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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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The Sinner's Only Alternative
2 Kings 7:4
… Some of you can also remember how you made haste home from the service and hurried upstairs for quiet meditation and prayer. But the idle conversation of the …
SERMON • SERMON 3131The Fainting Hero
Judges 15:18
… But since it is a piece of rich and rare porcelain upon which months of labor have been spent, I could not understand his saying, "I will not …
SERMON • SERMON 1193Girding on the Harness
1 Kings 20:11
… You may live to think that the service which seemed so interesting and delightful is not quite so fascinating as you thought! The work which is now surrounded …
SERMON • SERMON 1149My Restorer
Psalm 23:3
… Surely He who regenerated can restore! He who created can renew! Restoration is not a more difficult work—no, it is but a secondary work compared with the …
SERMON • SERMON 365Humility
Acts 20:19
… humility before service they have. They will pick that position in the Church which will give them the most honor; and if there is work to do which …
SERMON • SERMON 3007Gadding About
Jeremiah 2:36
… Is not this unfaithfulness to the finished work and perfect merit of our great Substitute? We knew, at the first, when we were under conviction of sin, that …
SERMON • SERMON 2018Cured At Last!
Luke 8:43
… religious amusement? What a waste it is of my labor and of your time unless some gracious work is done! O Sirs, if you are not brought to …
SERMON • SERMON 2954The Big Gates Wide Open
John 6:37
… Do you not know that— "Law and terrors do but harden All the while they work alone"? But if you will come to Jesus and trust in Him …
SERMON • SERMON 997Prosperity Under Persecution
Exodus 1:10-12
… They work—these foes work—and think that with axes they can break down our carved work, and cast fire into the sanctuary of God, but all the …
SERMON • SERMON 2665A Day to Be Remembered
Luke 19:9
… The first was the day when the work of creation was finished, concerning which we read, "On the seventh day God ended His work which He had made …
SERMON • SERMON 2872The Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:26
… We would not depreciate His life, His Baptism, His work, or His Resurrection, but His death is the center of all. All the Doctrines of the Gospel revolve …
SERMON • SERMON 1130The Christian's Great Business
Psalm 51:12-13
… service. My Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ—if there are no bonds laid upon us to seek the wandering souls of men, upon whom can the labor …
SERMON • SERMON 2140A Homily for Humble Folks
Proverbs 30:2
… these must be made faint with labor before they will yield. In many instances the mental distress which attends the work of the Spirit is produced by sickness …
SERMON • SERMON 3315Joy in Harvest
Isaiah 9:3
… It would be well, too, if men would always recollect that their last and greatest harvest will be to them according to their labor. He that sows to …
SERMON • SERMON 601A Solemn Enquiry Concerning Our Families
Genesis 19:12
… They fear that they should be doing the Spirit's work. My dear Brother, that is the reason why I do it, for I know the Spirit of …
SERMON • SERMON 2976Order Is Heaven's First Law
Joel 2:8
… and mistakes, but let each work hand in hand and stand foot to foot in the common battle and the common service, for, O my Brothers and Sisters …
SERMON • SERMON 3052Christ's Loneliness and Ours
John 16:31
… As soon as such a man strikes out on a project and sets about a work which none but men of his mold would venture upon, straightway there …
SERMON • SERMON 2692Church Increase
Isaiah 49:20
… Then, by-and-by, they cease their attendance at the Communion Table and they are missing from various forms of Christian work and service—and so the church …
SERMON • SERMON 836Sown Light
Psalm 97:11
… certain, therefore, that He will not be unrighteous to forget our work of faith and labor of love—and that in dealing out judgment, both to His saints …
SERMON • SERMON 1168The Crown of Thorns
Matthew 27:29
… Yet I have seen some who are, I hope, true Believers, take much trouble to trouble themselves and labor to increase their own labors. They hasten to be …
SERMON • SERMON 3043Filling Up the Measure of Iniquity
Genesis 15:16
… The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they are fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for …
SERMON • SERMON 1128Love's Crowning Deed
John 15:13
… We shall take you, today, to Love's most sacred shrine, to the Jerusalem of the holy land of Love, to the labor of Love where it was …
SERMON • SERMON 2479Spices, Flowers, Lilies and Myrrh
Solomon 5:13
… But now I have to remind you that saints also labor to tell others of the loveliness of Christ when they look upon Him. In this blessed service …
SERMON • SERMON 2100Faith Essential to Pleasing God
Hebrews 11:6
… No work done for Him will go unrewarded. In His service the wages are sure. Rise into the Abrahamic life which stays itself upon the Lord's word …
SERMON • SERMON 2534The Greatest Gift in Time or Eternity
Isaiah 55:4-6
… Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which satisfies not? Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat you that which …
SERMON • SERMON 2823One Trophy for Two Exploits
Psalm 18:29
… He would seek greedily with both hands to work out his own destruction and that love of destruction, which was in his heart, constituted one of the great …
SERMON • SERMON 2363Comfort and Constancy
2 Thessalonians 2:16
… You are made to be "steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord," because you are comforted with the belief that, "your labor is not in …
SERMON • SERMON 1052The Sphere Of Instrumentality
John 11:39
… ask the Lord Jesus to work. We ought never to say of any person, "It would be vain for us to labor for his conversion, he is so …
SERMON • SERMON 2834Conceit Rebuked
Job 34:33
… The teachers of the modern school of theology work in a kind of god-factory. The people in some heathen lands make their gods out of mud, but …
SERMON • SERMON 3167The Christian's Helmet
1 Thessalonians 5:8
… He says, "Know them which labor among you and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and esteem them very highly in love for their work …
SERMON • SERMON 2349All Comers To Christ Welcomed
John 6:37
… upon us, becomes our Heaven! "God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love." God is not unrighteous to cast away a soul that puts …
SERMON • SERMON 2211God Rejoicing in the New Creation
Isaiah 65:17-19
… for as the days of a tree are the days of My people, and My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor …
SERMON • SERMON 713Soul Murder—Who Is Guilty?
Psalm 51:14
… What God sees them to be, that you must labor to feel them to be, and with all openness of heart acknowledge their true character. Observe, too, that …
SERMON • SERMON 915Sinners Bound with the Cords of Sin
Proverbs 5:22
… We now perceive that for a sinner to receive the gospel involves a work of grace that shall change his heart and renew his nature. Yet none the …
SERMON • SERMON 1359Happiness—the Privilege and Duty of Christians
Deuteronomy 33:29
… Unbelief has whispered a thousand accursed falsehoods in our ears—this labor was to be too difficult, that trial was to consume us—that adversary would swallow us …
SERMON • SERMON 1198The Master
John 11:28
… What will Heaven be but perpetual service? Here we labor to enter into rest—there they enter into rest while they labor! Their rest is the perfect obedience …
SERMON • SERMON 2099Concerning the Consolations Of God
Job 15:11
… In fact, he may do us good service. May God the Holy Spirit enable us to consider these questions that we may be profited by them! The text …
SERMON • SERMON 1272A God Ready to Pardon
Nehemiah 9:17
… Judgment is his strange work. The way in which the Lord came to Adam at the first showed his mercy. He came, if you remember, in the cool …
SERMON • SERMON 1950Earthquake But Not Heartquake
Psalm 46:1-3
… When we have not been afflicted, but have had arduous labor to perform for God, we have been made to feel and mourn our weakness—and then the …
SERMON • SERMON 1065The Healing of One Born Blind
John 9:32
… This pleasing fact seems to me to be full of consolation to any persons here present who labor under the idea that theirs is a most peculiar and …