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God’s providence, sovereignty, guidance, and care
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The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel
2 Corinthians 4:3
… a Christian, you would never get on in the world." He claps a sovereign on each eye and then you cannot see, though the sun shines at midday …
SERMON • SERMON 1241Honest Dealing with God
1 John 1:8-10
… It is in your vileness that sovereign grace o'er sin abounding will come to you and cleanse you, and therefore the sooner you come to the honest …
SERMON • SERMON 535Ben-Hadad'S Escape—An Encouragement For Sinners
1 Kings 20:31-34
… And when the king volunteered to acknowledge that Ben-Hadad was his sovereign lord and that they were his, Ben-Hadad ordered him to send immediately the best …
SERMON • SERMON 1577Sin Subdued
Micah 7:19
… crowd I'll sing, While Heaven's resounding mansions ring With shouts of Sovereign Grace." I did utter that resolution once in the pulpit and when I came …
SERMON • SERMON 2568Sabbath-work
John 5:9
… They were all instances of free, Sovereign Grace giving blessing to those who did not crave it. The first one did not ask for it, but entreated Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 922Sincerity And Duplicity
1 John 2:3
… ecstasy of His free Grace that made you know Him, and of His sovereign, distinguishing love, that embraced you— "Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing My dear …
SERMON • SERMON 2650Characteristics of Christ's Disciples
Luke 14:26
… But now we have but one sovereign and in this united realm we never shall have but one supreme ruler. So should it be in man's heart …
SERMON • SERMON 480A Message from God for Thee
Lamentations 4:22
… publish a message of mercy to the daughter of Zion just now was sovereign grace. The daughter of Zion had no right to pardon; she had done nothing …
SERMON • SERMON 766Believing To See No.
Psalm 27:13
… The debt due to the Sovereign Justice of God was then altogether borne, and Jesus Christ, then and there, "finished transgression, made an end of sin, and brought …
SERMON • SERMON 853A Sermon for the Most Miserable of Men
Psalm 77:2
… Let not pride prompt a fresh refusal, but be wise and submit to Sovereign Grace. In others it is not pride, but an unholy resolve to retain some …
SERMON • SERMON 1567The Blood of the Covenant
Hebrews 9:20
… us and He did love us without limit! Passing by fallen angels, the Sovereign Lord looked on the humbler creature, man, and so loved him that He gave …
SERMON • SERMON 2576Zion's Prosperity
Psalm 102:13
… I am obliged to come back to this—Lord, I must be saved by Sovereign Grace, or not at all. A single day's experience is enough to …
SERMON • SERMON 2402Under Arrest
Galatians 3:23
… lost Sinner, but to yield yourself up to your God and accept His Sovereign Mercy which He freely gives you in the Person of His dear Son! Still …
SERMON • SERMON 1814Commendation for the Steadfast
Revelation 3:8
… This to me is treason against sovereign truth. I know of one only spirit to whom I desire to be subject, and that is the Spirit of all …
SERMON • SERMON 1475Crowning Blessings Ascribed to God
Psalm 65:11
… joy when redeeming Grace and dying love have been the theme and infinite, sovereign, changeless mercy has been the subject of the discourse! You have been blessed every …
SERMON • SERMON 1970Loving Persuasion
Acts 28:23
… and without fear of eternal things, have heard the doctrine of free, rich, Sovereign Mercy and have turned at once from their sins and laid hold upon the …
SERMON • SERMON 1435Adoption—The Spirit and the Cry
Galatians 4:6
… gift to a peculiar seed, set apart unto the Lord by his own sovereign grace, as Isaac was. This honour and privilege come to us, according to the …
SERMON • SERMON 3082'Here I Am!'
1 Samuel 3:4
… one of His saints then to answer, "Here I am, Lord! By Your Sovereign Grace I am at Your right hand, numbered among Your sheep and welcomed with …
COMMENTARYPsalm 5
Psalm 5
… Mordecai, no doubt, had put up many prayers for Esther, and therefore he waits at the king's gate, looking what answer God would in his providence give …
SERMON • SERMON 1062Why Am I Thus?
Romans 7:22
… There is within our nature that which would send the best saint to Hell if Sovereign Grace did not prevent. There is a little Hell within the heart …
SERMON • SERMON 471Accepted In The Beloved
Ephesians 1:6
… seek it— "No sinner can be beforehand with You— Your Grace is most sovereign, most rich and most free." This is the good point about it, that it …
SERMON • SERMON 1439Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Little Child
Luke 18:17
… They are raised to the kingdom of Heaven by the Free and Sovereign Grace of God! How are they saved then? By works? No, for they have never …
SERMON • SERMON 940The Winnowing Fan
Hebrews 12:14
… another's praises, each one feeling himself to be the deepest debtor to Sovereign Grace! It will be well for us to remember that the religion of Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 1437Others To Be Gathered In
Isaiah 56:8
… gathers other outcasts, for He has gathered me into His fold and I bless His Sovereign Grace, His irresistible love and will bless Him forever and ever." Amen.
SERMON • SERMON 2556Life Proved by Love
1 John 3:14
… It belongs not to the law—it is a word which can only come of Sovereign Grace to the guilty. The very first sentence tells us that. Verse …
SERMON • SERMON 1485The Withered Hand
Matthew 12:10
… What if, tonight, the hour has come—the hour which Sovereign Grace has marked in red letters in the calendar of love—in which your withered hand shall …
SERMON • SERMON 1555The Glories of Forgiving Grace
Ephesians 1:7
… the Throne of God, no courtiers at the right hand of the eternal Sovereign like those who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood …
SERMON • SERMON 2341The Underlying Gospel for the Dying Year
Romans 5:6
… I will have compassion," then you may come, you guilty ones, to this Sovereign Dispenser of undeserved mercy and touch the silver scepter of His Grace and be …
SERMON • SERMON 1670One Lion, Two Lions, No Lion at All!
Proverbs 22:13
… would want to be thought a Christian! How is it that a bad sovereign will pass? Why, because there are so many good ones and because good sovereigns …
SERMON • SERMON 1569The Golden Lamp and Its Goodly Lessons
Zechariah 4:1-3
… Grace," even when it is coupled with an adjective and spoken of as, "Sovereign Grace," "Free Grace," "Effectual Grace"—and all those whom God will bless must be …
SERMON • SERMON 961The Saint One With His Savior
1 Corinthians 6:17
… We were chosen in Christ Jesus from before the foundation of the world, and by Sovereign Love we were predestinated to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 2797The Need and Nature of Conversion
Isaiah 55:7
… us, O God, and we shall be turned." You must be turned, by Sovereign Grace, if you would really turn unto the Lord—and you must forsake your …
SERMON • SERMON 1591Honey From A Lion
Romans 5:15
… It was said of our Lord, "This man receives sinners," and the saying was most emphatically true! Sovereign Grace selects such as Rahab the harlot, Manasseh the persecutor …
COMMENTARYPsalm 55
Psalm 55
… They are a pest to the commonwealth, a moral plague, a spiritual pestilence, to be stamped out by the laws of men and the providence of God. Both …
SERMON • SERMON 1869Hagar at the Fountain
Genesis 16:13
… personal, but it becomes wonderfully so when a man is specially arrested by Sovereign Grace, for then he adores as if he were the only man in the …
SERMON • SERMON 595Barabbas Preferred To Jesus
John 18:40
… And what did the world say? "Popery forever!" Down went every knee and every head bowed before the sovereign representative of Peter at Rome! The Church of Rome …
SERMON • SERMON 1727The Voice from the Cloud and the Voice of the Beloved
Matthew 17:5
… ordinary life to become like the life of those in Heaven by His sovereign Grace! He has raised us up together from the depths of our natural ruin …
SERMON • SERMON 2362The King and His Court
Psalm 101:6
… You are saved by free, rich, Sovereign Grace and you are made a child of God. From the moment of your new birth you come under the discipline …
SERMON • SERMON 1416The Faithful Saying
1 Timothy 1:15
… right! And much anger is felt if we declare that mercy is the Sovereign prerogative of God which may be exercised at His own absolute discretion. Rebellion against …
SERMON • SERMON 1676Despair Denounced and Grace Glorified
Ezekiel 37:11
… Law requiring something of us, but if it is all free, free, free Sovereign Grace—why should not you have it as well as I? What should shut …