Love

The Only Door

John 10:9

… Real faith never kicks at this rule, but rather delights in it. "If you love Me," says Christ, keep My commandments." Unless we keep Christ's commandments out …

The Second Time

Acts 7:13

… Joseph was not made known to his brothers at their first visit, nor have you yet found Jesus so as to know His love. You have sought Him …

Psalm 5

Psalm 5

… We read of some who love and make a lie. Revelation 22:15. A lie may be told by those who neither love nor make it; but there …

Compassion for Souls

Genesis 21:16

… You shall find everywhere throughout the gospel that it rings of brotherly love, tender mercy, and weeping pity. If you have indeed received it in its power, the …

The Heart Of Jesus

Matthew 11:29

… Though you should treat Me as I ought not to be treated and give unkindness for My love, I will endure it all. "Come to Me although you …

The Glory of Grace

Ephesians 1:6

… It is a strange thing that love should be a warrior and that Grace should fight, but when Grace came to make us gracious, it found us graceless …

The Principal Wheat

… Oh, to have true religion in the heart; to love what we know—intensely to love it; to hold it fast as with the grip of life and …

His Name—The Everlasting Father

Isaiah 9:6

… We could not feel that He had any share in the eternal love which is the fountain of all Covenant blessings. He must be eternal who has a …

An Unparalleled Cure

Matthew 9:32

… Come, dear Heart, you have not to plead with Him to make Him merciful, for He loves you better than you love yourself! You have not to persuade …

Unanswered Prayer

Psalm 22:2

… Never tide ebbed out so far as in the Savior's case, when the great stretches of misery and sorrow were visible where once God's love had …

The Right Keynote for the New Year

Psalm 115:18

… But you who love Him, begin, from this night, to bless Him by speaking well of His name. Bless Him for everything! Bless Him for the bitters; bless …

An Exciting Enquiry

Matthew 21:10

… Only love can learn love—and Christ is Love Incarnate! It is by loving Him and communing with Him that you will get to understand Him. You must …

Lions Lacking—But the Children Satisfied

Psalm 34:10

… No; he seeks now to know more of him; he seeks to understand more of the heights and depths, and lengths, and breadths of the love of Christ …

'David's Spoil'

1 Samuel 30:20

… You sang just now that verse— "Never did angels taste above Redeeming grace and dying love." It is clear that you could never have known free grace and …

The Sweetness of God's Word

Psalm 119:103

… They can say, "How sweet are Your doctrinal Words to my taste, but not Your precepts, Lord! Those I do not love. Those I call legal. If your …

The Sealing of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13

… It is better, however, to keep to the doctrine that the Spirit of God in the Believer is, Himself, the seal— "You are the earnest of His love …

Two Choice Assurances

Genesis 15:1

… it is not alone My power, My wisdom, My love which will protect you, but I, Myself, will be your Shield! Then Abram may have thought, "I shall …

Living Temples for the Living God

Isaiah 66:1

… We know the love of God will never cast us away. We know the eternal love will never reject those it has chosen. But we should tremble lest …

Mercy for the Meanest of the Flock

Micah 4:6

… They have love to God, but they sometimes question whether they do love Him at all. They have piety in their hearts, but it is not of that …

The Overflowing Cup

Psalm 23:5

… Some of us have known what it is to doubt our own salvation and yet feel that we must always love Jesus Christ for saving other people. I …

David and His Volunteers

1 Chronicles 12:8-15

… Loved as we have been with such great love and having tasted, as some of us can testify, of such choice favors from our Lord, being indulged with …

Faith Illustrated

… But behold, I feel that such is thy power, and such thy love, that I commit myself to thee. Take me as I am, and make me what …

"Your Rowers Have Brought You Into Great Waters"

Ezekiel 27:26

… The motive of love is necessary to acceptance with God and you know nothing of it. As of now all your labor comes of a joyless servitude—it …

The Way

John 14:6

… God has love to him, unbounded love, and though He may chasten him, yet this is not in anger, but with purposes of love to him for his …

Rough, But Friendly

Genesis 42:25

… go in peace." It seems, then, our experience is general and common, that the love letters of our Lord Christ have come to us in black envelopes and …

Faith

Hebrews 11:6

… Dost thou love Christ? Couldst thou die for him? Dost thou seek to serve him? Dost thou love his people? Canst thou say, “Jesus, I love thy charming …

The Hope of Future Bliss

Psalm 17:15

… First, then, the SPIRIT OF THIS UTTERANCE, for I always love to look at the spirit in which a man writes, or the spirit in which he preaches …

Justice Vindicated And Righteousness Exemplified

Romans 3:24-26

… We remain enemies in our minds by wicked works until we see the great love with which He loved us, and then that love melts our heart and …

The Waterer Watered

Proverbs 11:25

… If we love Jesus we shall not need any pleading with to water His plants. If you really love Him, it will not be a question of whether …

The Principal Wheat

Isaiah 28:25

… Oh, to have true religion in the heart! To love what we know—intensely to love it! To hold it fast as with the grip of life and …

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… If they do love Christ at all, their love is not practical, not self-sacrificing—it does not lead them to bring love-gifts to Him. 23. I …

Turning From Death

Ezekiel 33:11

… Sinner, do not turn your head away and be angry! If you love sin, look at the child of this ill mother! Sinner, you love sin, that is …

The Infallibility of God’s Purpose

Job 23:13

… Thou well test astray from the woman speaking lies, ‘thy youthful follies and disobedience he saw, but never did that gracious mind alter in its designs of love …

The Saint'S Horror At The Sinner'S Hell

… What does your new nature do—what must it do? It must love God. What? Love God and be in Hell? Your new nature must pray. What? Pray …

'Ready, Yes, Ready!'

Isaiah 27:13

… And he replied, "I have left them all with God." "And how about eternal things?" I enquired. "Oh," said he, "you know that God's love is everlasting …

A Homily for Humble Folks

Proverbs 30:2

… If you love God more, even though you know less of science, you will live a successful, because a holy, life. If you have a greater love for …

Exposition: 1 John 3:1-10

“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it …

Tender Words Of Terrible Apprehension!

Psalm 9:17

… If the fear of God, and the love of Jesus are in your hearts, these accusations belong not to you. Occupy yourself with earnestly praying that the Word …

Church Increase

Isaiah 49:20

… I do not expect to say anything upon this subject which will interest those who have no love for the Church of God, but those who belong to …

Faith Tried and Triumphing

Job 13:15

… The Light of God and the Love of God come into our consciousness by our faith. Faith, too, is with the Christian his first and his last Faith …