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SERMON • SERMON 468

Ezekiel'S Deserted Infant

Ezekiel 16:5

… Rest on the merit of His blood and of His glorious righteousness! Trust in the power of His intercession before the Throne, and despite your lost estate, you …

SERMON • SERMON 1474

The Middle Passage

Habakkuk 3:2

… The book of his prophecy begins with the earnest question of intercession, "O Lord, how long?" His spirit was stirred within him at the sin of the people …

SERMON • SERMON 1766

A Waiting God and a Waiting People

Isaiah 30:18

… The bread cast on the waters of prayer will be found again, but it may not be till after many days. Watch unto prayer, if it is long …

SERMON • SERMON 1592

The Common Salvation

… we are all saved by the same one work, life, death, Resurrection and intercession of Christ Jesus! When He made Atonement by blood,, it was for all His …

SERMON • SERMON 2484

The Very Friend You Need

Luke 7:34

… His Throne, He made intercession for the transgressors and He continues to prove His love to sinners by daily pleading for them! The prayer He commenced on earth …

SERMON • SERMON 1830

All Or None—or, Compromises Refused— a Sermon With Five Texts

Exodus 10:26

… And be precise in all your actions—but do not be one of those people who are always praying in secret. You can keep an open religious profession …

SERMON • SERMON 841

Crowding to Touch the Savior

Mark 3:10

… They have eyes that see not God, hearts that throb not with love to Him, knees that bow not in earnest prayer, hands withered for all holy service …

SERMON • SERMON 1378

The Righteous Father Known and Loved

John 17:25

… THESE are the last sentences of our Lord's most wonderful prayer. May they not be regarded as the flower and crown of the whole intercession? Minds usually …

SERMON • SERMON 1978

Untitled Sermon

Ephesians 1:12

… You Sinners, come and trust the ever-living Christ, for He makes intercession for transgressors! I stand here this morning and I say to all of you in …

SERMON • SERMON 3095

Faith in Christ

Acts 16:31

… them that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them. We have heard faith illustrated by the picture of a child in …

SERMON • SERMON 1547

Samuel and the Young Man Saul

1 Samuel 9:27

… of a mother who prays for you and is praying while you are sitting in this House of Prayer. Above all, I plead with you for His sake …

SERMON • SERMON 825

The Sieve

Amos 9:9

… Lord, deliver us from being filled with riches or stinted by poverty—from either extreme, save us! The prayer of Agur is a most wise one—"Give me …

SERMON • SERMON 1936

The Unkept Vineyard—or, Personal Work Neglected

Solomon 1:6

… Brother would pray for his children at the Prayer Meeting, but I do not think he ever practiced family prayer. It is shocking to find men and women …

SERMON • SERMON 2403

The Sweet and the Sweetener

Psalm 104:34

… Behold Him in His present Glory—meditate much upon His intercession at the right hand of God. How secure are we because He always lives to intercede for …

SERMON • SERMON 1562

Harvest Past, Summer Ended and Men Unsaved

Jeremiah 8:20

… salvation nowhere else! Though the whole Church were to unite in one protracted intercession and determine that all its ministers should preach to only you for the next …

SERMON • SERMON 1611

The Word of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18

… but the Blessed One, once crucified for you, who always lives to make intercession for you? Cling to the Cross, then! Put both arms around it! Hold to …

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Early Wedded Life (Continued)

… I lay on a couch under the window, thinking of my dear one who had gone to preach his first sermon at the Surrey Music Hall, and praying …

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The Preacher’s Power, and the Conditions of Obtaining It

… Be much in prayer yourself, and this will be more effectual than scolding your people for not praying. Set the example. Draw streams of prayer out of the …

SERMON • SERMON 2564

Strange Ways of Love

Hosea 2:14

… He makes intercession for the transgressors and he bears upon His breastplate the names of guilty ones for whom His cry goes up that they may be forgiven …

SERMON • SERMON 1482

Our Change of Masters

Romans 6:18

… They just now stood up and sung the hymn! They bowed their heads in prayer and they are now listening to this sermon! No one can tell the …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 130

Psalm 130

… And the very fact that we are praying is a proof of his attention,—for who but he put it into our hearts to make that prayer? Nevertheless …

SERMON • SERMON 926

The Sine Qua Non

John 13:8

… We believe in His Resurrection, and our prayer is that we may have part in it—because He rose we also may rise, and may forever, both in …

SERMON • SERMON 1477

Jesus Admired In Them That Believe

2 Thessalonians 1:10

… for men and always sitting at the right hand of God to make intercession for them—these are the people in whom Christ will be glorified and admired …

SERMON • SERMON 1535

Christ's Universal Kingdom and How It Comes

Psalms 2:8

… He always lives to intercede and a part of His daily intercession is to ask that the heathen may be His inheritance. Now, Beloved, this is a lesson …

SERMON • SERMON 1708

The Holy Spirit's Threefold Conviction of Men

John 16:8-11

… Paul says, "It is Christ that died, yes, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us …

SERMON • SERMON 2499

Christopathy

Isaiah 53:5

… I did groan out a prayer of a sort, but I felt as if the very earth must be weary of bearing up such a sinner—and that …

SERMON • SERMON 480

A Message from God for Thee

Lamentations 4:22

… even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." Further: as her prayer was not heard, so every place of refuge was broken down …

SERMON • SERMON 1300

Life's Need and Maintenance

Psalm 22:29

… While sitting in this House of Prayer you may dream that assuredly you can keep yourself here, but it is not so. You might sin the foulest of …

SERMON • SERMON 1436

What The Church Should Be

1 Timothy 3:15

… We may soon fall into formalism and even hold the Truth in the cold grip of spiritual death! Prayer may be neglected and the other offices of spiritual …

SERMON • SERMON 2282

David's Prayer in the Cave

… prevalent communion and intercession! And may the prayer of the cave be the very best of your prayers! I shall, tonight, use David's prayer in the cave …

SERMON • SERMON 1457A

Seekers Directed and Encouraged

Jeremiah 29:13

… I look to them to seek the Lord by prayer, praying much for God to be glorified and to back up their prayer by effort, cheerfully seeking to …

SERMON • SERMON 1791

Helps to Full Assurance

1 John 5:13

… Trust in His glorious Person, in His finished work, in His accepted Sacrifice, in His prevailing intercession and in His glorious advent which is yet to be. Look …

SERMON • SERMON 471

Accepted In The Beloved

Ephesians 1:6

… And since He ever lives to make intercession for us, our eternal life is sure. But, oh, we must have this life! "Except a man eat My flesh …

SERMON • SERMON 1439

Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Little Child

Luke 18:17

… Let us seek His touch in the form of fellowship and ask the aid of His intercession. Let us include others in our prayers and among these let …

SERMON • SERMON 1875

The Preacher's Last Sermon for the Season

John 7:37

… You may come to Him at this hour! A prayer will bring you to Him! A sigh will find and reach Him and if, beneath the arch of …

SERMON • SERMON 1500

Number 1500, Or Lifting Up the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:9

… It might have been applied to him by rubbing—he might have been expected to repeat a certain form of prayer, or to have a priest present to …

SERMON • SERMON 1777

Esther's Exaltation—or, Who Knows?

Esther 4:13

… be wasted? What if Israel had been destroyed for lack of Esther's intercession? Her name would have been a byword among other nations as a base and …

SERMON • SERMON 2662

Some Marks of God's People

Psalm 68:28

… Oh, what poor prayers some people pray, when they bow their heads for a moment as they come into the House of God! Often, there is no prayer …

SERMON • SERMON 498

The Gladness of the Man of Sorrows

Psalm 45:7

… that while we muse upon these things our heavenly Father may hear the prayer of our great Advocate who once cried on our behalf—“And now come I …

SERMON • SERMON 441

The Elders Before The Throne

Revelation 4:4

… intercession for the whole company of the elect. 5. I must not forget, however, that these elders before the Throne of God were ready not only for prayer …