Salvation

Sept. 5 — WITH ME WHEREVER I AM

II Chron. 20:17

… I am quite sure that God is with me if Jesus is my sole and only Saviour. If I have placed my soul in the hands of God …

Declension from First Love

Revelation 2:4

… Oh, what love was that which I had to my Saviour the first time he forgave my sins. I remember it. You remember each for yourselves, I dare …

Unimpeachable Justice

Psalm 51:4

… How often have I tried to do it! I have tried to preach my Saviour’s love, and this day I have preached my Father’s wrath; but …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878 (Continued)

… The Saviour, the Man of sorrows, is our example of morality, but not of misery, for He bore our griefs that we might not bear them; and I …

Enquirers and Converts (Continued)

… Then he told me that there was a Saviour for sinners, and that, if I trusted Him, I should be saved. Before he left me, he made me …

Clear Shining after Rain

… Thus we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Persevering Prayer

… there is no other Saviour. This or none–Christ’s blood or else eternal wrath. And to whom shall you go, if you turn away from Him? None …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers

… I believe he had the joy of leading both of them to the Saviour, and bringing them to join the church at the Tabernacle. Eternity alone will reveal …

The Wailing of Risca

Jeremiah 4:20

… to us the means of our salvation, or if saved, the means of stirring us up more earnestly to seek the salvation of our fellow men. There are …

Presumptuous Sins

Psalm 19:13

… At last I heard it said, “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth;” and I looked to Jesus. And O! my Saviour …

Morning, March 31

Is 53:5

… The Saviour was, no doubt, bound to the column, and thus beaten. He had been beaten before; but this of the Roman lictors was probably the most severe …

Man's Ruin and God's Remedy

Numbers 21:8

… salvation, may now see for the first time how men are saved through the lifting up of Christ, just, as the poor Israelites in the wilderness were saved …

Morning, December 25

Is 7:14

… Our Saviour, although truly man, was as to his human nature the Holy One of God. Let us reverently bow before the holy Child whose innocence restores to …

Evening, January 11

Lu 22:32

… No, it is, “ But I have prayed for thee , that thy faith fail not.” We little know what we owe to our Saviour’s prayers. When we reach …

Morning, March 22

Mt 26:39

… face, and prayed.” Matthew 26:39 There are several instructive features in our Saviour’s prayer in his hour of trial. It was lonely prayer . He withdrew even …

Morning, April 9

Lu 23:27

… When my soul can, in imagination, see the Saviour bearing his cross to Calvary, she joins the godly women and weeps with them; for, indeed, there is true …

Morning, January 23

Ps 89:19

… However difficult and painful thy road, it is marked by the footsteps of thy Saviour; and even when thou reachest the dark valley of the shadow of death …

The Sin of Unbelief

2 Kings 7:19

… In this awful extremity the one holy man was the medium of salvation. The one grain of salt preserved the entire city; the one warrior for God was …

Morning, January 28

Col 1:28

… Oh, it is a marvellous salvation this! Christ takes a worm and transforms it into an angel; Christ takes a black and deformed thing and makes it clean …

Evening, September 12

Ps 101:1

… annoy. “Blest there with a weight of glory, Still the path I'll ne'er forget, But, exulting, cry, it led me To my blessed Saviour’s seat.”

Morning, August 24

Mic 2:13

… Your victory shall be easy, and your treasure shall be beyond all count. “Proclaim aloud the Saviour’s fame, Who bears the Breaker's wond'rous name; Sweet …

Morning, November 19

Tit 3:9

… I growing in grace? Does my conversation adorn the doctrine of God my Saviour? Am I looking for the coming of the Lord, and watching as a servant …

Morning, March 21

Jn 16:32

… Yet even these cannot penetrate the secret places of the Saviour’s woe. “Thine unknown sufferings” is the remarkable expression of the Greek liturgy: there was an inner …

Evening, March 25

Jn 3:13

… Let us learn a lesson of humility from our Saviour; let us never court great titles nor proud degrees. There is here, however, a far sweeter thought. Jesus …

Morning, January 12

1Co 3:23

… of heaven, that all who see you may know that you are the Saviour's, recognizing in you his features of love and his countenance of holiness. “I …

A Call to the Unconverted

Galatians 3:10

… Spurgeon! the man he had laughed at always; he wanted him to come and tell him the way to heaven, and point him to the Saviour. And although …

Morning, April 4

2Co 5:21

… O, I beseech thee, lay hold on this precious thought, perfection in Christ ! For thou art “complete in him.” With thy Saviour’s garment on, thou art holy …

Final Perseverance

Hebrews 6:4-6

… How, then, can he now be saved? Is there a supplementary salvation? is there something that shall overtop Christ, and be a Christ where Jesus is defeated. And …

Evening, March 17

Mt 5:9

… It may be that the Saviour placed the peacemaker the seventh upon the list because he most nearly approaches the perfect man in Christ Jesus. He who would …

Evening, February 9

Lu 11:4

… Our Saviour, who had experience of what temptation meant, thus earnestly admonished his disciples—“Pray that ye enter not into temptation.” But let us do as we will …

Morning, April 26

1Co 11:24

… an everlasting love by the eternal Son of God, should forget that gracious Saviour; but, if startling to the ear, it is, alas! too apparent to the eye …

Morning, December 10

1Th 4:17

… We shall not see him for a little season, but “Millions of years our wondering eyes, Shall o'er our Saviour’s beauties rove; And myriad ages we …

Particular Redemption

John 6:44

… to run away from the Saviour. Oh, no. It is quite true that first of all man is unwilling to be saved. When the Holy Spirit hath put …

Morning, December 18

Joe 2:13

… a dying Saviour’s voice rent the rocks once, and it is as powerful now. O blessed Spirit, let us hear the death-cries of Jesus, and our …

Evening, June 27

1Co 7:20

… God is most surely glorified in that cobbler’s stall, where the godly worker, as he plies the awl, sings of the Saviour’s love, aye, glorified far …

Morning, September 23

Eph 1:6

… much happier they would be, and how much more they would honour the Saviour! Rejoice then, believer, in this: thou art accepted “in the beloved.” Thou lookest within …

Morning, November 22

Ho 12:12

… from mine eyes.” Even more toilsome than this was the life of our Saviour here below. He watched over all his sheep till he gave in as his …

Morning, December 24

2Co 8:9

… Had he remained upon his throne of glory, and had we continued in the ruins of the fall without receiving his salvation, communion would have been impossible on …

Evening, April 3

Is 53:6

… The Saviour bruised is the healing of bruised hearts. See how the lowliest penitence gives place to assured confidence through simply gazing at Christ on the cross!

Psalm 110

Psalm 110

… Then we have the Incarnation of Christ, in the words, "my Lord, "together with his dignity and honour above David (as our Saviour himself expounds it, Mt 22 …