Holy Spirit

The Great Itinerant

Acts 10:38

… Only let the Holy Spirit help us to dilate upon the Gospel of the Lord Jesus and we have no need to wander abroad for foreign themes. We …

The Nobleman's Faith

John 4:46-53

… May we seek it as he sought it and find it as he found it! Thus will the Holy Spirit, who inspired the narrative before us, be found …

Evening, December 31

Je 8:20

… The Holy Spirit has given more or less of blessing upon the word which has been preached in your hearing, and times of refreshing have come from the …

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… If I understand aright, zeal is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and genuine zeal draws its life and vital force from the continued operations of the Holy …

A New Song For New Hearts

Isaiah 12:1

… Blessed be God, the Holy Spirit knows how to chase away our unbelief and give us power to embrace the blessing! He can make us accept the Covenant …

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

John 14:1

… We believe that the Holy Spirit is given to dwell in His people. Now this is a great deal, a solid fulcrum upon which to place the lever …

Life In Earnest

2 Chronicles 31:21

… Under God, the Holy Spirit, our only hope for the increase of the Church and for the conversion of the world lies in the development of energy within …

The Cast-Off Sash

Jeremiah 13:1-11

… May the Holy Spirit give us all instruction thereby. I. And, first, in our text we have AN HONORABLE EMBLEM of Israel and Judah. We may say, in …

Morning, December 31

Jn 7:37

… Admirable indeed is the longsuffering of the Saviour in bearing with some of us year after year, notwithstanding our provocations, rebellions, and resistance of his Holy Spirit. Wonder …

The Minister’s Self-Watch

… It is remarkable that the only church history we have is, “The Acts of the apostles.” The Holy Spirit has not preserved their sermons. They were very good …

The Fair Portrait of a Saint

Job 23:11

… May God's Holy Spirit help us to copy the line which Jesus has written, even as scholars imitate their writing master in each stroke and line and …

Children'S Bread Given To Dogs

Matthew 15:27

… But human nature kicks at this, and says, "No, sin is a weakness, a foible, a mistake, and nothing more." But when the Holy Spirit enters the heart …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… The Holy Spirit must have worked faith in you if you had received it. That same Spirit who is able and willing to give you faith today though …

The Sweet Uses of Adversity

Job 10:2

… His Holy Spirit will convince thee of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment to come. He will strip thee, and though the pulling off of thy own righteousness …

The Plea of Faith

2 Samuel 7:25

… Some persons think that the Holy Spirit is a kind of electric shock working in the heart; that there is some mysterious and terrible thing they cannot understand …

Angelic Studies

Ephesians 3:10

… The wisdom of God is seen through the Church in the Holy Spirit's work as well as in the work of Christ. It is "manifold wisdom." You …

Runaway Jonah and the Convenient Ship

Jonah 1:3

… May we be taught of the Holy Spirit certain practical Truths of God from this incident! I would teach you four things. I. The first is—WE MAY …

A Searching Test

Titus 1:15

… Cross and ask the Master to purify it—to have waited upon the Holy Spirit for His teaching and consulted the Infallible Oracles of God's Book to …

Negotiations For Peace

Acts 10:36

… May the Holy Spirit set this in its true colors and convince every one of you that not to love God is the most shameful of evils, the …

The Angelic Life

Matthew 22:30

… You will never be more angelic than when God makes you the messengers of His Holy Spirit to the hearts of men. Be it ours to imitate the …

A Precious Promise for a Pure People

Isaiah 33:17

… By the gracious help of the Holy Spirit, you shall start a fresh career and begin a new life! Be it so and you will henceforth shut your …

Expiation

Isaiah 53:10

… And are we ever in our right senses, brethren, till the Holy Spirit really brings us into them? May it not be said of each of us as …

Why Christ Is Not Esteemed

Isaiah 53:3

… And, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, though the Holy Spirit has quickened us, there was a time when we were "dead in trespasses and sins" and, like Lazarus …

The Sequel to Divine Sovereignty

Psalm 99:1

… Mercy to them for they are the subjects of the strivings of His Holy Spirit There are many here who cannot listen to the Gospel without being, to …

Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:6

… Some have thought the works of the Holy Spirit in us would give us a righteousness in which we might stand. I am sure, my brethren, we would …

Christ a Sanctuary

Isaiah 8:14

… We are, no doubt, justified in referring it to our Lord Jesus Christ, because Peter, speaking by the Holy Spirit, uses the next part of the verse in …

A Vivid Contrast

John 7:53

… Let us turn it over in our mind under the Holy Spirit's gracious guidance. While Christ's friends and enemies had, everyone of them, a house to …

Discipline in Christ's Army

Joshua 1:11

… And by the power of the Holy Spirit we hope to do so and to receive from our Great Commander's mouth the blessed commendation, "Well done, good …

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… Accept it! Fly to the refuge which the Gospel provides, and may the Holy Spirit save you evermore. IV. And now my last point—and I shall not …

Now, and Then

1 Corinthians 13:12

… Among the things that we see now, as many of us as have had our eyes enlightened by the Holy Spirit, is OURSELVES. To see ourselves is one …

The Fullness and the Filling

John 1:16

… ever shall be witnessed again! And never forget that a fullness of the Holy Spirit abides in Christ. The Lord gives not the Spirit by measure unto Him …

Forward! Forward! Forward!

Exodus 14:15

… They seem to consider themselves as inanimate clay ordained to lie passively in the hands of the Holy Spirit. But they forget that the Holy Spirit works in …

Grace Abounding

Romans 5:20

… Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us. [See Sermons #829, Volume 14—THE PERFUMING OF …

Our Champion

Judges 16:3

… He sins not with constancy and it is in his power, with the Holy Spirit's aid, to overcome his sin! And it is his duty, as well …

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… Now concerning this propitiation, let us speak, and may the Holy Spirit give us utterance. You say, O Sinner, "How shall I come before God? How shall I …

Preface

… True, the Holy Spirit will instruct the seeker, but he works by means. The Ethiopian eunuch might have received divine illumination, and doubtless did receive it, but still …

A Refreshing Promise

Isaiah 27:3

… May we now be watered by the Holy Spirit while we meditate upon this promised watering! In warm climates irrigation is essential to fertility, therefore travelers see on …

Faith Justifying Speech

Psalm 116:10

… I also believed in the Holy Spirit as working in me and teaching me how to pray. The Holy Spirit gave me right desires and helped my infirmities …

Man Humbled, God Exalted

Isaiah 2:17

… When the Holy Spirit gives faith—joy and peace come immediately. But I believe that, as a general rule, God strips before He clothes, and when He means …

Conversion and Character

Acts 16:24-34

… May the Holy Spirit work quietness of heart in you. Our subject is the jailer of Philippi and, first, we shall say a little as to what kind …