Holiness

The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections

Deuteronomy 8:3-6

… You have walked with God, and you have not grown weary of the holy communion. Sometimes that walking with God has cost you much effort, much struggling with …

A Wilderness Cry

Psalm 63:1

… The things which are seen are too gross, material, carnal and defiled to sustain life which comes by the Holy Spirit from the great Father. We are not …

A Bad Excuse Is Worse Than None

Luke 14:18

… O Soul! O Soul! When holy men can find hours for prayer—when such a man as Martin Luther, when he was very busy, used to say—"I …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… be manifest in your afflic- tions by your holy patience, your submission to the Divine will, your persevering holiness amid all your poverty and trials. All this is …

Israel's God and God's Israel

Deuteronomy 33:26-28

… May the Holy Spirit remarkably assist me because I am, this morning, so unusually unfit for ministering among you that the weakness of the creature will be painfully …

Plain Words With the Careless

Luke 8:28

… O that the Holy Spirit may press home upon you the arguments which I try to use! You have heard the story of the Savior who came from …

Satan in a Rage

Revelation 12:12

… May the Holy Spirit make it so! In the world around us we must not consider that things go altogether amiss when the powers of evil become strong …

The Throne of Grace

Hebrews 4:16

… God is a Spirit unseen of mortal eye, and only to be perceived by the inner man; our spirit within us, begotten by the Holy Ghost at our …

Ten Wrong Kinds of Hearers

Isaiah 58:1

… If it comes to me with the power of the Holy Spirit, commending itself to my conscience, I will obey it, I will yield to it, for I …

Joyful Transformations

Isaiah 42:16

… SPURGEON, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington . "I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight." Isaiah 42:16 IN the pursuit of holiness the pilgrim is …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… Those who have to smart from the falsehoods of others should be the more jealous over themselves; perhaps this led the Psalmist to register this holy resolution; and …

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… If I understand aright, zeal is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and genuine zeal draws its life and vital force from the continued operations of the Holy …

A Lesson From The Great Panic

Hebrews 12:27

… We need no temple nor holy of holies within the veil, for we worship God in spirit, and— "Wherever we seek Him He is found, And everyplace is …

The Voice Of Cholera

Amos 3:3-6

… My reason for selecting this subject at all was that I might be helpful in the hands of God the Holy Spirit to aid this great design, that …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

… Thus, the holy land, the holy house, and the holy city, were all polluted by the uncircumcised. It is an awful thing when wicked men are found in …

Mutual Love Between Pastor and People

… We implore for him a yet fuller measure of the Holy Spirit, and enlarged success in all the many labours to which he has set his hand; and …

Psalm 88

Psalm 88

… He must superintend the singers and see that they do their duty well, for holy sorrow ought to be expressed with quite as much care as the most …

Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac

Genesis 22:2

… Slay me, or take all I have, but I will still bless Your holy name." This was a main part of Abraham's trial—that it appeared to …

Psalm 4

Psalm 4

… Now, it is holiness that makes us fit to live with the holy God for ever, since without it we cannot see him (Hebrews 12:14), which is …

Public Meeting Of Our London Baptist Brethren

… It is said of our Lord that, "God gave not the Spirit by measure unto Him." Undoubtedly, the absolute fullness of the Holy Spirit rested on Jesus; He …

Reminiscences as a Village Pastor

… If a man is not desiring to live a holy life in the sight of God, with the help of the Holy Spirit, he is still “ in the …

'Let Us Pray'

Psalm 73:23

… I will not bid thee cease from thy form; but I do beseech thee by the living God, either cease from it, or else beg the Holy Spirit …

On the Choice of a Text

… I have heard of a divine who had fifty-two Sunday sermons, and a few extra ones for holy days, from which he was wont to preach in …

Psalm 113

Psalm 113

… Let Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, all be praised as the one, only, living, and true God. The close following of the words, "Hallelujah, Hallelu, Hallelu, "must have …

Our Manifesto

Galatians 1:11

… Philosophers' words may teach us what holiness is, but God's Word makes us holy! We hear our Brethren exhort us to aspire to high degrees of Grace …

Psalm 2

Psalm 2

… No better comment is needed upon it than the apostolic song in Acts 4:27, 28: "For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast …

Psalm 98

Psalm 98

… By his divine power he has sent forth the Holy Spirit doing marvels, and by that sacred energy his disciples have also wrought marvellous things and astonished all …

Psalm 3

Psalm 3

… May we ever wake with holy confidence in our hearts, and a song upon our lips! DIVISION. This Psalm may be divided into four parts of two verses …

Stewards

… Our Lord would have us thus identify ourselves with His holy business; and, especially, He would have us love His chosen. We, beyond all others, should lay down …

Psalm 105

Psalm 105

… He could not violate that gracious compact for it was sacred to him,—"his holy promise." A holy God must keep his promise holy. In our case the …

Open-Air Preaching — A Sketch of Its History

… It may suffice us, however, to go back as far as the origin of our own holy faith, and there we hear the forerunner of the Saviour crying …

Pure Fun

… The argument is as irresistible as the laughter which it provokes; and both the argument and the laughter are as wholesome and as holy as anything we have …

Psalm 102

Psalm 102

… Should not we also lament when the ways of Zion mourn and her strength languishes? Were there more of this holy sorrow we should soon see the Lord …

The Minister in These Times

… Holy Scripture has not agreed with them,—so much the worse for Holy Scripture! Such-and- such doctrines do not suit their tastes, so they must be misrepresented …

Psalm 59

Psalm 59

… Revilers of God whose mouths pour forth such filth as David was on this occasion obliged to hear, are not to be tolerated by a holy soul; indignation …

“A New Departure”

… Brethren, what if the Lord should depart from us? Alas for us, and for our work! Nothing can be done if the Holy Spirit be withdrawn; indeed, nothing …

The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations

… He thought it was wrong, and that such work ought to be left to God’s Holy Spirit. The boy fell down, and broke his leg, and had …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… He neither did nor durst quarrel, or fall out with the ways of holiness for all his sufferings, a thing we are naturally prone unto. 3. He was …

Lecture III: The Uses Of Anecdotes And Illustrations.

… He thought it was wrong, and that such work ought to be left to God's Holy Spirit. The boy fell down and broke his leg, and had …

Psalm 140

Psalm 140

… he is the patron of holiness, and when the pure lives of his people are in danger of overthrow, he may be expected to interpose. Never let the …