Hope

How to Please God

Hebrews 11:6

… Without faith, you are without hope, for a true hope can only spring out of a true faith. And you are without Christ—consequently, without a Savior, without …

Love Thy Neighbour

Matthew 19:19

… Thou thinkest thyself to be of that sect which is the nearest to the truth, and thou hast hope that thou and thy compeers who think so well …

Degrees Of Power Attending The Gospel

1 Thessalonians 1:5

… We had hope for you once, but we must almost cease to hope. Certain persons rush into drunkenness after seasons of abstinence—having known the evil of the …

Strong Meat

Hebrews 5:14

… Faith, hope, love, patience—they are all there, but they are all little, all in miniature—and they must all grow. And he is of full age whose …

Redemption By Price

1 Corinthians 6:19

… And then you have a grand reversion—a hope which looks across the stream of death to a better land—a hope of immortality with Christ, of likeness …

The Abiding of the Spirit the Glory of the Church

Haggai 2:4-5

… The hope of the continuance and increase of the church lies in the remaining of the Spirit with us. The hope of the salvation of London lies in …

The Best House-visitation

Mark 1:29-33

… it might be quite as well if we asked the Lord to make use of us, and if we were believingly to hope that even our feeble instrumentality …

The Three Hours of Darkness

Matthew 27:45

… I am content to believe it and to rest my hope upon it. How should the Holy One have sin laid upon Him? That, also, I do not …

The Prodigal's Climax

Luke 15:17

… Oh, there are some who spend all their character, spend all their health and strength, spend all their hope, spend all their uprightness, spend everything that was worth …

Jesus Calling

Matthew 11:28

… Not you whole ones does the Great Physician seek—it is the sick whom He invites to come to Him! Not you good people who hope to enter …

Come From the Four Winds, O Breath!

Ezekiel 37:9

… Then we may hope and expect that the people will also receive it from us. The Spirit of God, that is, the Breath of God, goes with the …

Buying Without Money

Isaiah 55:1

… I hope he will recognize his own portrait, though it is by no means a flattering one. It is the Truth of God itself, a photograph taken by …

Reasons For Doubting Christ

Matthew 14:31

… I hope I have been converted, have felt my need of Christ and have put my trust in Him. But I never had such a sight of myself …

The First Resurrection

Revelation 20:4

… But I have been preaching to my own congregation rather than fighting with opponents, and I hope you will take these passages and weigh them for yourselves. If …

Christ the Cure for Troubled Hearts

Luke 24:38

… I say to myself, "Why are you cast down, O my Soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him …

A Great Bargain

Matthew 13:45

… Whether he deals in pearls or in grain, he does not hope to obtain riches by labor. He leaves that to those who eat their bread in the …

Faith Victorious

Matthew 15:21-28

… After my own fashion, in deep distress, and from my very heart I prayed many a time, yet I received no answer and scarcely a ray of hope …

Prayer to God in Trouble an Acceptable Sacrifice

Psalm 50:15

… so comforting, so beneficial! Are our cries of anguish and our appeals of hope acceptable to God? Then let us cry mightily to Him! Are any of you …

Accepted In The Beloved

Ephesians 1:6

… And then you are without hope, and there remains nothing for you but a fearful looking for judgment and of fiery indignation. No man out of Christ can …

Christ—Perfect Through Sufferings

Hebrews 2:10

… At the eleventh hour he saved the thief; let not this be a reason for your procrastination—that were ungrateful let it, however, be a cause for hope …

A Lecture for Little-Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:3

… Say unto yourselves, “Why art thou cast down, Oh, soul and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, who …

"Christ First, Me Last—Nothing Between But Love"

Galatians 2:20

… Seek Him! Trust in the Savior's finished work and I hope we shall yet see you, again, as you come forward and say, "Yes, He loved me …

Concealing the Words of God

Job 6:10

… Now we have a vast mass of sacred literature and we have, besides that, the Word Himself, who is the hope of our souls and the Lord of …

The Blind Befriended

Isaiah 42:16

… If you ask any Believer what he rests his hope upon, he will tell you that it is upon an unseen Christ, "whom having not seen we love …

A Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221

… Finally, my brethren, I am cheered and comforted beyond measure by the joyous hope that on the coming Sabbath I shall again appear among you. This prospect is …

The Great Liberator

John 8:36

… Blessed "if." It is like the prison window through the stony wall—it lets in enough sunshine for us to read the word, "hope." "If the Son therefore …

Cords and Cart-Ropes

Isaiah 5:18

… There is hope for every harnessed slave of Satan. There is hope for those who are most securely bound. "Oh," you say, "I am afraid that I have …

Hope for the Worst Backsliders

Jeremiah 3:22

… unfounded one! Come just as you are, with no goodness, or virtue, or hope of any sort—come to Christ for it all! "But all who would be …

Good Works

Titus 2:14

… What more can we say, then? We hope we have proved our points to all honest and consistent men. We only send you away, ye hypocrites, with this …

The Prosperous Man's Reminder

Hosea 13:5-8

… I hope, beloved Friends, that many of you have, through Divine Grace, proved superior to these tendencies and have been able to swim against the stream. If so …

Putting the Hand Upon the Head of the Sacrifice

Leviticus 1:4

… Neither can I hope, through future obedience, to become acceptable with God. Therefore I bring this sacrifice because I, myself, cannot become acceptable without it." This is a …

King's Gardens

Nehemiah 3:15

… My Friend, if He has not come to you yet, I hope He will. If you have not given your heart to Him, I hope you may be …

Godly Fear and Its Goodly Consequence

Proverbs 14:26

… It is constantly the short way of expressing real faith, hope, love, holiness of living and every Grace which makes up true godliness. But why was fear selected …

Scourge For Slumbering Souls

Amos 6:1

… Let the dishonest bow their heads, I have always walked in integrity before men." And so you wrap yourselves in your good works and hope thus to stand …

Psalm 69

Psalm 69

… Many of us know what watching and waiting mean; and we know something of the failing eye when hope is long deferred: but in all this Jesus bears …

In Him: Like Him

1 John 2:6

… I hope that we can say we abide in him as our sanctuary and shelter. We have fled for refuge to him who is the hope set before …

Deliverance From the Pit

Job 33:24

… Blessed be God, we have a sure and certain hope that though he has gone down into the grave—he could go no lower, for his soul was …

On Raising Questions

… To argue against your only hope is like a foolish man sitting on a bough, and chopping it away so as to let himself down. Who but an …

Psalm 62

Psalm 62

… Now, all this doth destroy, not extinguish, not annihilate, that affection in man, of hope and trust, and confidence in anything; but it rectifies that hope, and trust …

Following Christ

2 Samuel 15:21

… It is in the hope that some here may feel the sweet attractions of Christ that I have selected this text, anxiously praying that some here may so …