Love

Debtors and Debtors

Luke 7:41

… I would that, in this respect, my own soul were like a boat that had foundered at sea—and the sea should be the Love of God—and …

Witnesses for God

Isaiah 43:10

… Perhaps in the time of trouble we thought that His love was failing us, but in looking back we confess how wrong we were. There was as much …

An Assuredly Good Thing

Psalm 73:28

… True saints fall to close embraces of gratitude, exhibiting thankfulness inexpressible, real and deep and, therefore, not to be worded—weights of love too heavy to be carried …

Instability

Genesis 49:4

… We had a notion when we were first converted, that we should never know a change; our soul was so full of love that we could not imagine …

A Call to the Unconverted

Galatians 3:10

… God’s ministers love not such work as this. I would rather stand in this pulpit and preach twenty sermons on the love of Jesus, than one like …

The Singing Pilgrim

Psalm 119:54

… Let me go, oh speed my going, Let me go where all is love!" As pilgrims, it is true in our case that our relatives are not, the …

Woe and Weal

Micah 7:9

… That is but temporary anger and is, after all, only another form of love—for the parental anger which hates sin in a dear child is but love …

The Covenant

Psalm 111:5

… Instead of the Law of God coming on a hard, crushing command, it shall be placed within themas the object of love and delight, written on the transformed …

Chastisement

Hebrews 12:5

… God strikes him in wrath, but when he afflicts his child, chastisement is applied in love, his strokes are, all of them, put there by the hand of …

Psalm 150

Psalm 150

… And each Psalm increases in praise, love, and joy, unto the last, which is praise celebrating its ecstasy. The elect soul, the heir of God, becomes "eaten up …

Particular Redemption

John 6:44

… We love that which we ought to hate, and we hate that which we ought to love. It is but human nature, fallen human nature, that man should …

Railings

Deuteronomy 22:8

… Those whose houses are foul, whose rooms are unventilated, whose persons are disgusting, cannot be said to love their neighbor—and those who create nuisances in our crowded …

The Third Beatitude

Matthew 5:5

… I have known persons join the Church and after they have been a little while in it, they have said, "There is no love there." Now, when a …

The Rule of Christ

2 Samuel 23:4

… You have not always seen the golden light of Christ's love as you have seen it at certain times in your experience, yet since you first looked …

'That Day' and Its Disclosure

2 Timothy 1:18

… Today it is not judgment, but love that rules the hour. Now the Great White Throne is not yet set, neither is there a trumpet that rings in …

Things to Be Remembered

… Rely upon what Jesus has done and, guilty as you are, your sins shall be forgiven! God grant that it may be so with you, for His love …

The Soul's Awakening

John 5:25

… If you now will fling away both your love of sin and your love of your own righteousness and come and rest where God would have you rest …

The Drought of Nature, the Rain of Grace and the Lesson Therefrom

Jeremiah 14:3

… The love of holiness and the pursuit of it, and perseverance in that pursuit—do these come any way but from Him who has worked all our works …

Camp Law and Camp Life

Deuteronomy 23:14

… The Church of God is the great army of peace, purity, liberty, love—she wars against war, she wars against sin, she wars against oppression, she wars against …

A Door of Hope

Hosea 2:15

… Would He put His lips to my lips and kiss me with the kisses of His love if I were not reconciled to Him? Is it possible I …

Faith, And The Witness Upon Which It Is Founded

1 John 5:9

… Nothing remains with which to influence you but love. And now, in the Person of My Son, I commend My love to you and show you what good …

"As We Have Heard, So Have We Seen"

Psalm 48:8

… I love to hear what gray-headed men have to say who are further advanced in the journey of life than I am. For there is weight in …

Forgiveness

Psalm 130:4

… Why, if His love were not as much superior to ours as the heavens are above His earth, there would never be mercy presented in any shape, much …

Over Against the Sepulcher

Matthew 27:61

… Old and new followers united in the deed of love and laid their Master in the tomb. A common sorrow and a common love unite us wondrously. When …

Following Christ

2 Samuel 15:21

… We have had many kindnesses from friends, but never such love as Jesus showed when, we being his enemies, he yet redeemed us with his most precious blood …

Home-Mercies

… This thought, also, has a tendency to keep us from an overweening love of the world. The spies went to Eshcol, and fetched thence an immense cluster of …

Pedigree

2 Corinthians 11:22

… One little stream of pure love and truth went wandering amidst the arid wastes of human depravity. The election of Grace fell mainly—I might almost say entirely …

Individual Sin Laid On Jesus

Isaiah 53:6

… His attribute of Justice, which is as undoubtedly a part of His Glory as His attribute of Love, required that sin should be punished. Moreover, as God had …

Temptations On The Pinnacle

Matthew 4:5-7

… Satan knows that if he can make any of us doubt our interest in the Father's love—doubt our regeneration and adoption—then he will have us …

Sweet Peace For Tried Believers

John 16:33

… How ill we treat the Holy Spirit by our few and superficial thoughts of Him! Let us henceforth adore Him with deeper love and reverence. Then He told …

Bochim—Or, the Weepers

Judges 2:4

… Let us not sin against these! May the Holy Spirit hold us fast with these cords of love. And then the Angel came to close grips with them …

The Tenderness of God's Comfort

Isaiah 66:13

… The Infinite, Almighty God falls upon the neck of a repentant sinner and gives him the kiss of His love! And He does just the same to a …

Carte Blanche

Matthew 15:28

… If I have much love to You, give me more love to You. If I know my Lord, I pray that I may know more of Him and …

Our Ascended Lord

1 Peter 3:22

… He loves Him with an unutterable, inconceivable love and even thus does He love us in Him! Christ at the right hand of God means all His people …

The Way Everlasting

Psalm 139:24

… No man enters the way of truth, righteousness, faith, love to God and love to his neighbor but the man who has received the new birth. Now, the …

'Heirs of God'

Romans 8:17

… Again, we know that the love of God is the same toward all His children. They are all His children—all chosen, all redeemed, all regenerated, all called …

The Parable of the Ark

Genesis 7:15

… There are our Baptist friends who love the Lord—we welcome them in our room. Then there are our Independent friends, those also love the Lord. They are …

A Look and Its Lessons

Isaiah 51:1

… They do not love that which is unrighteous, but they desire to be right in all things both before God and before men. They are also said to …

Landlord and Tenant

Isaiah 38:1

… Forgive me, you spiritual, if I seem too flippant—my words are not for you, but for a class whose souls I trust you love—who cannot, as …

The Greatest Gift in Time or Eternity

Isaiah 55:4-6

… Next, Christ is a Witness in this sense—that He bears His testimony to us concerning the Father's will, the Father's love and the Father's …