Love

God's Foreknowledge of Man's Sin

Isaiah 48:8

… There are whispers of Divine commands and of heavenly love in our souls which alike are unobserved by our lead intellects. God speaks to us in the silent …

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… God's love to the righteous. 1. He made them righteous. 2. They are like him. 3. They love him. 4. Their purposes are one with his own …

The Apple Tree in the Woods

Solomon 2:3

… We can sit at home in England and can say with great propriety, if we love the Lord Jesus Christ, "As the apple tree among the trees of …

Opening the Mouth

Psalm 81:10

… Or when he feels that his work of faith and labor of love will be good for nothing without the Divine blessing. Or when he feels that the …

The Sphere Of Instrumentality

John 11:39

… The poor harlot, too, when Christian love has followed her and spoken to her of our Father who is in Heaven who bids the wandering return to Him …

Covenant Blessings

Ezekiel 36:26

… I thought over the story of His Cross without emotion and I recalled to my mind the history of His everlasting love without gratitude. My soul was not …

A Free Grace Promise

Joel 2:32

… This is almost as great a wonder as the love which so graciously invites them. Could even devils behave worse? If they were invited to call upon God …

Conceit Rebuked

Job 34:33

… So would it be, too, if you had more love to God, for love always agrees with that which its object delights in. So, dear Friends, when we …

Soul-threshing

Isaiah 28:27

… The Divine Decree leaves nothing uncertain! The jurisdiction of supreme love occupies itself with the smallest events of our daily lives! Whether we bear the teeth of the …

To-morrow

Proverbs 27:1

… No, beloved, if we love our God, we shall find enough to do, if we have all our to-morrows, and use all our to-days too. If …

A Distinction with a Difference

Luke 1:18

… His affliction was sent not so much in anger as in love. He had asked for a sign and by a sign was he chastened. God often makes …

A Generous Proposal

Numbers 10:29

… Do, I exhort you, love your ministers! Stand up for their character in all companies! Rally at their side in all their efforts—never let them have to …

The Blood Of Abel And The Blood Of Jesus

Genesis 4:10

… It said, "O God, the blood shed here was shed for You." It seemed to say, "If it were not for love of You this blood had not …

The Model Home Mission and the Model Home Missionary

Acts 10:38

… Love of life must yield to love of souls. Trials must be counted as nothing for Christ's sake, and death must be defied, or we shall never …

The “Down-grade” Controversy Foreshadowed

… He is confident that many are conscious that his charges are true , and if true, Christian love requires us to warn those who err ; nor will candid men …

God Rejoicing in the New Creation

Isaiah 65:17-19

… Different people have different ways, you know, and some love to be comfortably wretched. But I find myself miserable only when I keep away from my Lord and …

Jesus and the Children

Mark 10:13-16

… They must have been greatly sweetened by living near to One so perfect and so full of love. I gather, therefore, that if these men, who were the …

A Promise for the Blind

Jeremiah 31:8

… It is because they love their country that they believe such a lie! But whatever may be our opinion respecting the Jews and their position, this I know …

'No Root in Themselves'

Mark 4:17

… You must so know Christ, trust Him and love Him, that you would be true to Him even if you were carried off into a Muslim country, or …

Prayer—the Forerunner of Mercy

Ezekiel 36:37

… I love my children to visit me,” says the heavenly Father; “I love to see them in my courts, I delight to hear their voices and to see …

Unbelievers Stumbling—Believers Rejoicing

Romans 9:33

… lie underneath the Gospel, such as election, effectual calling, and eternal and immutable love, straightway they are angry almost to the gnashing of their teeth. They would have …

The Preacher’s Private Prayer

… He needed to be bathed in the love of God. His ministry was so much a bringing out of views that had first sanctified his own soul, that …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… Anger and wrath are the sting of death, and in these believers have no share; love and mercy now conduct us to glory by the way of the …

The Lesson of the Almond Tree

Jeremiah 1:11

… I will love You, O Lord, my strength.' 'I do love You, and I will love You yet more and more. I bind myself to You for the …

The Unbroken Line Of True Nobles

Psalm 45:16

… Do you not see that her husband's heart is so full of love to her that while he takes her right away from old connections and makes …

Heaven Below

Revelation 7:16

… The saints confess in Glory that it never entered into their hearts to guess what God had prepared for them that love Him! Heaven shall exceed all the …

Spots in Our Feats of Charity

… No celestial impulse is needed, its love of blood suffices to bear it aloft. It soars only that it may flash downwards with fell swoop upon the object …

Christian Conversation

Psalm 145:11

… Tell of the crown of love wherewith His Father crowned Him in the day of His espousals to His Church—the crown which He has won by ten …

The Restoration And Conversion Of The Jews

Ezekiel 37:1-10

… It would be altogether alien to the Prophet's strain of thought to be thinking about the restoration of fallen zeal and the rekindling of expiring love. He …

Surveying the Field

Nehemiah 2:12

… Now, I know that there are here, on the weeknight at the service, many who love the Master and are anxious to do something in His cause. And …

Jesus At A Standstill

Mark 10:49

… His was the love which does not wait to be sought after by men, for it has come to seek as well as to save that which was …

Coming—Always Coming

1 Peter 2:4

… If you discover other needs, come for more than you used to come for! You will prove, thereby, that you better understand and appreciate what manner of love …

Departed Saints Yet Living

Luke 20:37

… He was faithful to God in all His house, fulfilling both the first and second commands of the Law in fervent love to God and hearty love to …

'Where Are the Nine?' Where?

Luke 17:17

… That, is our policy." "What?" says the other man—and he was a Samaritan—"What? Do that? Never has such love been heard of as that which has …

The Man Christ Jesus

Hebrews 7:4

… He owned that he knew the love of Christ, but he added, "it passeth knowledge." Well may each of us who has been for years a student at …

A Lesson and a Fortune for Christian Men of Business

Hebrews 13:5

… The Revised Version reads our text, "Be you free from the love of money" and it puts in the margin, "Let your turn of mind be free from …

Great Forgiveness for Great Sin

Ephesians 1:7

… The one class caused His heart to overflow with love, the other excited His burning indignation, yet, even then, His soul was moved with pity and tenderness toward …

Offended Because of Christ?

Matthew 11:6

… But if you hold out to the end, you have in that the evidence that the Lord has loved you with an everlasting love! Oh, you that are …

The Soul's Best Food

Isaiah 55:2

… Believe the message that the preacher brings you from his Master! When you hear it, do not say, "Oh, that I could believe that the eternal love of …

A Royal Funeral

John 19:38-42

… I can see great love about this dead Christ, and great pity, and great kindness, that even His lifeless body would be giving life to the faith and …