Hope

Jacob and Doubting Souls a Parallel

Genesis 45:28

… When the showers of blessing are falling, I cannot hope that there will be even a drop for me." Well, then, you and old Jacob are very much …

Early And Late

Matthew 20:1

… I mean those hopeful lads and girls who, perhaps, would rather I should call them youths—those who have reached their teens—have overleaped infancy and childhood and …

The Voice Behind Thee

Isaiah 30:21

… This hopeful morning we shall hear that same ‘still small voice’ actually speaking a warning and teaching word, and we shall see how it operates upon the sinner …

God's Work Upon Minister and Convert

Acts 26:16-20

… We are not to hope for success because there is anything in us, but because God has promised that His Word shall not return unto Him void! And …

Honey From A Lion

Romans 5:15

… He saves them, not because He perceives that they have done anything that is good, or have hopeful traits of character, or form resolutions to aspire to something …

Reasons for Turning to the Lord

Hosea 6:1

… Yet in this deep distress there was mercy and hope—his way home was round by the swine trough! He might never have come to his father if …

The Hiding of Moses by Faith

Hebrews 11:23

… The father was cognizant of it, helpful in it and hopeful about it. He was fully agreeing, consenting and assisting in all that the mother did. Would God …

The First Five Disciples

John 1:37-51

… What are you seeking? Some solid resting place for your soul upon earth and a glorious hope for yourself in Heaven? Whatever you seek, it is here. What …

A Gospel Worth Dying For

Acts 20:24

… 9:16 ), there is an open door of hope for those who otherwise might despair! It is as though there had been held a great assize and the …

The Tender Grapes

Solomon 2:13

… I hope that we love Christ better, now, than we did then, but there was a vividness about our first love which we do not always realize in …

"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"

2 Chronicles 24:2

… is over? I mean, those who have begun well, who are now the hope and joy of those who know them, but who will end badly, in dishonor …

No Room for Christ in the Inn

Luke 2:7

… of hopeful mercy for the old barbarous rule of unmitigated severity. Beware, fellow citizens, beware of restoring the old idea that men can sin beyond hope of reformation …

Where True Prayer is Found

2 Samuel 7:27

… the soul towards God is an index of spiritual life most hopeful and instructive. Have hope, Brothers and Sisters, as long as you can pray, for none who …

Under Constraint

2 Corinthians 5:14

… He who touches the doctrine of Substitution, touches the apple of our eye! He who denies it, robs our soul of her only hope, for there we gather …

The Lost Silver Piece

Luke 15:8-10

… I would to God that they would take hope and learn from the parable before us, that the church of God and the Spirit of God are seeking …

Death and Life—the Wage and the Gift

Romans 6:23

… When all comes to all, this is where sin will drive you—it will perpetuate itself and so, forever kill the soul to God, goodness, joy and hope …

From The Dunghill To The Throne

Psalm 113:7

… are not regular attendants at places of worship—I must say the most hopeful class that I ever address—for some of you who have heard my voice …

A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 2:2

… it, you, yourselves need it! The times are perilous, and yet they are hopeful! By their peril, and by their hopefulness, I beseech you, be good soldiers of …

Jonah's Resolve—or, 'Look Again!'

Jonah 2:4

… My soul knows what it is to hang her hope upon a single Word of God and to find her trust accepted! I would not even change the …

Songs For Desolate Hearts

Isaiah 54:1

… He looks around upon the horizon and sees not one single hope or glean of hope! But far above he sees the cruel vulture, waiting for his lifeless …

A Discourse For A Revival Season

Jeremiah 8:19

… This is your wretched position afar off from God." Now, the prayers, I hope, of God's people have been going up for all the far-off ones …

A Sermon to Open Neglecters and Nominal Followers of Religion

Matthew 21:28-32

… Here, in this arena, I hope there are hundreds, if not thousands, who would be prepared to die for our Lord Jesus; and in yonder crowded seats, we …

Satan in a Rage

Revelation 12:12

… vomiting floods out of his mouth to drown, if possible, our newborn hope. When the hopeful hearer as yet has not really found peace and rest, it will …

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… May I not hope that this is the case? To me it seems as if there is nothing else worth living for! It cannot be worthwhile to linger …

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… Master Bunyan says in his "Grace Abounding" that he was very hopeful for England because the young men of his age were so very bad, since if God …

The Law Written in the Heart

Jeremiah 31:33

… I hope while I have been preaching about it, many of you have been saying, "I hope that the Law will be written in my heart." Remember that …

Order and Argument in Prayer

Job 23:3

… When Job first saw his friends at a distance, he may have entertained a hope that their kindly counsel and compassionate tenderness would blunt the edge of his …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

… It shows our love and regard for men in our own flesh to see them buried; it manifests our faith and hope of the resurrection; and therefore when …

The Soul Winner

… You may preach, and you may hope that God will bless your message; but it is no use. I hope it will not be so with you, brethren …

Light—Natural And Spiritual

Genesis 1:1-5

… There is no thought of faith, of love, of hope, of obedience—it is a spiritually confused mass of dead sinfulness in which everything is misplaced. It is …

Nazareth—or Jesus, Rejected by His Friends

Luke 4:28-30

… But in so doing they reject their own mercy! They reject the only hope of Heaven, and they seal their own destruction! I wish the time did not …

Psalm 101

Psalm 101

… watchful and pure! and how do we need the mercy to keep us hopeful, and to nerve our efforts, and to stir our hearts, and to sustain us …

Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance

… Such offences against the Lord’s little ones are, I hope, very rare, but they are very grievous, and tend to turn aside our hopeful youth. Frequently the …

Psalm 32

Psalm 32

… If the psalmist means that on account of God's mercy others would become hopeful, his witness is true. Remarkable answers to prayer very much quicken the prayerfulness …

Psalm 5

Psalm 5

… Do we not miss very much of the sweetness and efficacy of prayer by a want of careful meditation before it, and of hopeful expectation after it? We …

Psalm 45

Psalm 45

… Christ is the true champion of the church, others are but underlings who must borrow strength from him; the single arm of Immanuel is the sole hope of …

Election

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… But, I say, take courage, take hope, O thou sinner, that there is election. So far from dispiriting and discouraging thee, it is a very hopeful and joyous …

Baptismal Regeneration

Mark 16:15-16

… I come with much brevity, and I hope with much earnestness, in the second place, to say that FAITH IS THE INDISPENSABLE REQUISITE TO SALVATION. “He that believeth …

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers

Isaiah 51:2-3

… We may expect to see men of strong convictions converted into believers who ‘stagger not at the promise through unbelief.’ From among priests and pagans we may hope …

The Call to the Ministry

… And I can now see clearly, that at the time I would first have gone out, though my intention was, I hope, good in the main, yet I …