Hope

A Heavenly Pattern for Our Earthly Life

Matthew 6:10

… If none of us dare hope that even our holy things are without a flaw, yet none of us will be satisfied while a spot remains upon them …

The Touchstone of Godly Sincerity

Job 27:10

… In terrible language he describes and denounces the hypocrite’s flattering hope and withering doom. The suspicion that he himself could harbour a vain presence in his own …

Psalm 73

Psalm 73

… Headlong is their fall; without warning, without escape, without hope of future restoration! Despite their golden chains, and goodly apparel, death stays not for manners but hurries them …

The Heart Full and the Mouth Closed

Ezekiel 16:62

… Some have inquired, "Was this just?" Do not raise that question, because that is the loophole of your hope! The devils, when they fell, fell each one for …

Nearness To God

Ephesians 2:13

… We could almost have clapped our hands in the certainty of our hope that you would be saved and yet you remained like Israel— only near in the …

God's Fire and Hammer

Jeremiah 23:29

… I have not much hope of the sinner who keeps on hearing the Truth of God and saying, "Yes, I like that kind of preaching. I quite enjoy …

Sweet Savor

Ezekiel 20:41

… I hope I shall not weary you, but this seems to me to be a rich vein. I would observe that all through this incense is spoken of …

The Best Burden for Young Shoulders

Lamentations 3:27

… Month after month I sought, but found no hope. I learned the plague of my heart, the desperate evil of my nature and at this moment I have …

The Wedding Garment

Matthew 22:11-14

… Now it will be after the time of revival which we are feeling just now, when I hope a great many will be added to the church, that …

Brought Out to Be Brought In

Deuteronomy 6:23

… In our own case, however much we may love and appreciate the Sunday school system—and we cannot love it too much—I hope we shall never forget …

Work For Jesus

Matthew 21:28

… arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light." The text, I hope, may be blessed of God to be such a voice as that! Listening to …

Work

John 9:4

… of unclean birds!) could sing— "My God, I love You not because I hope for Heaven thereby, Nor yet because who love you not Must burn eternally. "You …

Temple Glories

2 Chronicles 5:13

… I hope that no creature ever had more intense and awful sorrow of heart than I under conviction of sin—feelings which I strived to conceal from all …

Prayer 8 — A Prayer for Holiness

… Not that we hope to be saved by our own holiness, but that holiness is salvation. Then we are saved from sin. Lord, help Thy poor children to …

How To Become Fishers of Men

Matthew 4:19

… Unless you take up your cross and protest against an ungodly world, you cannot hope that the holy Jesus will make you fishers of men. A second meaning …

The Power Of Aaron'S Rod

Exodus 7:12

… I hope there are some in this Church in whom the service of Christ has become the main object of their lives. If you stand up and preach …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… So I am waiting, and “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” The first time I saw …

Hearing, Seeking, Finding

Psalm 132:6

… I hope that I am addressing some who could even use the language of David and say that they intensely desire to find Him. They cry to the …

First Literary Friends (Continued)

… And therefore, we hope, not without confidence, that his usefulness will continually augment, and that whatever detracts from it will gradually disappear." A more favourable notice appeared in …

The Christian’s Heaviness and Rejoicing

1 Peter 1:6

… When the child of God is sore-stricken and much depressed, the sweet hope, that living or dying, there is an inheritance incorruptible, reserved in heaven for him …

On Whose Side Are You?

Exodus 32:26

… Now that the Lord's Day has come I hope you will forget all about politics and listen to me while I ask a far more important question …

The Overflowing Cup

Psalm 23:5

… The wells of pleasure were empty and you were in a parched land where hope smiled not. Your former delights proved to be but a mirage, fair to …

Prayer 12 — On Holy Ground

… With heart and mind, and memory and fear, and hope and joy, we worship the Most High. It well becomes us to put our shoes from off our …

Christ is Glorious—Let Us Make Him Known

Micah 5:4

… You do not believe, I hope, in the preservation of orthodoxy by legal instruments and trust deeds. This is what too many Dissenters have relied upon. We certainly …

The Great Itinerant

Acts 10:38

… At the sight of Him courage revived! Drooping faith grew strong! Hope brushed a tear from her eye and smiled! The sight of Jesus Christ as once it …

Powerful Persuasives

Matthew 11:27-28

… sweetness in the precept, such solace in the promise, that I could fain hope to preach from it many times more. But I have no intention just now …

The Beatific Vision

1 John 3:2

… We owe to none so much; we talk of none so much, we hope, and we think of none so much: at any rate, no one so constantly …

A New Song For New Hearts

Isaiah 12:1

… But when you give up in despair every hope that can be grounded in yourself and look away to those dear wounds of His—to that suffering humanity …

Our Place—at Jesus' Feet

Luke 7:38

… When you are weaned from every hope except that which is found in Jesus, you will soon have a hope in Him. Come, lie prostrate there and say …

Heavenly Geometry

Ephesians 3:16-19

… Our hope must be bright. Our joy must be increased, and then, but not till then, we shall be able to comprehend the length and breadth of Divine …

Remember Lot's Wife

Luke 17:32

… May it never come to pass with any of us that we shall leave our carcasses outside of the eternal hope because we, too, do not believe in …

High Doctrine And Broad Doctrine

John 6:37

… It is now almost over and I am past hope. Would God I were a child again!" Lo, the Angel of Mercy whispers to anyone in that condition …

Christ’s Estimate of His People

Solomon 4:10-11

… Do not imagine, however, that Christ despises our faith, or our hope, or our patience, or our humility. All these GRACES are precious, to him, and they are …

“Westwood”

… Poor doggie, pat him for me, and give him a tit-bit for my sake. … I dreamed of old Punch ; I hope the poor dog is better. . . . Kind …

The Glory, Unity and Triumph of the Church

John 17:22-3

… My Brothers and Sisters, can I hope that you have a resplendent spiritual character? Dare I hope to win the same myself? Let us look again at this …

The Church—Conservative And Aggressive

1 Timothy 3:15

… Yet how many of our ministers there are who, while they do not preach against them, and I hope secretly believe them, are, nevertheless silent upon the subject …

Satan's Banquet

John 2:9-10

… How many a man who has been self-righteous all his life, has, at the last discovered that the thing whereon he placed his hope had failed him …

Psalm 118

Psalm 118

… Satan hath little hope to prevail unless he can persuade us to omit our duties when the clock strikes, and therefore his skill is to urge us to …

The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation

… Many young men have ruined themselves in the pulpit by being indiscreet in the parlour, and have lost all hope of doing good by their stupidity or frivolity …

Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac

Genesis 22:2

… Alas for the wretched parent who has lost the hope of his old age and the stay of his decrepitude! The sun grows black at noon and the …