Peace

Psalm 130

Psalm 130

… c) A believing reception of it gives peace and rest, and, exciting grateful love, leads to spiritual worship and filial service.— J. F. Verse 4. There is forgiveness …

The Silken Fetter

Hosea 3:5

… If his dominions are in peace. If the Nile causes Egypt to be fat with harvest, the proud monarch defiantly demands, "Who is Jehovah that I should obey …

How They Conquered the Dragon

Revelation 12:11

… Leaving all the rest, we will pay our attention to the victors and the weapons by which they won the day. First, we shall notice that the blessed …

Paul in the Tempest

Acts 27:18-25

… When Hope mourns, "I cannot find rest for the sole of my feet," Faith cries, "Use your wings." When there seems nothing for Faith to rest on but …

The Battle of Life

… I do but borrow a reflection from the secular press when I say that it were ill for us if the love of peace, fostered among us as …

A Sermon on a Grand Old Text

1 Timothy 1:15

… Your faith shall save you and you may go in peace, for he who can rely upon Christ shall not find the Savior fail the faith which He …

The Lord's Knowledge, Our Safeguard

2 Peter 2:9

… of our temptations is absolutely perfect—and we may be content and rest in perfect peace. "He knows the way that I take." And this is true in …

A Visit From the Lord

Psalm 106:4

… yet I trust that we have not forgotten that there is a peace, a rest, a joy which God bestows upon those who walk uprightly, those who live …

Sow To Yourselves

Hosea 10:12

… Trust Him, depend upon Him, rest in Him and in Him, alone. Mind that your faith is real reliance on Jesus, for I meet with some who think …

Christians Kept From Sin

1 Samuel 25:32

… And he thanked God, he said, that he never gave himself any rest until he had done all that was in his power to bring them to the …

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Revelation 19:9

… over you with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy over you with singing." But what will that rest of love be and that singing …

The Ceremony of Laying the...

… Yet heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, neither can any among the sons of men build a house for thy habitation and thy rest. The …

"The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved"

John 21:20

… Upon the mountain of the Savior's love there was a knoll a little higher than the rest of the mountain and there John was made to stand …

Let Him Deliver Him Now

Matthew 27:43

… If they do not rise to the very highest eminence it is simply out of pity to the rest of us, who ought to have a chance. A …

A Monument for the Dead, and a Voice to the Living

Romans 10:5-9

… In Park-street early in my ministry I told the story, and it did my friend good, and helped to rest his soul all those years ago, so …

An Astounding Miracle

Mark 1:21-28

… And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold your peace, and come out of him. And when the unclean spirit had convulsed him, and cried with a loud voice, he …

God Fighting Sin

Isaiah 63:10

… From His house no more to roam, But with God to rest at home." God will soon put away the rod when you put away the sin. If …

Samuel—an Example of Intercession

1 Samuel 12:23

… but so did not I, because of the fear of God." Samuel, throughout a long life, had kept the land in peace and innumerable blessings had come to …

Last Things

Proverbs 5:11

… Oh how weary I am! I cannot bear it." Courage, Brother! Courage, Sister! There is rest for the weary. There is eternal rest for the beloved of the …

An Indictment with Four Counts

Zephaniah 3:2

… Oh, how sweetly does Jesus bid the hungry and the thirsty come to Him; the heavy laden and such as are bowed down, to come and find rest …

The Strait Gate

Luke 13:24

… Not only does he find rest in Christ, but joy and gladness, peace and abiding satisfaction are the portion of his lot. I tell you what I do …

Earth's Vanities and Heaven's Verities

Psalm 39:6-8

… But we live by the moment and the day and we are all on the worry, the fidget, the fret, the fume and we know no real rest …

Awakening

… Yet awakening is not a thing to rest in, or to desire to have lengthened out month after month. If I start up in a fright, and find …

The Lord's Chosen Ministers

Luke 10:21

… And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if a son ofpeace is there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not …

Christians Kept In Time And Glorified In Eternity

… And knowing that all of them who were truly brought up out of Egypt by Jesus shall surely enter into the promised rest, he cannot, he does not …

Ziklag—or David Encouraging Himself In God

1 Samuel 30:6

… Though I have wandered, yet my heart cannot rest without Him. Though I have had but little fellowship with Him of late, yet He has not forgotten to …

The Unrivalled Eloquence Of Jesus

John 7:46

… rest, nor any other, except the great High Priest, Jesus, Melchisedek, the sinner's Pardoner. No words of hope, nor thoughts of consolation can ever breed such peace …

Conversions Desired

Acts 11:21

… If you can rest without their being saved they will rest, too. But if you are filled with an agony for them, if you cannot bear that they …

Great Spoil

Psalm 119:162

… unto the darker side of sacred Writ, but that once fought, there is rest. Yet, once more, this is true about the Word which reveals Christ. We know …

A Prayer for the Church Militant

Psalm 28:9

… feed them also, and lift them up forever."— "Pray that Jerusalem may ha ve Peace and felicity. Let them that love You and Your peace Have still prosperity …

The Wounds of Jesus

Luke 24:40

… Peter, James, and John, had seen him transfigured, when his garments were whiter than any fuller could make them; but the rest of the disciples had only seen …

The Common Salvation

… Beloved Hearer, you ought not to rest without knowing that you are saved! You may know it and if it is true, you ought to know it! I …

Elijah’s Appeal to the Undecided

1 Kings 18:21

… other; and so between the two, you get no rest for the sole of your foot, no peace, no joy, no comfort, but are just a poor miserable …

The Prodigal's Climax

Luke 15:17

… Before, it was only one of a hundred in the fold, but now it is one distinct and separate from all the rest, and the shepherd's thought …

The Best Christmas Fare

Psalm 119:103

… If there is joy, if there is peace, if there is rest, if there is bliss to be found in anything else—all that, and more than that …

The Man With The Measuring Line

Zechariah 2:1-5

… This prophecy has not as yet been fulfilled—it may have had some partial fulfillment in those times of peace before the coming of the Savior, but even …

Praying and Pleading

Jeremiah 14:7

… a false peace, or calm your conscience with anything less than true reconciliation with God! It is better to be always restless than to find rest in a …

The Sine Qua Non

John 13:8

… Yes, and before long to tread that same starry way, and enter into the rest where He is, and behold the Glory which God has given to Him …

The Personal Pentecost and the Glorious Hope

Romans 5:5

… They were not ashamed of their hope, but proclaimed it by the preaching of Peter and the rest of them. The Holy Spirit had visited them and, therefore …

Christ’s Prayer for His People

John 17:15

… How frequently does the wearied pilgrim put up the prayer, “O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I fly away and be at rest …