Joy

Sermon for New Year's-Day

Revelation 21:5

… Getting near to Christ, you will partake in his joy, and that joy shall be your strength, your freshness, the newness of your life. God grant us to …

Believers as Blessed as the Blessed Virgin

Luke 11:27

… We can scarcely imagine the holy ecstasy, or the profound joy which filled her spirit. She was an eminently gracious woman and, therefore, she never boasted of her …

Harvest Time

1 Samuel 12:17

… Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! For the harvest is come—"Is today not the wheat harvest?"Poor desponding Soul, let all your doubts and fears be gone. "Your bread shall …

The Secret Food And The Public Name

Jeremiah 15:16

… Truly, when God's Word comes with the power that makes you joy and rejoice in it, your inward delight becomes to your heart a main reason for …

The Well-Beloved

… The daughters of Jerusalem asked the spouse, “What is thy Beloved more than another beloved?” Her answer is here: “He is altogether lovely.” It is a great joy …

In Christ No Condemnation

Romans 8:1

… now," my heart sings for joy! With all my watching and warring—yes, with all my fears and trembling—yet will I rejoice in the Lord even now …

The New Song On Earth

Psalm 40:3

… And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. "There," the Apostle seems to say, "if you have doubts, they will kill your joy …

Christians Kept In Time And Glorified In Eternity

… It is written, "The Lord your God will rejoice over you with joy. He will joy over you with singing" ( Zeph. 3:17 ). As I have said on …

The First Appearance of the Risen Lord to the Eleven

Luke 24:36-44

… He would have His joy to be in them, that their joy may be full. He bids you rejoice in Him always. He whispers to you, this morning …

Where Go You?

Job 23:10

… Does it give you any joy, this morning, to think that the Lord thus reads all the secrets of your bosom? Whether you rejoice therein or not, so …

Shaved and Shorn, But Not Beyond Hope

Judges 16:22

… There is a good work going on there." We rejoice together and we say, "Thank God, they are com- ing back!" Oh, you do not know the joy …

"He Shall Be Great"

Luke 1:32

… We have never thought such a thing! We believe that the Lord has an elect MANY! And it is our joy and delight to think of them as …

Abraham's Great Reward

Genesis 15:1

… or rob you of your joy in it! It is yours so surely and so safely that you may at all times rejoice in it as being yours …

Certain Singular Subjects

Joshua 24:4

… In that birth there was joy, but sorrow came by it as well as joy. What joy there was in Isaac's house that day, for we read …

The Middle Passage

Habakkuk 3:2

… Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the 'God of my salvation.'" Now, Beloved, it will be well for us if we have much …

Our Heavenly Father's Pity

Psalm 103:13

… Rejoice in that day and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in Heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the Prophets." If …

The Righteous Father Known and Loved

John 17:25

… He must dwell in us or we shall not rejoice in His love. Thus our first subject is Divine knowledge and the Divine Instructor. Our second subject is …

Redemption By Price

1 Corinthians 6:19

… In addition to peace, you have joy. Sometimes when it is at flood, your happiness is as much as you can bear—you know what it is to …

A Cure for a Weak Heart

Psalm 31:24

… They lose their courage, their joy departs from them and they become timorous and fearful. This weakness occurs on many occasions. Sometimes we have seen those who hope …

"Waters To Swim In"

… We rejoice in its pardon and the consequent salvation which we expect to receive through it. But, compared with what we shall know of it by-and-by …

The Man With The Measuring Line

Zechariah 2:1-5

… Zion shall sing and rejoice—her Lord and King shall dwell in the midst of her—many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah and He, from shore to …

Not Bound Yet

2 Timothy 2:9

… In this, let the invalid rejoice! Dear suffering worker, your work shall not suffer, for it is a sound Gospel which you preach, though you, yourself, are hampered …

Rain and Grace—a Parallel

Job 38:25-27

… Do you not rejoice that God, who makes the rain to fall where there is no one, will make His Grace to come to you, though nobody, or …

Steadfastness

… enjoyment; you would be as glad in famine as in plenty; you would rejoice in the Lord when the olive yielded no oil, as well as when the …

Perfect Sanctification

Hebrews 10:10

… In the hea venly Lamb thrice happy I am And my heart does rejoice at the sound of His name." III. Now I close with our third head …

The Hope Laid Up In Heaven

Colossians 1:5

… that it was a subject for joy with the Apostle that the Colossians had faith, love and hope, for he would rejoice, none the less, because their faith …

The Arrows of the Bow Broken in Zion

Psalm 76:3

… But now that Jesus lives, and death has no more dominion over Him, we rejoice that by one sacrifice He has perfected forever them that are set apart …

Accepted In The Beloved

Ephesians 1:6

… No experience can be very profound which does not lead the soul more clearly and more fully to rejoice in this most glorious Truth of God. Probably it …

Cries From the Cross

Psalm 22:1

… reconciled to God." What do you say? Has God made you willing? Then rejoice! Rejoice, for He has not made you willing without giving you the power to …

The Priest Ordained by the Oath of God

Hebrews 7:20-22

… We preach not fictions, dreams, or parables, but literal facts! What a joy I feel—a joy as true and unfeigned as the glad tidings I deliver! For …

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

Galatians 2:20

… I rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. To this will be added the evidences of a work of Grace in the heart. "We …

"Out Of The Depths"

Psalm 40:12

… This is a wonderful song, full of rapturous joy. You know how Orientals were accustomed to cast their prisoners into pits—and these pits were often horribly deep …

First, King of Righteousness, and after That, King of Peace

Hebrews 7:2

… great joy." Whose fault is that? Is it not your own? The Lord seems to me to say tonight, even to the elder Brothers here, "Rejoice and be …

Everywhere And Yet Forgotten

Job 12:9

… If I could reverse Your decision, and if I could erase the lines of trial, and write in the place thereof, the gilded lines of joy, I couldnot …

The Widow of Sarepta

1 Kings 17:8

… And, Beloved in Christ Jesus, how blessed are we who rejoice in our election! What food we have! What bread and what oil—no, what supplies of richer …

The Heroic In Christianity

Luke 6:32-34

… In the elevation of his joy, the Christian is also to rise above all other men. He may rejoice as they do in the common bounties of Providence …

Diary, April to June, 1850

… Rejoice, rejoice, O my soul, and let thy joy constrain thee to work more earnestly and more zealously for Him! Redeemed and purchased, I am not my own …

Plain Words With the Careless

Luke 8:28

… and again I say, Rejoice." "Rejoice you in that day, and leap for joy." What day? A bright day? No. "When they shall say all manner of evil …

A Lesson From The Great Panic

Hebrews 12:27

… Gospel, the more the Gospel will prevail! Therefore let us not fear, but rejoice confidently in our God. III. The principle may be applied in a third direction …

A New Song For New Hearts

Isaiah 12:1

… He can make us accept the Covenant favor and rejoice in it so as to avow the joy. There are some of you whom I have tried to …