Love

Life by Faith

Galatians 3:11

… The operation of faith upon the human heart is to produce love, and through love, obedience, and obedience to the Divine Law is but another name for morality …

Psalm 92

Psalm 92

… Watts is familiar to us all— "Sweet is the work, my God, my King, To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing; To shew thy love by morning …

Forgiveness

Isaiah 43:25

… Many of you now before me were consecrated to God by a beloved mother, and your father taught you to read and love the Scriptures of truth. You …

Christ—The Power and Wisdom of God

1 Corinthians 1:24

… Bow before him, ye that love him; bow before him, ye that desire him! Crown him, crown him, crown him! He is worthy of it, unto him is …

The Fulness of Christ

… ever the same; His surpassing excellence and unexhausted fulness thus constantly renew our love. O Jesus! none can guess how great is the least of Thine attributes, or …

Question 44: Which is the second commandment?

… unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." Topic No. 05945

Question 35: What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?

Ro 5:1; Ro 5:2; Ro 5:5; Ro 14:17; Pr 4:18; 1Jo 5:13; 1Pe 1:5

… flow from justification, # Ro 5:1 , 2 , 5 are assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, # Ro 14:17 increase of grace …

Providence

… The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

Question 73: How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation?

Pr 8:34; 1Pe 2:1; 1Pe 2:2; Ps 119:18; Heb 4:2; 2Th 2:10; Ps 119:11; Jas 1:25

… and prayer, # Ps 119:18 receive it with faith, # Heb 4:2 and love, # 2Th 2:10 lay it up into our hearts, # Ps 119:11 and practise …

Question 81: What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?

1Co 11:28; 1Co 11:29; 2Co 13:5; 1Co 11:31; 1Co 11:18-20; 1Co 5:8; 1Co 11:27-29

… to feed upon him, # 2Co 13:5 of their repentance, # 1Co 11:31 love, # 1Co 11:18-20 and new obedience, # 1Co 5:8 lest coming unworthily, they …

The Blind Beggar

Mark 10:46-52

… On the nearest bank he could find outside Jericho, he sat begging in the sunlight; for blind men always love to bask in the sun. Though they see …

Baptismal Regeneration

Mark 16:15-16

… The Lord knoweth I have nothing in my heart but the purest love to the souls of those whom I feel imperatively called to rebuke sternly in the …

The Sin-Bearer

… that is to say, we no longer love them, and they have ceased to hold dominion over us. Sin is no longer at home in our hearts; if …

Little Sins

Genesis 19:20

… He says, “If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.” There …

Speaking on God's Behalf

Job 36:2

… Blessed be His name, He is a faithful and true God, and if all the dwellers on earth should belie and forsake Him, His love binds us fast …

C.H. Spurgeon's Communion Hymn

… and dim, We see the signs but see not Him, Oh, may His love the scales displace, And bid us see Him face to face! Our former transports …

Are You Mocked?

Psalm 14:6

… Do you so, O Christian! Perfume with your love the axe that wounds you. Be like the anvil that never strikes the hammer again, but yet the anvil …

Little, But Lovely

Luke 12:32

… As we often employ diminutive words to express endearment, calling those we love by little names, so does the Savior here seem to dwell upon the littleness of …

Grace for the Guilty

Isaiah 44:22

… It is not by preaching Law and terrors that men are made to love God— "Law and terrors do but harden, All the while they work alone. But …

The Leafless Tree

Isaiah 6:3

… It is these few, this holy seed, that are the substance of the nation; and for their sake, through their prayers, because of God’s love to them …

The Call to the Ministry

… I speak of self-denials, and well I may; for the true pastor’s work is full of them, and without a love to his calling he will …

The Gospel

… There is knowledge for the head; there is love for the heart; there is guidance for the foot.

The Sequel to Divine Sovereignty

Psalm 99:1

… the Presence of the King to that dread prison where the voice of love and mercy shall never be heard! Thus I bid you rejoice in your present …

Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:6

… The law consists in this first, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.” He did so. It was his meat and his drink to …

Consulting With Jesus

1 Kings 10:1-3

… too heavily upon her, "If you love me, lean hard"? That is what your Lord says to you, "if you love Me, lean hard upon Me." The more …

Strangers and Sojourners

Psalm 39:12

… Wherever a true Englishman wanders, his heart always turns towards his native land and he says— "England, with all your faults, I love you still"— and when once …

The Light of the World

John 8:12

… His own life exhibited the power of love, the value of sympathy and the virtue of forgiving injuries. His death gave yet more palpable evidence of unfaltering submission …

Clinging to Christ

John 6:67

… What He has done for us must bind us forever to Him! He has loved us with an everlasting love. He has given Himself for us on Calvary …

The New Song

Psalm 98:1

… In every case where his electing love hath set its purpose, the will is turned round, the affections yield, the judgment gives way, the man is subdued—he …

Voices from the Excellent Glory

Matthew 3:16

… Keep His Commandments—so shall you abide in His love and know it. Forget not to be obedient, forget not to be prayerful in retirement, but forget not …

Psalm 100

Psalm 100

… He is good, gracious, kind, bountiful, loving; yea, God is love. He who does not praise the good is not good himself. The kind of praise inculcated in …

An Urgent Necessity

Hosea 10:12

… God is not stinting in His love—He will not give you a drop or two, but He will give you a sea of mercy. "I will pour …

Memento Mori

Deuteronomy 32:29

… It is the leaving of all you have, and of all you love. It is an entering upon eternal poverty, everlasting shame, and infinite woe. Oh that ye …

Forward! Forward! Forward!

Exodus 14:15

… My lust shall be satisfied upon them.' Lord, what am I to do with this company?" Here comes the Divine answer, full of wisdom and love—"Speak unto …

The Sin of Unbelief

… But to doubt the kindness, the faithfulness, and the love of God, is a very heinous offence. That can be no light sin which makes God a liar …

A Good Confession.–Baptism

… Though our parents are at the very top of our hearts, and we love: them, and reverence them, and in all other matters render them strict obedience, yet …

Peace

… O! there are sweet words which Jesus whispers in the ears of His people, and there are love-visits which He pays to them, which a man would …

The Great Assize

2Corinthians 5:10

… If God has made them to love him, they shall go on to love him; if God has made them trust him, they shall go on to trust …

Psalm 32

Psalm 32

… Another pause is needed, for the matter is not such as may be hurried over. "Pause, my soul, adore and wonder, Ask, O why such love to me …

The Centurion—Or An Exhortation To The Virtuous

Luke 7:4-9

… It is not every good man among us, I fear, whose gentleness would equal that of the centurion in the love which he bears to his servant and …