43-46

… Albeit wealth is a great talent which may be well used by the man who has entered into the Kingdom of Heaven, yet it brings with it snares …

The Bliss of the Glorified

Revelation 7:16

… Does it not make your mouth water? Why this is the luxury of heaven to be perfect. Is not this—the heaven of heaven, to be clean rid …

Psalm 127

Psalm 127

… I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before …

Girded for the Work

1 Peter 1:13

… And then, to help you carry out this resolution, sit down and meditate much upon the love of God to you—the eternal love, the boundless love, the …

A Simple Remedy

Isaiah 53:5

… An eternal cure we have, for never man was healed by Christ and then relapsed and died. "With His stripes we are healed"—by nothing else—by no …

Sin Condemned And Executed By Christ Jesus

Romans 8:3

… In after years the Lord opened all the batteries of Heaven against sin in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Terrible was that hail of fire and sleet …

Seeing God's Goodness Here

Psalm 27:13

… Happy is the man who has a tender conscience—whose heart is like the waves of the sea which are easily moved by the breath of Heaven—so …

Blessed Promises For Dying Outcasts

Jeremiah 30:17

… Let his hunger be of another sort; let his heart hanker after unsearchable riches; let his soul pine for eternal love and then his are views of things …

Jesus Sitting on the Well

John 4:6

… Now, you who toil, think of Him who is the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the Prince of the kings of the ear-th—and for your comfort read …

Meeting in the Unfinished Tabernacle

… Calvin's fame is eternal because of the truth he proclaimed ; and even in Heaven, although we shall lose the name of the system of doctrine which he …

Heedlessness In Religion

2 Kings 10:31

… Hear the words of Paul: "If the righteous are scarcely saved." "For strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leads unto life eternal." Now, if …

Christ Set Forth As A Propitiation

Romans 3:25

… He is the manna in the golden pot which was always the same, but He is the manna which came from Heaven which was every morning new. He …

Mistaken Notions About Repentance

Ezekiel 36:31

… I suppose that the truest repentance is that of a man who is just entering Heaven. Therefore, the repentance which saves is not absolutely perfect or fully developed …

How God Comes to Man

Genesis 3:8

… Where are you?" May God the Holy Spirit convince every unconverted person here that he or she is lost—not only lost to themselves, to Heaven, to holiness …

Joy And Peace In Believing

Romans 15:13

… We believe that if He undertakes to save, Heaven and earth may pass away but He will do what He has promised. Now we think this is a …

A Message to the Glad and the Sad

Job 22:29

… Will you not repay it by speaking comfort to some of the sorrowing ones? Many of you owe your hope of Heaven to the preaching of the Word …

The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit

Proverbs 18:14

… leg? My sin is forgiven me and I am on my way to Heaven—what does anythingelse'matter? Have you not sometimes felt that if you had to …

Heaven and Hell

Matthew 8:11-12

… I have told you of heaven and hell; what is the way, then, to escape from hell and to be found in heaven? I will not tell you …

Household Sin and Sorrow

… therefore God give you of the dew of Heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Letpeople serve you, and nations bow down …

Barriers Obliterated

Isaiah 44:22

… You begin to have thoughts of judgment and of eternal wrath and destruction from the Presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. You know …

The Bond of the Covenant

Ezekiel 20:34-38

… This is what the Covenant has done for us—it has made us so one with Christ and in Christ; so one with the eternal Father, that it …

Self Low, But Christ High

Matthew 8:8

… If we speak about the Sovereign choice of some unto eternal life, they begin chattering about injustice and partiality—as if any guilty man had a right to …

God, the Children's Teacher

Psalm 71:17

… whole world, and lose your own soul, all the gain would be an eternal loss! The next lesson that God taught David was to value the world aright …

Shaved and Shorn, But Not Beyond Hope

Judges 16:22

… Eternal life may sleep, may faint—but it cannot utterly die—otherwise, how were it eternal life? The hair, though closely shaved, will grow again. I will show …

Heavenly Worship

Revelation 14:1-3

… The choristers of heaven have all had rehearsals upon earth, before they sing in that orchestra. You think that, die when you may, you will go to heaven …

A Prayer for the Church Militant

Psalm 28:9

… The old proverb is, "He that would go to Heaven alone, shall never go there at all." And he who never has any melting of his heart towards …

God Forgiving Sin

Isaiah 55:7-9

… God's thoughts about a new Heaven and a new earth—how far above ours! The book of Revelation, which gives us parts of God's thought about …