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The love of God, love for Christ, and Christian love
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Morning, September 19
Ga 5:1
… This is thy Father’s love-token; thou art free to it at all times. Thou art also free to the throne of grace . It is the believer …
SERMON • SERMON 3051Lessons From a Dovecot
Isaiah 60:8
… I think that all of us who love the work of God and who especially love that work in connection with our own branch of Christ's Church …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 1
Song 2:1
… Even the recollection of his love is sweet . Take the rose of Sharon, and pull it leaf from leaf, and lay by the leaves in the jar of …
DEVOTIONALMorning, August 28
Ex 25:6
… Truth, holiness, joy, knowledge, love, these are all beams of the sacred light, but we cannot give them forth unless in private we receive oil from God the …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 3
Heb 1:14
… Loyalty to their Lord leads them to take a deep interest in the children of his love; they rejoice over the return of the prodigal to his father …
DEVOTIONALEvening, October 24
Jn 13:5
… It is a great act of eternal love when Christ once for all absolves the sinner, and puts him into the family of God; but what condescending patience …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 7
Is 49:16
… Heaven and earth may well be astonished that rebels should obtain so great a nearness to the heart of infinite love as to be written upon the palms …
SERMON • SERMON 2306Servitude Or Service—Which?
2 Chronicles 12:8
… We have the same thing, even, in the Church of God, which never seems to be satisfied with chaste love for Christ, but continually goes after one strange …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 18
Job 10:2
… Dost thou not know that thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter? Love is too often like a glow-worm, showing …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 7
Jn 5:8
… them prefer the cold porches of Bethesda to the warm bosom of his love. O that the Lord may turn his eye upon the multitudes who are in …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 12
Jn 14:21
… but the proud he knoweth afar off .” He does not need to come near them to know them, and will never give them any visits of love. Another …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 26
Ps 55:22
… Anxiety makes us doubt God’s lovingkindness, and thus our love to him grows cold; we feel mistrust, and thus grieve the Spirit of God, so that our …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 17
1Th 1:4
… Go and put your trust in him, and his answer will be—“I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” There …
DEVOTIONALEvening, September 19
1Sa 1:27
… have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God’s especial love in them. When we can name our blessings Samuel, that is, “asked of God …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 6
Jam 5:16
… for others, having in them more of the fruits of the Spirit, more love, more faith, more brotherly kindness, will be, through the precious merits of Jesus, the …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 22
Ge 49:24
… Christians love to think of God’s covenant. All the power, all the grace, all the blessings, all the mercies, all the comforts, all the things we have …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 8
Job 22:21
… are not worthy to be called his son; receive the kiss of his love; let the ring which is the token of his eternal faithfulness be on your …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 16
Is 48:8
… there are whisperings of divine command and of heavenly love which are alike unobserved by our leaden intellects. Alas! we have been carelessly ignorant —“Yea, thou knewest not …
SERMON • SERMON 2259The Simplicity and Sublimity of Salvation
John 1:11-13
… to the undeserving and the unthankful, and whose heart overflows with love even to those who love Him not. When this Nature of sons shall be fully developed …
SERMON • SERMON 712War With Amalek
Exodus 17:8
… Suddenly there came upon us the thirst and the hunger which only Heaven's love could supply! And when we least dreamed of it, the fierce Amalek of …
SERMON • SERMON 3472A Solemn Deprival
Ephesians 2:12
… At first He speaks of their neglect of the First Table, which says, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart," and shows that it …
SERMON • SERMON 140A Simple Sermon for Seeking Souls
Romans 10:13
… We are all clergy who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and you are as much fit to preach the gospel, if God has given you the ability, and …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 19
Lu 24:45
… Had it not been for the love of Jesus we should have remained to this moment in utter ignorance, for without his gracious opening of our understanding, we …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 20
Ps 119:37
… and yet be slothful in my Master’s service? Will not Christ’s love constrain me? Can I think of his dear wounds, can I sit at the …
DEVOTIONALMorning, June 19
Ac 2:4
… As the dove , with wings of peaceful love he broods over his Church and over the souls of believers, and as a Comforter he dispels the cares and …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 26
1Co 15:45
… Adam, the Sponsor and Substitute of the elect in the new covenant of love. The apostle Paul declares that Levi was in the loins of Abraham when Melchizedek …
SERMON • SERMON 34Preach the Gospel
1 Corinthians 9:16
… God gives men hearts to love their fellow-creatures, and are they to have no development for that heart? If I love the ungodly am I to have …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 9
Je 31:33
… Dwell in the light of thy Lord, and let thy soul be always ravished with his love. Get out the marrow and fatness which this portion yields thee …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 13
1Ki 22:48
… O for such love to Jesus that, like him, we may be holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners; for if it be not so with us, we …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 15
Ps 22:1
… We grieve at a little withdrawal of our Father’s love; but the real turning away of God’s face from his Son, who shall calculate how deep …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 25
Lu 24:33,35
… They had constrained him to abide with them, because the day was far spent; but now, although it was much later, their love was a lamp to their …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 27
2Sa 9:13
… Such is the love which the Father bears to his only begotten, that for his sake he raises his lowly brethren from poverty and banishment, to courtly companionship …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 19
Ps 31:4
… from between the jaws of the lion, and out of the belly of hell, can eternal love rescue the saint. It may need a sharp pull to save …
DEVOTIONALMorning, September 4
Mk 1:41
… The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live .
DEVOTIONALMorning, September 17
Mk 9:19
… Whatever our morning’s need may be, let it like a strong current bear us to the ocean of divine love. Jesus can soon remove our sorrow, he …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 13
Song 1:13
… Consider him in his life, death, resurrection, ascension, second advent; view him in his virtue, gentleness, courage, self-denial, love, faithfulness, truth, righteousness—everywhere he is a bundle …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 24
Ne 9:38
… of our heart, and let our God sit upon the throne of our love, arrayed in royal apparel. If we would learn to profit by our prosperity, we …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 12
Ge 46:3-4
… our humiliations and banishments with us! Even beyond the ocean our Father’s love beams like the sun in its strength. We cannot hesitate to go where Jehovah …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 22
Heb 12:27
… In my Father’s house are many mansions; therefore will I not be troubled.” You have another permanent blessing, namely, the love of Jesus Christ . He who is …
DEVOTIONALEvening, July 29
Jn 6:37
… he was once rebellious, he yields cheerfully to his government, subdued by sovereign love. But how shall those be known whom God hath chosen? By this result: that …