Holiness

Not Boasting, But Trusting

Ephesians 2:9

… pure in all their tastes, holy in all their thoughts and above suspicion in all their lives? Oh, no! God's holiness is something more grand, more sublime …

The Sweetness of God's Word

Psalm 119:103

… as a holiness which is worked in us by God the Holy Spirit and as a holiness of mind and thought and action—a personal holiness which is …

Knowledge Commended

Daniel 11:32

… Forget not the Holy Spirit—endeavor to get as clear a view as you can of His Nature and Character, His attributes and His works. Behold that Spirit …

Why Are We Saved By Faith?

… the parent and the nurse of every holy feeling and act. Love to God is obedience, love to God is holiness. To love God and to love man …

Two Pauls and a Blinded Sorcerer

Acts 13:12

… Nothing ever produces holiness but faith in the Holy Savior. And it is as wonderful as it is true, that while the Gospel bids the sinner come to …

Psalm 81

Psalm 81

… Christian countries would holy hymns be thought suitable to be sung in connection with the winepress. When the bells upon the horses shall be holiness unto the Lord …

"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"

Matthew 27:46

… feel our true condition! His perfect holiness made it to our Lord a dreadful calamity to be forsaken of the thrice holy God. I remember, also, that our …

The Saints Blessing The Lord

Psalm 103:1

… I would like to dwell upon those emphatic words in his exhortation—"His holy name." Only a holy man can delight in holy things. Holiness is the terror …

The Serpent's Sentence

Genesis 3:14

… blood? What is salvation but being created anew unto holiness? It is a noteworthy fact that, in Holy Scripture there are three third chapters which deal with these …

The Spies

Numbers 13:32

… They never think of looking at the virtues of holy men; all the courage of martyrs and all the fidelity of confessors, and all the holiness of saints …

The Rule of the Race

Hebrews 12:1

… the Holy Spirit? The race which is set before us most clearly reveals our helplessness and our hopelessness apart from Divine Grace. The race of holiness and patience …

Perseverance Without Presumption

John 10:28

… The man who truly believes begins a life of holiness, and from that life of holiness he will never utterly depart. I grant you he may be overtaken …

Pleading and Encouragement

Ezekiel 18:23

… I am glad to see the Holy Spirit overturning, throwing down, digging out the foundations, and making you like cleared ground, that he may build upon you temples …

Eternal Life Within Present Grasp

1 Timothy 6:12

… is exercised in holy acts. From day to day we lay hold on eternal life by exercising ourselves unto godliness in deeds of holiness and loving kindness. Let …

'His Great Love'

Ephesians 2:4

… His holiness, His wholeness, the entire, perfect Character of God. O saints below, sing as they do in Heaven, for their song is "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God …

How They Conquered the Dragon

Revelation 12:11

… The glorious cause of holiness and God, incarnated in the church, is clothed with the splendor of light, and truth, and majesty. We will not stay to explain …

Prayer for the Church

Daniel 9:17

… holy place. We do, very incorrectly, speak of places as being consecrated to Divine worship, but it is utterly impossible that there should be any more holiness in …

The Watchword For Today—"Stand Fast"

Philippians 3:20

… When he saw holiness in them, he desired to visit them and commune with them. Their constant kindness created in him a strong desire to speak with them …

The Coming Resurrection

John 5:28

… He that is holy is holy, still, and he that is filthy is filthy, still. They were, when they were put into the grave, men who had done …

Saved In Hope

Romans 8:24

… Purity is peace—holiness is happiness! He who is holy as God is holy will, in consequence, be happy as God is happy! This is one main object …

Prayer 22 — The Presence of God

… May the Proverbs often furnish us with wisdom, the Psalms furnish us with comfort, the Gospels teach us the way of holiness, and the Epistles instruct us in …

The Ploughman

… Holy Spirit breaks up the heart with the plough of the law, and sows it with the seed of the gospel, not a single ear of holiness will …

"Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!"

Song 6:13

… What will ye see in Solyma? As it were the company of two armies." May the Holy Spirit, like a dove, rest upon us while we linger amid …

Bit and Bridle—How To Escape Them

Psalm 32:8

… You know but little of Divine things—you know little of yourself, little of your danger, little of holiness and little of God—but the Lord promises, here …

The Looking Glass

James 1:23-25

… May the Holy Spirit help us to see these clearly! I. First, then, here is LOOKING INTO A GLASS. Looking into a glass is a trivial business. In …

Concentration and Diffusion

John 12:3

… Like Dorcas, they make garments for them, or like holy women of old, they minister to the Lord of their substance. Their work is with temporal'things, but …

A Sincere Summary—and a Searching Scrutiny

Psalm 119:168

… Oh, how often have men who have been struggling after holiness had to use these words of the Apostle! The more holy they are, the more they realize …

The Leading of the Spirit, The Secret Token of the Sons of God

Romans 8:14

… I shall not attempt to define what holiness is. That is best seen in the lives of holy men. Can it be seen in your lives? Beloved, if …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… Sin is akin to presumptuous boldness, but holiness is sister to holy fear. "And to be had in reverence of all them that are about him." The nearer …

Bands Of Love

Hosea 11:4

… Virtue and holiness become to God's people a delight—they take pleasure in it—sin is hateful, but holiness is lovely to them. As it will be …

The Holy Spirit—the Need of the Age

Micah 2:7

… Do not limit the Holy One of Israel, nor conceive of the Holy Spirit as bound and checked by the difficulties which crop up in fallen human nature …

The Ministry Of Gratitude

Luke 4:39

… is proved by the holiness of the man's outward character. Beside this, while the sinner is disinclined to everything that is holy, we know that he especially …

What We Would Be*

… If we would be fathers,  we must aim at a high degree of holiness.  The query is often proposed,—Is it possible for believers to be perfectly holy …

A Luther Sermon at the Tabernacle

Habakkuk 2:4

… of sins and all sorts of benedictions in these holy shrines. He dreamed of entering a city of holiness, but he found it to be a haunt of …

The Fear of Final Falling

… Oh, that God, the Holy Spirit, may give us a very clear idea of where the strength must come from by which we shall be preserved until the …

Question 10: How did God create man?

Ge 1:27; Col 3:10; Eph 4:24; Ge 1:28

… How did God create man? A God created man, male and female, after his own image, # Ge 1:27 in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness # Col 3:10 Eph …

The Work of Grace the Warrant for Obedience

John 5:11

… devout, that is holy, that is living unto God, that does good in its neighborhood, that, by the lives of its members, spreads holiness and righteousness—in a …

The Warrant of Faith

1 John 3:23

… and to be married to so bright a Saviour, that I would fain hope the Holy Spirit has led thee to cry, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine …

Question 72: How is the Word made effectual to salvation?

Ps 19:7; 1Th 1:6; Ro 1:16

… convicting and converting sinners, # Ps 19:7 and of building them up in holiness and comfort, # 1Th 1:6 through faith to salvation. # Ro 1:16 Topic No …

Hatred Without Cause

John 15:25

… There was nothing that could blot the picture; holiness stood out to the very life; there was holiness—only holiness. Let a man hate Whitfield, one of the …