Love

The Rocky Fortress and Its Inhabitant

Isaiah 33:15

… Not only must I do right, but love right! Not only must I avoid wrong, but I must hate wrong! Not only must I refuse unrighteous gain, but …

Psalm 74

Psalm 74

… Can he desert his blood bought and forsake his redeemed? Can election fail and eternal love cease to glow? Impossible. The woes of Calvary, and the covenant of …

God, the Children's Teacher

Psalm 71:17

… Oh, but when God teaches, what a wonderful stoop of condescending love that is! He who made the world and bears all things up by His everlasting might …

Vanities and Verities

2 Corinthians 4:18

… Thus he pressed steadily on through evil report and good report, through honor and through dishonor, enjoying the love of the Churches at one time and at another …

The Last Sermon for the Year

Luke 16:2

… You are sure to live for that which is the choicest object of your love. Whatever you think to be first, will be first—and what you love …

A Voice From Heaven

Revelation 14:12

… Our loves must be changed so that we no longer love evil things, but delight only in that which is true, generous, kind, upright, pure, godlike. We must …

A Delusion Dispelled

Ezekiel 14:20

… It was all of eternal love, but he did leave the swine and seek his home. It was of infinite pity, but he did think and he did …

Confession Of Sin Illustrated by the Cases of Dr. Pritchard and Constance Kent

Psalm 32:5

… This force-work is far removed from the free and ready acknowledgments of a man whose heart is touched by divine grace and melted by the love of …

The Arrows Of The Lord'S Deliverance

2 Kings 13:19

… O Lord of Hosts, it is not by might, nor by power, but by Your Spirit! Nevertheless the love of Christ constrains us to spend and be spent …

The Priest Dispensed With

1 John 5:10

… While we are so listening, the Word commends itself to us—it awes us by its majesty of holiness! It attracts us by its beauty of love and …

The Dying Thief in a New Light

Luke 23:40-42

… His eyes looked love on those who glared on Him with hate! Surely that march along the Via Dolorosa was the first part of the sermon which God …

The Hospital of Waiters Visited with the Gospel

John 5:8

… And the greater the act of His liberality—the higher the deed of power which is worked by His love—the more is His blessed Nature filled with …

The Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Luke 23:46

… Jesus! If the Spirit of God is in you, He will make you love the Word of God and, if any of you imagine that the Spirit of …

Self-destroyed, Yet Saved

Hosea 13:9

… For God is jealous and most jealous of those whom He loves best! He cannot endure that we should treat Him thus—He means to have our love …

The 'Beau Ideal' of Life

Psalm 90:14

… On the contrary, I love to spendit! I do not want to use a rake—give me a shovel and I will soon scatter all my father's …

"Persecuted, But Not Forsaken"

… The first is the love of God to His people, which is altogether without limit. And the next is the hatred of the devil, which is and must …

Man'S Thoughts And God'S Thoughts

Isaiah 55:8

… I had no conceivable motive for sin except the determined and incorrigible love of evil! I drank down iniquity as the ox drinks down water—but the ox …

The Two Builders And Their Houses

Matthew 7:24-27

… Knowledge puffs up—love alone builds up. My dear Friends, I am most earnest that those of you who are desiring to find everlasting life in Christ Jesus …

How to Please God

Hebrews 11:6

… True faith is the most active motive power in the whole world! "Faith, which works by love," works all sorts of marvels, and where there is this true …

Christ the Conqueror of Satan

Genesis 3:16

… The text at first looks like a flint, hard and cold; but sparks fly from it plentifully, for hidden fires of infinite love and grace lie concealed within …

The Flight to Zoar

Genesis 19:23

… Ah, my Friends, that was a solemn moment when those notable guests turned their host out of doors and did it all out of love and kindness, too …

The Alter

Matthew 23:19

… The wrath which consumes Jesus has endured once and for all that glory of consuming love we are able to learn through our union with the Incarnate God …

Plain Gospel For Plain People

Deuteronomy 30:11-14

… Many of us have accepted this way of salvation—we now love it and delight in it—and to us it seems the most simple and, at the …

The Friend of Sinners

Isaiah 53:12

… Well, out his abundant love to these prisoners he consents to it, and when he enters to talk with them, they perhaps think that he will come in …

Joyful Anticipation of the Second Advent

Luke 21:28-31

… because fear has torment." He that fears is not made perfect in love. What cause has a Christian for fear? What is there that can harm the man …

Freedom At Once and Forever

Isaiah 61:1

… You must come to Him just as you are, quit your life of sin and love Him! And love His holiness and seek to serve Him! If you …

Praying and Pleading

Jeremiah 14:7

… Every word was welcome, every look was love. He "gives liberally, and upbraids not." He does not fling into the teeth of a sincere penitent any reproach concerning …

The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:3

… There is wondrous light in the Gospel, both for the future and the present! It sets forth to us the Glory of Christ, the Glory of love, the …

Comforted and Comforting

2 Corinthians 1:3

… And though the Father is full of love and will give Grace and peace to His people, yet the Lord Jesus Christ must always be the channel through …

The Holy Spirit—the Need of the Age

Micah 2:7

… Life and love, light and liberty and all other good things come of the Spirit of the Lord— "Blessings abound wherever He reigns; The prisoner leaps to lose …

A Blast of the Trumpet Against False Peace

Jeremiah 6:14

… But if you love sin, the love of the Father is not in you. Be you who you may, or what you may,—minister, deacon, elder, professor, or …

Sabbath-work

John 5:9

… He could not do any work and, beside that, it seems that he had some love for the House of God and there Christ picked him out and …

The Secret of a Happy Life

Psalm 16:8

… with poisoned daggers! When we bring dishonor upon Him whom we profess to love, it is dishonor, indeed! Oh, how much would be left undone and, on the …

Sentence Of Death, The Death Of Self-trust

2 Corinthians 1:9

… them the cheering testimony which we are personally able to bear to the love and faithfulness of God. Our Lord has handed out to us spiritual riches ofjoy …

Paul's Parenthesis

1 Corinthians 15:10

… If you love self-righteousness, they will quarrel with you—but they will never quarrel with each other. II. Now, secondly, I shall briefly treat our text, AS …

The Story of God’s Mighty Acts

Psalm 44:1

… Oh ye, to whom all this is as an idle tale, who love not God,, neither serve him, I beseech you stop and think for a moment. Oh …

David's Prayer in the Cave

… When a soul gets out of a far worse prison than there ever was at Newgate, then he must praise "Free Grace and dying love," and, "ring those …

'The Time of Jacob's Trouble'

Jeremiah 30:7

… If it is with you, "the time of Jacob's trouble" because you are separated from those you love, now get into all the closer union with your …

A String Of Pearls

1 Peter 1:3-5

… Not even an angel could fathom the springs of eternal love or measure the depths of Infinite Grace. Follow now the stream—mark it in all its course …

Another Royal Procession

Matthew 21:5

… Blessed would they be who should be guilty of too great a love for him, convicted of too consuming a zeal for the glory. I would gladly die …