Holiness

Place for the Word

John 8:37

… Let it be the master of your thoughts, ruling your understanding—the master of your affections, curbing your passions and exciting holy desires in you. Let it be …

A New Order of Priests and Levites

Isaiah 66:21

… But they are to be restored; they are to be brought back to their own land, and to worship God in his holy mountain; and in the latter …

The Curse and the Curse for Us

Galatians 3:10-14

… We shall need no other divisions but we shall greatly need the gracious aid of the Holy Spirit that by His Grace these may be plainly and powerfully …

'Flee From the Wrath to Come'

Matthew 3:7

… All evil must be utterly abhorrent to His pure and holy soul. And it is not only because He can do it, but because He mustdo it, that …

Love's Climax

1 John 4:10

… His holy soul is stirred to indignation against it. Yet, notwithstanding that— "God loved the world of sinners lost And ruined by the Fall" and sent His Son …

The Pastor’s Parting Blessing

Romans 16:24

… May you know of a surety, by the witness of the Holy Ghost, that you have passed from death unto life, and that the love of God is …

The Duty of the Present Hour

Hosea 10:12

… May the Holy Spirit help me in this attempt and bless it to your souls. When is it time to seek the Lord? Well, it is time as …

David Dancing Before the Ark Because of His Election

2 Samuel 6:20-22

… I believe that in every case where a man is inwardly persuaded of the Holy Spirit that the Lord has chosen him out of the world, the sure …

The Northern Iron and the Steel

Jeremiah 15:12

… Quit you like men; and in the energy of the Holy Spirit, endure as seeing him that is invisible. There is no need that we should fear, for …

Encouragements To Prayer

Psalm 81:10

… The exhortation of the text means, then, shake off all fear, and, also, exercise a holy boldness of familiarity and freedom in the Presence of the Most High …

The Child Of Light Walking In Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… The description is brief, but remarkably full—"Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys the voice of His servant?" Holy reverence within the heart and careful obedience …

Exhortation—"Set Your Heart"

1 Chronicles 22:19

… Let it be our study to test everything that we do by God's Holy Word. Let us not willfully sin, either in commission or in omission. Let …

Zechariah'S Vision Of Joshua The High Priest

Zechariah 3:1-5

… Let us take each particular separately and may God the Holy Spirit shed a sacred light upon the vision and may we see in it more than Zechariah …

"At Your Word"

Luke 5:5

… If the Holy Spirit shall make you calmly resolute, you will honor God much more by your happy perseverance than the talkative by their fine speeches, or the …

The Peace of God

Philippians 4:7

… When the Lord breathes peace into a man and the Holy Spirit descends like a dove to dwell within the soul, then is there quiet—where all was …

The Lamentations of Jesus

Luke 19:41

… And at the sight of the venerable city and its holy and beautiful house He wept. Modern travelers who have any soul in them are always moved by …

Warning and Encouragement

Solomon 5:2

… And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you, no manner of work …

Good Earnests of Great Success

Acts 6:7

… If there be divisions amongst you, and one shall say, “I am for this,” and another, “I am for that,” how can you expect that the Holy Spirit …

God's Non-Remembrance of Sin

Isaiah 43:25

… No man, in sincerity, believes it until God, the Holy Spirit, has taught him its truth, and has written it upon his heart. No revealed Truth of God …

Open Heart For The Great Savior

John 1:12

… To a gracious readiness of heart to entertain the Friend who knocks at the door, we are brought by God the Holy Spirit, and then He sups with …

Driving the Vultures Away from the Sacrifice

Genesis 15:11

… Oh that the Spirit of All Grace may bless this discourse to us, that we may thereby be excited to holy watchfulness! I. First, with regard to THE …

A Private Enquiry

1 Samuel 3:17

… May the Holy Spirit aid us herein! It was a very painful duty which the holy child was called upon to perform. Samuel loved his foster father and …

Untitled Sermon

Ephesians 1:12

… Now, dear Friends, this was the mark of those who were first saved by the great Redeemer and I want you to notice how the Holy Spirit sets …

Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle

Psalm 73:22-25

… Of all the worthies whose lives are written out at length in Holy Writ, David possesses an experience of the most striking, varied and instructive character. In his …

Simeon's Swan Song

Luke 2:29

… And the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death before he had seen the …

Household Salvation

Acts 16:32-34

… We have a few such men, full of the Holy Ghost, but, alas, we have too many other converts, who are rather tinctured with grace, than saturated with …

Comforted and Comforting

2 Corinthians 1:3

… and all that is within me, bless His holy name." This occupation shows that the Apostle had not gratified Satan, for the devil's purpose, so far as …

Eternal Life!

John 17:3

… This is, to me, the best evidence of the Truth of our holy religion. I was once troubled and tossed to and fro, driven almost to despair under …

Lowly Service

Numbers 4:24-26

… All who believe in Jesus, all the twice-born, all who are washed in His precious blood, all who are set apart by the Holy Spirit, are God …

The Sluggard’s Farm

… The Christian who is slothful in his Master’s service has no idea what he is losing ; for the very cream of religion lies in holy consecration to …

A Message from God for Thee

Lamentations 4:22

… In the light of the Holy Spirit the darkness of the creature is removed, and the fancied goodness of fallen humanity dies like a dream. Now the man …

The Sluggard's Farm

Proverbs 24:30-32

… He meant that the holy soil should reach the utmost point of fertility through the labor of those who owned it. Thus the possession of a field and …

Mahanaim—or, Hosts Of Angels

Genesis 32:1

… They cannot be discerned by any of our senses, but they are perceptible by faith and they have been made perceptible to holy men of old in visions …

The Hope Laid Up In Heaven

Colossians 1:5

… May the Holy Spirit lead us into a profitable meditation upon it. The connection of our text seems to be this—the Apostle so much rejoiced when he …

The Sound in the Mulberry Trees

2 Samuel 5:24

… I remember, two years ago, some man wrote to me a note, telling me that it had been said to his heart and God the Holy Spirit had …

Good News for the Lost

Luke 19:10

… So let us pray the Holy Spirit to sweep away, with His Divine wind, the clouds of our unbelief and enable each earnest eye in the light of …

A Poor Man's Cry—and What Came Of It

Psalm 34:6

… There is but one holy time and that is today! When the Spirit of God works a cry in the heart of the poor man, that cry climbs …

Strong Faith

Romans 4:20

… The Holy Spirit does not believe for us—what has He to believe? It would be altogether absurd to conceive of the Holy Spirit as believing or repenting …

The Withered Hand

Matthew 12:10

… Yet the Holy Spirit takes care to mark that he was present and to have the word, "behold," hung out like a sign that it might be regarded …

The Fullness and the Filling

John 1:16

… We ought to be gracious with a holy joyfulness for all His goodness. I hope we shall have the Grace of patience under all sufferings and the Grace …