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God’s providence, sovereignty, guidance, and care

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SERMON • SERMON 1663

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 1241

Honest 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 535

Ben-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 1577

Sin 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 2568

Sabbath-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 922

Sincerity 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 2650

Characteristics 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 480

A 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 766

Believing 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 853

A 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 1567

The 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 2576

Zion'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 2402

Under 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 1814

Commendation 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 1475

Crowning 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 1970

Loving 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 1435

Adoption—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 …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 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 1062

Why 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 471

Accepted 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 1439

Receiving 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 940

The 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 1437

Others 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 2556

Life 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 1485

The 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 1555

The 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 2341

The 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 1670

One 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 1569

The 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 961

The 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 2797

The 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 1591

Honey 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 …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 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 1869

Hagar 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 595

Barabbas 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 1727

The 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 2362

The 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 1416

The 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 1676

Despair 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 …