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Christian hope, endurance, expectation, and encouragement
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"As We Have Heard, So Have We Seen"
Psalm 48:8
… When a man says, "The Word of God tells me so and I will test it for my-self"—that man is in a very hopeful state. To …
SERMON • SERMON 3118What Had Become of Peter?
Acts 12:18
… Surely, when the Prayer Meeting comes to be loved, it is good and hopeful evidence. What has become of Peter? He is not at the gin- palace. What …
SERMON • SERMON 149Independence of Christianity
Zechariah 4:6
… In that day when John Williams fell in Erromanga, ye wept, but it was a more hopeful day for Erromanga than the day when our missionaries in India …
SERMON • SERMON 2606Choice Teaching for the Chosen
John 6:45
… These people had crossed the Sea of Galilee and gone to Capernaum, "seeking for Jesus." It seemed a very hopeful sign that they should be willing to make …
SERMON • SERMON 3456'Peace Be Unto You'
Luke 24:36
… That was good—there was something hopeful there. Well, we, at least, have got together in the same way. I know you said, "Well, I don't know …
SERMON • SERMON 2018Cured At Last!
Luke 8:43
… They are under a destroying delusion, which leads them to abandon hope. None are more presumptuous than the despairing. When men have no hope, they soon have no …
SERMON • SERMON 1363Sudden Sorrow
Jeremiah 4:20
… At such a time, instead of turning to God, he has despaired and said, "I am lost, there is no hope for me," and therefore he has plunged …
SERMON • SERMON 1626The Principal Wheat
Isaiah 28:25
… Perform to your faith, to your hope, to your love and to all the Graces that are in your soul every necessary service which the farmer renders to …
SERMON • SERMON 3324Turning From Death
Ezekiel 33:11
… But that sorrow had something hopeful about it. They found no joy in their new gods and derived no comfort from their backslidings. 22. Return, you backsliding children …
SERMON • SERMON 1802Thought-Reading Extraordinary
Psalm 10:17
… Such reasoning is as accurate as the demonstrations of geometry! The Lord will never leave us to be ashamed of our hope. Learn this logic and it will …
SERMON • SERMON 3008An All-important Question
John 9:35
… That is well done on your part, I hope, but, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" You, my Brother, have been preaching the Gospel, this morning …
SERMON • SERMON 1972A Bit of History for Old and Young
Genesis 48:15
… Be hopeful of being heard at that Mercy Seat where they found Grace to help in every time of need. They died in the hope that you would …
SERMON • SERMON 2710Christ the Cause of Division
John 7:43
… You have put all your hope in Jesus and that is where all my hope is, and, therefore, we are one! Yes, there is no real division among …
SERMON • SERMON 2665A Day to Be Remembered
Luke 19:9
… You poor deluded souls who hope to save yourselves by your own works will have to keep on throughout your whole lives at that useless occupation! And even …
SERMON • SERMON 3101A Plain Talk Upon An Encouraging Topic
Jonah 2:7
… Things are hopeful when there is no more self-reliance left in the sinner. The worst of human nature is that though it cannot lift a finger for …
SERMON • SERMON 1354All Things Are Ready, Come
Luke 14:17
… This should make us very hopeful and eager in our approaches to the Lord. Come, Sinner! Come at once! This ought to encourage you, since all that God …
SERMON • SERMON 442God's Will and Man's Will
Romans 9:16
… Let your willingness to come to Christ be a hopeful sign and symptom. But once more, and let me have the ear of the anxious yet again. It …
SERMON • SERMON 2422"There Is Forgiveness"
Psalm 130:4
… My first head is taken from the first word of the text—"But." Here is A WHISPER OF HOPE. "If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who …
SERMON • SERMON 3052Christ's Loneliness and Ours
John 16:31
… Bunyan may picture Christian and Hopeful together in the stream, but it is not so—they pass, each one, alone through the river. Yet we shall not be …
SERMON • SERMON 2889Christ Receiving Sinners
Matthew 9:10
… Let us consider them as hopeful. Let us use remedies that will be the means of healing them, but let us keep them in quarantine for many a …
SERMON • SERMON 163Awake! Awake!
1 Thessalonians 5:6
… Do what you may to them; let every thing be swept away that is hopeful, that might give them cheer when they come to die, yet they feel …
SERMON • SERMON 2299Thorns and Thistles
Genesis 3:18
… The promises of God are often veiled by His threats and if faith can only look beneath the rough covering of the message, something cheerful and hopeful may …
SERMON • SERMON 657Satanic Hindrances
1 Thessalonians 2:18
… remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our Father …
SERMON • SERMON 1088The Essence of Simplicity
John 9:35
… I, too, felt that I was cut off from the congregation of the hopeful and must not hope for mercy from God. I dared not lift so much …
SERMON • SERMON 2921An Old-fashioned Remedy
Psalm 107:20
… I hope he will see himself as in a glass and say, "That is myself." The first thing about him is that he is a fool. Turn to …
SERMON • SERMON 1226The Secret Of Health
Psalm 42:11
… THIS PASSAGE ENTITLES THE MOST SICK SOULS AMONG US TO HOPE. "Hope you in God, for I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance …
SERMON • SERMON 207Sovereign Grace and Man’s Responsibility
Romans 10:20-21
… that converts him? Look at poor Pilate, how much there was that was hopeful in him. He was willing to save the Master, but he feared and trembled …
SERMON • SERMON 2129Pleading, Not Contradicting
Matthew 15:27
… Therefore say, "Truth, Lord." It represents you as, "without strength," and, "without hope." Let your answer be, "Truth, Lord." The Bible never gives unrenewed human nature a good …
SERMON • SERMON 829The Perfuming of the Heart
Romans 5:5
… And we ascend yet once again, for experience sustains hope, and hope that makes not ashamed climbs up to the very heart of God—and the love of …
SERMON • SERMON 1559Tokens For Good
Psalm 86:17
… and that I am not cast away from His Presence! Answered prayers are hopeful arguments of acceptance. David fitly said, "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the …
SERMON • SERMON 1925Jesus and the Children
Mark 10:13-16
… Cruel as the Prince of Darkness, they would quench every newly-kindled candle of hope. They are more diligent to destroy the faith than others are to spread …
SERMON • SERMON 3139A Promise for the Blind
Jeremiah 31:8
… As good Joseph Irons used to say, "They keep hope, hope, hoping—hop, hop, hopping all their lives because they can't walk." Little-Faith is always lame …
SERMON • SERMON 1174The Ear Bored With An Awl
Exodus 21:5
… There will happen Providential changes which take them away from old companions and so give them a little hope of liberty, or there will come times of sickness …
SERMON • SERMON 684Hope, Yet No Hope—No Hope, Yet Hope
Isaiah 57:10
… Finding there is no hope in himself, the man draws the unwarrantable conclusion that there is no hope for him in God. And, as once you had to …
SERMON • SERMON 2165The Serpent's Sentence
Genesis 3:14
… Those who quibble at the Doctrine of Election should answer this question—Why is it that God has left devils without hope and yet has sent His Son …
SERMON • SERMON 1346Guile Forsaken When Guilt Is Forgiven
Psalm 32:2
… I know some who can never hope to obtain forgiveness, for they continue in their iniquity. Can a woman expect to find peace with God while she goes …
SERMON • SERMON 743Ephraim Bemoaning Himself
Jeremiah 31:18
… I beg you to notice the bemoaning of the text in one more respect, namely, that it was hopeless and yet hopeful. Eph-raim says, "Lord, it is …
SERMON • SERMON 713Soul Murder—Who Is Guilty?
Psalm 51:14
… His joy was greatest when he had been the means of casting down a professor of religion, or could see young Hopeful become as vile as himself! When …
SERMON • SERMON 1891The Sermon of the Seasons
Genesis 8:22
… Every morning when we wake we hope for a change of wind, a glimpse of the sun, and the end of the frost; but still we moan with …
SERMON • SERMON 2846'No Root in Themselves'
Mark 4:17
… This reminds us of a class of persons who cause us much grief of heart, though at the first they give us cause for much hope. I mean …