Love

The Thorn in the Flesh

2 Corinthians 12:7

… The most of men who are exalted above measure are puffed up with the approbation of their fellow men—they love flattery, they court esteem—and admiring words …

Out Of Egypt

Matthew 2:14

… Yes, my Babe, sweet sleep enfolds You On Your fainting mother's arm; God in His great love beholds You, Angels guard Your rest from harm. Earth and …

A Description of Young Men in Christ

1 John 2:13

… It is, next, to have the word in your affections—to love it so that it is as honey or the droppings of the honeycomb to you. When …

Little Faith and Great Faith

Matthew 14:31

… Little Faith pours out her heart before the Lord! I love to see a man, in the hour of his distress, begin to pray at once—as naturally …

Preaching in the Open Air

… If it be the gospel, which is spoken, and if the spirit of the preacher be one of love and truth, the results cannot be doubted: the bread …

Sin Subdued

Micah 7:19

… Sin is in our heart—we love that which is evil. Sin bribes the judgment, intoxicates the will and perverts the memory! We recollect a bad word when …

Rain and Grace—a Parallel

Job 38:25-27

… Scripture—a figure of that blessed overflowing of the river of God's Love which comes down to quench our thirst of sin, to refresh us, to enliven …

Mistrust of God Deplored and Denounced

Numbers 14:11

… would ask. "What? Dare to disbelieve the Lord? Doubt the Lord, whose infinite love stooped to speak with His creature? God, who is essential Truth and cannot possibly …

Good News For Thirsty Souls

Revelation 21:6

… Come and drink! Come and drink at the flowing fountain of love! For if you drink, you shall live! But a mere sense of need will not afford …

Perfect Sanctification

Hebrews 10:10

… Oh, wondrous deed of Deity! Oh, mighty feat of love accomplished once and for all! The Redeemer never offered Himself to death before. He never will do it …

Sermon 463. Christ'S Servant—His Duty And Reward

John 12:26

… Your face, with reverence and with love, We in Your poor would see! O let us rather beg our bread Than keep it back from You." "But," says …

The God of Bethel

Genesis 31:13

… you, perhaps, the first time when pardoning love was revealed to you—when you were brought to see the love of God in the great atoning Sacrifice of …

Prayer, The Cure for Care

Philippians 4:6

… The Holy Spirit is like a dove— and doves love quiet places—they do not come where there is noise and strife. Oh, let us cultivate love towards …

Labor In Vain

Jonah 1:12

… Now he can sing with Toplady— "Loved of my God, for Him again, With love intense I'd burn. Chosen of Him before time began, I'd choose …

The Main Matter

John 20:30

… Would not any of you have done so? Do you not love Him so much and prize Him so greatly, that you would have thought the smallest trifle …

Am I Clear Of His Blood?

Genesis 4:10

… He spoke with honeyed words and talked of love, but the poison of asps was under his tongue, for lust was in his heart. He came to a …

The Search For Faith

Luke 18:8

… What if love grows cold! I am sorry for it but, after all, the frost must have begun in your faith. You are not so active as you …

Seeking For Jesus

John 6:24

… What shall I say Your Grace to move? I give up every plea beside, Lord I am sin, but You are love— Lord, I am lost—but You …

Three Arrows—or Six?

2 Kings 13:18

… full assurance, till you have the full assurance of understanding! You love Christ, but why not love Him more? You have hope, but why not a clearer expectation …

The Priest Ordained by the Oath of God

Hebrews 7:20-22

… have everlasting life"—is that message of Grace to be exceeded? Is greater love yet to be revealed? No! The Gospel is God's ultimatum! He will go …

The Anchor

Hebrews 6:17-20

… Such is the confidence which we have in God, whom having not seen we love— "Let the winds blow, and billows roll, Hope is the anchor of my …

Prayer 14 — "Bless The Lord, O My Soul!"

… Lord, restore to Thy Church the love of strong doctrine. May Thy truth yet prevail. Purge out from among Thy Church those who would lead others away from …

Folly of Unbelief

Luke 24:25

… O beloved brother, if thy Master chide thee, do not doubt his love! If, when thou goest to him in grief, he answers thee roughly, it is his …

Another Lesson From Manasseh's Life

2 Chronicles 33:10

… Come and flee away, flee away, flee away, now, to the God who smites you in love! Kiss the rod and yield yourself to Him who holds it …

On Humbling Ourselves before God

1 Peter 5:6

… Is it poverty? Then, dear child of God, admit that you deserve poverty because of your love of the world! Is it physical pain? Then acknowledge how every …

"If There Is No Resurrection"

1 Corinthians 15:12-19

… We have learned to love holiness and we seek after it. We have learned to love communion with God and it has become our Heaven to talk with …

Who Are The Elect?

1 Samuel 16:12

… Now, beloved Friends to whom I address myself, you may be one of those whom God has looked upon with an eye of love from before the foundation …

One Lion, Two Lions, No Lion at All!

Proverbs 22:13

… fear, conjured up by his own imagination, and as mothers are said to love their weakest children best, so is he fondest of this most imbecile of excuses …

Pentecost

Acts 2:1-4

… Do I help to hinder the coming of the Spirit by any bitterness of my temper? Do I by any want of love tend to divide the Church …

The Golden Lamp and Its Goodly Lessons

Zechariah 4:1-3

… Now, I ask those of you who love the study of God's Word to follow me a little in considering the description that is given of THE …

Jacob and Doubting Souls a Parallel

Genesis 45:28

… But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. I am come in My Father's name, and you receive Me not: if …

Jesus At Bethesda—or, Waiting Changed for Believing

John 5:1-9

… He fixed the eyes of His electing love upon that one man, and, going up to him, He gazed upon him. He knew all his history. He knew …

The Power of Christ's Name

Acts 3:16

… We love to feel all through our prayer and to say when it is ended, "In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord." The keys of Heaven are …

The Lion and the Bear—Trophies Hung Up

1 Samuel 17:36

… He had hoped that all were slumbering, but Divine love never sleeps. The Shepherd received him on His breast and held him aloft till He had strangled him …

A Visit to the Harvest Field

James 5:7-8

… The love of many waxes cold. Perhaps we have found in the church the black smut of heresy. Some deadly heresy creeps in, and the anxious husbandman fears …

The Chief Physician and the Centurion's Servant

Matthew 8:7

… Ignorance and selfishness are mistrustful, but love thinks no evil. If there are two ways of understanding a sentence, my Brothers and Sisters, and one is better than …

Faint—but Not Faint-Hearted

Judges 8:4

… He had done so much for them that they might have said— "His love in time past forbids us to think He'll leave us, at last, with …

Scourge For Slumbering Souls

Amos 6:1

… The next name is Love-self. "They lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eat the lambs out of the flocks and the …

Everywhere And Yet Forgotten

Job 12:9

… Look at her who is the partner of your bosom, and see God's love and kindness in so good a gift. Look on all the prosperity that …

Alive or Dead—Which?

1 John 5:12

… Jesus has bands of love to draw with, as well as a scourge of small cords to draw with. Many gentle spirits are led to find their all …