Love

Under the Apple Tree

Song 2:3

… Will you kindly read on in the 4th verse? The verse which contains our text describes, as it were, her first love to her Lord, her country love …

Majesty in Misery

Luke 22:63-65

… Now, thirdly, let us see LOVE AT ITS LABOR. All that shame and suffering was endured by our Savior for love of each of us who can truly …

A Refreshing Promise

Isaiah 27:3

… Every moment does He love us because His love is actively demonstrating itself in condescending actions. His love suggests the watering and the watering proves His love. He …

The Loved Ones Chastened

Revelation 3:19

… It is right of us to love our relatives—it is wrong of us to love them more than God. You, perhaps, are yourselves to-day guilty of …

The Death of Christ for His People

1 John 3:16

… Yet we are told, in the verse from which our text is taken, "Hereby perceive we the love of God." You notice that the words, "of God," are …

The Wondrous Covenant

Hebrews 8:10

… What is the connection here? Is it not this—that the Holy Spirit makes us feel what a wonderful love the love of God is to us because …

A Promise and a Providence

Ezekiel 34:15

… They love not carrion like the raven. They are timid, trembling, weak, but they are clean and they love clean feeding. They are gentle. They have no guile …

The Lower Courts

1 John 3:20

… If a man truthfully says, "I love others and I especially love the saints of God," then he may say that his conscience does not condemn him. I …

Unity In Christ

John 17:20

… But I love George Herbert, although George Herbert is a desperately High Churchman. I hate his High Churchism, but I love George Herbert from my very soul and …

Heart-communing

1 Kings 10:2

… O Beloved, I beseech you to love Christ too much to keep anything back from Him! Love Him so much that you can trust Him even with the …

Ears Bored to the Doorpost

Exodus 21:5

… What says the servant in the text? "I love my master: I love my wife: I love my children." This is what our Servant-Savior said. He loved …

Leaning On Our Beloved

Solomon 8:5

… I love that hymn we sang just now ["Condescending Love," No. 784, in Our Own Hymn-Book.] concerning our Lord's coming near to us and making His …

Sincerity And Duplicity

1 John 2:3

… Again, the spirit of John is love, all love. Every line he writes is perfumed with charity. And yet to what close self-examination, to what a severe …

The New Year's Guest

Matthew 25:35

… I was thirsty and you gave Me drink." These are two good works which prove faith in Jesus and love of Him and, therefore, they are accepted, recorded …

The Great Reservoir

Proverbs 4:23

… Perhaps you do not love your work. O, strive to love your work more, and then when your heart is full, you will go on well enough. “O …

Christ's Connection With Sinners the Source of His Glory

Isaiah 53:12

… Love, love immeasurable, led the immortal Lord to die for man. Let us think it over and melt into loving gratitude. A death endured out of pure love …

The Blessings Of Following On

Hosea 6:3

… You cannot quite understand the Doctrine of Eternal Love which had no beginning and never shall have an end—of Immutable Love which neither shifts nor changes, of …

Salvation All of Grace

Ephesians 2:8

… You are a rare platform on which my Lord's love may display itself because you know yourself to be so utterly a lost sinner! You are but …

Fifteen Years After!

Job 1:21

… And, in like manner, Jesus always loves us with an unchanging love—a love which can never fail us. He loves us as much in the furnace of …

The Sick Man Left Behind

2 Timothy 4:20

… Among his memories of love we find Paul recollecting Trophimus who had frequently shared with him the perils of rivers and perils of robbers which so largely attended …

The Sinful Made Sinless

1 John 3:4

… It is the special manner of God's love that we are bidden in this chapter to "behold" as a wonder, because He has bestowed this "manner of …

The Test of Taste

1 Peter 2:3

… If we were of the world, the world would love its own and we should love the world's own as much as the world loves it. May …

The Blood of Sprinkling (Second Sermon.)

Hebrews 12:24

… What we do say is this, that God is infinitely loving—that, in fact, God is love; but that love does not cause him to be unjust or …

The Victory of Faith

1 John 5:4

… If we go to the house of God, and profess to love him, we love him every. where; we take our religion with us into the shop, behind …

The Bridgeless Gulf

Luke 16:26

… Then I can never again depict the agonies of my Lord and Master and endeavor to attract you by the story of His love, His dying, bleeding love …

Jesus and the Lambs

Isaiah 40:11

… Hear the words of the Good Shepherd, "I love them that love Me, and they that seek Me early shall find Me." But, again, by lambs we may …

The Ever-Living Christ

Revelation 1:18

… Give up that unbelief! Give up that self-righteousness! Give up everything that will, as it were, curdle the very love of Christ till even His great love …

A Sharp Knife for the Vine Branches

John 15:2

… Say, Professor, have you brought forth the fruit of love? Searching question, this! I do not ask if you can talk of love, but, do you feel it …

Following the Risen Christ

Colossians 3:1

… And what else is there above that our hearts should love but Heaven itself? It is the place of holiness! Let us so love it that we begin …

The Rainbow

Genesis 9:16

… Believer, rejoice, for all things are yours, And God from His purpose shall never remove, But love you and bless you and rest in His love." Beloved, there …

More and More, or Less and Less

Matthew 13:12

… Do not fake love, but feel love. Give Him your whole heart, for lip love is mockery. How can you say, I love you, when your heart is …

The Luther Sermon at Exeter Hall

Galatians 5:6

… He will become a holier and a better being, for he has begun to love, and love is the mother of holiness. Is any service in the world …

Sin Laid on Jesus

Isaiah 53:6

… But, oh the love! oh the love! Nay, I will not speak of it; ye must muse upon it. Silence is sometimes the best eloquence; and it will …

The Great Change.—Conversion

… But the marvel is that Thou shouldst have suffered all this for me ! Truly, Thy love to me is wonderful, passing the love of women! Was ever grief …

Burden-bearing

Galatians 6:2

… We can love them to Christ and if we love them as the Apostle Paul did when he travailed in birth for them until Christ was formed in …

For Christ'S Sake

Ephesians 4:32

… It is true that God did not originally love us for Christ's sake, for His electing love was Sovereign and absolute—the Father loved us not because …

Faith Seeing God's Glory

John 11:40

… I bless God that so many of you love your fellow creatures and fellow sinners and earnestly desire to promote their highest interests by bringing them to Christ …

The Sheep and Their Shepherd

John 10:27

… If presented to us by one whom we love, we set great store by it. If it has been designed to be a love-token, it awakens in …

Christ Asleep in the Vessel

Mark 4:38

… Full often the Lord permits those whom we love to suffer long and He does not seem to pay attention to our prayers and entreaties. No, rather the …

Experiencing Confirming Testimony

Psalm 48:8

… As you have heard from the saints who out of their experience have told you of Christ's love, so will you find it! Do not harbor the …