Holiness

Concern For Other Men's Souls

Romans 9:1-5

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have …

"The Lord Is Risen, Indeed"

Luke 24:5

… I trust, this morning, that some restful thoughts may, by the power of the Holy Spirit, be sown in the minds of Believers while we make a pilgrimage …

Victor Emmanuel, Emancipator

Isaiah 42:7

… He can breathe the Holy Spirit into the dead soul, and give the heart that palpitates with penitence, and leaps with desires after God. He can give eyes …

Kept From Iniquity

Psalm 18:23

… You must be born again, you must go by faith to Jesus Christ and ask for cleansing in His precious blood and renewal by the Holy Spirit. I …

Young Man, Is This For You?

Luke 7:11-17

… Oh, how we wish you did! It seems to us a dreadful thing that you should be dead to God, dead to Christ, dead to the Holy Spirit …

Mourning at the Cross

Zechariah 12:10

… No, no—the preaching of the Gospel is the ordained means of getting at men's hearts—and only the Holy Spirit's power can lead men to …

My God

Psalm 91:2

… Expression limps today where enjoyment leaped yesterday! However, may God the Holy Spirit help you to see in the text what I have seen in it, even if …

Carried by Four

Luke 5:16-26

… I intend to use this narrative for practical purposes; may the Holy Spirit make it really useful. Our first remark will be this: I. THERE ARE CASES WHICH …

A Leap Year Sermon

1 Corinthians 15:8

… Yet, after their death, the memory of their holy zeal has touched the conscience of the one who would not yield, before, and brought him to Christ. I …

Disobedience to the Gospel

Romans 10:16

… He Himself said, concerning the Holy Spirit, "He will reprove (or convince) the world of sin." And then, almost immediately, He added, "of sin, because they believe not …

Secret Drawings Graciously Explained

Jeremiah 31:3

… When the love of God is shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit which is given to us, then we love our Lord with all our …

Bonds Which Could Not Hold

Acts 2:24

… It was not right that One who was so pure and holy as He was, One who stood in what theologians call, "hypostatical union with the Godhead"—(it …

The Sequel to Divine Sovereignty

Psalm 99:1

… I trust that many of you, Beloved, cherish this holy anxiety lest we should grieve the Spirit and drive Him away from us. At all events, I know …

The Very Bold Prophecy

Isaiah 65:1

… May the Holy Spirit help us in this four-fold meditation! I. The first point for your consideration is THE PERSONALITY OF GOD IN THE WORK OF HIS …

Heaven Above and Heaven Below

Revelation 7:16

… As the quickened ones of the Holy Spirit, the life which is to last on forever has begun in you. At this moment you are already, in many …

Martha And Mary

Luke 10:38-42

… No man, on the other hand, is as he should be unless he is active and diligent in holy service. David sweetly sang, "He makes me to lie …

Christians Kept From Sin

1 Samuel 25:32

… The subject upon which I am to talk to you, as the Holy Spirit shall graciously guide me, is the great blessing of being prevented or preserved from …

Meal-time in the Cornfields

… You have been walking the street, and suddenly you have felt a holy flowing out of your soul toward God; or in the middle of business your heart …

The Good Man’s Life and Death

Philippians 1:21

… Weep, weep, weep, O church, for thou hast lost thy martyrs; weep, O church, for thou hast lost thy confessors, thy holy men are fallen. Howl, fir tree …

The Child Samuel'S Prayer

1 Samuel 3:9

… Samuel was blessed with a gracious father and what is of even more importance, he was the child of an eminently holy mother. Hannah was a woman of …

Christians Kept In Time And Glorified In Eternity

… You shall be holy even as God is holy and in His Presence you shall dwell forever! How altered we shall be! Look within and see if your …

The Pierced Heart of Jesus

John 19:32-37

… But our Lord saw no corruption! Overshadowed as was His virgin mother by the Spirit at her conception, His birth was predicted as "that holy thingwhich shall be …

Sarah and Her Daughters

Isaiah 51:2

… His Holy Spirit gave me the word—may He cause His saints to feed upon it! Now, I never like to do an injustice to anybody and I …

An Awful Premonition

Matthew 16:28

… Gill endorses this view, and moreover says that it also refers to the descent of the Holy Spirit. At this I am staggered! How any man can find …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… When they thought they must die in the dark, the Holy Spirit has appeared to them and they have been cheered and comforted. The Puritans were apt to …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… That it is most awfully deceptive; that it passes by the essentials of the work of the Holy Ghost, and sets people by shoals down for Christians who …

The Blood of Sprinkling and the Children

Exodus 12:21-27

… In the 13th verse we hear the Lord, Himself, say—"When I see the blood I will pass over you." Think of the holy eyes of God being …

First Outlines of Sermons, 1851-1852

… The Holy Spirit. 5. Heirship. Encouragement. Appeal to saints and sinners. OUTLINE II. — NECESSITY OF PURITY FOR AN ENTRANCE INTO HEAVEN. “And there shall in no wise enter …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… It is of singular use to us, that the backslidings of the holy men of God are recorded in Holy Writ. Spots appear nowhere more disagreeable than when …

Always and for All Things

Ephesians 5:20

… The Apostle writes, "Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God," and then he adds the various branches of holy walking which belong to wives and …

The Right Observance of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

… It must be sheer superstition, utterly unwarranted by Holy Scripture, which tells us that the Lord's Supper can only be properly received in the morning and that …

Praying And Waiting

1 John 5:13-15

… EXPLANATION—and let the explanation be taken from instances in Holy Writ. Elijah bowed his knee on the top of Carmel and prayed to God for rain. For …

Paul's Parenthesis

1 Corinthians 15:10

… If I have ever sung God's praise so as to please Him, that praise was first written in my heart by the Holy Spirit." "What have you …

July 22 — AN ETERNAL PLEDGE

Hosea 2:19

… Meanwhile, mercy smiles, and even sings; yea, she multiplies herself into "mercies," because of the abounding grace of this holy union. Faithfulness is the registrar, and records the …

Love Joying In Love

Solomon 5:1

… I note, also, that He, Himself, gathers what He enjoys—"I have gathered My myrrh with My spice." Many a holy thing which we have not in detail …

Joshua's Vision

Joshua 6:10-27

… We have sought to purge ourselves from sin, and to be holy even as He is holy. But still this will not suffice—we need the Divine Presence …

Overwhelming Obligations

Psalm 116:12

… He has chosen you, my Brothers and Sisters, that you should be holy, that you should be His children, that you should be made like your elder Brother …

Under His Shadow

Psalm 91:1

… Guarded by Omnipotence, the chosen of the Lord are always safe, for as they dwell in the holy place, hard by the Mercy Seat, where the blood was …

Faith.

… Devoutly would each one of us say, “I believe in the Holy Ghost.” Yet, my brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost? “Yes,” you say unanimously, spontaneously …

A Promise For Us And For Our Children

Isaiah 44:1-5

… To give a new heart and a right spirit is the work of the Holy Spirit and of the Holy Spirit alone. In the second place, the source …