Love

'Brief Life Is Here Our Portion'

Psalm 39:4

… Their memory and their love are lost alike—"unknowing and unknown." Certainly we shall come to an end. Certainly I, myself, shall come to that end, and when …

Psalm 59

Psalm 59

… Oh, how the saints sing of the love of Christ! Oh, how they sing that this love was not moved by worthiness, and it disdains all hire and …

Washed to Greater Foulness

Job 9:30

… In the economy of redemption the effectual operation of the Spirit in enlightening the heart concerning its own sinfulness is sure evidence of the Father's personal love …

Job Among the Ashes

Job 42:5

… If you would be right, you must measure yourself with the holiness of God—God Himself is the standard of perfect holiness, Truth, love and justice. And if …

Seeking Richly Rewarded

Psalm 34:10

… He seeks to enjoy the Lord's love and His gracious fellowship and communion. He seeks to get near in reverent friendship to his Lord. He now longs …

The Followers of the Lamb

Revelation 14:4

… When will the day arrive that you and I shall enjoy this perfect fellowship with our glorious King, never absent from Him, never doubting His love, never cold …

All Are Guilty

Matthew 27:22

… Never was there greater love than that of Christ! Sometimes virtue becomes repulsive to men because of its sternness—they cannot bear a perfect law if, like that …

A Visit to Christ's Hospital

Psalm 107:17-22

… To love the world and loathe the Savior. To set the present fleeting life above the eternal future. To choose the sand of the desert and forego the …

Christ About His Father’s Business

Luke 2:49

… Oh I let us who love our Master, let us who are bound to serve him by the ties of gratitude let us say, “Wist ye not that …

Immanuel—The Light of Life

Isaiah 9:1

… If He had not been moved with mighty love to a guilty race, He would never have taken upon Himself their flesh and blood. It is a miracle …

Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ

John 5:44

… world and lose his own soul?" I have spoken roughly to you in love—love to your souls. If the whole host of pleasurable sins could be put …

Psalm 120

Psalm 120

… Good men love peace, pray for it, seek it, pursue it, will give anything but a good conscience for it. Compare Mt 5:9; Heb 7:14: W …

Making Light of Christ

Matthew 22:5

… Well did Watts say— “His worth, if all the nations knew, Sure, the whole earth would love him too.” Oh! dear friends, if you once knew what a …

Final Perseverance

Hebrews 6:4-6

… They have been saved by the word, but they have not come yet to realize, and love, and feed upon the word as many others have. It is …

Manasseh

… Manasseh, the leader of those who hated God, was yet humbled, and made to love the Most High. Do you ask me whether such cases ever occur now …

The Last Census

Psalm 87:6

… We love, but we love not as God loves. Love with us may be an abiding passion, but with God it is an all-penetrating principle! Of us …

God's Care of Elijah

1 Kings 17:4

… If you love Christ, keep His commandments and declare that love! These are not the times when we can have a concealed Christianity. Profess it before men! Other …

Our Glorious Leader

Luke 19:28

… You love not suffering. It were not suffering if you did love it, but still, if Jesus leads, look not to the way. It were better that that …

The Annual Atonement

Leviticus 16:30

… The Lord's pardoning love makes us feel truly sorry to have offended Him. Not only was it a day of confession, but it was a day of …

Why Some Sinners Are Not Pardoned

Job 7:21

… If you fix your eyes upon your own sinfulness, as you may well do, it may be that you will not quite forget the greatness of Almighty Love …

The Seed Upon Stony Ground

Mark 4:5

… If it told them of the love of God in Christ Jesus, they were encouraged. They did not always hear with dry eyes. They were not always like …

Cumbered With Much Serving

Luke 10:40

… Accept it because I love You and yet more, because You love me!" Martha, then, was losing a great deal, but in addition to all this, she was …

God's Work in Man

Hosea 2:16

… I must love You, I will serve You, I will live for You, I will die for You. It is a pleasure to serve You. If Heaven were …

Consolation For The Despairing

Psalm 31:22

… Incessant opposition or neglect from those we love may, at last, cause the spirit to yield. And when that takes place, life becomes bondage. "The spirit of a …

Stephen and Saul

Acts 7:58

… Even the death of Christ, which was the culmination of human sin, was the crowning point of Divine Love. If Saul had not been there, Stephen would not …

Israel's Hope—Or, The Center of the Target

Psalm 130:7

… Note well the permission of heavenly love—"Let Israel hope in the Lord." Observe, also, that, as it is the natural order and the necessary order, so it …

Christ and His Hearers

Luke 15:1

… He was angry and would not go in—and now his father crowned his love. He ran to meet one son and now he comes out to reason …

Two Essential Things

Acts 20:21

… Though no man is free from the commission of sin, yet every converted man is free from the love of sin. Every renewed heart is anxious to be …

True Worship

Psalm 50:14

… I love your simplicity, I admire it. But if you trust it, I believe your simplicity will as certainly ruin you as the gorgeousness that goes to the …

Psalm 132

Psalm 132

… his love will not rest apart from those upon whom he has placed it. God desires to abide with those whom he has loved with an everlasting love …

Great Joy In the City

Acts 8:8

… the sacred art of living according to the law of love! When you once get that word, "love," thoroughly worked into your nature, and into your lives, there …

The Essence Of The Gospel

John 3:18

… You are this day shutting your eyes to the one only Light, and though you have some desire towards light at times, yet you love darkness rather than …

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2 Corinthians 6:2

… Since the day of your espousals you have committed many sins—dare you look at them without trembling? How often have we grieved our Lord? Our love to …

Inward Conflicts

Solomon 6:13

… Still more remarkable is that hymn— "I asked the Lord that I might grow In faith and love and every Grace. Might more of His salvation know, And …

Crossing the Jordan

Joshua 1:10

… Feed much on the love of God and the glorious Truths which are laid up in Christ Jesus. Care nothing for the husks of human thought and carnal …

The Sinner's Only Alternative

2 Kings 7:4

… forgiven! I'm forgiven!" Then I could have shouted for joy because the love of God was shed abroad in my heart. Oh, that I could be the …

The Necessity of Regeneration

John 3:7

… Oh, work this great miracle for Your love and mercy's sake!" I should weary you if I kept on harping upon this string, but I do want …

Manoah's Wife and Her Excellent Argument

Judges 13:22

… You are beginning to raise many questions about Divine love. But there have been times—you know there have—when you have sought the Lord and He has …

"Jehovah-Rophi"

Exodus 15:26

… He Himself has said, "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten." "He scourges every son whom He receives." Thus He made His people know that the …

Independence of Christianity

Zechariah 4:6

… Now, my objects this morning will be to glorify God, by showing to you, who love the Saviour, that the preservation and the triumph of the church are …