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What Christians Were and Are
Ephesians 2:3
… I remember his first true prayer, his first look of faith, his first note of praise—they are all registered in My records that none can erase. I …
SERMON • SERMON 2972Forgiveness
Psalm 130:4
… has commanded you to pray for forgiveness? What is the meaning of that prayer, "Forgive us our sins, as we also forgive everyone that is indebted to us …
SERMON • SERMON 2892The Free-agency of Christ
Mark 8:22-26
… If we are ourselves saved, let us always be firmly convinced that He is also able to save any whom we bring before Him in prayer. Let us …
SERMON • SERMON 1404Over Against the Sepulcher
Matthew 27:61
… He is risen." Our Christ is not dead! He lives forever to make intercession for us! He could not be held by the bands of death! There was …
SERMON • SERMON 3040The Happy Beggar
Psalm 40:17
… It is His office to be the Comforter, to help our infirmities, to make intercession for us according to the will of God. So let us take the …
SERMON • SERMON 1355Our Lord's Question to the Blind Men
Matthew 9:27-30
… Prayer which makes little of Christ is prayer which God will make little of, but the prayer in which the soul glorifies the Redeemer rises like a perfumed …
SERMON • SERMON 3081The Gracious Lips of Jesus
Psalm 45:2
… Whatever You ask in prayer, for Your sake it shall be bestowed." Do you see yonder poor man? His name is Peter. At no great distance is Satan …
SERMON • SERMON 3193The Man Whose Hand Stuck to His Sword
2 Samuel 23:9
… This is a suitable prayer for each one of us to pray before we go any further. May God hear the cries of His people as we each …
SERMON • SERMON 406The Infallibility of God’s Purpose
Job 23:13
… But he is of one mind and no revengeful prayer should change the purpose of his love. Sometimes as men are changed by the ties of relationship: a …
SERMON • SERMON 903The Way Everlasting
Psalm 139:24
… So, you see, as to its modes the prayer of the text is very comprehensive. 3. It is, dear Brothers and Sisters, a great prayer, if you think …
SERMON • SERMON 966Joseph's Bones
Hebrews 11:22
… That prayer over which we groaned, and thought it was not prayer, may have had more true supplication in it than another intercession of which we thought far …
SERMON • SERMON 3064'And It Was So'
Genesis 1:7
… Abraham pleaded and his intercession almost prevailed, but as no righteous salt was found in the filthy cities of the plain, they were doomed to perish. They had …
SERMON • SERMON 1145The Great Jail—and How To Get Out Of It
Galatians 3:22
… I will hear your prayer. I will save you." He does this because He chooses to do it of His own Sovereign good will and pleasure. "I will …
SERMON • SERMON 2273Fickle Followers
Luke 9:57-62
… We are praying over them and praying for them—and we need to know what sort of men and women they ought to be. We need to know …
SERMON • SERMON 2783A Worthy Theme for Thought
Psalm 48:9
… when shall I come and appear before God!" In this very House of Prayer, have not our hearts burned within us, many a time, as we have praised …
SERMON • SERMON 3053Jesus Christ's Idiom
John 3:5
… prayer for your soul's salvation, just imagine that you feel my hand upon your shoulder and hear me say to you, "What? No offering of a prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 2030Moses—His Faith and Decision
Hebrews 11:24-26
… god to Pharaoh." Egypt's haughty monarch feared his plagues and entreated his intercession. The Lord made Moses so great that among those who are born of woman …
SERMON • SERMON 1772Slaying the Sacrifice
Leviticus 1:5
… It is the head and front of His redeeming work! We justly value Him for His example and for His living intercession—but in the business of Atonement …
SERMON • SERMON 2744Lost Through One-Saved Through One
Romans 5:16
… who is he that condemns?" Since Christ has died, and risen again, and now sits at the right hand of God and makes intercession for us, what judgment …
SERMON • SERMON 2078The Believing Thief
Luke 23:42-43
… He did not keep his persuasion of our Lord's Messiahship in his mind as a dry, dead belief, but he turned it into trust and prayer, "Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 2212The Private Thoughts and Words of Jesus
Matthew 20:17-19
… rise in Him! We triumph in Him! And, "He ever lives to make intercession for us." Thus, you see, I have not preached my own thoughts, but I …
SERMON • SERMON 2935Christ's Joy and Ours
John 15:11
… Our Lord Jesus Christ never ceases His intercession. His acceptableness with God on our behalf never varies. The promises do not change. The Covenant is not like the …
SERMON • SERMON 2461Rejoicing and Remembering
Solomon 1:4
… I find it good, sometimes in prayer, to say nothing, but to sit or kneel quite still and to look up to my Lord in adoring silence—and …
SERMON • SERMON 2066Our Place—at Jesus' Feet
Luke 7:38
… I like praying right into the Mediator's ear. It is grand praying when Jesus is near and you speak to Him as a man speaks to his …
SERMON • SERMON 2770'Go in Peace'
Luke 7:50
… This woman had the assurance from Christ's own lips, "Your faith has saved you." Those of you who were at the Prayer Meeting here last Monday night …
SERMON • SERMON 1962The Friend of God
Isaiah 41:8
… It was not an intercession for Sodom so much as an expostulation with God—friend with Friend. If we were pleading for London, we would naturally appeal to …
SERMON • SERMON 1346Guile Forsaken When Guilt Is Forgiven
Psalm 32:2
… He who was, before, crafty as Jacob no sooner receives the blessing of the Lord in answer to prayer than he becomes "an Israelite, indeed, in whom is …
SERMON • SERMON 1891The Sermon of the Seasons
Genesis 8:22
… To end all, let our prayer be that the Lord would abide with us, and then the heat shall not smite us, nor the cold molest us. The …
SERMON • SERMON 1138Morning And Evening Songs
Psalm 92:2
… Up to this time God has always heard prayer in this place. This very building was an answer to prayer. There is scarcely an institution connected with it …
SERMON • SERMON 1010Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness
Matthew 4:15-16
… That also is a rich word, “He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession …
SERMON • SERMON 1359Happiness—the Privilege and Duty of Christians
Deuteronomy 33:29
… Oftentimes had he stood in the gap and made intercession for them, when otherwise they would have been destroyed. He had, for their sakes, given up the most …
SERMON • SERMON 551Faith and Life
2 Peter 1:1-4
… sink or swim, resting entirely upon the person, the righteousness, the blood, the intercession, the precious merit of our Lord Jesus Christ? If not, we have cause enough …
SERMON • SERMON 1867Untitled Sermon
Exodus 15:1
… No, not in His redemption, only, but in His life, His death, His Resurrection, His intercession, His Second Coming He has become my salvation. And the Holy Spirit …
SERMON • SERMON 793Nearer and Dearer
Solomon 5:2-8
… In outward Providences every benefit which we receive through our Mediator's intercession is a gentle knock from His pierced hands, saying, "Take this mercy, but open to …
SERMON • SERMON 1581Silver Sockets—Redemption the Foundation!
Exodus 30:11-16
… His stripes we are healed." "He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors." Oh, dear Hearers, build on that and you will never fail …
SERMON • SERMON 1964Why Is Faith So Feeble?
Mark 4:40
… The bitter-spirited man ate it and began to melt a little—the conversation became hearty and the prayer was pleasant. Brother Jones was getting better in more …
SERMON • SERMON 1270"God With Us"
Matthew 1:23
… to be prepared for an audience with Him, or that you need the intercession of a saint, or the intervention of priest or minister! Anyone could have come …
SERMON • SERMON 2187Jesus—"All Blessing and All Blessed"
Psalm 72:17
… He still spends His time in making intercession for transgressors, that the blessing of God may rest upon them, while His Spirit, who is His Vicegerent here below …
SERMON • SERMON 1204The Reception of Sinners
Luke 15:22
… The master and the son wear the sandals, but not the servants, so that this order was an answer to the last part of the penitent's prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 1525The Lily Among Thorns
Solomon 2:2
… I pray not for the world, but for them which You have given Me." Thus He indicates that there is a specialty about His intercession. We rejoice in …