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God’s providence, sovereignty, guidance, and care
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Underneath
Deuteronomy 33:27
… If in faith you search into Divine Providence, however dark and trying it may appear, you will soon find that underneath it are the everlasting arms. Satan may …
SERMON • SERMON 861Broken Bones
Psalm 51:8
… Every circumstance in Providence seemed to favor the concealment of the monarch's sin. His conscience slept. His passions rioted. But his heart was estranged and his Grace …
SERMON • SERMON 1293The Unknown Ways of Love
John 13:7
… The same remark applies to the great designs of God in Providence. He is pleased, in prophecy, to tell us what He has meant by His Providence and …
COMMENTARYPsalm 8
Psalm 8
… labour to keep thy distance to the world, and that sovereignty which God hath given thee over it in its profits and pleasures, or whatever else may prove …
SERMON • SERMON 748Self-Humbling
2 Chronicles 34:27
… I would remind you also, my dear Brothers and Sisters, of that Sovereign Grace which has made us to differ. I frequently find that a sense of God …
SERMON • SERMON 2862The Way of Wisdom
Job 28:7
… It did not seem as if all this could be according to God's Grace, yet it was, for, in the mysterious Providence of God, this man was …
SERMON • SERMON 322A Divine Challenge!
Exodus 8:1
… observe that today God is saying—saying in His own decree—saying by Providence—and saying through the lips of His faithful ministers, that emancipating sentence which of …
SERMON • SERMON 3236The Gospel Cordial
Proverbs 31:6
… Watts truly sings— "Salvation! Oh, the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears A sovereign balm for every wound, A cordial for our fears." I will take, first …
SERMON • SERMON 641Confession Of Sin Illustrated by the Cases of Dr. Pritchard and Constance Kent
Psalm 32:5
… saddled upon us which really is no fault of ours, but belongs to providence, to fate, to our fellow men, to the devil, to the weather, and I …
SERMON • SERMON 3362Fearing and Trusting—trusting and Not Fearing
Psalm 56:3
… Now, if you are to be tried in the order of Providence in a way that you cannot bear and there is no other way of escape for …
SERMON • SERMON 1718Certain Singular Subjects
Joshua 24:4
… Our daily bread comes from the granary of Providence. The store most ample, or the measure most scant must, alike, be traced to the one all-bountiful hand …
SERMON • SERMON 3558A Plea From the Cross
Luke 23:34
… It is only Sovereign Grace that brought that in as a plea—it is not justice, nor is it law—it the heart of mercy that pleads that …
SERMON • SERMON 1638Men Without Heart, Sight, or Hearing
Deuteronomy 29:4
… You allow prejudice to blind your eyes to the plain teaching of Creation and Providence. You walk through the studio and admire the pictures—and deny the artist …
SERMON • SERMON 1041Mercy's Master Motive
Isaiah 48:9-11
… Neither law nor gospel, providence nor conscience, has sufficed to turn you from your perverse ways. Your neck would not bend before either the terrors or the mercies …
SERMON • SERMON 2613Sonship Questioned
Matthew 4:3
… His Providence has failed You! Be Your own Providence—work a miracle for Yourself." How little the tempter, with all his knowledge, understood the true Character of Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 382The Last Census
Psalm 87:6
… When He numbered them, well and good; but none but the Sovereign power has a right to take the census of the people. David, forgetting that he was …
SERMON • SERMON 1129The Heart Of Flesh
Ezekiel 36:26
… Or we hear men speak of the delights of their transgressions and the sweets of lust, and unless we are held back by Providence and Grace, we are …
SERMON • SERMON 1402"Lead Us Not Into Temptation"
Matthew 6:13
… They are not bound to wait upon her in the palace with personal service though they acknowledge her as their honored sovereign. Dukes and such like are her …
SERMON • SERMON 1693That Horrible East Wind!
Colossians 3:15
… You lose the best sovereign that ever held a scepter! I believe that if a man is walking with God in the Light of God and enjoying full …
SERMON • SERMON 253A Psalm of Remembrance
1 John 4:16
… I can see a gracious providence pouring forth out of the cornucopia of providence,—an abundance of all that my soul can desire.” This, however, might not completely …
SERMON • SERMON 2524Fearing and Hoping
Psalm 147:11
… It is so in Providence—it is assuredly so in Grace! As to Providence, see what God does— 16. He gives snow like wool. People say, nowadays, "It …
SERMON • SERMON 2914A Mournful Defection
John 6:67
… By the ministry of the Gospel, by the order of Providence, by all the arrangements of Divine Government, the precious are separated from the vile, the dross is …
SERMON • SERMON 184The Glorious Gospel
1 Timothy 1:15
… The goings of God are to be seen in the sanctuary; both in providence and in nature they are to be seen most visibly. Does not God visit …
SERMON • SERMON 1557Walking Humbly With God
Micah 6:8
… When God sends, as it seems to us, the wrong Providence—when He does to us that which seems unwise and unkind, we are still to say, "He …
SERMON • SERMON 163Awake! Awake!
1 Thessalonians 5:6
… One would have called the breaking forth of water a fine picture of the plenitude of providence, the magnificence of God’s goodness to the human race; but …
SERMON • SERMON 2895A Blessed Gospel Chain
John 14:23
… Neither am I speaking, just now, concerning the essential love of God towards His own elect whom He loves irrespectively of their character because of His own Sovereign …
SERMON • SERMON 1865The Nobleman's Faith
John 4:46-53
… As a matter of unpromised Sovereign Grace, He may even do exceeding abundantly above what you ask or even think. Therefore I would treat your faith like a …
SERMON • SERMON 2849Remembering God's Works
Psalm 111:4
… Study deeply what Sovereign Grace has done to you, that you may see the greatness of the mercy and admire it, for, very much in proportion as you …
SERMON • SERMON 995The Sheep and Their Shepherd
John 10:27
… To him belonged the sovereign prerogative that he might have mercy on whom he would have mercy; and he, out of his own absolute will, and according to …
SERMON • SERMON 313Terrible Convictions and Gentle Drawings
Psalm 32:3-4
… I shall this morning borrow my divisions from quaint old Thomas Fuller, whose book happened to be thrown in my way this week by Providence, and as I …
SERMON • SERMON 3154Concerning The Forbearance Of God
Romans 2:4
… And that is also the story of many others present here! Yet all the while, God has kept you supplied with the blessings of Providence so that you …
COMMENTARYPsalm 66
Psalm 66
… Take from the Bible its awful doctrines, and from providence its terrible acts, and the whole system, under which God has placed us, would be emasculated. William S …
SERMON • SERMON 2634"Jesus Only" —a Communion Meditation
Mark 9:8
… The chastisements of God's Providence are the fatherly acts of His love—they are not the wrathful acts of His justice! As the righteous Judge, God cannot …
SERMON • SERMON 2871Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision
Luke 12:29
… So, would it not be better that you should be altered so as to suit the Providence and be resigned to the will of God? It is beautiful …
SERMON • SERMON 2743Mistaken Notions About Repentance
Ezekiel 36:31
… There are some persons who could not do so if they tried, but there are others who, having been, by Divine Providence, brought up in the ways of …
SERMON • SERMON 1197The Claims of God
Psalm 100:3
… Over us all He exercises an unceasing care, a watchful Providence, and therefore we should return praise to Him daily. It has been well said that some men …
SERMON • SERMON 1029A Call to Holy Living
Matthew 5:47
… To good was yours by purchase from your own earnings or procurement of your own labor; they are all the gifts of the sovereign grace of God. Brethren …
SERMON • SERMON 758The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God
1 Timothy 1:11
… Not so much as one of the celestials came there by the deeds of the flesh, but altogether by the Sovereign Grace of God revealed to them in …
SERMON • SERMON 792Mary Magdalene
Mark 16:9
… In the Providence of God I was called to preach the Word in his neighborhood. He was induced to attend, and, by God's gracious power, under the …
SERMON • SERMON 1514The Key-Note of a Choice Sonnet
Luke 1:46
… he has not made you Lord of empires, nor director of providence. Leave to his sovereign sway the purposes of his eternal grace, and depend upon it he …