Providence

Moses' Dying Charge to Israel

Deuteronomy 8:2

… Father,'you always must sing, 'Because it seemed good in Your sight.'" The Sovereign Mercy of God, born in His own bosom, nurtured from His own heart, could …

Providence—as Seen in the Book of Esther

Esther 9:1

… Well does Flavel say that he who observes Providence will never be long without a Providence to observe. The man who can walk through the world and see …

Once A Curse But Now A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… Their nation has been the football of Providence, and the butt of misfortune. They have been shipwrecked upon every sea, overturned by every storm—the victims of every …

The Tender Pity of the Lord

Psalm 103:13

… It was intentionally that our Lord made choice of them, on purpose, to illustrate the sovereignty of election, and that no flesh should glory in His Presence. He …

Psalm 22

Psalm 22

… Verse 9. "But thou art he that took me out of the womb." Kindly providence attends with the surgery of tenderness at every human birth; but the Son …

Strange Ways of Love

Hosea 2:14

… But he who understands that salvation is notof works, nor in any degree of human merit, but entirely an act of the free and Sovereign Grace of God …

Jesus Admired In Them That Believe

2 Thessalonians 1:10

… blessed Christ, as "Head over all things to His Church," has ruled every Providence to the sanctification of His people. We then will understand how the dark days …

Prayer Certified Of Success

Luke 11:9-10

… That image of God in which he shone resplendent sustained his sovereignty over the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field and the fish of the …

The Holy Child, Jesus

Acts 4:30

… our manhood, who is now Lord of Providence. It is our nature which has hanging at its girdle the sovereign keys of Heaven and earth and Hell. It …

Spiritual Convalescence

Zechariah 10:12

… A devout contemplation of the Doctrine of Divine Sovereignty will be like the underlying rock which supports the good rich mold of holy gratitude and love which yields …

The Friend of God

Isaiah 41:8

… Their philosophy worried him and Job was not so fully established in the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty as he might have been. Abraham had no such controversy—"he …

Moab Is My Washpot

Psalm 60:8

… blush; it will humble us, and cause us to admire the power and sovereignty of divine grace. Now the blush of repentance, the shamefacedness of humility, and the …

A Blast of the Trumpet Against False Peace

Jeremiah 6:14

… not say, “Poor foolish man! why those birds are sent by a kind providence to warn him of the tempest. Why needs he injure them? They cause not …

Fellowship With God

1 John 1:3

… The two may love each other, but when in the course of providence, children are brought into the house, their children become another bond between their parents, each …

Faith Victorious

Matthew 15:21-28

… But there are many poor dogs with no privileges that are made willing, by Sovereign Grace, in the day of Christ's power, and the dogs are turned …

Life's Need and Maintenance

Psalm 22:29

… He shall open and no man shall shut, and shut and no man shall open, for it is His Sovereign prerogative to kill and to make alive. "None …

Prayer to God in Trouble an Acceptable Sacrifice

Psalm 50:15

… Should I not, then, be a coward and unworthy the name of a man, were I to abandon my post? I commit myself wholly to His sovereign goodness …

Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness

Matthew 4:15-16

… Divine sovereignty runs through all God’s dealings. He does not even distribute the privilege of hearing the gospel to all alike, for some lands are as yet …

Owl or Eagle?

Psalm 102:6

… your righteousness as the waves of the sea! God, in His all-wise Sovereignty, may send you various trials which will cast you down, but it is according …

Fruitless Faith

James 2:17

… He has the right of creation, the right of preservation, the right of Infinite Sovereignty and, whatever He should exact of us, we should require nothing from Him …

A High Day in Heaven

Luke 15:10

… Yet they do not envy men because God, in the Sovereignty of His Grace, has provided for them a Savior. They rejoice to know that repenting men shall …

Psalm 62

Psalm 62

… The elevation which God gives to the godly in Providence, or in dispute, is also the envy of the baser sort, and they labour to pull them down …

The Story of God’s Mighty Acts

Psalm 44:1

… We imagine such things, however true, to be prodigies of providence; we cannot imagine them to be according to the ordinary working of his mighty power. I beseech …

The Man Of Sorrows

Isaiah 53:3

… Our Savior is no longer in Gethsemane agonizing, or upon the Cross dying—the crown of thorns has been replaced by many crowns of sovereignty! The nails and …

The Road to Honor

1 Samuel 2:30

… Very striking as an instance of the retaliation of Providence is the case of Adonibezek. When they cut off his thumbs and his big toes, so that he …

Psalm 63

Psalm 63

… Although the great assize is reserved for another world, yet even here, at the common sessions of providence, justice often bares her avenging sword in the eyes of …

The Royal Pair in Their Glorious Chariot

Song 3:6-11

… Oh! that golden sovereignty, whereon is written—"I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that …

Shut In Or Shut Out

Genesis 7:16

… Its tenure is free and Sovereign Grace and it cannot be disannulled. Here is a line of it, "I will put My fear in their hearts, that they …

A Sermon For Gleaners

Ruth 2:15

… One can hardly live where the operations of farming are carried on without often looking up to the God of Providence in anxious prayer and later, lilting up …

Heart-Knowledge of God

Jeremiah 24:7

… up evil? And do you approve Him as such? Do you see His sovereignty, His hatred of sin, His immutability, His jealousy and yet admire Him? Do you …

Sorrow at the Cross Turned into Joy

John 16:20-22

… Even when our Lord had moderated their expectations and enlightened their views so that they did not quite so much look for an actual temporal sovereignty, yet that …

True Learning

Ephesians 4:20

… ourselves would never have been led into happy captivity except through His gracious Sovereignty. And now we rejoice that within our spirit we have learned Christ for ourselves …

The Sword of the Spirit

Ephesians 6:17

… He thought out the laws which govern Nature and direct Providence. The Holy Spirit is the great Teacher of human spirits—He taught Bezaleel and the artificers in …

"A Man Named Matthew"

Matthew 9:9

… I said, Behold Me, behold Me, to a nation that was not called by My name." See, then, the freeness of the Grace of God, the sovereignty of …

The Unspeakable Gift

2 Corinthians 9:15

… upon its freeness, though I would have them not overlook its fullness and Sovereignty. We like well to hear of the effect of the Incarnation and the Atonement …

Special Thanksgiving to the Father

Colossians 1:12

… Let but God in his infinite providence cause it to feed, and give it strength and increase, it has sufficient for manhood. It does not want either arm …

My Solace in My Affliction

… the grandeur of the Lord's being, the magnitude of His works, the sovereignty of His will and the faithfulness of His promises to His people! And yet …

Israel's Cry and God's Answer

… this Man to reign over us!" They refuse to yield themselves to the Sovereignty of the Lord Jesus Christ. 26-30. And the next day he showed himself …

Christ and His Table Companions

Luke 22:14

… them! The Church needs justification by faith, the substitutionary Atonement, regeneration and Divine Sovereignty to be preached from her pulpits as much as in days of yore! And …

Comfort for Tried Believers

1 Corinthians 10:13

… Well did the Psalmist sing, "The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice." But much more may His own people rejoice because His sovereignty is pledged to defend them …