Providence

Salvation Altogether By Grace

… If you are to be saved, it must be by an act of Sovereign Grace. God must freely extend the silver scepter of His love to you, for …

A Special Benediction

… If it had been your case, or mine, I am sure that we could not have written down that name without reflecting upon our obligations to the Sovereign …

The Redeemer's Face Set Like a Flint

Isaiah 50:7

… They supposed that He was about to set up a temporal'sovereignty—and if He would do that and drive away their Roman conquerors, they would gladly follow …

Preach the Gospel

1 Corinthians 9:16

… For the great Jonathan Edwardes tells us, that in the greatest excitement of one of his revivals, he preached the sovereignty of God in the salvation or condemnation …

The True Position of the Witness Within

1 John 5:10

… king is, there is power," and this becomes an inner witness to the sovereign Truth of the Gospel! The same witness is borne by a sense of being …

The Covenant Promise of the Spirit

Ezekiel 36:27

… God's Providence is light as well as His promise—and the Holy Spirit makes us know this. God's Word and will and way are all light …

Fast-Day Service

DANIEL 9:1-19

… His sovereign power, without our aid, made us of clay and form’d us men! And when like wand’ring sheep, we stray’d, He brought us to …

God's Hidden Ones

Psalm 83:3

… You are going to Canada, are you? Or you are about to start for Australia? Or, in the Providence of God, you are to live in some village …

A Singular Title and a Special Favor

Psalm 59:10

… better days and to cheer one's self with a pious fiction about Providence! He looks up to Heaven because God is actually there, truly observant, tenderly sympathetic …

The Inner Side of Conversion

Jeremiah 31:18-20

… Go, Providence, and frustrate his designs! Go, Death, and take away his child! Yet in all this, there are earnest thoughts of love towards him. "Since I spoke …

Our Last Journey

Job 16:22

… the warnings of Nature, we have lately been saluted by voices from Divine Providence. Loud calls have come to us, of late, from almost every part of our …

Abijah, or Some Good Thing Towards the Lord

1 Kings 14:13

… All the land feels the pestilent influence of Jeroboam, and yet close at his feet there is a bright spot which sovereign grace has kept from the plague …

Heaven's Nurse Children

Hosea 11:3

… The chapter begins with love; ancient, sovereign, electing love. “When Israel was a child, then I loved him.” When the Israelitish nation was in a very low and …

The God of Peace

Romans 15:33

… to manifest his justice and his glory, and to show his mercy and sovereignty in redeeming man; but God had no hand in it whatsoever. The Eternal abjures …

The New Song On Earth

Psalm 40:3

… Praise Him for His Providence. There is never a mistake in what He does— "All His works are done in truth." 5. He loves righteousness and judgment: the …

The Captain of Our Salvation

Hebrews 2:10

… God made him to be His vicegerent on earth and he would still hold that position were it not that since he has rebelled against his own Sovereign …

Christians Kept In Time And Glorified In Eternity

… Still he wears his chains and he has a tether and the Lord knows how to pull him in, both by Providence and direct acts of power. We …

Glorious Predestination

Romans 8:29

… Now, therefore, the one thing to which the Lord is working us through his Spirit, both by providence and by grace, is the likeness of the Lord from …

The Rocky Fortress and Its Inhabitant

Isaiah 33:15

… They are, you see, a trustful people who feel that they have need—and that their need can only be fulfilled by the Sovereign Grace of God, to …

Ziklag—or David Encouraging Himself In God

1 Samuel 30:6

… But it comes to you by way of free, rich, Sovereign Grace and, therefore, it will come to you forever! Do you not feel refreshed, this morning, as …

Cured At Last!

Luke 8:43

… But that is an act of His own sovereignty and is not a rule for our procedure. The plain directions of the Gospel are, "Seek the Lord while …

Nathanael—Or, the Ready Believer and His Reward

John 1:50

… If they get a blessing we shall heartily thank God for it and admire the sovereignty of His Grace. But when persons come, as they often do, I …

Evening, April 9

Ps 18:35

… Goodness is the bud of which providence is the flower, or goodness is the seed of which providence is the harvest. Some render it, “thy help ,” which is …

'The Blood of the Testament'

Hebrews 9:19

… Out of that fall of man, His distinguishing Grace and Infinite Sovereignty selected a multitude that no man can number to be His. But, seeing that they had …

Christ the Cause of Division

John 7:43

… Man whom they scourged—but then He will sway the scepter of universal Sovereignty and the unnumbered myriads of our race will all stand before Him! What an …

Life And Walk Of Faith

Colossians 2:6

… I want to know whether that man is really walking in Christ as he walked at first, when he is doubting the goodness, the Providence, the tenderness of …

A Delusion Dispelled

Ezekiel 14:20

… He did all that and then, when he was a great way off, his father met him! Now, believe me, though I always preach free, rich, Sovereign Grace …

Christ's Negative and Positive Prayer

John 17:15

… The prayer of Jesus recognizes His Father's Sovereignty, but, we, ourselves, must also recognize that we are entirely in God's hands. He can take us out …

Two "I Wills" In Isaiah 41

Isaiah 41:18

… It is His sovereign right to say, "I will." When we get a chapter like the one that we have been reading, which is full of the, "I …

The Breaker and the Flock

Micah 2:12

… The line in which the Lord has determined that the Covenant blessing should run was ordered by Divine Sovereignty, "that the purpose of God according to election might …

Zealous, But Wrong

Romans 10:1

… The man replied, "In the good Providence of God I met with Master Martin Luther on the Galatians. I bought it for six-pence out of a box …

"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"

Matthew 27:46

… You can do as You will and I yield to Your sacred sovereignty. I kiss the hand that smites Me, and with all My heart I cry, 'My …

Buying the Truth

Proverbs 23:23

… Some of those who have been most earnest in the Kingdom of Heaven were at one time most indifferent and careless, but God, in Infinite Sovereignty, puts the …

Sovereignty and Salvation

Isaiah 45:22

A Sermon (No. 60) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 6, 1856, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. “Look unto me and be …

Christ's Work No Failure

Isaiah 42:4

… Look where you may, where will you see the man who is equal to the crisis? Somehow or other, in the Providence of God, every hour has, in …

The Clean and the Unclean

Leviticus 11:2

… into an Aceldema, it is the religion of the man who preaches divine sovereignty but neglects human responsibility. I believe it is a vicious, immoral, and corrupt manner …

A Private Enquiry

1 Samuel 3:17

… Our God also speaks to us in Providence. In choice favors we hear His soft and tender tones. In chastisement and rebukes we hear the sterner notes. But …

Christ the End of the Law

Romans 10:4

… God himself, incarnate, has in his life, and yet more in his death, revealed the supremacy of law; he has shown that not even love nor sovereignty can …

Love's Crowning Deed

John 15:13

… In our case, He who vindicated the honor of His own Law, and bore all the penalty, was the Christ who loved those who had offended His Sovereignty …

Hosanna!

Matthew 2:19

… In His priestly royalty, the Son of God went to His Father's House, to the Temple of sacrifice and sovereignty. Among the tribes of Israel He is …