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The Cripple at Lystra
Acts 14:9-10
… Out of love to them he sent his only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who was born of the virgin Mary, lived some thirty-two or thirty …
SERMON • SERMON 176The Prodigal's Return
Luke 15:20
… They imagine that God is a severe being, angry and fierce, very easily to be moved to wrath, but not so easily to be induced to love; they …
SERMON • SERMON 2111Filling With the Spirit and Drunkenness With Wine
Ephesians 5:18
… The strength to hope, the strength to love, the strength to conquer temptation, the strength to perform holy action. When you are filled with the Spirit, how strong …
SERMON • SERMON 2300The Whole Gospel In A Single Verse
1 Timothy 1:15
… He answered, "I love the people to whom I preach." "What sort of people are they?" I enquired. "Well," he replied, "they are a people who come together …
SERMON • SERMON 2947Royal Emblems for Loyal Subjects
2 Samuel 23:4
… He puts gall on the world and He puts honey on His own lips so that we may hate the one and love the other! We are so …
SERMON • SERMON 3067A Bold Challenge Justified
Romans 8:34
… But love wakes early to try to find Christ and love can see in the dark when looking for Jesus! Mary little expected to find the tomb of …
SERMON • SERMON 3295Communion With Christ and His People
1 Corinthians 10:16
… Our soul melts beneath the warmth of Jesus' love and darts upward her own love in return. Think not that I am dreaming, or am carried off by …
SERMON • SERMON 2376"I Will," Yet, "Not As I Will"
John 7:24
… Oh, yes, I know! You love those very stately prayers in which the bounds are set about the mountain-top and no man may dare to come near …
SERMON • SERMON 740Stephen's Martyrdom
Acts 7:55
… There lay his mangled corpse—an object of love and of lamentation to the saints that were at Jerusalem. The love of Christ had not preserved the flesh …
SERMON • SERMON 2827The Redeemer Described by Himself
Isaiah 50:2-6
… The tears of Jesus quenched the light of the sun! Had He been wrathful, He might have put out its light forever, but His love not only restored …
SERMON • SERMON 662Consolation In The Furnace
Daniel 3:25
… Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and inward contention. An ounce of heart's ease is worth a ton of gold …
SERMON • SERMON 678Praise Your God, O Zion!
Luke 19:37-40
… He takes the fools and makes them know the wonders of His dying love. Oh that you may become a disciple! "Write my name down, Sir," you say …
SERMON • SERMON 13Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings
2 Corinthians 1:5
… It is true that light-eyed cheerfulness, and airy-footed love, can go through the world without much depression: and tribulation: but it is not true that Christianity …
SERMON • SERMON 3073Thrice Happy Day!
Haggai 2:19
… You are likely to have the whisper of God's love in your heart when you have given up all confidence in the flesh. It may be that …
SERMON • SERMON 1543The Sheep Before The Shearers
Isaiah 53:7
… Though I give My whole heart for them, how lukewarm is their love to Me! I am sick of them. I am weary of them and it is …
SERMON • SERMON 3338The Witness of the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:26
… I pray you—I beseech you by the love you bear to yourself, and to your soul that can never die—look unto Jesus and be saved! Look …
SERMON • SERMON 2983A Wonderful Transformation
John 16:20
… Yet these emblems of sorrow and suffering furnish us with our great feast of love! This is, indeed, joy arising out of sorrow! The festival is itself the …
SERMON • SERMON 3098Needless Fears
Isaiah 51:12
… Well, will it separate you from the love of Christ?If you cannot answer that question, let Paul answer it for you—"I am persuaded that neither death …
SERMON • SERMON 1843A Question for a Questioner
Psalm 77:9
… In that which he does out of free favour and love to undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving men, he displays the meridian splendour of his glory. His power …
SERMON • SERMON 2285Paul, the Ready
Romans 1:15
… May the Lord in mercy and love keep us right! If He teaches us how to live, we shall know how to die. It is not dying that …
SERMON • SERMON 2729Christ's Transfigured Face
Matthew 17:2
… The best visits from Christ are like the best visits we have from those we love—not in the busy market, or in the crowded street, but when …
COMMENTARYPsalm 77
Psalm 77
… Is his mercy clean gone for ever? If he has no love for his elect, has he not still his mercy left? Has that dried up? Has he …
SERMON • SERMON 3166'A Greater Than Solomon'
Matthew 12:42
… You have sinned beyond the reach of My love." Come and try Him, I say, with your hardest question and most difficult case—and you shall only prove …
SERMON • SERMON 1141Good News for the Destitute
Psalm 102:17
… A man who is spiritually destitute is destitute of all friends who can help him, for those who love him best can only pray for him—they cannot …
SERMON • SERMON 1443A Clear Conscience
Psalm 119:6
… He has spoken to His children in tones of love. The Law of His mouth has been given as a light to illuminate our path and as a …
SERMON • SERMON 180How To Keep the Heart
Philippians 4:7
… He feels that God has done so much for him that he must love his God. The eternal basis of his peace lays in divine election—the solid …
SERMON • SERMON 572Laus Deo
Romans 11:36
… As a Christian you are "of God and through God." I pray you be "to God." Let nothing ever set your heart beating but love to Him. Let …
SERMON • SERMON 415The Fullness Of Christ—Received!
John 1:16
… Let us love Him. When our friends give us love we give them love in return. But what is that which we owe mother, father, husband, wife, or …
SERMON • SERMON 2355Christ's Negative and Positive Prayer
John 17:15
… Plagues and deaths around me fly, Till He bids, I cannot die! Not a single shaft can hit Till the God of Love thinks fit." Our lives are …
COMMENTARYPsalm 113
Psalm 113
… How can we pray for mercy for the future if we do not bless God for his love in the past? The Lord hath wrought all good things …
SERMON • SERMON 1354All Things Are Ready, Come
Luke 14:17
… Everything is at the best that eternal love can make it. But notice the word, "now." "All things are now ready"—just now—at this moment! At feasts …
SERMON • SERMON 2302Watching For Christ's Coming
Luke 12:37
… You are to be doing it all out of love to Christ and as service for Him. Oh, that we might watch in that style, with our loins …
SERMON • SERMON 3315Joy in Harvest
Isaiah 9:3
… It is true that we are tried, but it is false that we are miserable! With all their trials, Believers have such a compensation in the love of …
COMMENTARYPsalm 35
Psalm 35
… viewing sinners as men, we love them and seek their good, but regarding them as enemies of God, we cannot think of them with anything but detestation, and …
SERMON • SERMON 729Cheering Words and Solemn Warnings
Isaiah 3:10
… It shall be well with us, for we shall eat the fruits of our faith through the righteousness of Christ, the fruits of our love through His love …
SERMON • SERMON 2624Secondhand
John 18:34
… And though she had not much pleasure in her son, for he was wayward and willful, yet there was no unkindness on her lips—the law of love …
SERMON • SERMON 2941Mary's Magnificat
Luke 1:46
… I love You and You love me and, therefore, even if all other souls are dumb, "my soul does magnify the Lord." In this fashion, dear Brothers and …
SERMON • SERMON 274Paul's Desire to Depart
Philippians 1:23
… Then will the prayer be fulfilled “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his lips, for his love is better than wine.” Then we shall be able …
SERMON • SERMON 324Effects Of Sound Doctrine
Matthew 24:24
… Such men, I think, are rather fatalists in judgment, than believers in God the Father's love at heart. The Doctrine itself, if it were rightly construed, would …
SERMON • SERMON 2848Theocracy
Psalm 44:4
… They select wrong objects for their love and trust and, consequently, they are betrayed, they are disappointed and they sadly learn the meaning of that text, "Cursed is …