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The Prodigal'S Reception
Luke 15:20
… O poor Sinner, there is no need for you to give information to your God for He knows it already! You need not pick your words in prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 2757Victorious Faith
1 John 5:4
… up to die, His dying pangs could extort from Him nothing but a prayer, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And thus He conquered …
SERMON • SERMON 3457All Are Guilty
Matthew 27:22
… from the oracle for him! And when he even bows the knee in prayer, but gets no answer. The silence of the Christ of God is very terrible …
SERMON • SERMON 1105The Heart Of Jesus
Matthew 11:29
… And His prayer for His murderers was His meekness. While "despised and rejected of men," He was evermore their friend and lover, returning good for all their ill …
SERMON • SERMON 2962Diamond Hinges - 'as' and 'so'
Isaiah 54:9
… that it may be so! Will you not yourselves all pray the same prayer? God will hear you if you do, for He waits to be gracious! There …
SERMON • SERMON 3392Justification by Faith
Romans 5:1
… Here have I been constant in the House of Prayer, regular at my Sunday school class—and yet I get little or no joy from it. I go …
SERMON • SERMON 2806'Jesus Our Lord'
Romans 4:24
… she salutes Him as Lord! She did so in the dying thief's prayer, "Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom." And she has done it …
SERMON • SERMON 381Christian Baptism
Colossians 2:12
… as much as ours; it is his law as much as ours! His prayer book tells him we are right; the large fonts, three feet in diameter, which …
SERMON • SERMON 2017'David's Spoil'
1 Samuel 30:20
… But, still I will reserve a special season and wall it in, like a private garden, in which, with prayer and praise and meditation, I will commune with …
SERMON • SERMON 1652The Singing Pilgrim
Psalm 119:54
… The restless pulse of care And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the …
SERMON • SERMON 2697Angelic Interest in the Gospel
1 Peter 1:12
… You and I, perhaps, suppose that we know all about the Gospel and that we do not need to have hours of study, and thought, and prayer, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1176The Eternal Day
Isaiah 60:20
… What delights there will be in such close fellowship! When we have drawn near to God in prayer we have been so happy we could scarcely have been …
SERMON • SERMON 502A Jealous God
Exodus 34:14
… adore the wafer, hundreds bow before the image of the Virgin, scores at prayer before a crucifix, and companies of men and women adoring a rotten bone or …
COMMENTARYPsalm 114
Psalm 114
… or, his sanctuary , both actually, because sanctifying him; and passively, because sanctified of him...This one verse expounds and exemplifies two prime petitions of the Lord's Prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 3420Could He Not? Ah! But He Would Not
John 11:37
… It is a feeble word—a most expressive prayer. "Make me go, for therein do I delight." When a man delights in God's way, he will be …
SERMON • SERMON 3433Love's Reward
Psalm 91:14
… God is willing to hear prayer, and when He compels you to pray, He will surely give the answer. "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall …
SERMON • SERMON 3330Two Choice Assurances
Genesis 15:1
… with me that verse of the beloved singer Toplady— "Inquirer and Hearer of prayer, You Shepherd and Guardian of Thine, My all to Your Covenant care, I sleeping …
SERMON • SERMON 3022God's Innumerable Mercies
Psalm 71:15
… Incline Your ear unto me, and save me. "My prayer is weak. Therefore, O Lord, bend Your ear down to my lips, that You may catch my faintest …
SERMON • SERMON 63Marvellous Increase of the Church
Isaiah 60:8
… Many a time have we seen coming to our church, a fine strutting fellow, with long feathers of prayer behind him. He could pray gloriously; and he has …
SERMON • SERMON 887A Door Opened In Heaven
Revelation 4:1
… if it is sweet, today, to mingle with Christians in their praise and prayer, when we are so soon to separate and go our way—how passing sweet …
SERMON • SERMON 2006Knowing the Lord Through Pardoned Sin
Jeremiah 31:34
… Hear him as he wrestles in prayer. Stand outside the door and you will soon perceive that an invisible One is with him. This unseen Somebody is Everybody …
SERMON • SERMON 2554The Spiritual Resurrection
John 11:43
… you have." Ah, Beloved, when God brought us to Himself we wrestled in prayer and pleaded with him—and we were taught, after all, that the power for …
SERMON • SERMON 844Justification by Faith—Illustrated by Abram’s Righteousness
Genesis 15:6
… Turn to the annals of the Redeemer’s sufferings given us in the Evangelists; bow yourself in prayer before the Lamb of God, blush to think you should …
SERMON • SERMON 1034The Only Atoning Priest
Hebrews 10:11-14
… What is there in prayer itself that can have merit in it to make atonement for sin? You have read the Scriptures regularly, for which I am most …
SERMON • SERMON 1374"Forever With The Lord"
1 Thessalonians 4:17
… What did our Master say in His blessed prayer? "I will that they, also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may …
SERMON • SERMON 2074Intimate Knowledge of the Holy Spirit
John 14:17
… Even in the prayer in which you seek strength, ask that the Spirit may help your infirmities. Even for the faith which brings you all Divine Grace ask …
SERMON • SERMON 2306Servitude Or Service—Which?
2 Chronicles 12:8
… Egypt, came against them, and though the Lord had respect to their humble prayer and would not suffer Shishak to destroy Jerusalem, yet He brought them into subjection …
SERMON • SERMON 662Consolation In The Furnace
Daniel 3:25
… When money vanishes and business all goes wrong, we frequent the Prayer Meeting more and the closet more and read the Bible more—we are driven by all …
SERMON • SERMON 678Praise Your God, O Zion!
Luke 19:37-40
… We have had many Prayer Meetings, but few, very few, Praise Meetings—as if the Church could cry loud enough when her own ends were to be answered …
SERMON • SERMON 166The Destroyer Destroyed
Hebrews 2:14
… finds a poor saint upon his knees, exercising but very little power in prayer. “Oh!” says the devil, “I shant have this creature at last; I’ll howl …
SERMON • SERMON 2259The Simplicity and Sublimity of Salvation
John 1:11-13
… I think that, oftentimes, a roaring devil keeps us awake—and the troubles of this life stir us up to go to God in prayer—and that which …
SERMON • SERMON 2565Ruins
2 Chronicles 28:23
… As for themselves, they never darken the doors of any House of Prayer—you never see them there, any more, and they say, "We have got rid of …
SERMON • SERMON 1140Let Him Alone
Hosea 4:17
… Not many Monday nights ago, there came a beloved Christian Sister, here, who joined with us in prayer. She was taken ill. She did not leave this house …
SERMON • SERMON 1166Marrow and Fatness
2 Samuel 7:18-22
… No weapon in his hand but that of All-Prayer, which he found to be equal to the emergency. And when he had gone through it, and the …
SERMON • SERMON 3338The Witness of the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:26
… There must be the spirit of prayer and supplication poured out first. We shall see Israel restored to her land when Israel is restored to the Mercy Seat …
SERMON • SERMON 2271Alone, Yet Not Alone
John 16:31
… And though we are honestly trusting in Christ, tonight, let each one cry, "Hold You me up and I shall be safe." Let the prayer go up from …
SERMON • SERMON 691An Immovable Foundation
Psalm 11:3
… His prayer was, "not My will, O Father, but Yours be done." So may we hold our peace, if God has done it. Never charge God foolishly, but …
SERMON • SERMON 2407Feeding on a Whole Christ
Numbers 9:11
… Well, then, my Brother, what about the members of your family? Are they all converted yet? Are they all saved? If not, breathe a prayer that the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 2285Paul, the Ready
Romans 1:15
… tonight, if you have lost the light of God's Countenance, here are words for you to use in prayer to God. 16. Doubtless You are our Father …
SERMON • SERMON 2726Fourfold Satisfaction
Jeremiah 31:14
… Every man who is a Christian is a priest unto God and he daily offers unto God the acceptable sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving. In fact, his whole …