Love

The Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock

… Bartlett, “With constant thanksgiving, I remember your work of faith and labour of love; and I pray the Lord to sustain you, and make you still a joyful …

A Fear to Be Desired

Hosea 3:5

… We feel that we love You and, as we decrease in our own estimation of ourselves, we feel that we love You more and more. As we realize …

The Unrivalled Eloquence Of Jesus

John 7:46

… No, let a man love me, but let it be with the love of a man. Let no man cast aside that which is masculine, forcible, and dignified …

The Cast-Off Sash

Jeremiah 13:1-11

… I have wanted to love my Lord infinitely! I have wished that I could love Him as much as seven million hearts put together could love Him! I …

The Best Friend

Proverbs 27:10

… Continue you in My love. If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love. Note this point of the Lord's discipline—not that Christ ever …

Fourfold Satisfaction

Jeremiah 31:14

… I said to myself, "If God does not punish me for my sins, He ought to do so." I could not believe in any love of God that …

The Blood of the Covenant

Hebrews 9:20

… He ceases to love the sin which once he delighted in— he begins to loathe that which was formerly his choice joy. A love of purity is born …

The Backslider'S Way Hedged Up

Hosea 2:5-7

… As an abandoned woman leaves a kind and tender husband for the base love of the vilest of the vile, even so both Israel and Judah played the …

Jan. 12 — "LOVE UNTO THE END"

Lam. 3:31

… The Lord's love is a far more serious and abiding matter than this. He chose us from eternity, and He will love us throughout eternity. He loved …

Little-faith

… God loves him, and He will love him unto the end. God has provided a crown for him, and He will not allow the crown to hang there …

Three Precious Things

1 Peter 2:7

… Oh, and what wealth of love Jesus brings into the heart when He enters it! You feel, then, that you have One to love whom you can love …

The Power of Christ's Presence

John 21:7

… He said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, Do you love Me?[See Sermons #117, Volume 3—do you love ME? And #1281, Volume …

Faith Purifying the Heart

Acts 15:9

… Faith, by revealing the love and loveliness of Christ to the soul, kindles in the heart a vehement flame of love to Him and this fire of love …

Over The Mountains

… In her loneliness she was sorrowful; but she had by no means ceased to love Him, for she calls Him her Beloved, and speaks as one who felt …

Heart-Knowledge of God

Jeremiah 24:7

… In spiritual language, to know God is to love Him. "He that loves not, knows not God, for God is Love." "I love the Lord," says David, "because …

Forgiveness Made Easy

Ephesians 4:82

… At this time we wish to speak a little concerning the duties of love and forgiveness; and here we note, at once, that the apostle sets before us …

Saving Faith

Luke 7:50

… She showed tender love, and the affections are the glory and the strength of women. They were certainly such in her. Her love was intense, womanly love, and …

A Psalm For The New Year

2 Peter 3:18

… Ask that your love may become more extended—that you may have love unto all the saints. And even more practical, that it may move your every thought …

Cambridge Life and Letters, 1850-1851

… My love to dear Mother, Eliza, Archer, Emily, Lottie, and Louisa, and accept the same yourself. I again thank you for your kindness to me. I will do …

Perseverance in Holiness

Jeremiah 32:40

… Not only will he always love them, but he will always prove his love by active kindness and blessing. He is pledged to continue the gifts and work …

Christ Made Sin

2 Corinthians 5:21

… But God commends His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. [See Sermon #104, Volume 2—LOVE'S COMMENDATION.] Certainly we …

Prayer 19 — God's Unspeakable Gift

… Thou knowest that we love Thee. May that love bubble up today like a boiling cauldron. May our hearts overflow and if we cannot speak what we feel …

Today! Today! Today!

Psalm 95:7

… When we unselfishly love you as we love our own souls and long for your salvation, you ought to regard our earnestness. When you know that our hearts …

A Gracious Dismissal

Luke 7:50

… May pardoning love put us at peace concerning all our sins! O pardoned one, you love much, for you have had much forgiven—let your thoughts all run …

The Incomparable Bridegroom and His Bride

Solomon 5:9

… If a man says, "I love Christ," that is well. But if he says, "I love Christ and I love money—and I love them both supremely"— that …

'The Lord Is My Shepherd'

Psalm 23:1

… They love the pasture, but they love the shepherd still better. Dr. Thomson tells us that these sheep are generally the fattest of the flock because the shepherd …

The Christian's Motto

John 8:29

… Next in Christ's life, one of the more prominent qualities was His love—His love to God. We ought to love God with all our hearts and …

Citizenship In Heaven

Philippians 3:20

… The love of this world is not in keeping with the love of God. "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in …

Thy Redeemer

Isaiah 41:14

… Surely I love this promise all the better, because I think I see my Saviour, with his hand all bleeding, stamping his hand upon it, and saying, “And …

"Jesus Only" —a Communion Meditation

Mark 9:8

… Come, my dear Jesus, from above, And feed my soul with heavenly love." By God's Grace, tonight, you have nothing to do with any other set of …

The Spirit's Office Towards Disciples

John 16:14

… They who love the Savior must speak of Him! In choice company they will tell some of the secrets of His love, and in any company they will …

Psalm 40

Psalm 40

… Such as love thy salvation. One would think that self love alone should make us love salvation. Aye, but they love it because it is his, "that love …

Underneath

Deuteronomy 33:27

… But next we see here the everlasting arms of love. I do no violence to Scripture when I compare love to arms, for is it not written, "I …

The Saints' Riches

Romans 8:32

… Then what must it have cost God to give up His Son to die for His people? What must God's love to His only-begotten Son be …

A Grateful Summary of Twenty Volumes

Ephesians 3:8

… She ought to be lovely in our eyes, yes, and she is, for we love the people of God beyond all others. My inmost soul can say of …

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… We gain nothing by the love of those who love not God. One good effect of being persecuted at home is this, it makes you gentler abroad. If …

The Matchless Mystery

Ephesians 5:30

… He lived and died for love of men. And that same love of God and man, though in a feebler measure, burns within your heart. You are, therefore …

For Whom Is The Gospel Meant?

Mark 2:17

… I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Mark 2:17 . "Christ died for the ungodly." Romans 5:6 . "God commends His love toward us …

Joy in a Reconciled God

Romans 5:11

… He must act according to His Nature, and His Nature and His name are Love. Let Love reign without limit! Let Love be sovereign! Let Love bear the …

The Law's Failure and Fulfillment

Romans 8:3

… You love God and you love your neighbor. And though not perfectly, yet, in a large measure, by the exercise of the Grace of God, the Law is …