Love

The Charge of the Angel

Acts 5:19

… A being altogether superior to yourselves would before long drive you to cry for your old minister—with lips of clay and heart of love. You would prefer …

The Spur

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… Have we been bought with he blood of Jesus and can we be idlers in our Redeemer's vineyard? The love of Jesus to us must provoke love …

Rejecters Of The Gospel Admonished

Isaiah 28:12

… Watts truly says, he spoke more of Jesus Christ than all the rest of the Prophets and yet the message of love was treated as though it were …

Rubbish

Nehemiah 4:10

… That is to say, to build us up in Divine Grace, and that building up is carried on by the Grace of love. "Knowledge puffs up, but love …

The Holdfasts of Faith

Romans 4:16

… What if within your bosom at present there seems to be neither repentance, nor faith, nor hope, nor love?—the Lord can create them all within you! He …

Meeting in the Unfinished Tabernacle

… If I had ten thousand buildings to erect, I would never look to anybody else ; I would stick to my first love, for he has been faithful and …

The Glorious Right Hand Of The Lord

Numbers 11:23

… I know that You love me and will not forsake Your own, but will surely deliver them out of all their temptations." You shall have my text fulfilled …

David Warned and Rewarded

Psalm 19:11

… To those of us who love the Lord, it is a great delight to do what God bids us do. For instance, He bids us draw near to …

"All of One"

Hebrews 2:11-13

… No, the whole scheme of redemption is all part of the great eternal system and plan matured in the Divine Mind that by redeeming love, manifested in the …

All Fulness in Christ

Colossians 1:19

… The Father has stored up in Christ Jesus, as in a reservoir, for the use of all his people, his eternal love and his unbounded grace, that it …

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Isaiah 43:2

… If we were of the world, the world would love its own, but “because,” said Christ, “ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out …

"I Thought"

2 Kings 5:11

… He who believes learns to love and, learning to love, he is changed from sin to holiness. "Yes, but this believing makes a man into a mere child …

"Straightway"

Matthew 4:20

… I hope there will be no question with any of you who love the Lord about the next point. It is the duty of every Believer in Christ …

A Home Question and a Right Answer

John 6:66-69

… They yield most sweetly to the charms of His love, to the force of the Truths of God which He teaches and the love which He manifests. They …

Psalm 37

Psalm 37

… What if wicked devices succeed and your own plans are defeated! there is more of the love of God in your defeats than in the successes of the …

Is It True?

Daniel 3:14

… The love of the world and the love of God will no more mix than oil and water. To attempt a fusion of these two is to bring …

A Suitable Watchword

Psalm 12:1

… He knew to Whom he was speaking, to One full of love and faithfulness, strength and wisdom—and so he says at once, "Help, Lord." Nor can you …

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

… What a means of blessing one look at the Lord may be! There is life, light, liberty, love, everything in fact, in a look at the crucified One …

Man's Extremity, God's Opportunity

Deuteronomy 32:36

… If I could be the possessor of a thousand worlds and yet live for a single moment without having my sin forgiven, and without the love of God …

Rare Fruit

Isaiah 57:19

… Pull the logs all apart and throw the holy water of love over the hot ashes! Do not let the fire of anger burn. Why should we? We …

Robbers of God

Malachi 3:8

… We are to worship the Son even as we worship the Father! To magnify the love of the Son above the love of the Father would be to …

First Healing and then Service

Matthew 8:14

… To you who love Jesus much and live in special nearness to Him, there is a voice from the bed of her who rose from the fever to …

The Lord's Knowledge, Our Safeguard

2 Peter 2:9

… These godly ones also love God—their heart goes out towards Him. He is their Joy. He is their Companion, their Friend. He is All in All to …

Mongrel Religion

2 Kings 17:41

… Many a man is driven by fear where he could not be drawn by love. He does not love the Lamb, but he does fear the lions. The …

A Basket of Summer Fruit

Amos 8:1-2

… That hour when Jesus looked on you with an eye of love, when you were dead in sin, was a time of love, and it was a time …

The Vision of the Field

Ezekiel 36:9

… His heart will never beat with love to Him. He may sometimes, out of sheer selfishness, go with others to worship, but he will not worship God, whatever …

The Final Perseverance of the Saints

Job 17:9

… A blessed passage is that in Jeremiah 31:3 —"The Lord has appeared of old unto me, saying, yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore …

Our Lord's First Appearance before Pilate

John 18:38

… They love to linger along that Via Dolorosa which leads from Geth-semane to Golgotha—let us linger with them! When I stand and view my Lord, like …

Obadiah; or, Early Piety Eminent Piety

1 Kings 18:12

… The Lord does not love that his servants, however great they are, should think lightly of their lesser comrades, and it occurs to me that he so arranged …

Fearing and Trusting—trusting and Not Fearing

Psalm 56:3

… May you get into such a blessed state of confidence in the love of God, in the love of Christ's heart, in the power of Christ's …

Joseph of Arimathaea

Mark 15:43-46

… Many, on the other hand, are too retiring—they have to screw their courage up even to say a good word for the Savior whom they love. If …

Song for the Free—Hope for the Bound

Psalm 107:14-16

… I have no doubt that I am speaking to many who must admit that they have been actual and willful transgressors against the Lord of Love. They have …

The Turning Point

Luke 15:20

… Observe that the prodigal yielded up himself so thoroughly that he owned his father’s love to him to be an aggravation of his guilt: so I take …

A Great Mistake and the Way to Rectify It

Revelation 3:17

… By this, the Lord showed His love to the true ones in Laodicea, according as He says, "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten." While reading …

His Name—the Mighty God

Isaiah 9:6

… We extend the right hand of fellowship to all those who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth; but we cannot exchange our Christian greetings with …

The Best Bread

John 6:48

… If you love Jesus, you wish for nothing new. Modern gospels are forthcoming on all sides. You have heard about them, I dare say, but the preachers of …

North and South

Isaiah 43:6

… none are so senseless, none act so madly us they do. “But,” saith one, “if I were to tell them of the love of Christ in an affectionate …

The Duty of the Present Hour

Hosea 10:12

… Do you not know what the Lord says concerning His people? "I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love." The deed can be done …

The Empty Place—a Christmas Day Sermon

1 Samuel 20:25

… I love to see you hovering round the Word, listening to the preaching of the Gospel, but do not, I pray you, let it always be true that …

The Great House and the Vessels In It

2 Timothy 2:20

… Here will I dwell for I have desired it." There it is that He rests in His love and, in infinite condescension, manifests Himself as He does not …