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Providence
God’s providence, sovereignty, guidance, and care
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Rough, But Friendly
Genesis 42:25
… Very like this is the manner of God's Providence. There are thousands of people living in this world, with all of whom God deals according to wisdom …
SERMON • SERMON 151The Condescension of Christ
2 Corinthians 8:9
… When he sat upon his throne, before he relinquished the glorious mantle of his sovereignty to become a man, all earth was filled with his glory. He could …
COMMENTARYPsalm 115
Psalm 115
… Once they bade his Son come down from the cross and they would believe in him, now they would have God overstep the ordinary bounds of his providence …
SERMON • SERMON 1451BThe Covenant Pleaded
Psalm 74:20
… You are a Sovereign—You can do as you will, but You have bound Yourself by bonds that hold Your majesty—You have said it and it is …
SERMON • SERMON 452The Lord'S Care Of His People
Zechariah 2:8
… The fact is, Providence smites good men and bad men, too. And when the storm rages, and the hurricane howls through the forest, not only are the brambles …
SERMON • SERMON 3091Pedigree
2 Corinthians 11:22
… We must lay our crown at the feet of Divine Sovereignty and bless that distinguishing, discriminating Grace which has made us differ from the rest of mankind! We …
SERMON • SERMON 2893An Instructive Truth
Jeremiah 10:23
… When the land of Judah was hedged about by God's Providence and no enemy ventured to set foot upon the sacred soil, it was easy for a …
SERMON • SERMON 2302Watching For Christ's Coming
Luke 12:37
… But instead thereof, He shall grasp the scepter of universal sovereignty and He shall reign forever and ever. Hallelujah! When will He come? Ah, that is the question …
COMMENTARYPsalm 40
Psalm 40
… Creation, providence, and redemption, teem with wonders as the sea with life. Our special attention is called by this passage to the marvels which cluster around the cross …
SERMON • SERMON 2333The Whole Band Against Christ
Matthew 27:27
… They are ignorant of His Royalty and Sovereignty—and it is in this way that their minds are filled with an indistinctly expressed, but still very powerful, contempt …
SERMON • SERMON 1648Pilate and Ourselves Guilty of the Savior's Death
Matthew 27:24
… They exclaim against Him because He claims universal sovereignty. They might not object so much to Christianity as one of various creeds, but as it claims to be …
COMMENTARYPsalm 23
Psalm 23
… sovereignty and of thy gracious care— "they comfort me." I will believe that thou reignest still. The rod of Jesse shall still be over me as the sovereign …
SERMON • SERMON 1575The Sitting of the Refiner
Malachi 3:3
… To Him be our love and our praise evermore! As a subsidiary means the Lord uses Providence. I have no doubt that He very frequently uses gracious Providences …
SERMON • SERMON 2425Self-destroyed, Yet Saved
Hosea 13:9
… Reprobation, of man's demerit; election, of God's free and Sovereign Grace. The sinner lost in Hell through himself, alone, the saint lifted up to Heaven wholly …
SERMON • SERMON 702Peter'S Three Calls
John 1:37
… I think the Savior chose these two men, not only out of Sovereign Grace unto salvation, but also because He saw about them a zeal in the pursuit …
SERMON • SERMON 1101An Old-Fashioned Conversion
Job 33:29
… It appears, also, that the Lord, in those days, employed Providence as a help towards conversion—and that Providence was often of a very gentle kind, for it …
SERMON • SERMON 887A Door Opened In Heaven
Revelation 4:1
… Yet the Lord in His sovereignty, for reasons that He knows, but which He has not revealed to us, was pleased to look upon the sons of men …
SERMON • SERMON 3297David and His Volunteers
1 Chronicles 12:8-15
… My arm also shall strengthen him." The Lord, in His own Sovereignty, with wisdom and prudence, has been pleased to fix His choice upon the Man Christ Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 964The Essence Of The Gospel
John 3:18
… You are living by His forbearance, spared by the Divine Sovereignty. Some rave against Sovereignty, but in this case it is not Justice that spares you, it is …
SERMON • SERMON 2799The Church Encouraged and Exhorted
Isaiah 43:6
… So God says, "Bring My sons from far," and, therefore, we may be sure that they will be brought to Him! First, Providence obeys this command. Everything that …
SERMON • SERMON 144Waiting Only Upon God
Psalm 62:6
… We must mark God’s providence leading us; and then let us go. But he that goes before providence will be very glad to run back again. Take …
SERMON • SERMON 1398Offended Because of Christ?
Matthew 11:6
… It has frequently occurred to me to deplore that some professors fall back through trials of Providence. We occasionally miss members of the Church because they were pretty …
SERMON • SERMON 2966Resistance to Salvation
Mark 5:7
… in Your sight." It appears to me to be an instance of pure Sovereignty in harmony with the Lord's own declaration, "I will have mercy on whom …
SERMON • SERMON 2202"Lo, I Come"—Exposition
Psalm 40:6-8
… The whole scheme—the whole of God's decrees and acts— worked up to an atoning Savior! Of the pyramid of creation and of Providence, Christ is the …
SERMON • SERMON 3123'The King of the Jews'
John 19:19
… the Jews." But Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." Divine Providence always has its way! It matters not who may be the persons concerned, God …
SERMON • SERMON 2011Abram's Call—or, Half-Way—and All the Way
Genesis 11:31
… In the wise sovereignty of His choice, the Lord chose Abram and his house. He gives no account of his matters and we cannot, therefore, tell why he …
SERMON • SERMON 3345Sunlight for Cloudy Days
Psalm 40:17
… Our Lord Jesus never rested till He had finished the work that His Father gave Him to do, which work was all for us—and the great Providence …
SERMON • SERMON 1600A Greater Than Solomon
Luke 11:31
… Jesus is King of kings, and Lord of lords! Hallelujah! Let universal sovereignty be ascribed to the Son of man: to Him who was ‘despised and rejected of …
SERMON • SERMON 3419God, the Husband of His People
Jeremiah 31:32
… But God, in His Sovereign Grace, set His heart on Israel—Israel He loved—and Israel, alone! He was a Husband unto them, in the next place, in …
SERMON • SERMON 2573Unparalleled Suffering
1 Peter 3:18
… If I dwell with God, He will hide me away in the pavilion of His Sovereignty and, as long as He is King—and that will be forever …
SERMON • SERMON 2717Man's Extremity, God's Opportunity
Deuteronomy 32:36
… Beloved Brothers and Sisters, God may bring His people, in the order of His Providence, into such a state that " their power is gone." Apparently they are in …
SERMON • SERMON 931Three Precious Things
1 Peter 2:7
… Sooner might the eternal pillars of Divine Truth begin to quiver, and the Throne of the Infinite Sovereignty be shaken from its place, than that Believers in Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 1445Wake Up! Wake Up!
Romans 13:11
… Many are passing away from us and from the sphere of our influence in the common course of Providence. Your children, for instance. They were little. Some of …
SERMON • SERMON 2086Taking Possession Of Our Inheritance
Joshua 1:2
… Here are Hermons of experience, Tabors of communion, Jabboks of prevailing prayer and Cheriths of Divine Providence. The revelation of God is a blessed country, full of all …
SERMON • SERMON 406The Infallibility of God’s Purpose
Job 23:13
… This, I take it, is the first general lesson of the text—in every event of Providence, God has a purpose. “He is in one mind.” Mark, not …
SERMON • SERMON 1644Our Lord's First Appearance before Pilate
John 18:38
… In the course of His Providence, He has brought some of us very low by sickness, or by bereavement, or loss. Everyone saved by our Lord has come …
SERMON • SERMON 1804Obadiah; or, Early Piety Eminent Piety
1 Kings 18:12
… Oh, what we owe, many of us, to the providence which gave us such a happy parentage! Blessed be God for his great mercy to the children of …
SERMON • SERMON 3064'And It Was So'
Genesis 1:7
… Those who watch Providence will never be without a Providence to watch!
SERMON • SERMON 554Enduring to the End
Matthew 10:22
… Divine sovereignty makes us all secure.” He fell asleep right quietly, for his day was over, and the night was come, what could he do better than go …
SERMON • SERMON 796Joshua's Obedience
Joshua 1:7
… There are certain tremendous Truths of God, such as Divine Sovereignty, the doctrine of Election, Covenant transactions, and so forth. And some men cast such a loving eye …