Holiness

Withholding Corn

Proverbs 11:26

… I feel bound to go not where my wishes would lead me, but where Holy Scripture has made a track for my feet. There are certain texts in …

Despised Light Withdrawn

John 12:36

… We have always with us the Gospel of Jesus Christ that you can read in this Book whenever you will, but the Holy Spirit must go with the …

The Shame and Spitting

Isaiah 50:6

… May the Holy Spirit help you to see Jesus in four lights at this time. In each view He is worthy of devout attention. Let us view Him …

Good Cause for Great Zeal

Ezra 4:14

… Let the same holy jealousy animate us among those with whom we have influence—as, for instance, among those who wish to be united with us in Church …

The Soul's Crisis

Luke 18:37

… May the Holy Spirit lead you to pray. Well do I recollect my own prayers when I was seeking Christ. I prayed for months and sometimes in the …

The Believer Catechized

John 11:26

… What their church is to the Romanists, that is what the Bible and the Holy Spirit are to me! This done, no difficulty remains one-half so great …

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… The holy, just, and sacred Three Are terrors to my mind! But if Emmanuel's face appears, My hope, my joy, begins! His Grace forbids my slavish fear …

Despair Denounced and Grace Glorified

Ezekiel 37:11

… Despair has something in it of sinning against the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit brings you rich cordials in the promises of God which will raise your …

The Heroic In Christianity

Luke 6:32-34

… What manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness? We live under a spirit whose Law is perfection and, therefore, a little fault …

Diary, April to June, 1850

… I feel that I am justified in at last revealing the long-kept secret of the book, for a perusal of its soul-confessions and holy resolutions can …

The Best of All Sights

Hebrews 2:9

… IN Holy Scripture faith is placed in opposition to the sight of the eyes and yet it is frequently described as looking and seeing. It is opposed to …

The Stone Rolled Away

Matthew 28:2

… As the holy women went towards the sepulcher in the twilight of the morning, desirous to embalm the body of Jesus, they recollected that the huge stone at …

The Samaritan Woman and Her Mission

John 4:27-30

… He was a perfect Teacher because as Man, He had lent a willing ear to the heavenly instruction of the Holy Spirit and, therefore, grew in knowledge and …

Our Lord's Preaching

Isaiah 61:1

… He said, "You must be born-again" and He taught the Truths of God by which the Holy Spirit works in us and makes all things new. He …

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… In the decisions of the Council of Trent, 1564, this clause occurs: — “Seeing it is manifest, by experience, that if the Holy Bible be permitted to be read …

Obtaining Promises

Hebrews 11:33

… I believe in God the Holy Spirit. I believe in His immediate operations in the soul of man. This is the dispensation of the Holy Spirit and would …

Serving the Lord With Gladness

Psalm 100:2

… O Beloved, let our religion show itself throughout the whole of life! Let us go about our business with a holy gladness because we are serving the Lord …

A Discourse For A Revival Season

Jeremiah 8:19

… True prayer is an astonishing thing! Prevalent intercession is an amazing thing—and if you want to see something that will really thrill you with a holy wonder …

Holy Violence

Matthew 11:12

… And then, I shall endeavour to arouse in your hearts, by the help of God’s Holy Spirit, that holy violence, without which the gates of heaven will …

Order and Argument in Prayer

Job 23:3

… Now this ritual is all superseded, but the truth which it taught remains the same; our spiritual sacrifices should be offered with holy carefulness. God forbid that our …

The Minister’s Fainting Fits

… Immersion in suffering has preceded the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Fasting gives an appetite for the banquet. The Lord is revealed in the backside of the desert …

Words Of Expostulation

Jeremiah 2:18

… To myself and to you may God the Holy Spirit apply it, and may this be a time for all God's people, to every convinced soul, yes …

The Immutability of God

Malachi 3:6

… just and holy was he in the past; just and holy is he now. He is unchanged in his truth ; he has promised, and he brings it to …

The Minstrelsy of Hope

Psalm 67:6

… To bestir the Church and make it active is one of the highest gifts of the Holy Spirit, and this is greatly needed. I believe it is needed …

Psalm 148

Psalm 148

… The Holy One is praised by holy ones. He is their God, and they are his saints; he makes them blessed, and they bless him in return. Even …

Two Advents Of Christ

Hebrews 9:27

… Around Him an innumerable company of angels wait—cherubim and seraphim with glowing wheels attend at His feet and ever unto Him they continually, continually, continually cry—Holy …

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… Observe, dear Friends, with holy adoration, how our Lord Jesus Christ met Satan in conflict, not once nor twice, but many times! In fact, throughout the Savior's …

A Christmas Question

Isaiah 9:6

… The doctrine of the eternal affiliation of Christ is to be received as an undoubted truth of our holy religion. But as to any explanation of it, no …

Real Contact With Jesus

Luke 8:46

… They are baptized, yet not by the Holy Spirit. They take the Lord's Supper, but they take not the Lord, Himself. They eat the bread, but they …

Christ Seen as God's Salvation

Luke 2:30

… and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he shouldnot see death before he hadseen the Lord's …

Christ—the Fall and Rise of Many

Luke 2:34

… There is about the holy Child Jesus a power which is always in operation. He is not set to be an unobserved, inactive, slumbering Personage in the midst …

To the Rescue

Isaiah 49:24

… But where is He that can achieve it? Ah, He is present with us here, though not to be seen by the eye—the Holy Spirit of God …

Fine Pleading

Psalm 106:4

… He did not look on the mother of Christ and say, "Holy Virgin, pray for me." He might have said it. He did not turn to any of …

God Justifieth the Ungodly

… See how this Scripture accepts the charge, and plainly states it! By the mouth of His servant Paul, by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, He takes to …

God's Time for Comforting

Psalm 119:82

… Ask the Holy Spirit to help you to do so at once! Possibly the answer to your question may take another form—The Lord will comfort you as …

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… The Holy Spirit will honor us, too, for the Holy Spirit often puts great honor upon a faithful man in a way that I cannot explain to you …

Exceeding Gladness

Psalm 21:6

… If there is anything that is honest, true, holy, heavenly and Christ-like, it is all His work—and He is right glad to see it! I know …

The Vine of Israel

Psalm 80:14

… And I trust the Holy Spirit may make our meditation profitable. Assuredly, if there is any distinction which might be maintained, and I think there is none, for …

Our Lord in the Valley of Humiliation

Philippians 2:8

… PAUL wishes to unite the saints in Philippi in the holy bands of love. To do this, he takes them to the Cross. Beloved, there is a cure …

The Father and the Son

1 John 1:3

… My great desire, just now, is not so much to preach to you as to lead you, by the Holy Spirit's gracious assistance, into the actual enjoyment …