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God’s providence, sovereignty, guidance, and care
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Prepare To Meet Your God
Amos 4:12
… We keep no holy days by the almanac, but we have holy days apportioned us by Providence and by the Holy Spirit. I mean that there are seasons …
SERMON • SERMON 3177Christ Seen as God's Salvation
Luke 2:30
… say to one another, "How graciously the Lord has upheld us in His Providence, and how wonderfully He has brought us through every trial! Even in my poverty …
SERMON • SERMON 722The Captive Savior Freeing His People
John 18:8
… passport has been given to all Christ's people in the way of Providence. Fear not, you servant of Christ, you are immortal till your work is done …
SERMON • SERMON 806A Young Man's Vision
Acts 2:17
… unless you were telling the Gospel to the ungodly would not let His Providence so obstruct His Grace as to shut the door in your face when you …
SERMON • SERMON 3346Resurrection for the Just and the Unjust
Acts 24:15
… In your business, in the acquaintances that Providence puts in your way—you have opportunities in all these things of bearing your witness for your Master. I pray …
SERMON • SERMON 584A Hearer In Disguise
1 Kings 14:6
… And well, indeed, can I believe that mercy of a sweet-smelling savor is to be found in those dispensations of God's Providence which so often darken …
SERMON • SERMON 3248Gathering Without Planting
Joshua 24:13
… proclaiming that Gospel which they have handed down to us! In the gracious Providence of God, we enjoy liberty which I fear we do not value half as …
SERMON • SERMON 235The Fainting Warrior
Romans 7:24
… It will employ faith, and hope, and love, the threatenings, the promises, providence, grace, and everything else to cast out the evil. Well,” says one, “I don’t …
SERMON • SERMON 3462To the Rescue
Isaiah 49:24
… God had promised it by His Word, and by His Providence He performed it. Leaving, however, this primary literal interpretation, we intend to draw your attention to the …
SERMON • SERMON 697God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness
Hebrews 11:34
… Faith hears the wheels of Providence working on her behalf. Mohammed, in his earlier career, though his faith was but mere fanaticism, yet gave great courage to his …
SERMON • SERMON 3169The Believer's Present Rest
Hebrews 4:3
… infinitely more Glory, there, than in all God's works in Creation or Providence. Well does Watts say— "The spacious earth and spreading flood Proclaim the wise and …
SERMON • SERMON 316A Sense of Pardoned Sin
Isaiah 38:17
… that sentence is surely spoken by one who tries the heart and searches the reins." At other times some strange providence has been the singular means of giving …
SERMON • SERMON 3453The Wandering Bird
Proverbs 27:8
… But if you go running before the cloud and, with presumptuous self-will, get out of the path that Providence has assigned you, you will be sure to …
SERMON • SERMON 20The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God
Romans 8:7
… He is our legislator, our law-maker; and then, to make our crime still worse and worse, he is the ruler of providence; for it is he who …
SERMON • SERMON 148Five Fears
Ecclesiastes 8:12
… By the preaching of the Word, by the reading of the Scriptures, by prayer, or by some Providence, we were led to look within; we discovered the evil …
SERMON • SERMON 3240The Blood of Christ's Covenant
Zechariah 9:11
… this verse that everything comes from the Lord of Hosts, the God of Providence, as well as of Divine Grace. Those statesmen who are the cornerstones of the …
SERMON • SERMON 448Another And A Nobler Exhibition
Ephesians 3:10
… the manifold wisdom of God." No, more, in all the dispensations of Divine Providence apart from the Church, in all the mystic revolutions of those wondrous wheels that …
SERMON • SERMON 852Constancy And Inconstancy—a Contrast
Hosea 6:3
… Perhaps, however, the Lord will try what Providence can do with you. You have lost your wife, what if He takes away the child? Or, good mother, you …
SERMON • SERMON 2389Guidance To Grace and Glory
Psalm 73:24
… to Glory." The Psalmist had been, to some extent, finding fault with the Providence of God. There had been, in his mind, a quarrel with God's proceedings …
SERMON • SERMON 3233God's Firebrands
Zechariah 3:2
… Him. "His love is cupboard love," says Satan, "he is well paid by Providence for his reverence to God." 10, You have blessed the work of his hands …
SERMON • SERMON 505The Root Of The Matter
Job 19:28
… Even into a Brother's experience, and into God's Providence—seeking that something upon which your soul can feed. Therefore it follows that the root becomes a …
SERMON • SERMON 1116Medicine For The Distracted
Psalm 94:19
… The way to escape the heavy blows of Providence is to close in with Him who wields the rod, for the further off the heavier is the blow …
SERMON • SERMON 80God Alone the Salvation of his People
Psalm 92:2
… We need sustentation in providence for our bodies, and sustentation in grace for our souls. Providential mercies are wholly from the Lord. It is true that rain falls …
SERMON • SERMON 859The Old Way of the Wicked
Job 22:15-17
… Power reigned in the world's creation—Providence reigns in the world's preservation. Mercy reigned in its redemption, but Justice will reign in its condemnation. Remember this …
SERMON • SERMON 3537A Definite Challenge for Definite Prayer
Mark 10:51
… the toils of life, the calamities of the world, or the visitations of Providence, cannot equal the load of sin—for this is a burden that oppresses the …
SERMON • SERMON 3183Cheer for Despondency
Proverbs 27:1
… You cannot conclude that God has forsaken you, or that Providence has utterly turned against you! At least you know not what may be on the morrow, so …
SERMON • SERMON 3318How to Read the Bible
1 Timothy 4:13
… to have the Holy Spirit to be His own ExpositorTThe hymn says concerning Providence— "God is His own interpreter And He will make it plain" and certainly it …
SERMON • SERMON 2661A Marvelous Change
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
… In the Providence of God I was never allowed to plunge into gross open sin, yet the Lord made me to feel myself to be the worst sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 2253The Perseverance of Faith
Matthew 15:28
… dumb lips which have been made to speak! The glories of Nature and Providence are eclipsed by the glories of Grace. May we see such things today! 32 …
SERMON • SERMON 11The People's Christ
Psalm 89:19
… Man sits up there—look! at God’s right hand, radiant with glory, there sits a man! Ask me who governs Providence, and directs its awfully mysterious machinery …
SERMON • SERMON 2102Pricked in Their Heart
Acts 2:36-37
… All power is given to him in heaven and earth; he reigns in the three realms of nature, providence, and grace. His kingdom ruleth over all, and of …
SERMON • SERMON 3255The Pearl of Patience
James 5:11
… God was not away while His servant suffered! In fact, if there was any place where the thoughts of God were centered more than anywhere else in Providence …
SERMON • SERMON 3548The Saint's Trials and the Divine Deliverances
Psalm 77:1-20
… examination, when he is afraid of a heart-searching discourse or heart-searching Providence, he may be pretty sure there is something rotten within. God deliver us from …
SERMON • SERMON 3409Seeking Richly Rewarded
Psalm 34:10
… and one in which David does not shine, but in which, nevertheless, the Providence and Grace of God are very conspicuous. And it is very pleasant to find …
SERMON • SERMON 436A Sermon For Spring
Solomon 2:10-13
… But the Lord had mercy on them and in a very short space, through His Providence and Grace, the winter was passed and the rain was over and …
SERMON • SERMON 1195Abundant Pardon
Isaiah 55:7
… In Providence you see goodness unbounded and faithfulness unlimited. In the gulf to which the Lord has condemned the wicked you see Justice in all its awful glory …
SERMON • SERMON 810The Faithfulness of Jesus
John 13:1
… You may feel as if you were crushed by the wheels of providence, your spirit may sink nearly into despair, but neither "things present, nor things to come …
SERMON • SERMON 3430Chiding and Cheering
John 14:9
… kind? Has He forgotten to be gracious? Where now is that all-bountiful Providence we were known to look to? Is this in any way consistent with love …
SERMON • SERMON 3070A Visit to Christ's Hospital
Psalm 107:17-22
… the Psalmist here exhorts the redeemed, in praising God, to observe His manifold Providence over travelers, prisoners, sick men, seamen "and in divers varieties of life." But, inasmuch …
SERMON • SERMON 3392Justification by Faith
Romans 5:1
… and well-to-do." It seemed a strange way in the order of Providence. Oh, we ought to rejoice and be glad when another person prospers! And we …