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SERMON • SERMON 2598

Spiritual Revival—the Need of the Church

Habakkuk 3:2

… Therefore, we need a revival of sound doctrine once more in the midst of the land. And the Church at large also needs a revival of downright earnestness …

SERMON • SERMON 597

Preparation for Revival

Amos 3:3

… I suppose the worst time in the Christian Church is generally that which follows the excitement of a revival; and if that revival has had no reality in …

SERMON • SERMON 296

A Revival Sermon

Amos 9:13

… Now, mark, here is a promise given of a revival, and when that revival shall be fulfilled this will be one of the signs of it—the marvellous …

SERMON • SERMON 2426

A Prayer for Revival

Psalm 85:6

… In a revival, part of the result is the conversion of men, but the result is the praise of God—and that revival brings forth most fruit that …

SERMON • SERMON 3136

Lessons From the Malta Fire

Acts 28:2

… There is no way for us to get a revival-fire but from God, Himself. If anybody can "get up a revival," as it has been said that …

SERMON • SERMON 725

A Message From God To His Church And People

Habakkuk 3:2

… He does not say, "at the end of the years," but "in the midst of the years." His prayer is for a present and immediate revival of genuine …

DEVOTIONAL

Evening, August 7

1Th 2:18

… There was never a revival of religion without a revival of his opposition. As soon as Ezra and Nehemiah begin to labour, Sanballat and Tobiah are stirred up …

SERMON • SERMON 1211

The Hospital of Waiters Visited with the Gospel

John 5:8

… They are waiting for a revival. We have heard glad tidings, in which we rejoice, of great revivals in different parts of England, Scotland and Ireland. And there …

SERMON • SERMON 1461A

The Seven Sneezes

2 Kings 4:35

… They frequently betray culpable ignorance and sinful obstinacy, combined with pride, unbelief and self-will—and yet in them there is a secret something which betokens an awakening

SERMON • SERMON 1941

Grace For Communion

Solomon 4:16

… The rough north wind has done much for some of us in the way of awakening our best Graces. Yet it may be that the Lord will send …

SERMON • SERMON 3361

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… I think 1 see Him, like another Samson who had been bound with cords, awakening from His slumber like a strong man refreshed, and He snaps the bonds …

CHAPTER

The Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock

… Sin in the church will be the death of revival, or else the revival will be the death of sin. Let no one among us besmear himself with …

SERMON • SERMON 263

The Story of God’s Mighty Acts

Psalm 44:1

… Have ye never heard of the great revival under Whitefield? Take as an instance that at Camslang. He was preaching in the church-yard to a great congregation …

SERMON • SERMON 1135

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… The people needed awakening from spiritual slumber. They required to be exhorted to manliness of spirit, for they had so completely surrendered their judgments to their blind leaders …

SERMON • SERMON 3118

What Had Become of Peter?

Acts 12:18

… It is a great blessing to enjoy health, but it is also a great blessing to suffer sickness, for it is often the means of awakening the slumbering …

SERMON • SERMON 2344

Christ's Dying Word for His Church

John 19:30

… And fourthly, I will seek to show how our Lord's Words ought to lead to our own awakening. I. First, then, I will endeavor to speak of …

SERMON • SERMON 1346

Guile Forsaken When Guilt Is Forgiven

Psalm 32:2

… As I desire to use it as a means for self-examination and awakening, I pray the Holy Spirit to apply it with power to many souls. You …

SERMON • SERMON 2149

Everlasting Love Revealed

Jeremiah 31:3

… the Holy Spirit awake you at this time! May there come a blessed awakening hour to your drowsy spirits! This startling remembrance came to Israel at a time …

SERMON • SERMON 2229

God's Glorious and Everlasting Name

Isaiah 63:12

… They have a revival about once in seven years and then everybody seems to feel intensely, and you can preach with great power. But in between the times …

SERMON • SERMON 716

The Church Awakened

Ephesians 5:14

… your doctrines will stand as sentinels at the doors to prevent anybody from awakening you. Beware of Antinomianism! If you once drink a draught of that it will …

SERMON • SERMON 896

The Coming Resurrection

John 5:28

… What trumpet call can be more startling? What arousing voice can be more awakening than this news to the careless sinner that there is a life hereafter? That …

SERMON • SERMON 1789

Joseph of Arimathaea

Mark 15:43-46

… Thirdly, for our awakening—there was an occasion for Joseph to come forward and there is occasion, now, for all the timid to grow brave. And lastly, for …

SERMON • SERMON 2900

How God Comes to Man

Genesis 3:8

… I pray that if He has never come to you, dear Friend, in the way of awakening your conscience and making you feel yourself a sinner, He may …

CHAPTER

Blessing on the Printed Sermons

… really was, and have been the means, through the grace of God, of awakening a desire within me to seek to lead a pure and holy life; and …

SERMON • SERMON 2617

Shining Christians

Isaiah 60:1

… I have known some in whom, happily, the process of awakening has been a really effectual one. There came, once, to a meeting I was addressing, a Brother …

SERMON • SERMON 1561

Asleep and Yet Awake—a Riddle

Solomon 5:2

… It is true of all Christ's sheep, "A stranger they will not follow, for they know not the voice of strangers." The awakening Believer perceives that the …

SERMON • SERMON 927

Martha And Mary

Luke 10:38-42

… Persons will talk about getting up a revival—of all things I do believe one of the most detestable of transactions. "If you want a revival of religion …

SERMON • SERMON 465

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… The blessed spirit of revival, the Holy Spirit, is poured out, and now the heaviest Church is floating out to sea and that which was most inactive begins …

SERMON • SERMON 268

The Ceremony of Laying the...

… Pray for us that a revival of religion may come into this land. What is Ireland that it should have a revival denied to us? What is Scotland …

SERMON • SERMON 804

Apostolic Exhortation

Acts 3:19

… The only way in which you, dear friends, can share in the refreshment of a revival, is by your own repenting and being converted. A revival is a …

SERMON • SERMON 675

Spring In The Heart

Psalm 65:10

… We hold up our hands in glad astonishment and cry, "Who are these that fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows?" In the revival days …

CHAPTER

Spring in the Heart

… We hold up our hands in glad astonishment and cry, “Who are these that fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows?” In the revival days …

SERMON • SERMON 345

Self-Sufficiency Slain

John 15:5

… I have been lately in a district where a most excellent Brother in Christ had worked a very great revival. It was said that nearly every person in …

SERMON • SERMON 1009

Travailing for Souls

Isaiah 66:8

… The era of the son of Jesse was evidently a time of religious revival. God was honored and his service maintained in the midst of Judea’s land …

SERMON • SERMON 1038

Another Royal Procession

Matthew 21:5

… I despair, beloved, of any revival being of the slightest value which does not begin with the church of God. It never can originate outside and work into …

SERMON • SERMON 317

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… They have been meeting together in special prayer-meetings to seek for a revival; and because people have not dropped down in a fainting fit, and have not …

COMMENTARY

Psalm 57

Psalm 57

… That worship that is performed with a sleepy, drowsy body, is a weak worship, but the psalmist here makes the awakening of the body to be the fruit …

SERMON • SERMON 819

The Minstrelsy of Hope

Psalm 67:6

… The very name, "revival," has been made to stink in some places by reason of the mischiefs associated with it! But this is no reason why there should …

SERMON • SERMON 278

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… These five years or more, we have had a revival which is not to be exceeded by any revival upon the face of the earth. Without cries or …

SERMON • SERMON 1107

A Call To Worship

Zechariah 8:21

… The revival under the Apostles was marked by their everywhere preaching the Word and the people listening. This was the great token of the Reformation—meetings were held …