Holiness

Sonship Questioned

Matthew 4:3

… We know that our blessed Lord was personally without the slightest taint of sin—"holy, harmless, undefiled"—yet He was tempted by Satan, himself, the prince and leader …

A Typical Week’s Work

… The inmates of the house went quietly about their several duties, and a holy silence seemed to brood over the place. What familiar intercourse with the Saviour he …

The Story of God’s Mighty Acts

Psalm 44:1

… He that is mighty hath done great things and holy is his name. There is a special feature to which I would call your attention with regard to …

A Call To Prayer and Testimony

Isaiah 62:6

… May the Holy Spirit help us while we think of the Lord's people as watchmen! In times of war every fortified city had upon its walls certain …

The Unkept Vineyard—or, Personal Work Neglected

Solomon 1:6

… I may bring unhappy memories before you, but let us not be afraid of that holy sorrow which is health to the soul. Since the spouse in this …

The New Song and the Old Story

Psalm 96:1-3

… All you who love the Lord, give vent to your heart's emotion by holy song and take care that it is sung to the Lord, alone. What …

On Humbling Ourselves before God

1 Peter 5:6

… This needs the help of the Holy Spirit and truly He waits to help us—He delights to aid us in such holy acts of submission! Nothing is …

The Sin-Bearer

… Note how personal are the terms here employed! How expressly the Holy Ghost speaketh! “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body.” It was not …

Jacob and Doubting Souls a Parallel

Genesis 45:28

… It is enough; Jesus is still alive." Moreover, the Holy Spirit bore witness to this fact, for after the ascension of the Savior, the Holy Spirit descended upon …

Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts

Mark 3:5

… Though they were fighting against God, they made the pretense of being very zealous for him, and especially for his holy day. This is an old trick of …

Effectual Calling

Luke 19:5

… Ah! many of you have climbed up the tree of your own good works, and perched yourselves in the branches of your holy actions, and are trusting in …

Where True Prayer is Found

2 Samuel 7:27

… It is a holy self-denial which in such cases rejoices to see the Lord glorified by others and at the Captain's bidding cheerfully stands back in …

Resurrection for the Just and the Unjust

Acts 24:15

… Pray of the Holy Spirit to work in you holy virtue, that after you have endured awhile, you may inherit the promise. Remember that there must first be …

Faith, What Is It?

… Search the Scriptures and learn what the Holy Spirit teacheth concerning Christ and His salvation. Seek to know God: "For he that cometh to God must believe that …

God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness

Hebrews 11:34

… This seems to me to be the great work which Luther did in his day under God, the Holy Spirit's power. He brought back the Church to …

The Saviour's Many Crowns

Revelation 19:12

… Pray for me that I may utter a few words which the Holy Spirit may comfortably apply to your souls, for if he help me not, I am …

Pleading For Prayer

Romans 15:30-33

… I have to rejoice in the prayers of thousands of holy men and women who love me in the Lord. I am deeply grateful for the affectionate supplications …

Simeon

Luke 2:25

… and the Holy Spirit was upon him." Luke 2:25 . WHAT a biography of a man! How short and yet how complete! We have seen biographies so wordy …

The Root Of The Matter

Job 19:28

… Oh, how little is the Holy Spirit known! We get beyond the mere exercise of opinions when we believe in Christ, know the Father, and receive the Holy …

Heart Piercing

Acts 2:37

… But the real strength of Peter's sermon lay in this, that he had been that very day baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Sitting in …

Baptism Essential To Obedience

Mark 16:16

… You cannot believe for another! There can be nothing like sponsorship, here, and the Holy Spirit, Himself, cannot believe for you! It is not written, "Let the Holy …

The Lord Blessing His Saints

Psalm 115:15

… This holy fear is the holy admiration which trembles at the infinite majesty of the Most High—not out of slavish dread, but out of a childlike sense …

A Sermon to Ministers and Other Tried Believers

1 Peter 5:7

… Care to us is sinful, but God's care of us is holy. Care distracts us from service, but the Divine Mind does not forget one thing while …

Loved and Loving

… The evident intent of the language is to set forth the delicacy of the highest form of holy fellowship. The Lord our God is a jealous God and …

A Refreshing Canticle

Song 1:4

… There have been times when, like David, you could dance before the Lord! Times of holy merriment when, like Miriam, you could strike your timbrel and say to …

A Solemn Enquiry Concerning Our Families

Genesis 19:12

… Come, Holy Spirit, come and aid my tongue which is all too feeble to express the language of my inmost heart! I. We would observe, first, that such …

Ancestry and Genealogy

I sing of the noble Refugee, Who strove in a holy faith, At the altar of his God to bow, When the road was marked with death. When …

Hosanna!

Matthew 2:19

… Even of certain of the greater events of our Lord's life the Holy Spirit has not preserved us four accounts, but since He has done so in …

The Everlasting Counselor

Micah 4:9

… Is there not a sign clearly pointing, "This is the way"? When we see that it is the path which Christ has marked out, in which the holy …

A Distinction with a Difference

Luke 1:18

… The angel paused awhile and said to her, "The Holy Spirit shall come upon you and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you. Therefore, also, that holy …

The Throne of God and of the Lamb

Revelation 22:3

… In the Presence of the Eternal, language fails us except the one adoring cry, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts! The whole earth is full of …

Christ—Our Substitute

2 Corinthians 5:21

… Overshadowed as was the virgin by the Holy Ghost, no corruption entered into his nativity. That holy thing which was born of her was neither conceived in sin …

'Pray Without Ceasing'

1 Thessalonians 5:17

… Every place is hallowed ground to a hallowed heart, and every day is a holy day to a holy man. From January to December the calendar has not …

A Welcome Discovery

Genesis 21:19

… After awhile the Holy Spirit was pleased to show them more of the hidden evils of their nature and to permit the fountains of the great deep of …

The Cloud of Doves

Isaiah 60:8

… To bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD your God, and to the Holy One of Israel …

A Psalm For The New Year

2 Peter 3:18

… We are in danger, lest misinterpreting Scripture we should make God say what He does not—and lest by departing from the teaching of the Holy Spirit we …

The Shortest of the Seven Cries

John 19:28

… Hate sin, and heartily loathe it; but thirst to be holy as God is holy, thirst to be like Christ, thirst to bring glory to his sacred name …

Great Difference

Malachi 2:17

… God is beginning to separate His chosen from the world when He gives them an inward sense of His Presence and a consequent holy fear and sacred awe …

Jesus Christ Himself

Ephesians 2:20

… This also, Beloved, is the work of the Holy Spirit. "He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Me, and shall show it unto you." The Holy …

The Shank-bone Sermon—Or, True Believers and Their Helpers

Acts 18:27

… You see that the Holy Spirit has been pleased, by the pen of Luke, to give to Paul's travels and labors a very large proportion of the …