Love

Bitter Herbs

Exodus 12:8

… You must love Him, trust Him and endeavor to know more and more concerning Him. Your hearts must stay themselves upon Him as your Brother, having taken your …

The Right Kind of Fear

Proverbs 28:14

… There is a fear which perfect love casts out because it has torment. That is the slavish fear which trembles before God as a criminal trembles before the …

Shoes of Iron, and Strength Sufficient: A New Year's Promise

Deuteronomy 33:24-25

… Let us love, for God is love, and as dear children we must be imitators of him in all gentleness, tenderness, and forgiveness. Climb to the heights of …

Migratory Birds

Jeremiah 8:7

… He has built his nest and birds love their nests as we love our homes. He has formed associations and acquaintances, it may be, for birds have friendships …

Psalm 13

Psalm 13

… It is in love that his face is turned away; yet to a real child of God, this hiding of his Father's face is terrible and he …

Gathering to the Center

Mark 1:45

… It is pleasant to come over the eternal hills to Jesus! My other Friend, over yonder, does not love this way. I wish he did. He dwells mainly …

The Beginning of Months

Exodus 12:1

… We come there to recline at ease with our heads on His bosom, reposing in His love! Christ Jesus is the daily Bread of our spirits. Observe that …

Work in Us and Work by Us

Colossians 1:29

… Do you not cry — "Oh, for this love let rocks and hills Their lasting silence break, And all harmonious human tongues The Sa vior's praises speak"? I …

Paul in the Tempest

Acts 27:18-25

… He does but hide His love under the form of wrath, just as a father never really hates his child, and even though he is angry with him …

Delay Is Dangerous

Genesis 24:55

… And it is full—as full as God's eternal love, as Christ's most precious Grace and the Spirit's blest communion can make it! Yes, as …

Prayer for the Church

Daniel 9:17

… To us, Christian patriotism means love to the Church of God, for— "There our best friends, our kindred dwell, There God our Savior reigns." Let us have loyalty …

'Life for a Look'

Isaiah 45:22

… It does not need you to bring anything to make Him love you, or to incline Him to be ready to forgive you. He is so already from …

The First Setting Up of the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:4-9

… Alas, that it should be often true that the souls of the people of God may be much discouraged because of the absence of Christian love! Resolve that …

A Persuasive to Steadfastness

Hebrews 3:14

… Let me call back your thoughts again, beloved, to the love of your espousals, when you acknowledged the Lord and went after him into the wilderness. Did you …

Solemn Pleadings for Revival

Isaiah 41:1

… But as for us, it is our joy to come very near, for the voice of Love calls to us from Calvary! The next consideration which may help …

Believers Sent by Christ, As Christ Is Sent By the Father

John 17:18

… A Church which grows so enlightened as to neglect the Doctrines of Grace also falls in love with the vain amusements of the world. It has been so …

Consolation in Christ

Philippians 2:1

… SPURGEON At Exeter Hall, Strand. “If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and …

Psalm 11

Psalm 11

… therefore it follows that to try and to love are with God the same thing. C. H. S. Verse 6. "Upon the wicked he shall rain snares." Snares …

Unto You, Young Men

1 John 2:14

… and we desire to be glad." Why, dear Brother, if the Lord has done great things for you, you are glad! I have known that text, "The love …

A Visit From the Lord

Psalm 106:4

… Is it anger? Oh, how sweetly can He come and fill you with love! Whatever may be the evil against which you are fighting, He can help you …

The Harvest and the Vintage

Revelation 14:14-20

… It is HE who shall come to judge the quick and the dead—the gentle Jesus, "meek and lowly in heart," still full of love and abundant in …

Christ's Triple Character

Isaiah 55:4

… marvel of time—yes, and the miracle of eternity—that God should so love the world as to give His only-begotten Son? I can understand His giving …

A Question for You

John 9:35

… It is said that fire and a cough and love cannot be hidden. And certainly that is true of the holiest sort of love—love to Jesus. It …

Two Advents Of Christ

Hebrews 9:27

… Long not for Christ's coming if you love Him not, for the Day of the Lord will be unto you darkness, and not light. Ask not for …

A Family Sermon

Genesis 7:1

… And it sometimes happens that your love to a person is a good deal tried by that person's relatives and friends—but when the Lord Jesus Christ …

Unbelievers Upbraided

Mark 16:14

… If mutual trust were taken away from any family, how unhappy the members of that family would be—the children suspecting the sincerity of their parents' love—the …

True and Not True

John 9:31

… Let me say, however, that God sometimes hears the prayers of intensely wicked men out of no love to them. You remember how He heard the cry of …

Charity and Purity

James 1:27

… If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you. The current of human opinion always was, is and will be, till Christ shall …

Prayer 22 — The Presence of God

… Blessed are the hearts that have been softened, that have been made ready to receive the truth in the love of it! Blessed be the sovereign grace of …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… he saw love in his affliction, and that sweetened his soul. Joseph Symonds. Verse 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. God …

"Behold, He Prays"

Acts 9:11

… The conquering weapon of the Christian is love and if Paul had sought to overthrow what he thought to be an error by love, although he had been …

'Flee From the Wrath to Come'

Matthew 3:7

… And if there were no punishment for sin but the loss of Your love—if there were nothing but the loss of Heaven, the loss of having failed …

Psalm 76

Psalm 76

… Mountains of prey. (a) Cruelty instead of love. (b) Violence instead of peace. 2. What the church is compared with the world. (a) More glorious, because more excellent …

Good Cheer From Forgiven Sin

Matthew 9:2

… When Christ said, "Your sins are forgiven you," was there any question at all as to whether that paralytic man would be healed? Certainly not, for the love …

Comfort for Those Whose Prayers Are Feeble

Lamentations 3:56

… I love my sins too well and have no faith in Christ. I do not desire to be saved." If you will to pray, O my Hearer, you …

A Golden Sentence

John 4:34

… But what condescension of love it is that the prayer of man should be necessary to effect the purposes of God! God even says to Christ, Himself, "Ask …

Epilogue — The Golden Key of Prayer

… He has revealed Himself in the Gospel as a God of love, full of grace and truth and how can He refuse to help those of His creatures …

Our Lord before Herod

Luke 23:8

… Can you speak well? Do you love to speak for the good of your fellow men and do you know that when you speak, full often your words …

The Dew of Christ's Youth

Psalm 110:3

… You imagine, perhaps, that you know how great is His love to you, but remember, it passes knowledge! You think that you have fully proved His faithfulness, but …

One More Cast of the Great Net

Joel 2:32

… Poor sufferers! One is therefore led to suppose that they are persons of superior piety who are so deeply in love with the souls of men that they …