Love

The Christian's Manifestation

1 John 3:2

… God is Love and God is Light. Therefore, love is light, and the Light of God is Love. Where enmity and hatred are still in the heart, it …

Comfort for the Desponding

Job 29:2

… It is hard to love the world and love Christ, it is impossible: that is more; but it is hard not to love the creature; it is hard …

Psalm 21

Psalm 21

… The love of Jehovah is not caused by the Redeemer's sacrifice, but that love, with its blessings of goodness, preceded the great atonement, and provided it for …

A Bright Light in Deep Shades

Isaiah 51:1

… There is good cheer for me," and with your face turned towards your Father's house, may quicken your footsteps towards the place where pardon and love are …

Grace Abounding

Romans 5:20

… 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—Read/download …

Love Undeserved

There is nothing which makes one love Christ, so much as a sense of His love balanced with a sense of our unworthiness of it. It is sweet …

Faith Justifying Speech

Psalm 116:10

… Let us, each one, say, "I love the Lord." 1. Because.There is a reason for this love. People say that love is blind, but love to God …

The Tenses

2 Corinthians 1:10

… What was the Nature of God when He first determined to deliver me? Was it love? Then it is now love. What was the motive which impelled the …

Comfort and Constancy

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… The Apostle falls back upon the doctrine of electing love—"God has, from the beginning, chosen you to salvation." And he admires the methods by which that love …

Under His Shadow

Psalm 91:1

… But he loves Me and, therefore, I love him and I will deliver him because he loves Me. Oh, love the Lord, all you saints! Love Him more …

"Rest in the Lord"

Psalm 37:7

… When you have thus come out of the field and have arrived at the palace of Love, the first staircase is described as trust and do. Read the …

Happiness—the Privilege and Duty of Christians

Deuteronomy 33:29

… We have been the subjects of much doubt and skepticism, but always, when these have flown at us like vultures, God, Himself, in infinite love, has turned aside …

An Awful Contrast

Matthew 26:67

… But if you have never had that look of love. If you have never been reconciled to Him, I ask you, by the love you bear yourselves, to …

A Dirge for the Down-grade and a Song For Faith

Isaiah 66:10

… If you love the Church of God you will share her joys. But when she passes through the dark defiles of persecution, or the rushing waters of discord …

The Rough Hewer

Hosea 6:4

… In the case before us, love seems to have reached its nonplus. Infinite Love and boundless Wisdom seem, in this instance, to be brought to a dead halt …

The Stony Heart Removed

Ezekiel 36:26

… It is this prodigy of love, this miracle of grace, which is to engage our attention to-night. I trust we shall speak now, not of something that …

Days of Heaven Upon the Earth

Deuteronomy 11:21

… And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might It is not a little love …

Self-Humbling and Self-Searching

Solomon 1:6

… Address him again by that dear name, “Thou whom my soul loveth.” Ask to have your first love rekindled; strive after the love of your espousals. There are …

Shoes for Pilgrims and Warriors

Ephesians 6:15

… Unconverted men will not love your religion, for they are carnal. That you cannot help, but you must love them, carnal as they are, and by degrees you …

Without Money and Without Price

Isaiah 55:1

… Yes, the death of self comes out of a rich experience of free and Sovereign Grace Did the Lord love me when there was nothing to love in …

The Joyous Return

Hosea 14:1-3

… Seek, then, a free forgiveness from Him! It is His love that you need—go to Him for it and He will receive you graciously—and love you …

Cleansing—a Covenant Blessing

Ezekiel 36:25

… He does not wait until they are clean before He bestows His love and pity upon them. He does not wait till they have saved themselves and then …

Holding Fast Our Profession

Hebrews 10:23

… Well, then, we have faith—faith that believes, faith that learns, faith that reclines, faith that trusts herself entirely in the love of God—faith that can say …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890 (Continued)

… I could bring forword hundreds to show how I love to show God's love and mercy to man. And I am happy to say I have seen …

Idols Abolished

Hosea 14:8

… The essence of idolatry is this—to love anything better than God, to trust anything more than God, to wish to have a god other than we have …

God's Desire for Us, and His Work in Us

Psalm 51:6

… If you love Him, keep His commandments, then, and be patient towards all men. You may be tried tonight by some loss or cross—if you love Him …

Anecdotes from the Pulpit

… The true lovers of Christ can never rise high enough in their love to Christ; they count a little love to be no love; great love to be …

"The Offense of the Cross"

Galatians 5:11

… This I will say of them, that Grace has worked good fruits in them, that they walk in the fear of the Lord, in love to one another …

Christ's Poverty, Our Riches

2 Corinthians 8:9

… I commend that rule to you —give as you love and measure your love by your gift! Further, for this also seems to be the teaching of the …

A Traveller’s Letters Home

… To love God when all is smooth and sweet, is but the love of swine who know their feeder. The true test is to be able to bless …

The Life, Walk and Triumph of Faith

Genesis 17:1

… And He is all-sufficient in love so that He will never fail us for lack of mercy in His heart or pity in His bosom. God is …

Two Ancient Proverbs

Proverbs 29:25

… Open rebuke is better than secret love. That I should love my fellow man is a good thing, but to have love enough to be able openly to …

Grace Preferred to Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:31

… Get gifts, spiritual gifts, but also get Grace and, above all, get the best Grace, the noblest Grace, the greatest Grace—that is, LOVE, for love to God …

The Lord'S Care Of His People

Zechariah 2:8

… Love without cause has now imparted and imputed such loveliness to its objects, that in Christ they are fitting subjects for love's embrace. Know you not that …

Girded for the Work

1 Peter 1:13

… And then, to help you carry out this resolution, sit down and meditate much upon the love of God to you—the eternal love, the boundless love, the …

Christ's Yoke and Burden

Matthew 11:30

… Nothing is too demeaning if it is done for love. And so is it with the yoke of Christ. When we really come to love Him, we are …

Alpha And Omega

Revelation 22:13

… Beloved, if we have trusted Him, let Him be Alpha and Omega in our love. Oh, give Him the first place in your love. Young Woman, may the …

"I Would, But You Would Not"

Matthew 23:37

… I am pining, with an aching heart, for a love that can fill and satisfy it." The love of Jesus fills the heart of man to overflowing and …

The Child Of Light Walking In Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… If a clear sense of God's love is also withdrawn from the soul, darkness follows. He that used to rejoice in that love which passes knowledge now …

The New Song and the Old Story

Psalm 96:1-3

… Thus the Cross reveals the thoughts of many hearts! If you have real Grace and true love to Jesus in your soul, you will need some way of …