Hope

Good Cheer for Many That Fear

Isaiah 35:4

… I hope that you and I, dear Friends, will come to Jesus, yet again, as poor sinners and take Him to be our All-in-All—and never …

A Summary of Experience and a Body of Divinity

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

… This is a very hopeful circumstance. Still, the hearing with the outward ear is comparatively a small matter; or, at least, only great because of what may follow …

Good Cheer for the New Year

Deuteronomy 11:12

… Let us seek to get a blessing to-day! I hope you will get it this afternoon in the Sunday school, you workers there. And I hope you …

The Turning Point

Luke 15:20

… Many other matters led up to it, and before he came to it there was much in him that was very hopeful; but this was the point itself …

God—All in All

Job 34:29

… I hope you are not one of those who would choose to walk with Him in silver slippers, and who would leave Him if He came in poverty …

The Lord And The Leper

Mark 1:40-42

… Be hopeful, then, ye sinful ones! Look up this morning for the Lord's approach, and expect that even in you he will work great marvels. This leper …

The Woman Which Was a Sinner

Luke 7:37-38

… Do I address one who has greatly fallen? Let this thought comfort you, if your heart bewails your sin—let this give you hope of mercy—that in …

Truthfulness

Jeremiah 5:3

… A man of bold, outspoken vice is far more hopeful than a sly, cunning hypocrite! These untruthful people began with acting untruthfully towards their fellow men. God challenges …

The Holy Spirit’s Intercession

Romans 8:26

… He uses the word ‘likewise’ to intimate that in the same manner as hope sustains the soul, so does the Holy Spirit strengthen us under trial. Hope operated …

Amazing Grace

Isaiah 57:18

… He says there is no hope and, therefore, he may as well live as he likes—he may as well be hung for a sheep as for a …

Sin Condemned And Executed By Christ Jesus

Romans 8:3

… And then the practical conclusions from them will, I hope, be not restricted to this morning, but accompany us all our days. I. Our first point is this …

Contention Ended and Grace Reigning

Isaiah 57:16-18

… Nor is it majesty, alone, that you may look to with hope, but Mercy, also, is your friend. Mercy is very speedy where confession is complete. "If we …

Sown Among Thorns

Matthew 13:7

… but is this to be all? I am very grateful that you do hear the Gospel, for I hope that one of these days God may cause it …

Great Changes

Luke 13:30

… He would be the center of their delighted observation and their own faith and hope in the Lord would be greatly increased. As a little imprisoned bird might …

A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth

Luke 18:13

… Does not God's delight in mercy prove that sinnership is no reason for despair? Moreover, the conception of salvation implies hope for sinners. That salvation which we …

The Northern Iron and the Steel

Jeremiah 15:12

… He went, however, to his work with unstaggering firmness; hopeful, perhaps, that when his countrymen heard the divine threatening, they would repent of their sin, seek mercy, and …

Freshness

Job 29:20

… And, thirdly, the hope of is continuance, which hope is greatly encouraged by the words of our text—"I shall be anointed with fresh oil." I. First, then …

The Sower

Matthew 13:3

… If it is done merely as a natural act, or a hopeful act, that will not be enough—it must be done as an act of confidence in …

Truly Eating the Flesh of Jesus

John 6:53-56

… It is vain for us to hope for salvation apart from this! The Father sets Him forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood. If we refuse …

Gladness For Sadness

Psalm 90:15-17

… Though truly, if only in this life we had hope, we should be, of all men, most miserable. Yet, since that hope is sure, we are, of all …

An Astounding Miracle

Mark 1:21-28

… And it is, in some respects, the first of miracles, as I hope I may show before I have done. Remember, however, that the objective of the miracle …

The Warning Neglected

Ezekiel 33:5

… Oh, if there were hope that in the world to come, men might escape, we need not be so earnest; but since once lost, lost for aye—once …

The Power of the Risen Savior

Matthew 28:18-20

… I hope you will not repress it and that your parents will not hinder you from the blessed sacrifice. There can be no greater honor to a Church …

Mistaken Notions About Repentance

Ezekiel 36:31

… May I still hope that faith will save me? May I come and trust in Jesus Christ, for I do not feel that I have the repentance I …

The Still Small Voice

1 Kings 19:12

… We are hopeful if we can make a noise, create excitement, stir and agitation. We are too apt to identify the power of God with the heaving of …

Salvation Altogether By Grace

… They are not looked upon as persons who are in a hopeful state and may ultimately be saved, but they are already saved. This is not according to …

Jesus and His Forerunner

John 10:39-42

… So, be hopeful that after the wearing and wearying time of opposition that you have had, you will come into smoother waters and that God will bless you …

"At Your Word"

Luke 5:5

… Labor on in hope! Say as Peter did, "Nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net." "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain …

The Proof of Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 13:3

… He was deeply grieved when he saw anything wrong, lest he should have labored in vain, and should see any perish who appeared to be hopeful converts. He …

"God, and Not Man"—What Does It Mean?

Hosea 11:9

… He does not say, "I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for he is not as bad as he might be, and there is really something hopeful about …

Faith and Regeneration

1 John 5:1

… Let them come to the Lord’s table, and eat and drink with the Lord Jesus and with all his saints, in the hope that when their constitution …

Three Homilies From One Text

Matthew 4:23-25

… Is there anyone here of so cold a heart that he is saying, "Whom shall I bring to Christ?" I hope not; for whenever a man asks what …

What is the Verdict?

1 John 3:21

… The hope is that the Lord will call them beloved who were not beloved—and that in the place where it was said, "They are not My people …

The Place of Prayer and Pardon

2 Chronicles 6:28-30

… After Christian and Hopeful had been shut up in the dungeon in Giant Despair's Castle for several days and nights, Christian said to his companion, "What a …

A Single Eye And Simple Faith

Matthew 6:22

… I do pray, my dear Hearers, by your hope of Heaven, by your hope to be delivered from the devouring fire, and to enter into Heaven's bliss …

A Message to the Glad and the Sad

Job 22:29

… Will you not repay it by speaking comfort to some of the sorrowing ones? Many of you owe your hope of Heaven to the preaching of the Word …

Dei Gratia

Ephesians 1:6

… It is man's star of hope, the wellspring of his eternal life, the seed of his future bliss. I. We shall draw from the text our first …

Nathanael—the Man Needed for the Day

John 1:47

… If we hope that we are saved, God grant that it may be a true hope and a vital experience. I will speak to you, one and all …

A Desperate Case—How to Meet It

Matthew 17:19-21

… I have seen some of these people—good people in their own way too—of whom I have thought that the conversation of drunkards was more hopeful than …

The Pierced One Pierces The Heart

Zechariah 12:10

… Sweet, heart-melting, reconciling repentance brings the soul to love the Lord and to hope in His mercy—this precious gem always glitters on the hand of faith …