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Receiving the Holy Spirit
Acts 19:2
… I have 20 shillings in the pound," or, "I think I have a wife and children." Some of us are quite clear about these matters, one way or …
SERMON • SERMON 2372A Page From a Royal Diary
Psalm 119:132
… mercy, the blotting out of sin! After David had sinned with Uriah's wife, or after other great transgressions, this prayer was especially suitable, "Be merciful unto me …
SERMON • SERMON 656Preceding Grace
Galatians 1:15
… Or perhaps it is a woman and you may speak bitter words against that wife, that sister, or that mother whom God has put there to hold you …
SERMON • SERMON 594An Awful Premonition
Matthew 16:28
… When the sinner dies it is not tasting of death in its true sense, for what does he lose? He loses wife and children and friends. He loses …
SERMON • SERMON 768A Prayer for the Church Militant
Psalm 28:9
… congregation to get into that state! It is very well for the good wife to have a little black draught at hand when the child wants it sometimes …
SERMON • SERMON 1785The Children and Their Hosannas
Matthew 21:15
… The little maid that waited upon Naaman's wife did good service to the Syrian hero when she said, "Would God my lord were with the Prophet that …
SERMON • SERMON 2425Self-destroyed, Yet Saved
Hosea 13:9
… They have to practice as many tricks to escape the eyes of wife or daughter as the burglar does when he tries to break into the house at …
SERMON • SERMON 1474The Middle Passage
Habakkuk 3:2
… the painter who broke his palette, put down his brush and told his wife that he would never paint again for the artistic faculty had departed from him …
SERMON • SERMON 661The Great Arbitration Case
Job 9:33
… He has served his family, his wife and children, but his Maker he has despised. He has served his country, his neighbors, the borough in which he dwells …
SERMON • SERMON 2714Those Who Desire
Nehemiah 1:11
… a Christian, then, I think—at least when you got home to your wife and family, they could not suppose, from the way you walked, that you had …
COMMENTARYPsalm 143
Psalm 143
… In leaving of sin, then we procrastinate and put off; and when God says, "Today hear my voice", we answer, "Tomorrow", and are like the Levite's wife …
SERMON • SERMON 1410Believers Free from the Dominion of Sin
Romans 6:14
… Lock up a closet in your house and say to your wife and children, "You must never enter that closet, nor even look into the keyhole." Perhaps they …
SERMON • SERMON 1605Jesus Knew What He Would Do
John 6:6
… I know that the old proverb declares that the cobbler's wife goes barefoot and sometimes a man will care for people thousands of miles away and not …
SERMON • SERMON 1842The Private Tutor
John 14:24-26
… You realize Him as a living Person—as much so as your own self, as your dear wife or your near friend—and your heart, in deed and …
SERMON • SERMON 767The Echo
Psalm 27:8
… The very glance of your wife is a loving, constant sermon. Some of you are not without sharp pricks of conscience—the stabs of that sharp little dagger …
SERMON • SERMON 2545The Greatest Folly in the World
Romans 3:11
… have that longing look after Sodom which was the ruin of Lot's wife, but that you may part with all your friends in the City of Destruction …
SERMON • SERMON 2766The Sluggard's Reproof
Proverbs 20:4
… Think, my dear Hearer, what you will feel if you should see your wife in Paradise and yourself be eternally excluded! Mother, what if you should see those …
SERMON • SERMON 2327The Whole Machinery of Salvation
Romans 10:14
… he wishes to leave all he has to one person, say to his wife, if he just says so, that is the best thing he can do. But …
SERMON • SERMON 523From Death To Life
1 Samuel 2:6
… There is the double blessing of Othniel's wife in this text—it has both the upper and the nether springs as its inheritance. It has its own …
SERMON • SERMON 1562Harvest Past, Summer Ended and Men Unsaved
Jeremiah 8:20
… I am not saved! My dear child in Heaven is forever happy, but I am not saved. "My dear wife is a happy Christian, but I am not …
SERMON • SERMON 1611The Word of the Cross
1 Corinthians 1:18
… to argue upon the supposition of a future existence which is an old wife's fable to them. As for eternity, their philosophy has no room for it …
SERMON • SERMON 2414The Prodigal's Climax
Luke 15:17
… Listen how they will abuse a pious wife as "a fool"! What hard words they will use towards a gracious daughter! How they will rail at the ministers …
SERMON • SERMON 458The Friend of Sinners
Isaiah 53:12
… There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed, and the espoused wife of Joseph, being great with child, must travel to …
SERMON • SERMON 2257Inexcusable Irreverence and Ingratitude
Romans 1:20
… You are spared and your mother is spared—your wife and children are spared. Indeed, God has made your path very smooth! Some of you are getting on …
SERMON • SERMON 467Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle
Psalm 73:22-25
… have I in Heaven but You?" I have known a man lose his wife and yet look to earth to find some comfort. I have known him lose …
SERMON • SERMON 2686The Deceived Heart
Isaiah 44:20
… And He turned and said unto them, If any man comes to Me, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters …
SERMON • SERMON 2386The Drawings Of Divine Love
John 6:44
… They cannot come to Christ because their farm, their merchandise, their newly-married wife, or something or other, keeps them back. Oh, how long some of you have …
SERMON • SERMON 2781Jesus Calling
Matthew 11:28
… My wife saw him standing in rags of the most wretched kind and she surprised me greatly when she said, bursting into tears and almost screaming, "O you …
SERMON • SERMON 2810'Nevertheless at Your Word'
Luke 5:5
… It has got me into prison and I have had hard work to tag enough laces to keep my wife and that poor blind child of mine. I …
SERMON • SERMON 1370Sheep Among Wolves
Matthew 10:16
… As notice was given of old in the camp of Israel that he who had lately married a wife, or built a house, or was fainthearted, might go …
SERMON • SERMON 1450The Immovability of the Believer
Psalm 125:1
… He entered their best room and there sat Catherine, his wife, all dressed in black, weeping as from a death in the house. By her side lay a …
SERMON • SERMON 1094Always and for All Things
Ephesians 5:20
… of Heaven? Answer that question— is God as real to you as your wife or child? As real as yourself? He must be so and you must know …
SERMON • SERMON 280The Chaff Driven Away
Psalm 1:4
… You cannot find in the hour of death consolation on the bosom of the most loving wife, you will be quite unable then to find peace in all …
SERMON • SERMON 450An Exhortation By Rev. C.H. Spurgeon
2 Samuel 11:1
… And he takes Uriah's wife. Ah, David! Ah, David! How are the mighty fallen! How is the Prince of Israel fallen and become like the lewd fellows …
SERMON • SERMON 535Ben-Hadad'S Escape—An Encouragement For Sinners
1 Kings 20:31-34
… He deserved nothing but death in return." When the Israelite king was in great necessities, Ben-Hadad sent to demand of him his wife and his children, and …
SERMON • SERMON 480A Message from God for Thee
Lamentations 4:22
… I say not alone, as did the blind prophet of old, "Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings;" but I …
SERMON • SERMON 677Faith Versus Sight
2 Corinthians 5:7
… to drag you away and you cry to him—"Stop! I cannot leave wife, and children, and business just yet!" And when Death remorselessly tears you away from …
SERMON • SERMON 463Sermon 463. Christ'S Servant—His Duty And Reward
John 12:26
… it must even be so, for I, also, shall leave behind me my wife and children, and go forth on a long and weary journey—many a hundred …
SERMON • SERMON 1000Number One Thousand; Or, “Bread Enough and To Spare”
Luke 15:17
… His wife said to him, “But, mon, ain’t ye afeared to stand before the judge?” “Woman,” said he, “why should I be afeared of a man as …
SERMON • SERMON 597Preparation for Revival
Amos 3:3
… In the days of the great weeping, we read that every man wept apart and his wife apart, the son apart, and the daughter apart, all the families …