Providence

Infant Salvation

2 Kings 4:26

… be the ruin of their children, but they shall still, through God’s sovereign grace and his overflowing mercy, be made partakers of the rest which he hath …

Job's Resignation

Job 1:20-22

… is God's gift! God's Providence is man's inheritance and your inheritance has come to you from God's Providence. Look at it all as God …

Healing Leaves

Revelation 22:2

… The least fragment of this Sovereign remedy has Omnipotence in it! We may also learn that the most humble and most timid faith in Jesus Christ will save …

God Is With Us

Romans 8:31

… He has been for us in the great ordering of Providence—all things have worked together for good for us until now. We wonder how we have arrived …

Kicking Against The Pricks

Acts 9:5

… You who are an enemy to God this morning, do you not know that you are His creature and that you are the object of His daily Providence …

Help for Seekers of the Light

Isaiah 59:9

… you, it will be an act of pure, gratuitous mercy—a deed of Sovereign Grace. Oh, but too many of you seekers hold your heads too high—to …

The Kingly Priesthood of the Saints

Revelation 5:10

… crowd we’ll sing, Whilst heaven’s resounding mansions ring With shouts of sovereign grace.” Our friend John, the highly favoured apostle of the Apocalypse, has given us …

The New Nature

1 Peter 1:23-25

… Surely he ought to bear himself, and act as one who is not of the multitude, one who has been chosen out of the world, distinguished by sovereign …

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… Our nation has been as much under the peculiar and especial Providence of God as were the descendants of Jacob themselves and, therefore, God deals with us as …

Accepted of the Great Father

Ephesians 1:6

… His perpetual acceptance with God is our acceptance—that nothing legal, nothing of which we might boast—might be mingled with the work of Sovereign Grace. We are …

Sunshine in the Heart

Psalms 37:4

… Standing in the chariot of providence, he holds the reins, and guides the dashing coursers according to his own will. God is exalted above the mountains and above …

Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church

Zechariah 6:13

… There are some of our brethren a little too high, they bring out better than any other people, the grand old truths of sovereign grace. There are some …

The Power Of Aaron'S Rod

Exodus 7:12

… But the Christian man can say that if by Providence all the earthly props of his confidence should fail. If feelings, graces, and excitements were all gone—still …

Words To Rest On

2 Chronicles 32:8

… whom can they trust? But if they see him to be a good Sovereign, walking in the fear of God and doing his utmost for them, how shall …

Preaching Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23

… A true minister of the Gospel is an ambassador for Christ and do our ambassadors go to foreign courts with apologies for carrying messages from their sovereign? It …

Christ Made a Curse for Us

Galatians 3:13

… in the universe and for the manifestation of the holiness of the universal Sovereign. Be assured, too, that when God curses, it is a curse of the most …

Repentance after Conversion

Psalm 51:17

… He chose you from among men, of His own Sovereign Grace, and ordained you to belong to Christ, and gave you to Jesus to be His forever! Alas …

The World On Fire

2 Peter 3:10

… hair of your head shall be singed! Oh, what do you owe to Sovereign Grace for such an escape as this? Bless the Lord Jesus! Fall down at …

Real Grace for Real Need

Luke 9:11

… need of saving! Where had Peter been? As bad as Judas, certainly, if Sovereign Grace had not prevented. Where had John been, even loving John? Cursing and blaspheming …

The Great Emancipator

Exodus 4:22

… was," so in the history of the exodus, short words are launched with Sovereign force—"Let My son go." Well might the proud heart of Pharaoh have quailed …

Christ's Prayer for Believers

John 17:20

… think there is nothing good in them—and then to preach God's Sovereign Mercy to them. You who have any good of your own, throw it away …

Washed to Greater Foulness

Job 9:30

… a moment. There is a vital connection between soul-distress and sound doctrine. Sovereign grace is dear to those who have groaned deeply because they see what grievous …

The Heavenly Race

1 Corinthians 9:24

… But they say, “Not so.” Those are enthusiasts according to their notions who rely upon providence. They say, the best providence in all the world is hard work …

Joyful Transformations

Isaiah 42:16

… Many of our sorrows are not woven in the loom of Providence, but are purely homespun and the pattern of our own invention. Some minds are specially fertile …

The Second Time

Acts 7:13

… And, in a similar fashion, a sinner will sometimes find the gate of Mercy shut for a while to make him realize that God has the Sovereign right …

'A Prepared Place for a Prepared People'

John 14:2

… crowd I'll sing, While Heaven's resounding mansions ring With shouts of Sovereign Grace" and I expect each of you who love the Lord will do the …

All Are Guilty

Matthew 27:22

… He did not come as a King with Sovereign rule, to compel men to do His bidding. Sometimes men will revolt against that which seems to coerce them …

Indwelling Sin

Job 40:3-4

… out of it death may issue too,—death which would damn thee if sovereign mercy did not prevent. God grant, my brethren, that we may learn our corruptions …

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

John 14:1

… If it were really to some practical benefit to be suspicious of God and distrustful of Providence, why, then, you might have a shadow of excuse—but as …

An Unparalleled Cure

Matthew 9:32

… crowd I'll sing, While Heaven's resounding mansions ring With shouts of Sovereign Grace!" I thought that I was the greatest debtor to Divine Grace and would …

Immanuel—The Light of Life

Isaiah 9:1

… believer in Christ, you belong to Him and you always were His, by Sovereign right, even when the enemy held you in possession. The devil had set his …

Psalm 120

Psalm 120

… devouring fire." Liars are excluded from heaven by a special enactment of the Sovereign; and all of them "shall have their part in the lake which burneth with …

A Prophetic Warning

Matthew 24:12

… Jesus spoke of what "should be," not only as the Seer who was able to gaze into the future, but as the Sovereign Disposer of all events. He …

Making Light of Christ

Matthew 22:5

… In America, it is said, they worship the almighty dollar; I believe that in London many men worship the almighty sovereign; they have the greatest possible respect for …

Final Perseverance

Hebrews 6:4-6

… it to the latest time; but doubtless, Noah repented, and was saved by sovereign grace. Noah fell, but Noah did not fall away. A Christian may go astray …

Spiritual Appetite

Proverbs 27:7

… His name and despise His Gospel! If there are any such here, may Sovereign Mercy change their hearts, or a fearful judgement awaits them! Others show that they …

Joining the Church

2 Corinthians 8:5

… I am sure, my dear Friends, none of you will shut up your shops tomorrow morning, or refuse to take a sovereign when a customer comes in because …

The Voice Of Cholera

Amos 3:3-6

… for I will pardon them whom I reserve." Moreover, the Lord our God speaks to us by His Providence, and says, "Submit yourselves, this day, to God's …

Possessing Possessions

… God is Sovereign but yet He acts according to His unchanging Nature so that from one of His proceedings we may infer the rest. The temporary restoration of …

The Sealing of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13

… too, from the moment in which it was bestowed upon us by the sovereign act of God. To understand our text, you must notice that it is bounded …