Hope

Seeking the Souls of Men

… S. — Pray tell me, then, what your hope is ; for no man need ever be ashamed of a good hope. W. — Well, sir, I have been on this …

Soul Satisfaction

Psalm 35:3

… There are many good people who say, "We are trusting in Christ, and we hope we are Christians." They do not like to say that they know they …

Rejoicing and Remembering

Solomon 1:4

… Then I feel that there is no help for me and no hope of my living and working unless I can get out of that sad condition and …

Constant, Instant, Expectant

Romans 12:12

… How can we “rejoice in hope” if we know nothing about prayer to the God of hope. Whenever your hope seems to fail you and your joy begins …

Mouth and Heart

Romans 10:9

… Hear it, you unworthy ones! Hear it, you who cannot say a good word on your own account! Hear it and catch at this hope. If God the …

The Maintenance of Good Works

Titus 3:3-8

… And then out of this heirship there grows a hope which reaches forward to the eternal future with exceeding joy. We are "made heirs according to the hope …

God's Thoughts Of Peace and Our Expected End

Jeremiah 29:11

… The Lord's thoughts are all working towards "an expected end," or, as the Revised Version has it, "to give you hope in your latter end." Some read …

Negotiations For Peace

Acts 10:36

… If you oppose God, with whom is it that you set yourselves in battle array? Can your puny arm hope to rival the right hand of Jehovah? Can …

Done In A Day, But Wondered At Forever

Zechariah 3:9

… O Man, it were, indeed, enough to make you mourn that you were born if there were not hope of a sec- ond birth, and hope in the …

The Sorrowful Man's Question

Job 3:23

… This tribulation, as Paul says, "works patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our …

The Holdfasts of Faith

Romans 4:16

… I am without God and without hope—and yet I do not mourn over my sin, nor feel my awful position as I ought to do. I fear …

The Luther Sermon at Exeter Hall

Galatians 5:6

… These things are proper and profitable, but none of them must be made, in any measure or degree, the ground of our hope of salvation, for this text …

"Straightway"

Matthew 4:20

… I hope there will be no question with any of you who love the Lord about the next point. It is the duty of every Believer in Christ …

An Epistle Illustrated by a Psalm

Psalm 118:13

… and hope makes not ashamed." First, in my text, I see tribulation and patience. "You have pushed me violently that I might fall." In the second place, I …

Is It True?

Daniel 3:14

… All hope of further promotion lay with him and if they would prosper and rise in the world, they must earn his smile. Many young Christians are tried …

A Sermon For Men Of Taste

1 Peter 2:1-3

… Temptation has assailed you but you have been able to meet it by, "Christ in you, the hope of glory." And perhaps even today your soul is as …

Lingerers Hastened

Genesis 19:16

… I hope they are very numerous in this Church. Every Believer should be an ambassador from Heaven. "As my Father has sent Me," said the Well-Beloved, "even …

A Song, A solace, A Sermon and a Summons

Psalm 136:1

… And yet, if they had a good hope, I was mistaken, for if Christ should make that bed to become soft as downy pillows with His Presence, there …

Why Christ Is Not Esteemed

Isaiah 53:3

… And although I do not say that it is perfect, yet I hope I shall have as good a chance of standing before God's Throne as anybody …

Girded for the Work

1 Peter 1:13

… Do you not sometimes find yourself very listless, languid and limp? You hope the life of God is within you, but you almost question whether it is or …

The Sinner's Savior

Luke 19:7

… And first, dear Brothers and Sisters, we rejoice in it because it affords hope to ourselves. It often happens that we should never have a hope of His …

A Serious Reprimand

2 Kings 5:13

… They lead miserable lives in this world, and in the world to come their existence is without hope. I have seen many of those who hope to be …

The First Note of My Song

Psalm 103:3

… But if you do wrong there is no hope for you—there will certainly come upon you the result of evil and you will suffer till you work …

Joy And Peace In Believing

Romans 15:13

… We hope you will never be satisfied until you get them and enjoy very much of them—until you are, in fact, as the text puts it—filled …

Jehovah Has Spoken—will You Not Hear?

Jeremiah 13:15-17

… The very fact that the great God speaks to us by His Son indicates that mercy, tenderness, love and hope are the burden of His utterance! His Son …

Means for Restoring the Banished

2Samuel 14:14

… Have pity, therefore, upon Absalom, and quench not the coal of Israel's hope by executing the death penalty on your successor. It is true you must have …

Unabated Affection between Pastor and People

… The further repose will, I hope, make me stronger for the future. " I have not yet heard tidings of the special services, but I hope that every member …

Tell It All

Mark 5:33

… Tell Him how your very sleep is scared with dreams, how your days are made as black as though they were nights by a want of hope. Tell …

The Deceived Heart

Isaiah 44:20

… O my God, whatever You suffer me to be, permit me not to have a hope of Heaven and then, at the last, to have that hope turn …

Direction In Dilemma

Exodus 14:13

… If God's election comes to those who are without merit, without hope, without strength—here is hope for you! In the next place, the salvation which God …

Sabbath-work

John 5:9

… I am going, very briefly, to refer to these cures of Christ in the fond hope that He will transfer from the seventh to the first day of …

A Sermon for the Most Miserable of Men

Psalm 77:2

… Strong faith and joyous hope at times subside into a fearfulness which is scarcely able to keep the spark of hope and faith alive in the soul. Yes …

Labor In Vain

Jonah 1:12

… They are deceptive things, affording a transient hope, which soon, alas, must melt away. Ah, my Hearer, you may go on improving and reforming, but all your present …

A Singular Plea in Prayer

Psalm 41:4

… But when he dares not and cannot frame an excuse, there is hope for him. "I have sinned against You," is a confession without an excuse. Further, it …

Shut In Or Shut Out

Genesis 7:16

… What came of it, then? The door of hope was shut and the multitude perished without hope! When I was thinking this over I fancied that I could …

To Those Who Are Angry With Their Godly Friends

Genesis 4:6

… The present does not content them and they have no future from which to borrow the light of hope. The service of sin is hard to them and …

Election no Discouragement to Seeking Souls

Exodus 33:19

… Lucifer falls, and falls for ever, never to hope again. There is no dispensation of mercy to those nobler spirits; but man who was made lower than the …

The Soul-Winner

Proverbs 11:30

… The hope that so many are plucked as brands from the burning and delivered from the wrath to come is, in itself, exceedingly consoling, and I felt the …

Children Brought to Christ, and Not to the Font

Mark 10:13-16

… I hope many of us, so soon as our children saw the light, if not before, presented them to God with this anxious prayer, that they might sooner …

Feb. 21 — BLESSING ON LITTLENESS

Ps. 115:13

… Trembling hope is blessed hope. Every grace of the Holy Spirit, even though it be only in the bud, bears a blessing within it. Moreover, the Lord Jesus …