Work & Service

Plowing Rock

Amos 6:12

… useless labor, so let us pray to God to turn that rock into good soil. It needs a miracle to be worked and only God can work it …

A Home Mission Sermon

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… The mountain was in labor, and labor it did. Now, I have been told that the secretary of the Chinese mission called upon the editor of the aforesaid …

One Lost Sheep

Matthew 18:12

… But every Believer should labor to acquire it. Seek the souls of men one by one. It is far easier work to me to speak to you all …

"What Shall the Harvest Be?"

Hosea 8:7

… Labor on, then, Beloved, "steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord …

Fields White For Harvest

John 4:35

… know that there are other reapers at work? If the Christian does not work, there are others who will labor. If the Truth of God does not now …

A Call For Revival

Solomon 7:11-13

… uncomfortable service. She says, "I will lodge in the villages." There will she abide awhile, not paying a flying visit, but stopping until the good work is done …

'The Desire Of All Nations'

Haggai 2:7

… We do not labor in vain, neither do we spend our strength for nothing. We fall bacl upon the Doctrine of Divine worl-ing and Divine choice for …

The Best Cloak

Isaiah 59:17

… Our Lord Jesus Christ realized this fact, for in mental labor He condensed whole centuries of holy thought and desire into those three short years of His service …

Psalm 136

Psalm 136

… Even when the Lord uses men as his instruments, yet the wonder of the work is his alone; therefore let us not trust in men, or idolize them …

The Soul's Food and Drink

John 6:55

… Christ told these people not to labor for that which they could only get by labor—"Labor not for the food which perishes." Yet few men get their …

Good Works In Good Company

Solomon 7:11-13

… It appears, from the words of the spouse, that the work of self-examination should be carried on in detail, if it is to be of real service …

Feeding on the Word

Isaiah 55:2

… The poor man spends his labor. But both of these ways come from self and they mean self-salvation—every man his own savior. This is not the …

The Christian's Motto

John 8:29

… We shall not do this by accident—we must give our whole souls to the work and labor mightily. No arrow reaches this target if the bow is …

Christ's Yoke and Burden

Matthew 11:30

… you that labor and are heavy laden." By that He means, "Do not suppose that because you are already laborers in another master's service, you can wear …

Martha And Mary

Luke 10:38-42

… We cease to do work as to the Lord, we labor too much for the service's sake. The main thing in our minds is the service, and …

Pentecost

Acts 2:1

… I had forgotten till that moment that we have now reached the Levitical feast of Pentecost which contains, among its regulations, that no servile work is to be …

Conversion

James 5:19-20

… is something to cheer the printers, and all of us who labor in that good work. One good brother wrote to me this week, “Brother Spurgeon, keep your …

Sermon 463. Christ'S Servant—His Duty And Reward

John 12:26

… Now the Master comes forth boldly and begins to preach and teach and labor. If you would serve Him, follow Him! Labor for Him. In some way or …

All the People at Work for Jesus

… No need for regular plodding service in school and house meetings. No need to set our young men and women to work for Christ! The drill and organization …

Believers—Lights In The World

Philippians 2:14-16

… If we imagine that the precepts of the Gospel were more stern in Apostolic times than in these later ages, we labor under a very gross and dangerous …

Three Sights Worth Seeing

1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… If it were one soul saved by twenty years' work, we ought to feel that we could dance for joy, and count the service to be as nothing …

Supposing Him to be the Gardener

John 20:15

… It was not by its own nature that the garden was found in such a place; but by skill and labor it had been formed: even so the …

Everyday Religion

Galatians 2:20

… He says, "My Father works hitherto and I work." His was stern labor and sore travail—the zeal of God's House did eat Him up and the …

Psalm 143

Psalm 143

… When the work of our own hand grieves us, let us look to the work of God's hands. Memory, meditation, and musing are here set together as …

The Father's Will

John 6:39

… You are told not to labor for that meat which no man can procure without labor, and you are told to labor for that bread which no man …

Psalm 42

Psalm 42

… hold upon Christ, whereas it should be your work to reason yourselves into Christ as much as you can. Labour to strengthen your comforts, and reason thus, Why …

The Privileged Man

Ezekiel 16:9-14

… work, it teaches me that the righteousness with which God covers His people is a work of labor, of skill, of care, of thought—not merely labor (though …

The Unkept Vineyard—or, Personal Work Neglected

Solomon 1:6

… Moreover, we have too much left the vineyard of holy service for God to go to ruin. I would ask you—How about the work your God has …

Psalm 73

Psalm 73

… The clean hearted have all things work for their good. Ro 8:28. Mercies and afflictions shall turn to their good; the most poisonous drugs shall be medicinal …

Fellowship With Christ

1 Corinthians 10:16

… How they labor to put men away from them with their pomp, their tinsel, their gewgaws, and their parade! Christ, as the great Founder of a new dispensation …

The Plowman

Isaiah 28:24

… can say, "I have finished the work which You gave me to do." We prize that which costs us labor and service—and we shall set all the …

The Infallibility of God’s Purpose

Job 23:13

… We have to labor too. How hard do some men labor who have to toil for their daily bread! Their bread is saturated with their sweat; they wear …

All For Jesus!

Colossians 3:24

… Let us thank God for the measure of service which He has worked in us, and let us earnestly ask Him to work in us still further to …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:13

… And I do not doubt but his testimony to you would be, that at least, during the first part of the labor it seemed not to be labor …

"Feed My Lambs"—a Sunday School Sermon

John 21:15

… The shepherding of lambs is daily, hourly work. When is a shepherd's work over? How many hours a day does he labor? He will tell you that …

A Challenge and War Cry

1 Corinthians 15:55-58

… We are to work for it. We are to work with quietness. I suppose to some that is very hard work, but they must labor after it, for …

The Joy of Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… And now his hopes are all fulfilled in the harvest before him! His labor is all repaid. Many a time have his workmen plodded to and fro over …

Creation—An Argument For Faith

Jeremiah 32:17

… can do through you and me, my Brother! O, let us labor, then! Let us work and toil. Let us think difficulties, delights, and troubles, but trifles. Let …

The Hedge of Thorns and the Plain Way

Proverbs 15:19

… Among the sanitary and salutary regulations of the moral universe there is none much better than this—that men must work. He who does not work is not …

Carried by Four

Luke 5:16-26

… They need be strong, for the burden is heavy; they need be resolute, for the work will try their faith; they need be prayerful, for otherwise they labor …