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Morning, December 10
1Th 4:17
… lilies. “If today he deigns to bless us With a sense of pardoned sin, He to-morrow may distress us, Make us feel the plague within.” Oh, how …
DEVOTIONALMorning, September 6
Php 2:15
… The wreckers of Satan are always abroad, tempting the ungodly to sin under the name of pleasure; they hoist the wrong light, be it ours to put up …
DEVOTIONALEvening, September 24
Song 5:2
… Through sin that dwelleth in us we may become lax in holy duties, slothful in religious exercises, dull in spiritual joys, and altogether supine and careless. This is …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 2
Song 4:7
… She is not merely fair , but “ all fair.” He views her in himself, washed in his sin-atoning blood and clothed in his meritorious righteousness, and he considers …
SERMON • SERMON 3201Mercy for the Meanest of the Flock
Micah 4:6
… THIS is spoken, I suppose, in the first place, of the Jewish people who have been so afflicted on account of their sin that they almost cease to …
DEVOTIONALEvening, April 3
Is 53:6
… him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6 Here a confession of sin common to all the elect people of God. They have all fallen, and therefore …
SERMON • SERMON 2074Intimate Knowledge of the Holy Spirit
John 14:17
… In connection with that quickening there was conviction of sin. In what a powerful light does the Holy Spirit set our sin! In my discourses to you about …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 21
Eph 4:30
… is unless the Spirit maketh intercession for you! Do you desire to subdue sin? Would you be holy? Would you imitate your Master? Do you desire to rise …
SERMON • SERMON 2306Servitude Or Service—Which?
2 Chronicles 12:8
… I need not mention the forms of uncleanness in which so many wallow in this foul city of ours, where the temptation to sin is in every street …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 31
2Sa 15:23
… God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod. It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 15
Ac 13:39
… We are today accepted in the Beloved, today absolved from sin, today acquitted at the bar of God. Oh! soul-transporting thought! There are some clusters of Eshcol …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 1
Ps 138:5
… When the Lord first pardoned my sin, I was so joyous that I could scarce refrain from dancing. I thought on my road home from the house where …
SERMON • SERMON 1596Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers
Isaiah 51:2-3
… The thick darkness of superstition shall not prevent the chosen one from seeing the light, neither shall the bondage of sin hold back the captive from finding freedom …
DEVOTIONALEvening, October 11
Ro 8:30
… If you are living in sin, you are not called, but if you are truly Christ's, you can say, “Nothing pains me so much as sin; I …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 14
Ga 2:20
… When he saw the pleasures of sin, he said, “I cannot enjoy these: I am dead to them.” Such is the experience of every true Christian. Having received …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 23
Ob 1:11
… When we sin, who are the chosen favourites of heaven, we sin with an emphasis; ours is a crying offence, because we are so peculiarly indulged. If an …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 28
Ps 73:22
… the prosperity of the wicked,” which shows that the folly he intended had sin in it. He puts himself down as being thus “foolish,” and adds a word …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 9
Is 33:16
… Remember, it is a sin ; and not a little sin either, but in the highest degree criminal. The angels never doubted him, nor the devils either: we alone …
DEVOTIONALMorning, March 23
Lu 22:44
… This proves how tremendous must have been the weight of sin when it was able to crush the Saviour so that he distilled great drops of blood! This …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 15
Heb 12:23
… am! who shall deliver me from the body of this sin and death?” shall get rid of sin and death—that I shall have no evil things to …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 19
Song 3:1
… Did you lose Christ by sin? You will find Christ in no other way but by the giving up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy Spirit …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 31
Ps 51:10
… our fears then; we shall soon discover, when under a sense of present sin, that we need it now. No man can be renewed without as real and …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 26
Jon 2:9
… Wherein I sin, that is my own; but wherein I act rightly, that is of God, wholly and completely. If I have repulsed a spiritual enemy, the Lord …
DEVOTIONALEvening, September 6
Ga 5:18
… We need not enquire, “Am I without sin naturally?” but, “Have I been washed in the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness?” It is not “Am I …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 17
Ec 10:9
… Even in speaking a few words to a servant we may sin; a little purchase at a shop may be the first link in a chain of temptations …
DEVOTIONALMorning, August 17
Ps 52:8
… There was no right on the sinner’s part to the kind consideration of the Most High; had the rebel been doomed at once to eternal fire he …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 25
Mt 3:7
… their pedestals, and hurling down all the dwelling-places of man! And yet, sinner, this is your present position. No hot drops have as yet fallen, but a …
DEVOTIONALEvening, April 6
Ps 118:12
… Seeing, then, that sin has no right to any part of us, we go about a good and lawful warfare when we seek, in the name of God …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 10
Jude 24
… He will make us so perfectly holy, that we shall have no lingering tendency to sin. Judgment, memory, will—every power and passion shall be emancipated from the …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 17
Heb 12:24
… We are full of sin, but the Saviour bids us lift our eyes to him, and as we gaze upon his streaming wounds, each drop of blood, as …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 25
Song 2:10
… I would, if it were possible, have neither eyes, nor ears, nor heart for sin. Thou callest me to thyself by saying “Come away,” and this is a …
SERMON • SERMON 3260Spiritual Convalescence
Zechariah 10:12
… Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 4
Jos 20:3
… man can ever tread it, but so easy, that every sinner, who knows himself to be a sinner may by it find his way to heaven. No sooner …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 12
Job 36:2
… or notoriety for our zeal; but, at the same time, it is a sin to be always seeking to hide that which God has bestowed upon us for …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 23
Ro 8:37
… The only weapon to fight sin with is the spear which pierced the side of Jesus. To give an illustration—you want to overcome an angry temper; how …
SERMON • SERMON 1257Love to Jesus the Great Test
John 8:42
… By salvation we mean salvation from sin, salvation from the old selfish life, salvation unto holy living! This is the salvation that we preach—salvation from evil—and …
SERMON • SERMON 2689The Ever-Living Christ
Revelation 1:18
… There must be life to atone for sin—and that life sacrificed—therefore, Christ "was dead." It was no dream, no delusion, no sleep, no swoon, no coma …
SERMON • SERMON 525Am I Sought Out?
Isaiah 62:12
… Many of the chosen seed are suffered to indulge in sin until they are lost even to the presence of virtue and morality—lost to the hopes of …
SERMON • SERMON 2094Foundation Work
1 Kings 5:17
… For they behold in Him the sacrifice for sin, the destroyer of evil and the reconciler of the lost. Glory be to God! In resting upon Jesus we …
SERMON • SERMON 623Satan Considering the Saints
Job 1:8
… perhaps the most of us are more liableiable to sin when we are in company. In some company I never should be led into sin; into another society …