Work & Service

The Seven Sneezes

2 Kings 4:35

… We, too, who are seeking the good of others, will greatly exult if we are favored to see gracious tokens in those for whose good we labor. At …

Faith Justifying Speech

Psalm 116:10

… If brands are to be plucked from the burning, we shall not do such work with kid-gloved hands! This generation is so engrossed with its idols and …

Love Joying In Love

Solomon 5:1

… Some Graces are the result of work and wisdom, as wine which must be trod from the grapes. Others are natural, like milk which flows from living fountains …

A Precious Drop Of Honey

Isaiah 49:16

… work out the beauty of this passage. I am equally conscious that you cannot either, unless you have much longer time for meditation than such a short service …

The Sealed Hand—a Winter Sermon

Job 37:7

… perform his labor. The Lord has an objective in this, namely, "that all men may know His work." When they cannot do their own work, they are intended …

Overwhelming Obligations

Psalm 116:12

… to the urgent call! "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward His name, in that you have …

Assurance Sought

Psalm 35:3

… His labor is free, cheered by love and lightened by song— "Now for tie love I bear His name What was my gain, I count my loss." Out …

Self-Humbling and Self-Searching

Solomon 1:6

… And now I speak to such as live in active service, doing the work of God. Dear brethren, there are certain evils connected with our lifework coming of …

Wrecked, But Not reckless

Acts 27:20

… And then they have set to work right mightily to run under the lee, if they could, of some favorable shore as Paul's mariners did. "If we …

Penitence, Pardon and Peace

Luke 7:37-38

… her Lord's feet, or perform any service which may be permitted her, if she may work a good work upon Him! Further, note that what she did …

Royal Homage

Revelation 4:10

… and tread it in practical service. Cast your ability to do and to suffer, as well as the crown of your labor and patience, at the feet of …

Dilemma and Deliverance

Psalm 9:10

… Wherever there is a wound of sin, it is wonderful how this arrow will work, and what a burning it will give to our blood till every vein …

Grace For Communion

Solomon 4:16

… It may be that "So He gives His beloved sleep." To those who are worn with labor, rest is sweet. Blessed are they who enjoy a Sabbath of …

Tearful Sowing and Joyful Reaping

Psalm 126:6

… himself for service—he shall win the great service! Going forth may represent, also, entire giving up of yourself to that particular field of labor to which God …

Limiting God

Psalm 78:41

… fairest, try again, for God is not unfaithful to forget your work of faith and your labor of love. Only continue to exercise your patience and your diligence …

Good Cheer From Christ's Call and From Himself

Mark 10:46-52

… For instance, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Do you labor? Are you heavy laden? Then Christ …

Christ Lifted Up

John 12:32

… it is the topstone of my labor. I long for my sufferings, because they shall be the completion of my great work of grace.” Brethren, it is the …

Ho! Ho!

Isaiah 55:1

… Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which satisfies not? The less value there is in any religion, the …

'The Garment of Praise'

Isaiah 61:3

… When we go forth to our work, we will bless the Lord who gives us strength to labor. If we must lie at home sorely sick, with fierce …

With Golden Band Girded

Revelation 1:13

… It was only when on a journey, or when engaged in some manual labor that he thus adjusted his attire. So our Lord's having a golden band …

The Bridgeless Gulf

Luke 16:26

… Lift up your hearts to God, you that know Him and have power with Him, and ask that now the Divine Spirit may work mightily, that hearts may …

The Sparrow and the Swallow

Psalm 84:3

… Its day's work is over, its day's needs are supplied, and it chirps its evening song of joy. So when we make our abode in Christ …

The Necessity of the Spirit’s Work

… Salvation must be the work of the Spirit in us, because the means used in salvation are of themselves inadequate for the accomplishment of the work. And what …

Lecture III: The Uses Of Anecdotes And Illustrations.

… in it thou shalt not do any work." To these people who never labor because they are so heavenly-minded, I would tell the story of a certain …

The Carpenter's Son and His Relations

Matthew 13:55

… He toiled at the carpenter's bench and afterwards He said of His life's service, "I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it …

Stumbling at the Word

1 Peter 2:8

… I wish that you could hear His voice saying to you, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest …

Spiritual Peace

John 14:27

… Many believers have not come to discern between the work of the Spirit and the work of the Son; and what marvel, if ye are ignorant, that ye …

A Message From God To His Church And People

Habakkuk 3:2

… And what about the work of the Baptists? Well, there is doubtless much that is wrong about it. And what about the work of the Methodists, and the …

Faintness and Refreshing

1 Kings 19:8

… I remember when, like a broken, bruised and worthless thing, I seemed set aside from Christian service and from my work for God which I loved. It seemed …

Providence

Matthew 10:30

… does he want with providence? But the poor man who has to work at day labor, and sometimes runs very short, and just then happens to meet with …

More Room for More People

Luke 14:22

… Let them roar as they may, they cannot resist the force by which they are driven as chaff before the wind! He will surely perform His work and …

Christ Made Sin

2 Corinthians 5:21

… Stern was the labor of the Apostles, but they felt that their work was so all-important, so Divine , that they must not grow weary of it, though …

The Way to God

John 14:6

… No man—desire he never so earnestly, labor he never so diligently—no man cometh unto the Father, but by Jesus Christ. When Adam was perfect in the …

Knowing and Doing

John 13:17

… Other doings without this were mere legalism and vain, but this is the great work, the master work, the God work, that you believe on Jesus Christ whom …

The Fainting Warrior

Romans 7:24

… uproot him and cast him from his place? This is the work, this is the labor. From its birth the new nature begins the struggle, and it cannot …

The Pleasures of Piety

Psalm 104:34

… The work occupied him several months and he had no wages all the while he was making the chain—only the trouble and the pains of making it …

'The Time Is Short'

1 Corinthians 7:29

… thought, "I have some opportunity to follow out the work of faith, the patience of hope and the labor of love, though not the opportunity I once had …

The Importunate Widow

Luke 18:1-8

… to your work and as you toil, if you do so in a devout spirit, you are actively praying the same prayer by your lawful labor. You praise …

God's Time for Comforting

Psalm 119:82

… only want to be spiritually fed without doing a stroke of work in the Master' s service get to be very dainty. No matter how good the fare …

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… That precious blood which cleanses us, cleanses our service also. It makes us white as snow and it makes our service white, too. We and our work are …