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Sanctification, holy living, obedience, and growth in grace
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Believers Sent by Christ, As Christ Is Sent By the Father
John 17:18
… First comes the petition—"Holy Father, keep them." You cannot serve God unless He preserves you. You will never keep the Lord's flock unless He first shepherds …
SERMON • SERMON 2463Why Men Reject Christ
Luke 9:52
… Tell Him that you desire to be holy, that you wish to be cleansed in His precious blood—this is the kind of readiness which Christ wants! The …
SERMON • SERMON 2441The Lord's Knowledge, Our Safeguard
2 Peter 2:9
… but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. How we rejoice in this fact! We shall never give it up. It is …
SERMON • SERMON 1271Pride Catechized and Condemned
1 Corinthians 4:7
… Such teaching may appear very lustrous with affected holiness, and very fascinating, with pretended spirituality, and there may be much in your fondest desires which inclines your heart …
SERMON • SERMON 883Multitudinous Thoughts And Sacred Comforts
Psalm 94:19
… To these consolations may you be led by the Holy Spirit. For a practical list of them I would refer you to the Psalm which lies open before …
SERMON • SERMON 2609Our Thoughts About God's Thoughts
Psalm 139:17
… There would be no spirit of sonship if the Holy Spirit did not teach us continually to cry, "Abba, Father." Faith and hope and love are plants that …
SERMON • SERMON 355Portraits Of Christ
Romans 8:29
… It must be that unseen spirit, that essential holiness which dwells where only God can see it which shall constitute the main part of our likeness to Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 343A Basket of Summer Fruit
Amos 8:1-2
… Christians are every day ripening by the perfecting energy of the Holy Ghost, without whom they can never advance in the divine life. But the Holy Spirit uses …
SERMON • SERMON 1242Abraham's Prompt Obedience to the Call of God
Hebrews 11:8
… We Christians are to be equally distinct, not in meats, and drinks, and garments, and holy days, but as to spirituality of mind and holiness of life. We …
SERMON • SERMON 623Satan Considering the Saints
Job 1:8
… If you desire to have your own confidence sustained, may God the Holy Ghost lead you into the patience of lob. Oh! how many saints have been comforted …
SERMON • SERMON 587God'S Strange Choice
1 Corinthians 1:26-29
… At any rate, God's government is absolute and though He never violates righteousness, for He is Holiness and Truth itself, yet He regards this jewel of His …
SERMON • SERMON 1040What and Whence Are These?
Revelation 7:13-14
… The same spirit of error leads us into the feeling that those holy men who have attained to felicity must have been something different from ourselves. We set …
SERMON • SERMON 3015The 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 …
SERMON • SERMON 2857God's Goodness Leading to Repentance
Romans 2:4
… Therefore, it is no small mercy to have been started in this world under a roof where the name of Jesus was often heard, where holy things were …
SERMON • SERMON 2050A Paradox
2 Corinthians 12:10
… They have gone entirely over to the denial of everything that is gracious and holy and scriptural, and the main cause of their apostasy is their own invincible …
SERMON • SERMON 3035Enquiring the Way to Zion
Jeremiah 50:5
… Only the Holy Spirit can prove to him that he is not a Christian, though he thinks he is one! And when he is made to realize this …
SERMON • SERMON 3466A Warning to Believers
Colossians 2:18
… Walk with your Savior in the lowly walk of holy confidence, and let not your faith rest in man, but in the smile of God! Let no man …
SERMON • SERMON 1789Joseph of Arimathaea
Mark 15:43-46
… Let us be satisfied to pause where the Holy Spirit stays His pen. I shall use Joseph of Arimathaea, this morning, in four ways. First, as our warning …
SERMON • SERMON 1643Our Lord's Trial before the Sanhedrin
Mark 14:64
… Oh, that the Holy Spirit would so bring the sorrows of our Lord near to each heart, that every one of us may know the fellowship of His …
SERMON • SERMON 554Enduring to the End
Matthew 10:22
… Sprung of ancestors who had loved the Lord and served his Church, he felt the glow of holy enthusiasm. Having proved his capabilities, he entered college, and after …
SERMON • SERMON 2815Good Cheer for Many That Fear
Isaiah 35:4
… Touch the hem of His garment! You may never know exactly how you were first convinced of sin, nor how you were quickened by the Holy Spirit—but …
SERMON • SERMON 1926Love's Complaining
Rev 2:4
… IT WAS the work of the priest to go into the holy place and to trim the seven-branched lamp of gold: see how our Great High Priest …
SERMON • SERMON 1806A Summary of Experience and a Body of Divinity
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
… A father of the church in the first ages was wont to cry, ‘I adore the infinity of Holy Scripture.’ That remark constantly rises from my lips when …
SERMON • SERMON 2651The Christian's Service and Honor
John 12:26
… Even Satan himself was obliged to admit the majesty of holiness, if, as Milton tells us— "Abashed the devil stood, And felt how amazing goodness is." Goodness is …
SERMON • SERMON 1860"Behold, He Prays"
Acts 9:11
… True prayer is a sure evidence of spiritual quickening—the Holy Spirit has put spiritual life into the heart of the man who prays, for prayer is the …
SERMON • SERMON 728Good Cheer for the New Year
Deuteronomy 11:12
… May the Holy Spirit bless us, and we shall, first, take the text as we find it. Secondly, we shall turn the text over. Thirdly, we shall blot …
SERMON • SERMON 1689The General Convocation Around Mount Zion
Hebrews 12:22-24
… It has given us a grand idea of holiness, but it has not offered us a pathway thereto, nor furnished a weary heart with a resting place, nor …
SERMON • SERMON 2254The Two Guards Praying and Watching
Nehemiah 4:9
… Beloved, we have a better Leader than Nehemiah! We have our Lord Jesus Christ, Himself, and we have His Holy Spirit who dwells in us and shall abide …
SERMON • SERMON 1468The Philosophy and Propriety of Abundant Praise
Psalm 145:7
… Hence he uses a variety of expressions and repeats himself in his holy vehemence. Run your eyes down the Psalm and notice such words as these—"I will …
SERMON • SERMON 3340'Take Away the Frogs'
Exodus 8:8
… He who leads an upright, holy, gracious life has a power about him which impresses the beholder—his presence in an ungodly company has an influence on wicked …
SERMON • SERMON 2399"Your First Love"
Jeremiah 2:2
… If there was any repentance, if there was any faith, it was the work of the Holy Spirit! A man remembers his own work and God, the Holy …
SERMON • SERMON 2832Christ's Yoke and Burden
Matthew 11:30
… easy and My burden is light." The way of holiness is an easy way! May God the Holy Spirit graciously guide you to walk in it, for Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 3135A Golden Sentence
John 4:34
… You are called to follow Christ your Lord in all holy labor for souls. "As the Father has sent Me, even so send I you." Is not this …
SERMON • SERMON 1007North and South
Isaiah 43:6
… Entailed on Abraham’s seed by a covenant of salt, the Holy Land shall receive again its rightful heritors, the banished shall come to their own again, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1645Our Lord before Herod
Luke 23:8
… We are on safer ground when we observe with the early Church the coalition of the heathen and the Jews—"For of a truth against Your holy Child …
SERMON • SERMON 2487Ordered Steps
Psalm 119:133
… The Apostle Peter's exhortation is still in force, "As He which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation." So are …
SERMON • SERMON 284One Antidote for Many Ills
Psalm 80:10
… Do they speak against the doctrines? Let them; but let our lives be so holy that they must lie against us when they dare to say that our …
SERMON • SERMON 2724The Dew of Christ's Youth
Psalm 110:3
… Let us prove to the world that as Christ made His people holy in olden times, He makes His people holy now. And that as the religion of …
SERMON • SERMON 1931One More Cast of the Great Net
Joel 2:32
… He has come to set you free for holiness, for purity, for peace, for love. He will bless you with newness of life—He will cause Grace to …
SERMON • SERMON 1432Divine Interpositions
Psalm 18:16
… If had been possible for a race to have multiplied from the glades of Eden, and to have gone forth into a wider Paradise as pure and holy …