Holiness

Awakening

… every awakening which is thrown away leaves the soul more drowsy than before, and less likely to be again stirred to holy feeling. Therefore our heart should be …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890 (Continued)

… The Lord Himself sustain him ! The Holy Ghost Himself has undertaken the office of Comforter because there is such need of comfort in the tried family, and because …

Spiritual Gleaning

… Be afraid of spiritual ignorance, but not of holy knowledge. Grow in grace and in the knowledge of your Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Everything taught in the …

Prayer 20 — The Great Sacrifice

… O Spirit of God, make us all more holy. Work in us more completely the image of Christ. We do long to be as the Lord Jesus Christ …

Pressing Questions of an Awakened Mind

Acts 9:5

… May the Holy Spirit help us while we handle it. II. "What will You have me to do?" THE OBEDIENT DISCIPLE REQUESTING DIRECTION. We are always telling you …

Difficulty in the Way of Believing

… When Usher wished to know whether Rutherford was indeed as holy a man as he was said to be, he went to his house as a beggar, and …

What Self Deserves

Ezekiel 36:31

… It is the work of the Holy Spirit to make us to be born again, and as that which is born of the flesh is flesh, so that …

A Traveller’s Letters Home

… I read a sermon, and our song and prayer were “in the spirit.” May it please the Lord of peace to give the like holy rest to my …

A Helpful Survey of Christ’s Work

… to divine justice: then, and not till then, he gave up the ghost. Holy men of old have enlarged most lovingly upon the bodily sufferings of our Lord …

Exposition: 1 John 3:1-10

… How it opens with a “Behold!” because it is such a striking portion of sacred Scripture, that the Holy Ghost would have us pay particular attention to it …

The Feast of the Lord

… If the minister of a church should be full of the Holy Ghost, yet could he not show forth Christ's death here in this peculiar way. He …

A Prospect of Revival

Isaiah 51:3

… The Holy Ghost, who brooded over chaos, and brought order out of confusion; the mighty Spirit who came down at Pentecost in tongues of fire, with a sound …

Open-Air Preaching — Remarks Thereon

… Only the other day I heard of a person to whom that appeal was made useful by the Holy Spirit. Look well to the ground you select, that …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878 (Continued)

… I would the Lord’s people cared more than they do for these young preachers, for I feel sure that God the Holy Spirit will raise up from …

The Christian—A Debtor

Romans 8:12

… But now in the breast of this “Hebrew of Hebrews,” there is the holy recognition of Christian fraternity without reserve or hypocrisy. The gospel softened the breast of …

One War Over and Another Begun

Judges 6:22-24

… These Midianites were wandering Bedouins from Arabia and the East country round about the Holy Land. They were masters of the art of plundering and knew no hearts …

Psalm 57

Psalm 57

… Praise is the glory of all other uses to which the tongue is employed; and the tongue is, in the body, that "temple of the Holy Ghost, "what …

The Loaded Wagon

… We shall now turn to our first point; may the Holy Ghost make it pointed to our consciences! The first and most apparent truth in the text is …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:6-7

… By-and-bye, as years revolved, God lit up another star, and then another and another, till at last Holy Scripture became like our sky at midnight-studded …

First Sermons at New Park Street Chapel

… I always love that phrase of Hart’s, — “ A sinner is a sacred thing, The Holy Ghost hath made him so.” Ah! let me know that I am …

In the Sunny South

… had before his eyes, in the Riviera, an almost exact representation of the Holy Land as it was in the days of our Lord. He was greatly interested …

How To Keep the Heart

Philippians 4:7

… IT IS REMARKABLE, that when we find an exhortation given to God’s people in one part of the Holy Scripture, we almost invariably find the very thing …

The Fullness Of Christ—Received!

John 1:16

… For every good desire, for every holy thought, for every well-spoken word, for every deed of daring, for every act of self-sacrifice let Christ be honored …

The Evil and Its Remedy

Ezekiel 9:9

… and come away declaring that sin must be a terrible thing, otherwise, the Holy One had never come upon Mount Paran with all these terrors round about him …

The Shulamite'S Choice Prayer

Solomon 8:6

… You know that when he put on his holy garments—those robes of glory and beauty—he wore the breastplate of cunning work in which four rows of …

Comfort Proclaimed

Isaiah 40:1

… First, then, TO WHOM IS THIS COMMAND ADDRESSED? You know, beloved, the Holy Spirit is the great Comforter, and he it is who alone can solace the saints …

The War of Truth

Exodus 17:9

… First of all, note that this crusade, this sacred, holy war of which I speak, is not with men , but with Satan and with error. “We wrestle not …

Psalm 21

Psalm 21

… A holy confidence in Jehovah is the true mother of victories. This psalm of triumph was composed long before our Lord's conflict began, but faith overleaps the …

A Home for the Fatherless

… In the previous chapter, mention is made of the article in The Sword and the Trowel for August, 1866, entitled, “The Holy War of the Present Hour.” In …

A Solemn Warning for All Churches

Revelation 3:4

… The holy apostle, John, said of the church in Sardis, “These things saith he that hath the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy …

The Sympathy of the Two Worlds

… is very good.” For what his Spirit makes is like himself—good, and holy and precious; and God smiles again over his twice-made creation, and saith once …

Divine Destruction and Protection

Ezekiel 17:29

… The Lord hath set his face against all boastings, and all confidences, other than a trust in the cross, and a holy reliance on the finished work and …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… When God said, “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath-day;” when he said, “Thou shalt not bow down unto the idols nor worship them,”—when he said, “Thou …

The Growth of the Institutions, 1878-1892

… Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.' " This was a grand climax. The heavens themselves seemed to think so, for there were no more thunder-claps of such tremendous …

Goodness Going Before

Psalm 21:3

… His Holy Spirit often comes to make ready your heart to receive Him so that when He comes you may be ready to open the door because He …

Canaan on Earth

Deuteronomy 11:10-12

… land whither thou goest in to possess it,”—the land of high and holy Christian privilege—“is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out …

A Sad Confession

Isaiah 53:3

… us afraid, or shall some silly fools who scoff at all that is holy, drive us to disown our Savior? Oh, Brothers and Sisters, do not surrender your …

The March!

Numbers 10:35

… Where was that day the boast of death? Had Christ remained in the jaws of death—had the Holy One seen corruption?—then had the redeemed remained the …

The Priceless Prize

Philippians 3:8

… Now may you stretch your capacious powers to the utmost and, with a holy covetousness and a sacred greediness, desire all you can! You may open your mouth …

The Light of the World

John 8:12

… He has sent the Holy Spirit to be His Representative here on earth. He testifies of Christ. The Divine Paraclete occupies the place of our departed Teacher. The …