Love

The Axe at the Root—A Testimony Against Puseyite Idolatry

John 4:23-24

… Humbly to tremble before God, to confess sin before him, to believe him, to love him—this is spiritual worship! Because this is so hard, men say, ” No …

From Twenty-five to Thirty-five

Matthew 20:3

… You shall not steal You shall not bear false witness, honor your father and your mother and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself The young man said …

A Drama in Five Acts

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

… I cannot think, O worldling, why thou shouldest love this world so much when it is so soon to vanish! In the old Greek cities they had a …

A Singular Plea in Prayer

Psalm 41:4

… If we love God, first, and then exhibit the result of that love in our care for the poor and the needy, we shall certainly be recompensed, for …

Fallen Asleep

1 Corinthians 15:6

… As for their souls, they are asleep as to this world—their memory and their love are things of the past—they are, alike, unknowing and unknown as …

Not Sufficient and Yet Sufficient

2 Corinthians 3:5

… If you hear the preacher and his thoughts, but have never felt the Holy Spirit revealing to you Truth in the love of it, and in the power …

The Sword of the Spirit

Ephesians 6:17

… He may smite with one edge, the love of sin, and then with the other, the pride of self-righteousness. It is a conquering weapon in all ways …

Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Little Child

Luke 18:17

… True, it is meat for men, but it is also milk for babes! Did you say that children could not love? That, after all, is one of the …

The Evils of the Present Time, and Our Object, Necessities, and Encouragements*

… We need also more love to souls.  We shall never save more till we love more. There is a good story told by our brother Archibald Brown; I …

"Out Of The Depths"

Psalm 40:12

… Let such as love Your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me: You are my Help …

Psalm 80

Psalm 80

… Tear bread is even more the fruit of the curse than to eat bread in the sweat of one's face, but it shall by divine love be …

The Blind Befriended

Isaiah 42:16

… If you ask any Believer what he rests his hope upon, he will tell you that it is upon an unseen Christ, "whom having not seen we love …

God's Nearness To Us

Acts 17:27

… Under such weighty obligations to Him and bound to Him by such marvelous ties of love, live—live obediently, live intensely, live with concentration of heart, mind and …

The True Position Of Assurance

Ephesians 1:13

… I look at my faith and see myself depending upon Christ and then I know, because I love the Brethren and for other reasons, that I am born …

Cords and Cart-Ropes

Isaiah 5:18

… It is a shocking thing; but there is no doubt that many people go to hell for the love of being respectable. It is not to be doubted …

Psalm 12

Psalm 12

… Yet we expect that in the latter days, "because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold," and then we must the more thoroughly turn from …

Children Brought to Christ, and Not to the Font

Mark 10:13-16

… I do love to think that the gospel is suitable to little children. There are boys and girls in many of our Sabbath-school classes down below stairs …

How Faith Comes

John 4:39-42

… Here we have it, in the 42nd verse—"we believe." Genuine faith may, through timidity, be hidden for a little while, or, possibly, the love of carnal ease …

Despised Light Withdrawn

John 12:36

… They are not afraid of it, they love to dive into it! As children of light they like to know, they wish to know, even the deep things …

The Holy Saviour

… might be rich.” His heart is made of tenderness, His bowels melt with love. In all our afflictions He is afflicted. Since the day when He became flesh …

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

… Persons from love of change, from pique, from advance in their tastes, and other causes, may become uneasy under our ministry, and it is well for us to …

Christ Is All

Colossians 3:11

… All love and mercy flow from God through Christ the mediator. We get nought apart from him. “No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” Other conduits …

The Putting Away Of Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… The love of God looked on you in Christ ages ago, before you could look on it or understand it, and in the fullness of time your sins …

No Fixity Without Faith

Isaiah 7:9

… But if you will believe Him, you love Him. We trust a man whom we love. I think that there is little trust in men towards whom we …

The Ethiopian

Jeremiah 13:23

… Till the will is changed, till what is called, "free will," is made, in truth, to be free will—free from the chains of evil and the love …

The Holy Road

Isaiah 35:8

… We glory in the fact that we are on our way to God and shall soon behold Him whom, not having seen, we love, and in whom believing …

The Tabernacle—Outside The Camp

Exodus 33:7

… If you would have much love, your love cannot grow while you mingle with the ungodly. You may be a babe in Grace, but you never can be …

Light in the Cloud

… He never suffers them to be one moment longer in the furnace than is absolutely requisite to serve the purposes of His wisdom and of His love. “The …

A Portrait No Artist Can Paint

Revelation 1:16

… So, who shall ever know, much less tell, the glories of the Lord Jesus Christ? To know Him is our great ambition, but His love surpasses knowledge. That …

What Are We At?

… We are not going to talk about law, and duty, and punishment, but about love, and goodness, and forgiveness, and mercy, and eternal life. Do not, therefore, act …

The Believer Catechized

John 11:26

… O mourners, you have not rated the Savior highly enough! You have not yet a large enough idea of His love for you and of His design of …

The Faithful Saying

1 Timothy 1:15

… Why, the man is being saved before our eyes! He was the enemy of God, before, but now a sense of free mercy causes him to love and …

Hearing With Heed

Mark 4:24

… I think that the best preaching of the Gospel is when the preacher, himself, enjoys it—when he himself is heartily in love with it—that is a …

The Best Burden for Young Shoulders

Lamentations 3:27

… Ah, no, we shall love it more and understand it better and, by God's Grace, practice it more fully as the years roll over us! Therefore it …

The Holdfast

Proverbs 4:13

… See that you are right, sound and thorough—and take fast hold of the Truth of God in the days of your first love, or yours will be …

The Samaritan Woman and Her Mission

John 4:27-30

… Be willing to live for this and to die for this, that men may be saved by Immanuel's love, blood and Spirit. This Samaritan woman aimed at …

Sight For Those Who See Not

John 9:39

… Other hearts at once hate the Truth, for they are the children of darkness and, therefore, "they love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil." You …

“Through Much Tribulation”

… I have not many relations in Heaven, but I have one whom I dearly love, who, I doubt not, often prayed for me, for she nursed me when …

Perfect Cleansing

Joel 3:21

… If it were, you would know that every affliction was but love; that every blow was but another form of a caress; that your troubles were not punishments …

Wakeful and Watchful Eyes

Psalm 121:4

… Those eyes that, from the heights of Heaven, have looked down upon the redeemed with ineffable delight of love—those eyes never grow weary of the chosen ones …