Work & Service

Believers Sent by Christ, As Christ Is Sent By the Father

John 17:18

… Burying the dead is a good work—but this will be a labor more congenial to the dead around us than to ourselves—let us leave it to …

A Warning to Believers

Colossians 2:18

… Not with eye service, as men pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With good will doing service, as to …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… Satan did service to God, it cannot be denied, in the afflicting of Job, winnowing of Peter, buffeting of Paul, executing of Judas, and God did a work …

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… What a vast length of time and wearisome labour would it require for a blind man to learn what one glance of the eye may give to one …

Conversions Desired

Acts 11:21

… with instructing the children—labor to have them converted! Drive at it, you preachers—do not believe that you have done your work when you have taught the …

Peter'S Three Calls

John 1:37

… Ah, but it is harder work, still, to wait in Christ's service, to preach twenty times and have no conversions, perhaps to go on teaching in a …

The King Feasting in his Garden

Solomon 5:1

… Let us commune as well as work. For there shall we find strength for service, and our service shall be done the better, and become the more acceptable …

The Blood of Sprinkling and the Children

Exodus 12:21-27

… All his acts were to be under the influence of atoning blood! Oh, what service you and I would render if it were always redeemed labor that we …

What We Would Be*

… Every preacher should labor to be the means of saving his hearers. The truest reward of our life work is to bring dead souls to life. I long …

Traveling Expenses On The Two Great Roads

Jonah 1:3

… AS a general rule, wherever we go, whatever we do, we must "pay the fare." Expenditure is connected with every act, work and operation. The sun does not …

Christian Resignation

Matthew 26:39

… at work within our hearts, do we not feel as if we could not live without serving God? Do we not then feel that to labor for the …

A Sunday School Sermon

Isaiah 40:11

… personal labor. Jesus Christ, Himself, gathers with His own arm and carries in His own bosom the lambs of His flock! He does not commit this work to …

Joshua's Vision

Joshua 6:10-27

… can you do the work of Heaven? The farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits. And if we would labor for God with success, we …

The Believer in the Body and Out of the Body

2 Corinthians 5:5-10

… We are laborers and this is the work field. When we have done our day's work we shall go home, but this is the workshop, not the …

One Lion, Two Lions, No Lion at All!

Proverbs 22:13

… to work when he was perfect, much more does he require the discipline of labor now that he is fallen. Lions or no lions, men must work, or …

Cheer for the Worker and Hope for London

Acts 18:9

… and must save! Thus we go to work under the sweet shadow of the Divine decree, stimulated by it to labor with all our might. The next thing …

Death and Life—the Wage and the Gift

Romans 6:23

… the work by which the crown was won! The Lord first gives us good works and then rewards us for them ( Eph. 2:10 )! The labor of love …

Work

John 9:4

… Is there a sign of consumption? Work, then! Do not make that an excuse for idleness, but an argument for labor. Work while it is day. Or, if …

The Lord,—the Liberator

Psalm 146:7

… WHEN PREACHING LAST TUESDAY in Dover, the mayor of the town very courteously lent the ancient town-hall for the service, and in passing along to reach a …

Life In Earnest

2 Chronicles 31:21

… I shall then endeavor to stir you up with many arguments to be earnest in your work offaith and labor of love. And when I have so done …

The Young Soul-Winner at Waterbeach

… At any risk, he would be out to help in the Lord’s work; if he could but be of service to the meanest member of the Church …

Heaven and Hell

Matthew 8:11-12

… Those who have not to work hard, think they will love heaven as a place of service. That is very true. But to the working man, to the …

Rejoice Always

… fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vine, the labor of the olive shall fail, and the field shall yield no meat, yet will …

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

… A priest without oil misses the chief qualification for his office, and the Christian priest lacks his chief fitness for service when he is devoid of new grace …

Safe Shelter

Psalm 91:4

… When the workshops are closed and the artisans, skilled to labor, seek a pauper's pittance at the gates of the union—or when the affliction falls upon …

'Tempted of the Devil'

Matthew 4:1

… man who is engaged in unusual labor. Satan will find some extraordinary means of tempting him whom God puts upon extraordinary service. Satan is very much afraid of …

Nov. 23 — ACQUIRING PERSEVERANCE

Deut. 7:22

… In some places it takes years of labor to drive out even one of the many vices which defile the inhabitants. We must carry on the war with …

July 7 — A MOUNTAIN CHOIR

Isa. 49:13

… May we not also make mountains of difficulty, and trial, and mystery, and labor become occasions for praise unto our God? "Break forth into singing, O mountains!" This …

Nov. 16 — WEAPONS DOOMED TO FAIL

Isa. 54:17

… But see how busily they labor! How many swords and spears they fashion! It matters nothing, for on the blade of every weapon you may read this inscription …

The Gospel in Power

1 Thessalonians 1:5-10

… We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and …

Sept. 11 — SUFFERERS MAKE STRONG BELIEVERS

Lam. 3:27

… The yoke of affliction, disappointment, and excessive labor is by no means to be sought for; but when the Lord lays it on us in our youth it …

Oct. 18 — TEARS, THEN JOYFUL HARVEST

Ps. 126:5

… Thou, thyself, shalt see some result of thy labor. This shall come to thee in so large a measure as to give thee joy, which a poor, withered …

Jan. 5 — A WONDERFUL GUARANTEE

Isa. 41:10

… Do we not remember seasons of labor and trial in which we received such special strength that we wondered at ourselves? In the midst of danger we were …

Feb. 13 — BLESSED IN THE FIELD

Deut. 28:3

… We go to the field to labor as father Adam did; and since the curse fell on the soil through the sin of Adam the first, it is …

The Great Reservoir

Proverbs 4:23

… Sir, the service-pipe would give out plenty of water if the heart were full. Perhaps you do not love your work. O, strive to love your work …

April 2 — TRUE HEART-ENERGY

I Tim. 4:15

… deal of work in a slovenly manner, but by giving our best thought to what we attempt, we shall get real profit. "In all labor there is profit …

June 1 — GOD'S PROMISE KEEPS

Eccl. 11:1

… Nowhere shall our labor be in vain in the Lord. It is ours to cast our bread upon the waters; it remains with God to fulfill the promise …

March 19 — BECOMING FIT FOR GLORY

Ps. 84:11

… We may be called to labor, and to suffer, but with the call there will come all the grace required. What an AND is that in the text …

Dec. 14 — NOTHING OLD

Rev. 21:5

… Already He has commenced His labor, and for centuries He has persevered in making new the hearts of men, and the order of society. By-and-by He …

Aug. 6 — GO; TAKE YOUR PROPERTY

Deut. 1:21

… We may be strong in faith, fervent in love, and abundant in labor; there is nothing to prevent it; let us go up and take possession. The sweetest …