Providence

Self Low, But Christ High

Matthew 8:8

… If we speak about the Sovereign choice of some unto eternal life, they begin chattering about injustice and partiality—as if any guilty man had a right to …

With Golden Band Girded

Revelation 1:13

… The keys at the band of great men signified their power in their various offices, and when we sometimes sing— "Lo, in His hand the sovereign keys Of …

Good News For Thirsty Souls

Revelation 21:6

… He that believes on Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water." This is the Sovereign Word of the King …

Fifteen Years After!

Job 1:21

… His, however sovereign or autocratic it might appear to be, but was done "after the counsel of His own will." Infinite Wisdom dictates what absolute Sovereignty decrees. God …

Predestination and Calling

Romans 8:30

… The effectual call may be illustrated in its sovereignty by the case of Zaccheus. Christ is entering into Jericho to preach. There is a publican living in it …

Means for Restoring the Banished

2Samuel 14:14

… Last Sunday morning we addressed you upon the infinite grandeur of God, upon His Sovereignty, and the way in which He exercises His will, unaided of mortal hand …

Witnesses for God

Isaiah 43:10

… it was with a view of showing David's sovereignty over them. Now David was not their sovereign, the Lord God was their King—David was but the …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… He had, also, always filled the Throne of Providence, upholding all things by the Word of His power. On His head were many crowns and to Pilate's …

Grace—the One Way of Salvation

Acts 15:11

… Now, Brethren, some of us were favored by Providence with the great privilege of having Christian parents and consequently we never did know a great deal of the …

Limiting God

Psalm 78:41

… Prayer was never meant to be a fetter upon the sovereignty of God, much less a licensed channel for blasphemy. We must always subjoin at the bottom of …

Pride Catechized

Job 34:33

… He is absolutely Sovereign and these are the words that He would have everyone of us hear and heed— "I will have mercy on whom I will have …

Mr. Evil-Questioning Tried and Executed

2 Kings 5:12

… Oh, fools, I say, and slow of heart, but surely so ye will be to the end of the chapter, unless sovereign grace shall open your eyes to …

Five Divine Declarations

Isaiah 45:24

… There are some who are angry with God's Providence. They have said that they will never forgive Him for some action of His which has offended them …

Psalm 77

Psalm 77

… of his sovereignty, for sinners always hate to see themselves in the hands of a sovereign God: of his eternity and immutability—for from his possessing these perfections …

Gathering in the Chosen

Jeremiah 31:8

… Jehovah speaks in the Sovereignty of His power and says, "I will do this, and I will do that," and there is not an, "if," or a, "perhaps …

A Message From God To His Church And People

Habakkuk 3:2

… But, alas, I fear that oftentimes to us Providence is dumb because we are deaf. How often, in our stubbornness, we are like the horse and the mule …

A Look and Its Lessons

Isaiah 51:1

… There are some here, who but for a special interposition of Providence might have been there now! Had that fever proved fatal, you would have been there, my …

The Allegories of Sarah and Hagar

Galatians 4:24

… Where the pure sovereignty of God is preached, where it is held that the child of the promise, and not the child of the flesh, is the heir …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… They are the basis of the divine government, the sphere within which his sovereignty moves. God as a sovereign is never unjust or unwise. He is too holy …

The Two Talents

Matthew 25:22-23

… be, because God is a Sovereign, and of all attributes, next to his love, God is the most fond of displaying his sovereignty. The Lord God will have …

Sin—Its Springhead, Stream and Sea

Psalm 106:7

… Should not Israel have also learned the royal sovereignty of the Lord God? What armies obeyed the call of that great King! At His word the river brought …

Idols Abolished

Hosea 14:8

… O Brothers and Sisters, when you cannot trust the Providence of God, but feel as if you must have something of visible substance to lean upon, you idolize …

A King Sent in Love

2 Chronicles 2:11

… Any soldier can tell you how he gets into his sovereign's service. What does he give in order that he may become a soldier? Give? Why, he …

'The Star Out of Jacob'

Numbers 24:17

… Jacob was to be blessed with a valiant leader who should become a triumphant sovereign. Very frequently in Oriental literature, their great men, and especially their great deliverers …

A New Order of Priests and Levites

Isaiah 66:21

… Turn to Augustine, in youth of corrupt and vicious propensities, according to his own confession, to the grief of his mother Monica, yet called by sovereign grace to …

Knowledge. Worship. Gratitude.

Romans 1:20

… A farmer, whose crops had failed a second time, was consoled by a clergyman, because he suffered from the hand of Providence. ‘Yes,’ said he, ‘that Providence is …

Our Manifesto

Galatians 1:11

… The Lord is Sovereign in His gifts and does as He wills—and we are called to bow before His scepter within the Church as well as at …

Perseverance in Holiness

Jeremiah 32:40

… Sovereign grace declares that he will have mercy upon whom he will have mercy, and will have compassion on whom he will have compassion. This basis of sovereignty …

Shiloh

Genesis 49:10

… But when as a plenipotentiary, with full authority from his sovereign, he comes with terms of peace, he might well be received without hesitation or opposition. Sinner, have …

The Heart—a Den of Evil

Matthew 15:19

… And so a man is none the better, really, because the restraints of custom and Providence may prevent his carrying out that which he would prefer. Poor fallen …

The Water of Life

John 4:15

… At the foot of Divine Sovereignty it wells up a spring, clear as crystal, pure without a stain, and it flows down to earth, leaping down by the …

Peace—a Fact and a Feeling

Romans 5:1

… We kick against His Providence, we rebel against His commands, we resist His Holy Spirit, we reject His love as manifested in the death of Christ and we …

Following Christ

John 21:22

… of God [See Sermon #77, Volume 2—DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY; #194, Volume 4—HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY and #207, Volume 4—SOVEREIGN GRACE AND MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY.] without any attempt to …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… Were it not all of sovereign, electing, almighty grace, I, for one, could never hope to be saved. God says, ‘ You shall, ’ and not all the devils in …

First Things First

… Besides, according to our Savior, anxiety about carnal things is heathenish—"After all these things do the Gentiles seek." They have no God and no Providence and, therefore …

Witnessing Better Than Knowing the Future

Acts 1:6-8

… God is Sovereign. He can save whom He wills and He will exercise that Sovereignty and bless some of those who appear to be most hopeless—and to …

The Minister'S Stock-Taking

Acts 28:24

… If you are asked why a man is saved, the only Scriptural answer is—"Sovereign Grace." Grace—unmoved by anything in the creature, flowing spontaneously from the mighty …

A Gospel Worth Dying For

Acts 20:24

… on account of anything he has done, or will do—but out of Sovereign Grace! Though we are all guilty without exception and all most justly condemned for …

The New Park Street Tracts

… of the truth as it is in Jesus. [How marvellous the providence of God, and the sovereignty of his grace! Who is he that has stepped beyond the …

The Maintenance of Good Works

Titus 3:3-8

… We would, if we could, be the lords of Providence for we were not content with the Divine allotment. We wished that we were the legislators of the …