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Joyful Anticipation of the Second Advent
Luke 21:28-31
… failing us for fear." And we shall take up our wedding hymn, our marriage song, "The Lord is come! The Lord is come! Hallelujah!" The burning earth shall …
SERMON • SERMON 2628"All Hail!"
Matthew 28:9
… The joy of marriage—the joy of harvest—these were as nothing compared with the joy that came to us from the vision of His face! Many days …
SERMON • SERMON 2816Invitation to a Conference
Isaiah 1:18
… about those who will not think at all on religious subjects! A husband and wife had parted and had been separated for years. He, on several occasions, entreated …
SERMON • SERMON 2383Seeing and Testifying
1 John 4:14
… testify." There can be no divorce in this case, no breaking of the marriage bond—"We have seen and testify." I am going to dwell upon these two …
SERMON • SERMON 1183Is Conversion Necessary?
2 Corinthians 5:17
… The bishop mistakes honest John, for he says that, "the pilgrim, having failed to get his wife to take the same gloomy view of fleeing from the wrath …
SERMON • SERMON 1078The Saints Blessing The Lord
Psalm 103:1
… There is an old proverb which says, "The cobbler's wife goes barefoot," and I am afraid this is too often the case in morals and religion. Preachers …
SERMON • SERMON 2116The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob in His Change of Dwelling Place
Genesis 46:1-4
… Dear Friend, you may lose husband, or wife, or father, or child, or property, or health, or even life. But you shall rise out of every loss and …
SERMON • SERMON 926The Sine Qua Non
John 13:8
… wedding feast, but with the wedding garment on may sit down to the marriage supper. We desire to have a part in His death. Jesus died that He …
SERMON • SERMON 429Grace Exalted—Boasting Excluded
Romans 3:27
… This is to bring in again the old Hagar marriage and to bring back the child of the bondwoman, whereof God has said, "The son of the bondwoman …
SERMON • SERMON 1478Greater Things Yet Who Shall See Them?
John 1:50
… When our Lord said to the woman of Samaria, "Go, call your husband and come here," and she replied, "I have no husband," He answered, "You have well …
SERMON • SERMON 922Sincerity And Duplicity
1 John 2:3
… Take that sentence for your motto which the mother of Jesus addressed to the servants at the marriage in Cana of Galilee—"Whatever He says unto you, do …
SERMON • SERMON 2540Declaring the Works of the Lord
Psalm 118:17
… your wife if you have never yet spoken to her about these things. Christian woman, do you enquire, "Whom shall I tell?" Why, tell your husband and your …
SERMON • SERMON 627Justification And Glory
Romans 8:30
… But what a happy meeting it will be when there will be no more quarrels between this husband and wife—when the soul and body shall be merged …
SERMON • SERMON 2859The Lions' Den
Daniel 6:20
… Husband and wife are, for His sake, in hostility. Mother and daughter cannot agree. Taunt and jibe are difficult to bear with equanimity. Perhaps it touches men in …
SERMON • SERMON 1828How "The Unspeakable" is Spoken of
Psalm 145:6
… Notice the feminine—it is not, "wherewith He shall be called," but, "wherewith she shall be called." The wife takes the husband's name—the Church is named …
SERMON • SERMON 1845The Pity of the Lord—the Comfort of the Afflicted
James 5:11
… God seems never so much a husband to any as to the widow and never so much a father as to the fatherless! Our Lord Jesus assures us …
SERMON • SERMON 2443The Determination of Christ to Suffer for His People
Mark 15:23
… done." You would give up your prayer for your sick husband's life, for your sick wife's life, for your dying child's life, if you could …
SERMON • SERMON 1475Crowning Blessings Ascribed to God
Psalm 65:11
… If you drop in at a marriage and there is much said at the wedding feast about the family and its history, you need not go and put …
SERMON • SERMON 567Labor In Vain
Jonah 1:12
… be clean divorced from all legal hope is a blessed preparation for Gospel marriage with Christ. It was well that rowing hard made the mariners feel their inability …
SERMON • SERMON 1275One Greater Than the Temple
Matthew 12:6
… Oh, ye redeemed ones, love him so that you can no more live without his smile than the wife can live without her husband's love; and long …
SERMON • SERMON 2150"All the Day Long"
Proverbs 23:17
… I have heard of a wife who treated her unkind and ungodly husband with great gentleness for this very reason. She said, "I have prayed for him and …
SERMON • SERMON 1438The Hope Laid Up In Heaven
Colossians 1:5
… Yet what we know is but a mere taste of the marriage feast—enough to make us long for more, but by no means sufficient to give us …
SERMON • SERMON 2099Concerning the Consolations Of God
Job 15:11
… If the consolations of God are small with you, may you not have set up something in the place of God—a lover, a wife, a husband, a …
SERMON • SERMON 2149Everlasting Love Revealed
Jeremiah 31:3
… If the husband should say to his wife, "I have loved you," she would believe him—it would seem only natural that he should do so. And when …
SERMON • SERMON 193The World Turned Upside Down
Acts 17:6
… But when the man follows Jesus he takes that down, and he gets a print of John Bunyan in his prison, or his wife standing before the magistrate …
SERMON • SERMON 2922An Infallible Sign Of Revival
Isaiah 2:11
… Oh, I remember that day—it was my best marriage day and birthday, too—the day when I knew that sin was gone and gone forever! How bright …
SERMON • SERMON 1624Welcome! Welcome!
Luke 9:11
… So glad is our Lord to see the marriage feast of His love furnished with guests that He sends out His servants to fetch in highwaymen and vagrants …
SERMON • SERMON 2957Advance!
Deuteronomy 1:6
… A painter said to his wife, one morning, "I shall never paint again." "Why, my husband?" asked the good woman. "Because the picture that I have just finished …
SERMON • SERMON 2943Restraining Prayer
Job 15:4
… And for the husband to confess before God that he has been overbearing, that he has spoken rashly to a child. For a wife to acknowledge that she …
SERMON • SERMON 1555The Glories of Forgiving Grace
Ephesians 1:7
… very sound of that word, "Forgiveness of sins" is a joy forever! No marriage bell has more music in its notes. To the guilty, forgiveness is a tone …
SERMON • SERMON 796Joshua's Obedience
Joshua 1:7
… You will find it so, husband, even in connection with your own wife and children if they are unsaved. Children have found this so in school. Traders find …
SERMON • SERMON 1462The Yoke Removed and the Lord Revealed
Ezekiel 34:27
… The husband, perhaps, walking in a way that grieves the tender Christian heart of the wife, and home affairs are anything but as they should be. But while …
SERMON • SERMON 3138Mocking the King
Matthew 27:28-30
… Do I address a husband who has spoken very bitterly to his wife because of her religion, or a brother who has been persecuting his sister because she …
SERMON • SERMON 2025The Tender Enquiry of a Friend
Jeremiah 47:5
… But when it was whispered that he had defiled his neighbor's wife, then the godly shuddered. They knew what blasphemy and rebuke would come of it and …
SERMON • SERMON 1407Compassion on the Ignorant
Hebrews 5:2
… Ah, is it your own husband? Wife, win him! Win him! Do not drive him from bad to worse by scolding him. Sister, is it your brother? Woo …
SERMON • SERMON 1768First, King of Righteousness, and after That, King of Peace
Hebrews 7:2
… There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ. When Jesus comes to a soul, He comes as …
SERMON • SERMON 1530Following the Risen Christ
Colossians 3:1
… Christ sits at God's right hand! Where should the wife's thoughts be when her husband is away but with the absent and beloved one? You know …
SERMON • SERMON 2069My Own Personal Holdfast
Micah 7:7
… the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge." In domestic life there was no trusting friend, or husband, or wife, or son, or daughter. The whole land …
COMMENTARYPsalm 109
Psalm 109
… Israel at large also, who have departed from him "as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband", and have committed adultery against the Bridegroom.— Andrew A. Bonar. Verses …
SERMON • SERMON 2413Despised Light Withdrawn
John 12:36
… You remember how it was with the wise virgins and the bridegroom, "they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut …