Holiness

An Urgent Request for an Immediate Answer

Genesis 24:49

… You would be saved! Your morality, which is now so precarious, would rise into a solid spirituality, for you would be made holy through the indwelling Spirit. Seeing …

'That King Ahaz'

2 Chronicles 28:22

… Dear Friend, give me your hand! I feel that I may rejoice over you, for if God the Holy Spirit has put it into your heart to say …

The Infallibility of Scripture

Isaiah 1:20

… I say, if He, the Anointed of the Spirit and able to speak Himself as God's mouth, quoted the Sacred Writings and used the holy Book in …

The Sunday-School Teacher—A Steward

Luke 16:2

… I did it without prayer; I did it without the help of the Holy Spirit.” Then, my brother and sister, I hope you will add after that, “Oh …

The Soul's Best Food

Isaiah 55:2

… Blessed be His holy name, "of His fullness have all we received, and Grace for Grace." The invitation in our text seems to me to come naturally from …

Marvelous! Marvelous!

Zechariah 8:6

… What is this but to set up another god? It is a fault charged upon Israel of old as a very provoking crime, that they limited the Holy …

"Eyes Right"

Proverbs 4:25

… What shall I say of many of the biddings of our holy Gospel, many of those sweet precepts which are to be used in the family and in …

A Call For Revival

Solomon 7:11-13

… Love, then, is the fittest and most powerful motive to holy service. "The love of Christ constrains us." This love has about it certain marked peculiarities. It is …

A Lift for the Prostrate

Mark 1:31

… What have we to do with You, You Jesus of Nazareth? Are You come to destroy us?I know You who You are, the Holy One of God …

Creation—An Argument For Faith

Jeremiah 32:17

… And to Heaven but no holy desire is kindled! There is nothing in man that encourages me in my work, and I am ready to give up." Brother …

God Beseeching Sinners by His Ministers

2 Corinthians 5:18-21

… Brethren, it is preposterous that these men should claim so much when they have so little to show for it! Here are bishops who can bestow the Holy …

The King’s Highway Opened and Cleared

… And may God the Holy Spirit enable thee to trust him hard heart and all, and then thy hard heart shall soon be turned into a heart of …

Chariots of Iron

Judges 1:19

… We, also, can narrate wonderful displays of God's power and Grace when we have had fellowship, one with another, in holy service! Our choicest experiences have been …

Speak For Yourself—a Challenge!

John 9:21

… Many and many have come to these pews to listen to your minister, who had never been here but for her calm, beautiful, unobtrusive, holy life—and the …

The Man Greatly Beloved

Daniel 10:19

… With the clearer light and richer indwelling of the Holy Spirit, instead of being inferior to Enoch, or Abraham, or David, or Daniel, we ought to excel all …

A Pressed Man Yielding to Christ

John 9:35-38

… But, blessed be His holy name, He is God, and we feel that it is the supreme delight of our being to worship Him! We cannot veil our …

The Lowly King

Zechariah 9:9

… let it be thundered out in a hymn as glorious as the song of the seraphim, who continually do cry, "Holy, holy, holy!" Never was purity more pure …

The Burden of the Word of the Lord

Malachi 1:1

… Much practical Truth of God will come before us while we speak of ''the burden of the Word of the Lord.'' Pray that the Holy Spirit may bless …

Paul in the Tempest

Acts 27:18-25

… Whatever declaration He has set forth in His Holy Word, it shall be even as it was told you! Just as when the press comes down upon the …

Rare Fruit

Isaiah 57:19

… Legality finds his patient disturbed with the threats of the Gospel and the doctrines of Holy Writ and he says, "These things are quite true, but you need …

A Sermon on a Grand Old Text

1 Timothy 1:15

… May the Holy Spirit instruct us! Here is, first, a Person coming—a Divine Person—Christ Jesus the anointed Savior. The Son of God, the Second Person of …

To The Thoughtless

Isaiah 1:3

… They will listen to holy words, but they will not lay them to heart. They will go through a round of ceremonial performances—but to worship in spirit …

A Sad Interior and a Cheery Messenger

Mark 16:10

… But when the old Sabbath was dying away and the new and better Sabbath began to dawn, these holy women found their way back to their Lord's …

The Well-Beloved's Vineyard

… Now we enter the holy of holies, and come to the most sacred meeting-place between our souls and God. Viewed from this table, the vineyard slopes to …

The Church a Mother

Isaiah 49:20

… She can do nothing in bringing forth, nothing in nurturing, nothing in training, nothing in preserving and nothing, at last, in bringing her children Home, unless the Holy …

Forgetting God

Hosea 13:6

… And we have forgotten the Holy Spirit who came into our hearts and gave us joy and rest in Jesus Christ. And if we have forgotten God, we …

Too Good to Be Saved!

Luke 18:14

… Our Lord Jesus Christ knew when to use this holy art and He did so on this occasion and, therefore, you and I will be wise if we …

The Turning Point

Luke 15:20

… We are glad to hear from you the resolution, ‘I will turn to God,’ but holy angels in heaven do not rejoice over resolutions, they reserve their music …

Fear Not

Isaiah 41:14

… I need your prayers; I need God’s Holy Spirit; and I felt that I could not preach to-day, unless I should preach in such a way …

Near the Kingdom, or in It?

Mark 12:34

… God," I shall speak especially to them, or, rather, I pray that the Holy Spirit will speak to them through me, for it is HE who speaks with …

The Great House and the Vessels In It

2 Timothy 2:20

… Oh, for a holy character and holy communion with God! Then we shall be golden vessels fit for the Master's use and so, according to the text …

Blessed Promises For Dying Outcasts

Jeremiah 30:17

… They do not consider it to be a disease and they care not to make men holy. Good men are very far from thinking that they can conquer …

Three Crosses

Galatians 6:14

… I only wish that some who think so little of doctrinal discrepancies, as they call them, could but sympathize a little with his holy indignation when he saw …

A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth

Luke 18:13

… An expositor calls it a holy telegram—and certainly it is so compact and so condensed, so free from superfluous words—that it is worthy to be called …

Let Him Deliver Him Now

Matthew 27:43

… they invaded the Holy of holies of his confidence in God, and taunted him concerning that faith in Jehovah which they were compelled to admit. See, dear friends …

A Business-Like Account

Philippians 3:7-9

… To the heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus must be revealed by the Spirit, Himself, for no man can say that Jesus Christ is Lord …

Seeing Christ's Day

John 8:56

… With holy diligence we should seek to bring up our children in the fear of the Lord so that if they do wander, it may not be through …

Observing the King's Word

1 Kings 20:33

… Until God the Holy Spirit enlightens the soul, the Truth may be put very plainly, but we do not see it. I will try, now, to set it …

A Single Eye And Simple Faith

Matthew 6:22

… Oh that God the Holy Spirit may enlighten you! That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can …

Fast-Day Service

DANIEL 9:1-19

… Send down Thy Spirit upon Thy servant, that he, whilst trembling in weakness, may be made strong to preach Thy Word, to lead forth this people in holy …