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God’s providence, sovereignty, guidance, and care

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SERMON • SERMON 923

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 3177

Christ 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 722

The 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 806

A 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 3346

Resurrection 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 584

A 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 3248

Gathering 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 235

The 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 3462

To 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 697

God'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 3169

The 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 316

A 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 3453

The 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 20

The 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 148

Five 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 3240

The 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 448

Another 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 852

Constancy 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 2389

Guidance 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 3233

God'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 505

The 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 1116

Medicine 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 80

God 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 859

The 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 3537

A 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 3183

Cheer 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 3318

How 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 2661

A 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 2253

The 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 11

The 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 2102

Pricked 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 3255

The 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 3548

The 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 3409

Seeking 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 436

A 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 1195

Abundant 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 810

The 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 3430

Chiding 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 3070

A 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 3392

Justification 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 …