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Trembling at the Word of the Lord
Isaiah 66:2
… Angels have a holy fear of God and well may you and I tremble when engaged in His service. To preach the whole Truth is an awful charge …
SERMON • SERMON 2789Perfect Justification and Perfect Pardon
Jeremiah 50:20
… of the argument? If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled— the harder work—how much more, being friends, we shall be saved! And if, when we were …
SERMON • SERMON 1800Heaven Below
Revelation 7:16
… Then it is added, "He shall lead." That is another work of the Shepherd, to lead His flock—"He leads them to living fountains of waters." You may …
SERMON • SERMON 2728The High Rock
Psalm 61:2
… this condition the promise that the God who requires faith will givefaith and work repentance in them! I have been astonished to find, in this age, that there …
SERMON • SERMON 1299Love's Birth and Parentage
1 John 4:19
… He foresaw that we would repent because His Spirit would work repentance in us. He foresaw that we should love because He worked that love within us! Is …
SERMON • SERMON 2566A Test for True Seekers
Jeremiah 50:5
… There was never a heart that spoke thus, unless Grace had been secretly at work with it. And depend upon it, if God has brought us to this …
SERMON • SERMON 342Grace Reviving Israel
Hosea 14:5-7
… the sinner knows when it comes by stormy convictions, and by troubled feelings within, but quite as often the work of grace in man's heart is like …
SERMON • SERMON 236The Shameful Sufferer
Hebrews 12:2
… Frequently they challenge him to prove his divinity by turning aside from the work which he had undertaken. They asked him to do the very thing which would …
SERMON • SERMON 2865Fencing the Table
1 Corinthians 11:28
… drinking in utter ignorance and the mere physical acts will be of no service whatever to you. May the Lord give you to know Him whom to know …
SERMON • SERMON 2876Christ's Crowning Glory
Psalm 21:5
… And I think I speak the mind of many here when I say that they feel that if the Holy Spirit does not work in them from the …
SERMON • SERMON 3115Sin and Grace
Romans 5:20
… true God! They threw all the fervor of their intense natures into the service of their Savior and so rose superior to some of their fellow disciples who …
SERMON • SERMON 204The Mission of the Son of Man
Luke 19:10
… arrived at such a contortion of intellect as to conceive that a less work being accomplished, a greater one shall fail, I must leave you to yourselves, with …
SERMON • SERMON 2569The Backslider's Door of Hope
Hosea 2:15
… would now seek His face and live in Him! May His blessed Spirit work this Grace in you, and to Him shall be all glory! Many here well …
SERMON • SERMON 3191The True Aim of Preaching
Acts 13:38
… Paul's comfort—there were some upon whom there had been a blessed work! There were some whose names were written in the Book of Life! Some concerning …
SERMON • SERMON 2981The Safeguards of Forgiveness
2 Samuel 12:13
… neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, you are our gods. For in You the fatherless finds mercy. If you expect the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 1297My God
Psalm 91:2
… He carries on the work of Grace in the soul and in this He is my God. He is the God of Providence and rules all things according …
SERMON • SERMON 1877Our Own Dear Shepherd
John 10:14
… as if you wish to hasten away, that you might be doing holy service for the Lord? What makes your very heart awake and feel ready to leap …
SERMON • SERMON 2817Jacob's Fear and Faith
Genesis 32:11
… it unless He gives it to us! Oh, that the Holy Spirit would work it in us, preserve it in us and perfect it in us till faith …
SERMON • SERMON 2877Trials Expected and Conquered
Isaiah 43:2
… utterly consumed! But we shall not be, although the trial, if it could work in its own way, would have this result. You may quite expect that between …
SERMON • SERMON 1839Delight in the Almighty
Job 22:26
… every dewdrop, in the twinkle of every star! The Lord is personally at work in all the processes of Nature and natural laws are simply the Lord's …
SERMON • SERMON 2746The Nature and Design of Divine Chastening
1 Corinthians 11:32
… He was running his downward way and God left him alone. "There," He said, "let him work his own damnation. Let him run the downward road. I will …
SERMON • SERMON 1237How They Conquered the Dragon
Revelation 12:11
… All the power which Satan ever had in heavenly things is now ended by the finished work of our ascended Lord. "Bruised is the serpent's head Hell …
SERMON • SERMON 2804Disobedience to the Gospel
Romans 10:16
… a soldier of the Cross! The soldiers of God, however, are not "short-service men." They are in for life and for eternity! When we take Christ, we …
SERMON • SERMON 2803The Saddest Cry From the Cross
Matthew 27:46
… of our minds—and this saying of our Lord may be of great service to us even though we cannot comprehend it. I. First, then, let me utter …
SERMON • SERMON 2959God's Love to the Saints
1 John 3:16
… It is like fire of an active nature—it must be at work. Love longs for expression—it cannot be dumb. Command it to be without expression and …
SERMON • SERMON 2518A Sad Interior and a Cheery Messenger
Mark 16:10
… in the cemetery far away from the place where it was known to work and live. Ah, but, concerning even this mortal body, we have good news, for …
SERMON • SERMON 1242Abraham's Prompt Obedience to the Call of God
Hebrews 11:8
… It is awful work when through disobedience to the command of the gospel it becomes a savor of death unto death instead of life unto life, and instead …
SERMON • SERMON 1644Our Lord's First Appearance before Pilate
John 18:38
… To true saints in a healthy condition there is no place more attractive than the place of our Lord's passion, where He accomplished the glorious work of …
SERMON • SERMON 1808The Threshing Floor of Ornan
1 Chronicles 21:28
… We cannot do better than praise God when we are in our daily service earning our daily bread, or gathered at our meals refreshing our bodies. At the …
SERMON • SERMON 2325The Far-off, Near—the Near, Far Off
Matthew 2:1-4
… find a delight in worshipping Christ, in paying Him homage, giving to His service and in giving themselves to Him! Thus I have tried to show you what …
SERMON • SERMON 699Sin Condemned And Executed By Christ Jesus
Romans 8:3
… The Savior condemned sin by His sufferings, by allowing it to work itself out to its legitimate result. Sin is exceeding sinful but we could never have known …
SERMON • SERMON 1752Mourners, Inquirers, Covenanters
Jeremiah 50:4
… When the prodigal cries, "I will arise and go to my Father," then a work of Grace is certainly begun, but not till then. It is not enough …
SERMON • SERMON 667Last Things
Proverbs 5:11
… my Graces be mere talk, or will they be found to be the work of God the Holy Spirit? Am I vitally united to Christ or not? Am …
SERMON • SERMON 2853Observing the King's Word
1 Kings 20:33
… I wish that all our church-members were present at all our Prayer Meetings and on all occasions when work is to be done for Christ. What a …
SERMON • SERMON 1428The True Position of the Witness Within
1 John 5:10
… Having believed in Jesus Christ upon the simple evidence of God, there is a work of regeneration performed upon him and he feels himself altogether transformed. A young …
SERMON • SERMON 1595The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death
Psalm 23:4
… Storybooks are sent me to review and when I perceive that they contain harrowing tales of poverty, I make short work of them. I see quite enough of …
SERMON • SERMON 1764The Rocky Fortress and Its Inhabitant
Isaiah 33:15
… Be gracious in forgiving the past and in helping us for the future to live in Your fear and service. Do this through Christ Jesus our Lord, we …
SERMON • SERMON 1799Though He Were Dead
John 11:24-26
… up by us like the old hulks in the Medway, never to see service any more, or like aged pensioners at Chelsea, as relics of the past. We …
SERMON • SERMON 1641Great Spoil
Psalm 119:162
… frets flee away! Well may he rest who sees even evil made to work for his good! When we believe that Jesus died and rose again from the …
SERMON • SERMON 2974A Wafer of Honey
2 Corinthians 12:9
… And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He …