Holiness

'Cases of Conscience'

Psalm 38:4

… The Apostle Paul traces many of his deep troubles and holy triumphs to the qualifications with which he was fitted for ministering to the saints. "Whether we are …

Self-Examination

2 Corinthians 13:5

… pass your heart through a stern examination as to what it does know and what it does not know, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit. Again: it …

The Sojourn in Mesech

Psalm 120:5

… God bless to us the reading of His holy Word! Amen.

The Barley Field on Fire

2 Samuel 14:29-31

… Be reconciled to him!” I do not think you ever will come to Jesus, unless the Holy Spirit shall employ trials to bring you. I find that the …

Prayer-Its Discouragements and Encouragements

Matthew 15:23

… I am going to discuss this matter, now, as God the Holy Spirit may enable me, and I pray that He may make it comforting to many a …

God—All in All

Job 34:29

… The face of God sheds such a holy light into the soul that the clouds of slander cannot hide it. Yes, and at such times you may add …

Epilogue — The Golden Key of Prayer

… Upon these let us speak as we are enabled by God the Holy Spirit. First, prayer commanded - "Call unto Me," secondly, an answer promised - "And I will answer …

The Servants and the Pounds

Luke 19:12

… Before we go any further, may the Holy Spirit operate upon us to make us discern to which of these two we belong! If we are enemies, may …

Faith Without Sight

John 20:29

… It is a very delightful thing, you know, to have your soul made, "like the chariots of Amminadib," and to be carried right away with holy delights. Such …

Impotence and Omnipotence

John 5:5-9

… And if there is only a spark of desire, I would breathe upon it and pray the Holy Spirit to breathe upon it to make it into a …

Present Privilege And Future Favor

Deuteronomy 33:27

… This one verse may, by the Holy Spirit, be made sufficiently nourishing to sustain a Believer from that place where he now is, to the gates of Glory …

Neither Forsaken Nor Forgotten

Isaiah 49:16

… We heard the sweet strains of the holy merriment in the Father's House, but we felt that we could not join in it! And we sat by …

Among Lions

Psalm 57:4

… You dwell where angels come and go and God, Himself, deigns to dwell! Happy should young people be in such circumstances! How grateful and how holy you ought …

The Unknown Ways of Love

John 13:7

… And my prayer has been that the Holy Spirit would bless to your conversion the messages of my Brothers who have kindly occupied this pulpit. If you still …

A Grateful Summary of Twenty Volumes

Ephesians 3:8

… Paul was as holy as the holiest now upon earth, but among the humble he was the most humble. The Lord make us each so. Our next remark …

Women's Rights—a Parable

Numbers 17:5

… BY the help of God the Holy Spirit, I want to use this incident which forms a kind of episode in the rehearsal of the history of Israel …

Jacob's Model Prayer

Genesis 32:9-12

… First, then, concerning JACOB'S MODEL PRAYER, which is one of the earliest that is recorded in Holy Scripture—at least in such detail. I commend it for …

Urging Lot

Genesis 19:15

… We must try not only to preach about these two things, but to do them as the Holy Spirit shall help us. I. So my first remark is …

Memorials of Jesus

… We are no worshippers of the ragged relics so fondly hoarded by Rome; but we have other and far better memorials–holy things that are of inestimable worth …

Untitled Sermon

Acts 9:32-35

… And may God grant that His blessing may rest on it, the Holy Spirit working with it. I shall only preach this one sermon to some of you …

A Message to the Glad and the Sad

Job 22:29

… on, you shall be, even in the sight of the Most High, holy as the Holy One! You are cast down, but "there is lifting up." "Yes," you …

The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit

Proverbs 18:14

… The kind of spirit, then, that a man needs to sustain his infirmity, is one which has been renewed by the Holy Spirit and washed in the precious …

The Joy of Redemption

Isaiah 44:23

… This second redemption, which is conversion and regeneration, is equally a subject of holy joy. Very briefly I will set it forth. What sort of people are those …

The Great Pot and the Twenty Loaves

2 Kings 4:38

… Lift up Christ and lay the sinner low! Proclaim justification by faith, the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration and the grand old doctrines of the Reformation …

Choice Food for Pilgrims to Canaan

Exodus 33:14

… At such a time, this Word of God will be peculiarly precious to all in a changing state if the Holy Spirit will lay it home to their …

Comfort From Christ's Omniscience

John 21:17

… But to be asked, next, whether he really loved Christ at all, sank him to the ground with holy shame. And when his Master asked him, the third …

The Water of Life

John 4:15

… Dip it into the overflowing stream and drink! O Holy Spirit, put the cup to my poor thirsty Brother's lips! 2. Secondly, water is also life-preserving …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… His love to man is proved by His suffering to the death on their behalf and this, when the Holy Spirit has made men wise, shall be to …

'Non Nobis, Domine!'

Psalm 115:1

… Now let us take the words of our text by themselves and examine them under the gracious guidance of the Holy Spirit. They are, I think, instructive to …

There Go The Ships

Psalm 104:26

… There are some Church members who are so oddly shaped that somehow they never seem to cut the water! Even the Holy Spirit does not make much of …

A Second Word to Seekers

Jeremiah 29:13

… And as I read it, I pray the Holy Spirit to apply its comfortable assurance to your soul. Look at the 11th verse—"For I know the thoughts …

The Tenderness of Jesus

Hebrews 4:15

… The things of God which He knows, He makes known unto us by His Holy Spirit, as we are able to bear them. We are to learn of …

Feeble Faith Appealing to a Strong Savior

Mark 9:24

… but whoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy." The Apostle John, writing under the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit, declares, "the blood of Jesus Christ His Son …

The Golden Key Of Prayer

Jeremiah 33:3

… Upon these let us speak as we are enabled by God the Holy Spirit. First, prayer commanded—"Call unto Me." Secondly, an answer promised—"And I will answer …

Christ the Conqueror of Satan

Genesis 3:16

… Jesus was not shadowed of the Holy Ghost, and “the holy thing” which was born of her was as to his humanity the seed of the woman only …

Pardon for the Greatest Guilt

2 Chronicles 33:2

… The Holy Spirit has some motive and reason for this, we may be sure. If you look in the Second Book of Kings, in the 21st Chapter, you …

The Knowledge of Christ’s Love

… For to know the love of Christ, to taste its sweetness, to realize it personally, experimentally, and vitally, as shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost …

The Joy Of Jesus

Luke 10:21

… The perfectly holy God is the perfectly happy God and the perfectly holy Christ, had it not been that He had taken upon Himself our griefs and sicknesses …

"Lo, I Come"—Application

Psalm 40:7

… All religion which is not the supernatural product of the Holy Spirit is a fiction. One breath from the Spirit of God withers all the beauty of our …

Rahab

Hebrews 11:31

… His object is to show that the faith which justifies the soul is a faith which produces good works, and therefore he looks for instances of holy service …