Holiness

Elijah's Plea

1Kings 18:36

… fact to support you in the doing of it and if you, with holy diligence and carefulness, do all these things according to His Word, then you may …

Man's Ruin and God's Remedy

Numbers 21:8

… The sinner could not help the Holy Ghost, even if the Holy Ghost wanted the help of man to perfect his own operations. What! can it be possible …

Strange Dispensations and Matchless Consolations

Hosea 2:14

… What is our inference? Surely God will accept so good a man as this! He will be sure to justify a man so holy and so moral. Not …

Preaching Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23

… Then look, Sinner—look unto Him and be saved— Unto Him who was nailed to the tree." Look unto Him, look unto Him now! May the Holy Spirit …

First Forgiveness, Then Healing

Luke 5:20

… there are no particulars given. "Your sins are forgiven you." Sins against the holy God? Sins against a righteous Law? Sins against the Gospel? Sins against the light …

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Matthew 22:2

… O beloved, what tenderness, what compassion, yet what holy boldness; what love for sinners, and yet what love for truth! Men who have not loved him have nevertheless …

The Church and the World

… more and more to be clearly a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that we may show forth the praises of Him who …

Cheer for Despondency

Proverbs 27:1

… Did not David say, speaking by the Holy Spirit, "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all"? I charge you …

Morning, November 5

Is 54:17

… Our Protestant feeling, and our love of liberty, should make us regard its anniversary with holy gratitude. Let our hearts and lips exclaim, “We have heard with our …

For or Against?

Matthew 28:4-6

… And as for the pure and holy spirits that behold the Father's face in Glory, I think that their flaming swords must often be ready to start …

Evening, December 21

Eze 16:10

… Purity and dignity of our holy vesture are brought out in the fine linen . When the Lord sanctifies his people, they are clad as priests in pure white …

Morning, April 9

Lu 23:27

… In nothing behind the holy women in debt, let me not be behind them in gratitude or sorrow. “Love and grief my heart dividing, With my tears his …

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… Do you know who devised it? God planned it from first to last! Neither Gabriel nor any of the holy angels had anything to do with it. I …

Morning, July 26

2Pe 1:5-6

… Add to this, by God’s Holy Spirit, patience ; ask him to give thee that patience which endureth affliction, which, when it is tried, shall come forth as …

Evening, December 12

Ho 5:7

… God, thy best friend; treacherously with Jesus, whose thou art; treacherously with the Holy Spirit, by whom thou hast been quickened unto life eternal! How treacherous you have …

Evening, April 16

Ex 17:12

… When at any time your prayer flags, let faith support one hand, and let holy hope uplift the other, and prayer seating itself upon the stone of Israel …

An Unparalleled Cure

Matthew 9:32

… This blessed Christ, with His hands so full of holy work, is the One who bows His knee and cries to the great Lord of the harvest to …

Morning, April 30

Nu 14:2

… heart is not thoroughly sanctified? Are not those murmuring words contrary to the holy submissive nature of God’s children? Is not the correction needed? But if thou …

The Bridegroom's Parting Words

Solomon 8:13

… we rise upon the wings of hallowed communion with holy ones to yet more hallowed communion with the Holy One of Israel! Thus have we meditated upon two …

Evening, August 27

Ps 31:5

… thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.” Psalm 31:5 These words have been frequently used by holy men in their hour of departure. We may …

An Exciting Enquiry

Matthew 21:10

… That learning of Christ that we get from human wit is of little worth—it is the Revelation of Christ in us by the Holy Spirit which alone …

Morning, December 21

2Sa 23:5

… Blessed is the assurance that he hath made a covenant with me! If God the Holy Ghost gives me assurance of this, then his salvation is mine, his …

Making Light of Christ

Matthew 22:5

… Oh! for the teachings of the Holy Spirit. Taking this parable as the basis of our remarks, we may observe, first, that the sinner makes light of the …

Morning, March 2

1Sa 13:20

… This morning let us note enough to sharpen our zeal during this day by the aid of the Holy Spirit. See the energy of the Papists, how they …

The Last Census

Psalm 87:6

… Once let that be taken, and the angel shall cry in Heaven, "He that is holy let him be holy still." And his voice shall reverberate to Hell …

Woe and Weal

Micah 7:9

… I can see that I am travelling in the good old way that leads to God— 'The way the holy Prophets went, The road that leads from banishment …

God's Care of Elijah

1 Kings 17:4

… Now, for the second part of our theme we will notice, with holy admiration, that GOD HAS POWER TO MAKE ALL CREATURES OBEDIENT TO HIS WILL. "I have …

Evening, February 10

Is 44:22

… To the greatest possible nearness of communion with the Lord, let us, in the power of the Holy Spirit, strive mightily to return. O Lord, this night restore …

Morning, June 18

Is 54:5

… O my soul, by the power of the Holy Spirit! call him this morning, “thy Redeemer.”

Evening, July 9

Ge 1:4

… He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners; and, as he was, so we are to be nonconformists to the world, dissenting from all sin, and distinguished from …

Morning, November 29

Le 19:16-17

… The Holy Spirit, however, permits us to censure sin, and prescribes the way in which we are to do it. It must be done by rebuking our brother …

Evening, April 22

Ps 91:5

… We ought to be afraid of being afraid, lest we should vex the Holy Spirit by foolish distrust. Down, then, ye dismal forebodings and groundless apprehensions, God has …

Evening, May 29

Jos 6:26

… goose quills” and, doubtless, he has good reason, for ready writers, by the Holy Spirit’s blessing, have done his kingdom much damage. If the thousands who will …

Fathomless

Psalm 36:6

… View him from the other and he has an unction from the Holy One and he knows all things! View him from one point of the compass and …

Evening, May 18

Heb 12:11

… Our sorrows, like the passing keels of the vessels upon the sea, leave a silver line of holy light behind them “afterwards.” It is peace, sweet, deep peace …

Evening, October 6

Nu 12:1

… since our conversion we have been black, though grace has made us comely. Holy Rutherford said of himself what we must each subscribe to—“His relation to me …

Evening, October 28

Song 5:11

… He is forever infinitely holy and altogether divine. The bushy locks depict his manly vigour. There is nothing effeminate in our Beloved. He is the manliest of men …

Two Choice Assurances

Genesis 15:1

… So as the Holy Spirit shall open up the word to me, I hope to be able to give you, Beloved, some honey out of the Rock by …

The Climax of God's Love No. 2571

Hosea 2:16

… Some of you have lately united with the Lord's people— may God give you great love to Himself and may that love have a holy jealousy associated …

Morning, March 5

1Th 5:6

… thee to join them—a crown of gold ready for thy brow? Ah! no; in holy fellowship continue to watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.