Love

Grace For Grace

1 Corinthians 2:12

… Our praying does not turn the heart of God to love us but proves that we are turning to love Him. It is because He is gracious that …

Election no Discouragement to Seeking Souls

Exodus 33:19

… God is love; he willeth not the death of any, but had rather that all should come to repentance. “As I live, saith the Lord, I have no …

An Infallible Sign Of Revival

Isaiah 2:11

… Another claimed man's love and gained it and God was disobeyed. No longer on earth was the Lord alone exalted as He had been in the quiet …

For the Sick and Afflicted

Job 34:31

… Yes, beloved, since we know that God can only grieve his regenerated creatures for some purpose of love, we should willingly accept whatever sorrow he pleases to put …

The Believer in the Body and Out of the Body

2 Corinthians 5:5-10

… We long for the vision of love, but it comes not as yet. But up there what indulgence shall be accorded to us! What discoveries of the love …

The Reward Of The Righteous

Matthew 25:31-36

… It is not unmitigated kindness nor unmingled love that we receive even from the saints. I tell you, if you look for your reward from Christ's bride …

A Christmas Question

Isaiah 9:6

… Do not I love thee from my soul? Then let me nothing love: Dead be my heart to every joy, When Jesus cannot move.” III. Well, now I …

The Compassion of Jesus

Matthew 9:36

… Had He waited a little longer, I had died of despair, but that was no desire of His! On swift wings of love He came and manifested His …

Christ's One Sacrifice for Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… Man, as a sinner, God cannot love. Sin is loathsome to God. He is so pure that He cannot bear impurity, so just that the thought of injustice …

The Voice Behind Thee

Isaiah 30:21

… Man turns from the God of love, but the love of God turns not away from him. What matchless grace is this, that God should thus call after …

Faith in Christ's Ability

Matthew 9:28

… He did not say to them, "I am not going to do anything for you unless your hearts are burning with love to Me." Oh, no! It would …

A Sermon of Personal Testimony

Deuteronomy 32:47

… We must always speak as we find and we testify that since the day we sought His face, all the love of the best earthly father has been …

King's Gardens

Nehemiah 3:15

… The seeds of faith, love, hope, patience, perseverance, and zeal must be carefully cast into prepared soil by the Holy Spirit's hand, and fostered by the same …

Prayer 4 — The All-Prevailing Plea

… All Thy redeemed praise Thee, O God! As the God of our election, we extol Thee for Thine everlasting and immutable love. As the God and Father of …

Walking Humbly With God

Micah 6:8

… I do not suspend my love to You upon these outward things. I love You for Yourself and for Your richer Grace. My love is not held by …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890

… Christlieb (' Chrisfs love') is full of fire, zeal, and Christian love. He has often been fed by you, dear sir, and has fed others, through your sermons, though …

Standing and Singing

Psalm 26:12

… His Father's rod he has learned to love, but sin, even when it is the choicest pleasure, he has learned to hate. "Lord," he says, "allow me …

A Warning Against Hardness Of Heart

Hebrews 3:13

… Ah, my soul recollects when she walked in the full blaze of Jesus' love—when the very thought of His turning His face away seemed like the chill …

The Lost Silver Piece

Luke 15:8-10

… The church is that woman who sweeps her house to find the lost piece of money, and in her the Spirit works his purposes of love. How the …

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… We are bold to say it, much as we love the Master's Throne, we still love the Master better. And dearly as we love battling for the …

Springtime in Nature and Grace

Isaiah 55:10-13

… Jesus Christ is a witness to you of His Father's love. I do not know how God could show His love more fully than He does in …

A Sweet Bow

Micah 7:18

… Oh, deep abyss of Infinite Love! 2, 3. Ogive thanks unto the God of gods: for His mercy endures forever Ogive thanks to the Lord of lords: for …

The Wedding Garment

Matthew 22:11-14

… It is idle to dispute whether the wedding garment is faith or love, as some have done, for all the graces of the Spirit and blessings of the …

The Touch

Mark 5:30

… If you love Him, you will serve Him. Believing that Jesus has saved you, gratitude springs up in your heart and becomes the motive power by which a …

Work For Jesus

Matthew 21:28

… We were by nature heirs of wrath even as others, but, Beloved, "Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called …

Psalm 95

Psalm 95

… We love him, we admire him, we reverence him, let us express our feelings with the choicest sounds, using our noblest faculty for its noblest end. It is …

"You Are Now the Blessed of the Lord"

Genesis 26:29

… But why have we done so? Is it from a lack of love, or lack of faith in our own prayers that God would make it so? For …

Serving the Lord With Gladness

Psalm 100:2

… Like slaves, they fear the whip and they know not the force of constraining love which rules within the hearts of adopted and Heaven-born sons of God …

The Sons of God

Romans 8:16

… Suppose you have been enabled to believe in Jesus Christ for your salvation; that faith has produced love to Christ; that love to Christ has led you to …

The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts

Hosea 2:8

… Two things which unaided reason has always failed to grasp and always will—sin and love! Sin for its thunder and love for its music—sin for its …

God Alone the Salvation of his People

Psalm 92:2

… He calls them adulterers and fornicators that love anything else but him; he will have thy whole heart to trust in him, thy whole soul to love him …

Jesus Only

… Infinite grace provided the great sacrifice; infinite love submitted to death for our sakes. How can we dream that there can be another way than the way which …

Psalm 84

Psalm 84

… The least good look that a man hath from God, and the least good word that a man hears from God, and the least love letter and love …

A Gross Indignity

Matthew 27:30

… No, He has kissed me with the kisses of His love," and He has said, "Go your way; your sins, which are many, are all forgiven. I have …

Pricked in Their Heart

Acts 2:36-37

… the day may come when even the thunders of God may not be heard by your deafened ear, and the love of Christ will not affect the heart …

Real Grace for Real Need

Luke 9:11

… Where had John been, even loving John? Cursing and blaspheming the very Christ upon whose bosom he laid his head if it had not been that converting love …

A Most Needful Prayer Concerning The Holy Spirit

Psalm 51:11

… Now, have we acted in conformity with such distinguishing mercy? Have we manifested a holy jealousy such as Divine love ought to produce in us? Must not some …

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… Surely their afflictions are not in love, but in wrath. Where God loves, he afflicts in love, and wherever God afflicts in love, there he will first and …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:5

… Does He tell you to love one another? Love one another! Not because the Law says, "Love your God," but because Christ says, "If you love Me, keep …

Abraham's Trial—a Lesson for Believers

Genesis 22:1

… and do You deal with me as You do with all those who love Your name!" Let us look at our text. It is a kind of preface …