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Christian hope, endurance, expectation, and encouragement

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SERMON • SERMON 2400

Number 2400—or, "Escape for Your Life!"

Genesis 19:17

… No, the message was, "Escape! Flee from Sodom! Escape for your life." So, to you who are unconverted, we can bring no proposals of hope if you stay …

SERMON • SERMON 2593

A Welcome for Jesus

Luke 8:40

… I hope I do. 'Lord, I believe; help You mine unbelief!'" Still more fervently he cries, "Lord, give me rest! Lord, come and take away the burden of …

SERMON • SERMON 2141

The Question of Questions

John 9:35

… You are bold in your confession but do you really believe in the Lord Jesus? Can that bold confession be supported by your life? I hope you are …

SERMON • SERMON 154

Fast-Day Service

DANIEL 9:1-19

… As to the hope that he will help us it is a certainty. There is no fear that when we unite in prayer God will refuse to hear …

SERMON • SERMON 1751

Fathers In Christ

1 John 2:13

… We hope to understand the Truth better, but we shall never discover better Truth! "I write," and, "I have written," also indicate the abiding need of men—they …

SERMON • SERMON 2655

Decided Ungodliness

Jeremiah 5:3

… I hope it is, for then Christ can pray, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Notice how the Prophet put it—"Therefore I said …

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To Those Who Have Believed

… It was not the hope of liberty that made her bold, but the fact of liberty . So you are not now merely hoping for eternal life, but “ He …

SERMON • SERMON 1739

Bankrupt Debtors Discharged

Luke 7:42

… I have often prayed this prayer—"Lord, let me know the very worst of my case," for I do not wish to entertain a hope that will, at …

SERMON • SERMON 646

In Whom Are You Trusting?

Isaiah 36:5

… But in soul-matters if I once make bankruptcy in the commerce of life, there is no hope of my receiving a fresh certificate and attempting to retrieve …

SERMON • SERMON 2501

All and All in All

Colossians 3:11

… He is everywhere and, to us, if we are Christians, "Christ is all." There is the foundation of all our faith and hope—and I want you who …

SERMON • SERMON 1514

The Key-Note of a Choice Sonnet

Luke 1:46

… May he be formed in us the hope of glory, and may it be ours to tend his infant cause in the world, and watch over it as …

SERMON • SERMON 1074

The Paraclete

John 14:16

… It is most comprehensive and we shall hope not so much to interpret as to paraphrase it in the first head of our sermon this morning. Let us …

SERMON • SERMON 1561

Asleep and Yet Awake—a Riddle

Solomon 5:2

… I know a great many who are so—they are alive, I hope, but very sleepy! They do very little; they are too sluggish to attempt much. "The …

SERMON • SERMON 3126

Pictures of Life

James 4:14

… My hope is in Yo . This is a glorious hope! This is a hope that finds its all in God! This hope will outlast death and the grave …

SERMON • SERMON 3153

Paul Cheered in Prison by His Lord

Acts 23:10-13

… unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews …

SERMON • SERMON 1259

There Go The Ships

Psalm 104:26

… And so, Brothers and Sisters, be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. Never show in your actions that …

SERMON • SERMON 1211

The Hospital of Waiters Visited with the Gospel

John 5:8

… They go to a place of worship, continually, and they say to themselves, "We hope that one of these days we shall be able to lay hold of …

SERMON • SERMON 1705

The Hearing of Faith

Galatians 3:2

… He will not consent to believe God—he prefers to believe in the proud falsehoods of his own heart—which delude him into the flattering hope that he …

SERMON • SERMON 1083

Living Temples for the Living God

Isaiah 66:1

… Oh, if the Lord said He dwelt in the hearts of the great, there would not be much hope for some of us! Or if He said He …

SERMON • SERMON 1718

Certain Singular Subjects

Joshua 24:4

… When the Negro slave had borne long years of bondage and hope of deliverance seemed far away, it was God that gave an Abraham Lincoln who led the …

SERMON • SERMON 1993

Driving the Vultures Away from the Sacrifice

Genesis 15:11

… If you are still out of covenant with God, what hope, what safety, what peace, what joy is there for you? Away, you kites, who are hovering over …

SERMON • SERMON 1826

The Horns of the Altar

1 Kings 2:30

… Three weeks have worked such marvels that I hope in due time to return in full vigor. My heart is with the Special Services at the Tabernacle; for …

SERMON • SERMON 702

Peter'S Three Calls

John 1:37

… If you would be a "fisher of men" in the Tabernacle, I hope you will know the people near whom you sit, for as you know them, and …

SERMON • SERMON 1723

"Knock!"

Matthew 7:12

… If you seem shut out from comfort, from knowledge, from hope, from God, from Heaven—then knock, for the Lord will open unto you! Here you need the …

SERMON • SERMON 1061

Rahab

Hebrews 11:31

… God had chosen her as "one of a family" by His electing love, and though we hope that Grace continued in the household for many generations, yet it …

SERMON • SERMON 1101

An Old-Fashioned Conversion

Job 33:29

… Though they were sinful, they thought that they were righteous, and though they were condemned by the Law of God they still entertained the fond hope that they …

SERMON • SERMON 1529

A Powerful Reason For Coming To Christ

Mark 3:8

… They proceeded, however, to the second step which I have already indicated, for they drew from what they had heard, an argument of hope. They said, "Has He …

SERMON • SERMON 1988

The Blood of Sprinkling and the Children

Exodus 12:21-27

… The true Israel are trusting in the Sacrifice once offered for sin—it is their rest, their comfort, their hope. As for those who are not trusting in …

SERMON • SERMON 429

Grace Exalted—Boasting Excluded

Romans 3:27

… Let me say broadly—to hope to be saved by works is a delusion. To hope to be saved by a method in which Divine Grace and works …

SERMON • SERMON 2544

The One and the Many

Romans 5:16

… Yet in this text there is hope, even, for such sinners as they are! "The free gift is of many offenses." Poor blackamoor sinner, where are you? This …

SERMON • SERMON 480

A Message from God for Thee

Lamentations 4:22

… The enlightened conscience of a man is almost as inexorable as the justice of God, for an awakened conscience, if you give it a false hope, will not …

SERMON • SERMON 632

Consider Before You Fight

Luke 14:31

… He does not begin to build a house which he will not be able to finish, nor commence a war which he cannot hope to fight through. The …

SERMON • SERMON 596

Praying And Waiting

1 John 5:13-15

… It exercises their faith and brings hope into the field. And so answers to faith exercises our watching faith and trains our hope to look up. The devil …

SERMON • SERMON 1797

How To Meet the Doctrine of Election

Matthew 15:24

… I believe that we, dear Friends, the humble imitators of the Lord Jesus Christ, are bound to encourage all in whom there is any hope. Whenever we see …

SERMON • SERMON 2385

Another Lesson From Manasseh's Life

2 Chronicles 33:10

… I have often seen, upon crosses in Italy, these words, "Spes unica," the unique hope, the only hope of a sinner. Salvation is all in Christ! It is …

SERMON • SERMON 1303

The Believer in the Body and Out of the Body

2 Corinthians 5:5-10

… What a man sees, why does he yet hope for? This place is the realm of hope we cannot expect to see. But we are going to the …

SERMON • SERMON 2245

"Living, Loving, Lasting Union"

Ephesians 5:30

… We have admired the way in which he has triumphed in Christ in spite of his sufferings, but we have felt that we could scarcely hope to imitate …

SERMON • SERMON 121

The Leafless Tree

Isaiah 6:3

… There were no heavings of faith, but faith was there; there were no lookings out of hope, but though hope’s eyelids were shut, the eyes were there …

SERMON • SERMON 1025

A Visit to the Harvest Field

James 5:7-8

… While he waits with a patient hope, he is no doubt all the more patient of the issue, because his hope is so reasonable. And not only does …

SERMON • SERMON 368

The March!

Numbers 10:35

… How could they hope to kill His people? "Because He lives, they shall live also." How could they hope to condemn His people? "Who shall lay anything to …