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Christian hope, endurance, expectation, and encouragement
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The Hungry Filled, the Rich Emptied
Luke 1:53
… and how truly they may write themselves down among the spiritually "hungry." I hope I am now addressing some who are in this condition. Dear Friends, you are …
SERMON • SERMON 1018Pleading
Psalm 70:5
… A racer on the plains of prayer cannot hope to win, unless, by confession, repentance, and faith, he lays aside every weight of sin. Now, let it be …
SERMON • SERMON 2133"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"
Matthew 27:46
… Like David he dialogues with himself and he enquires, "Why are you cast down, O my Soul? And why are you disquieted in me? Hope you in God …
SERMON • SERMON 836Sown Light
Psalm 97:11
… you only need, by faith, to write it down upon the tablets of hope! Rejoice today that you are rich in infinite possessions! Sown seed is in the …
SERMON • SERMON 60Sovereignty and Salvation
Isaiah 45:22
… As long as you look to yourself there is no hope for you. It is not a consideration of what you are, but a consideration of what God …
SERMON • SERMON 2624Secondhand
John 18:34
… of love to God—out of being pardoned— out of having a good hope of Heaven? Have you ever proved what that dreadful misery is? I think if …
SERMON • SERMON 3039The King's Sharp Arrows
Psalm 45:5
… They tell him that he cannot save himself, and that now his only hope lies absolutely in the Sovereign will of that God who can destroy him in …
SERMON • SERMON 1208Infallibility—Where To Find It and How To Use It
Matthew 4:4
… They believe in the judgment of general councils and hope, there, to find the rock of certainty. Apparently this is more easy, for in the multitude of counselors …
SERMON • SERMON 3343'The Star Out of Jacob'
Numbers 24:17
… lifting up and sacred wealth for you because the Star has shone! Hope on! Hope always! Now that Jesus has come, there is no room for despair! I …
SERMON • SERMON 2478Christ's Perfection and Precedence
Solomon 5:10
… The spouse does not speak of "Him whom I hope to love, by-and-by," or, of "Him whom I trust I shall one day know," but she …
SERMON • SERMON 2848Theocracy
Psalm 44:4
… Now, if he is a wise young man, he will say to God, "Give me a King," for he will know from observation, I hope, rather than from …
SERMON • SERMON 3481Visits From the Lord
John 21:7
… He selected a vital topic, and this is always vital—"Do you love Me? Do you love Me? Do you love Me?" Beloved Brothers and Sisters, I hope …
SERMON • SERMON 3043Filling Up the Measure of Iniquity
Genesis 15:16
… I hope none of you were ever bankrupts, but if you ever were insolvent I expect that when you actually came to look into your books, you found …
SERMON • SERMON 1449A Vile Weed and a Fair Flower
Hebrews 13:5
… Hard names have been hurled at you—I hope you did not cry because of that. Poor child of God, your strength is very small if you are …
SERMON • SERMON 243Weak Hands and Feeble Knees
Isaiah 35:8
… The weakness of God’s children is your hope, but their strength is your despair. Let them once believe firmly, let them pray earnestly, and behold Victory waits …
SERMON • SERMON 1120The Apple Tree in the Woods
Solomon 2:3
… It is not the mightiest tree of the forest that we look to with hope, but to the Lord Jesus, our Beloved, who is the apple tree among …
SERMON • SERMON 1090For The Troubled
Psalm 88:7
… A man must have true and eternal life within him while he can continue, still, to pray, and while there is such life there is assured hope. Still …
SERMON • SERMON 2265Harvest Joy
Isaiah 9:3
… number come, by His Grace! But suppose that we had none? Well, I hope every Christian man and woman here would be troubled about it. I should not …
SERMON • SERMON 721The Last Enemy Destroyed
1 Corinthians 15:26
… I will go through Death's tremendous vale with His Presence as my stay, fearing no evil." If you have no good hope, may God give you Divine …
SERMON • SERMON 1263Hold Fast Your Shield
Hebrews 10:35
… It was giving up the conflict and ceasing to hope for safety, much less victory! Our confidence is our shield and we are not to cast it away …
SERMON • SERMON 1364Nevertheless, Hereafter
Matthew 26:64
… on the clouds of Heaven." I cannot help harping upon the text—I hope I shall not weary you with it, for to me it is music! I …
SERMON • SERMON 2326Satan Departing, Angels Ministering
Luke 4:13
… If he can come upon them when faith is very weak, when hope's eyes are dim, when love has grown cold—then he thinks that he will …
SERMON • SERMON 3470An Earnest Entreaty
Psalm 17:7
… He is almost despairing and the devil almost tempts him to make away with himself, or to give up all hope. "Oh," he says, "God will never have …
SERMON • SERMON 408Accidents, Not Punishments
Luke 13:1-5
… To all those who hastily look on every calamity as a judgment I would speak in the earnest hope of setting them right. Let me begin, then, by …
SERMON • SERMON 2859The Lions' Den
Daniel 6:20
… Thus they have lain for months, perhaps for years—all hope of health extinguished, all prospect of pleasure passed. Their limbs paralyzed, their sight failing, their hearing dull …
SERMON • SERMON 35God's People in the Furnace
Isaiah 48:10
… Read a truth in hope, read it in peace, read it in prosperity, and you will not make any thing of it. Be put inside the furnace (and …
SERMON • SERMON 374The Interest Of Christ And His People In Each Other
Solomon 2:16
… Not, "I hope, I trust, I think." But, "my Beloved is mine, andI am His." "Yes," but you will say, "the Church must then have been gazing upon …
SERMON • SERMON 1201Providence—as Seen in the Book of Esther
Esther 9:1
… There was no hope for her people unless she would go in unto the king—that despot from whom one angry look would be death. She must risk …
SERMON • SERMON 1805Strength And Recovery
Zechariah 10:12
… Fulfill Your Word unto Your servant, upon which You have caused me to hope. Do as You have said." A man that is strengthened with such might as …
SERMON • SERMON 3230The Last Message for the Year
John 6:37
… Gratitude, love, joy, hope, peace, courage, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, temperance and every other "fruit of the Spirit" will spring from the blessed root-Grace of faith in …
SERMON • SERMON 2258Where Is the Lord?
Isaiah 63:11-14
… He stands before us as the one hope of His ancient Church. There is a picture Isaiah was inspired to paint. Now the Prophet goes on to say …
SERMON • SERMON 1171The Lord Chiding His People
Psalm 103:9
… They formerly could say, "I know." Now they can barely cry, "I hope." Their faith is weak because it does not lie, now, in the same atmosphere, since …
SERMON • SERMON 479Christian Sympathy
Job 30:25
… souls, I can only say that I have not so learned Christ, and hope never to confine to a few the sympathy which I believe to be meant …
SERMON • SERMON 2349All Comers To Christ Welcomed
John 6:37
… To come to Christ is to leave everything else—to leave every other hope, every other trust. Are you trusting to your own works? Are you trusting to …
SERMON • SERMON 1934"And We Are"—a Jewel from the Revised Version
1 John 3:1
… Every man that is really adopted into the family of God also really becomes a son of God by being begotten, again, unto a lively hope. I want …
SERMON • SERMON 1576The Throne of God and of the Lamb
Revelation 22:3
… Though he cannot catch a glimpse of the distant spot which is the goal of his hope, yet his eyes are in that direction. Let him climb a …
SERMON • SERMON 536Jehovah-Shammah
Ezekiel 35:10
… Work on, hope on, pray on and expect every blessing, for God is in the earth still, and therefore it can never be the devil's globe—it …
SERMON • SERMON 2701Jesus Joyfully Received
Luke 19:6
… I wish I could hope that all who have not yet done so, would do it before the sermon ends. He is such a wondrous Guest that you …
SERMON • SERMON 2275Belief, Baptism, Blessing
Acts 16:33
… There is the early training, there is the awakening of conscience, there is the seeking to find Christ, the struggling, the little Light of God, the dim hope …
SERMON • SERMON 1849Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men
Romans 2:16
… But harken well—for I speak with a great weight upon my soul—this judgment by Jesus Christ, puts beyond possibility all hope of any after-interposition. If …