Love

Our Watchword

Psalm 70:4

… This saying is naturally suggested by love. It is because we love his salvation that we say, “The Lord be magnified.” You cannot love God without desiring to …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… You may touch without realizing, but you cannot love a fiction, you cannot love a myth. Love makes the Savior real to the heart. When I preach sometimes …

Till We Meet Again

Revelation 22:21

… His is love in its active form, love descending to earth, love wearing human nature, love paying the great ransom price, love ascending, love sitting and waiting, love …

Sept. 1 — ABIDING IN OBEDIENCE, IN LOVE

John 15:10

… 1 ABIDING IN OBEDIENCE, IN LOVE "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love" John 15:10 These things cannot be parted -- abiding in obedience …

The Necessity of Growing Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:3

… Look at Chapter 4, verse 9—"As touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one …

Heavenly Lovesickness!

Solomon 5:8

… But when the Lord sensibly sheds abroad His love in our hearts, then His love kindles ours. Then our blood leaps in our veins for joy, like the …

Christ's Perfection and Precedence

Solomon 5:10

… You would not care to say, "I hopeI love virtue, I hopeI love honesty"—but it is a baser thing, still, for us to allow a question to …

Love's Medicines and Miracles

Isaiah 38:17

… Listen to the words—"You have loved my soul out of the pit of corruption." Love worked the rescue. Love did it all! Let Love wear the crown …

Morning, March 12

Mt 5:43

Morning, March 12 Go To Evening Reading “Thou shalt love thy neighbour.” Matthew 5:43 “Love thy neighbour.” Perhaps he rolls in riches, and thou art poor, and …

Morning, September 3

Song 1:7

… He is the efficient cause of it; but the logical reason why we love Jesus lies in himself. Why do we love Jesus? Because he first loved us …

Morning, February 4

Ho 3:1

Morning, February 4 Go To Evening Reading “The love of the Lord.” Hosea 3:1 Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby …

Morning, August 7

Song 1:4

Morning, August 7 Go To Evening Reading “The upright love thee” Song of Solomon 1:4 Believers love Jesus with a deeper affection than they dare to give …

Knowing and Doing

2 Corinthians 8:9

… You know that I love You.'" Suppose He were then to say to you, "What have you done today to prove your love to Me?" What could you …

The Relationship of Marriage

Jeremiah 3:14

… Oh, you can speak well of Him, can you not? And as for His love—Christian, as for His love—what do you think of that? Is it …

Bands Of Love

Hosea 11:4

… Calvary is not only the fruit of His love but the root of fresh love. Another stream of love springs up at the Cross foot. "I," says the …

Marrow and Fatness

2 Samuel 7:18-22

… His love was reverent love, adoring love, meditative love, intelligent love, whole-hearted love. It expresses itself by reverence when it fails to compass infinite mercy by descriptions …

Romans, But Not romanists

Romans 16:1-16

… Brothers and Sisters, let us love one another! By all means let us love one another, for love is of God. But let us all try to be …

Spices, Flowers, Lilies and Myrrh

Solomon 5:13

… It is not so with those who truly love the Savior—they wish to know all that can be known about Him. True love likes to become familiar …

The Knowledge of Christ’s Love

It is the distinguishing mark of God’s people that they know the love of Christ. Without exception, all those who have passed from death unto life, whatever …

The Conditions Of Power In Prayer

1 John 3:22-24

… We should abound in love to God, love to Christ, love to the Church, love to sinners and love to men everywhere! When a man has no love …

Visits From the Lord

John 21:7

… Do you love Christ? What say you? With a true love? With a love that is such as He demands, that is above the love of mother or …

'Pray, Always Pray'

John 16:26

… Oh, no! "We love Him because He first loved us." The first love of God is a love of benevolence—a love of compassion—a love towards the …

The Best Beloved

Song 5:16

… The love of his heart is excelled by the heart which gave forth that love, and the wonders of his hand are outdone by the hand itself, which …

Morning, March 28

Eph 3:19

Morning, March 28 Go To Evening Reading “The love of Christ which passeth knowledge.” Ephesians 3:19 The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fulness, its greatness …

Paul Cheered in Prison by His Lord

Acts 23:10-13

… We love Him because He first loved uS. [See Sermons #229, Volume 5—LOVE; #1008, Volume 17—LOVE'S LOGIC and #2730, Volume 47— THE SECRET OF LOVE …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… How are all the little ones? Give my love to them, and to Archer and Eliza. How does Archer get on? Accept my best love for yourself and …

Loved and Loving

… This is often so in earthly love, since such love may be unlawful, or unwise, and in every case it is the source of grievous misery. Thank God …

Characteristics of Christ's Disciples

Luke 14:26

… The meaning of this passage is that Christ's disciple must so love his Lord that, in comparison with the love he bears to Christ, all other love …

Morning, October 21

2Co 5:14

Morning, October 21 Go To Evening Reading “The love of Christ constraineth us.” 2 Corinthians 5:14 How much owest thou unto my Lord? Has he ever done …

Penitence, Pardon and Peace

Luke 7:37-38

… The perfumed ointment was not so grateful to His feet as her love was to His soul—for Jesus delights in love—especially in penitent love! Her tears …

A Glorious Church

Ephesians 5:25-27

… If you cannot love because of present merit, then love because of future hope, for possibly, even there, in that bad soil, some sweet flower may grow. Be …

The Hope Laid Up In Heaven

Colossians 1:5

… He has love to the babies in Grace as well as to the grown saints—and love even to those saints whose infirmities are more manifest than their …

"Two Immutable Things"

Ezekiel 16:8

… This is a Covenant all of love, for these are all love tokens, love-gifts to the beloved one! Now, will you go back in thought and recollect …

To Lovers of Jesus—an Example

Mark 14:6

… A second beauty lay in this, that IT WAS AN ACT OF PURE LOVE, altogether of love to Jesus. The other woman—blessed was she, also, among women …

Psalm 133

Psalm 133

… That is, in Zion, or better still, in the place where brotherly love abounds. Where love reigns God reigns. Where love wishes blessing, there God commands the blessing …

'Marvelous Loving Kindness'

Psalm 17:7

… To let them behold His miracles of mercy, His extravagances of love, His superfluities of kindness—I scarcely know what words to use when talking of what the …

Something Done for Jesus

Matthew 26:10

… The natural impulse of the renewed heart is to say, "What can I do for Him? I love His people, but I love Him best. I love His …

"The King Can Do No Wrong"

2 Samuel 3:36

… That leads me, secondly, to notice that the love that manifests itself thus is not at all a foolish love, for IT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF KNOWLEDGE. Human …

A Great Sermon by the Greatest Preacher

Matthew 3:17

… I meet with a great many persons who have a very sincere love to Christ, which love does not bring them any comfort, or bring them salvation, either …

Dec. 30 — LOVED TO PERFECTION

John 13:1

… What was there in His poor disciples that He should love them? What is there in me? But when He has once begun to love, it is His …