Work & Service

"By All Means, Save Some"

1 Corinthians 9:22

… Are you called to labor among the educated? Then choose out excellent words and present them apples of gold in baskets of silver. Do you work among the …

A Plain Man's Sermon

Leviticus 22:21

… a bias towards evil—can possibly render perfect service unto God? Your hands are foul! How can your work be clean? How can it possibly be that you …

The Beginning of Months

Exodus 12:1

… The Passover is, as we all know, a type of the great work of our redemption by the blood of Jesus, and it represents the personal application of …

Untitled Sermon

Psalm 119:144

… O you who would work successfully and acceptably, ask the great Lord of the Harvest to enlighten your hearts and minds that you may not labor as in …

Paul in the Tempest

Acts 27:18-25

… Let Your work appear unto Your servants, and Your glory unto their children. "Lord, let us see Your work here! Oh, for Your name's sake, take Your …

Robbers of God

Malachi 3:8

… done Him no service. If a man buys a cow, he counts upon its milk. If he keeps a horse, he looks for its labor. If he owns …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:131

… To be holy is to go to the University—to have a desire for it is to go to a preparatory school for children—and to labor and …

Unbinding Lazarus

John 11:43

… As a father smiles to see his little children imitating him and endeavoring to assist him in his work, so is Jesus pleased to see our lowly efforts …

The Plumb Line

Amos 7:7

… Now, in the work of destruction, God always uses the plumb line and He goes about that work very slowly. He shows that He does not like it …

Forgiveness, Freedom, Favor

Deuteronomy 15:2

… However useful they might have been in the house or field, however much they were felt to be necessary to domestic comfort or farm service, they were to …

A Sermon for a Winter's Evening

John 18:18

… My Brothers and Sisters, we sometimes wish that we had actually seen our Lord, but seeing Christ after the flesh was of small service to Peter. It was …

Christ's Poverty, Our Riches

2 Corinthians 8:9

… And it is equally poor work to try and lead a child of God to perform a service of love by an argument which is applicable only to …

A Gospel Sermon To Outsiders

Mark 10:49

… God had been at work on that man and He led His servant to work to the same point. The Lord was, by His Providence, tunneling one side …

Solemn Pleadings for Revival

Isaiah 41:1

… The work we are going to plead about is not ours one-half so much as it is God's! It is not in our hands, but in …

"Do You Love Me?"

John 21:16

… To comfort you would be a good work, but sometimes it may be better to grieve you. Not always is sweet food the best thing we can bring …

Gracious Renewal

Psalm 51:10

… Certain it is that the most fertile fields yield no perpetual harvests unless the labor of man fertilizes the soil. All things on earth need, perpetually, to be …

Unto You, Young Men

1 John 2:14

… You "holy-work folk"—as they used to call those who dwelt around the cathedral at Durham and were exempt from all service to the baron because they …

The Prayer of Jabez

… We must work for God while we can, for not one of us knows how soon he may be unable to take a share in the service. At …

The Church a Mother

Isaiah 49:20

… It is her work to feed them. She gives to them the unadulterated milk of the Word of God. Through her ministers, through her servants, through the different …

Forgetting God

Hosea 13:6

… It seemed to be a subject of surprise to David that God should think of man, for He wrote, "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your …

Saved In Hope

Romans 8:24

… Perfect in service and clean delivered from all self-will and carnal desire, we shall be near our God and like He is. As Watts has it— "Sin …

Holy Work For Christmas

Luke 2:17-20

… And considering ourselves to be "holy work-folk," we may keep it, after a different sort from other men, in holy contemplation and in blessed service of that …

God's Glory in the Building Up of Zion

Psalm 102:16

… If they will work iniquity, they shall go with those that work iniquity! Each one shall go to his own company. If we have loved the people of …

Good Cheer From Forgiven Sin

Matthew 9:2

… If we have work to do for Christ, let us do it with delight. Let us live to music. Let us march to Heaven to a gladsome tune …

A Golden Sentence

John 4:34

… That great crowning work of suffering and death, by which souls were effectually redeemed, was no unwilling service. He said He had a baptism to be baptized with …

'Make This Valley Full of Ditches'

2 Kings 3:16-18

… Many of you might do good service by teaching senior classes at your own houses. This work might be most profitably extended. If our intelligent Christian Brethren and …

Idols Found Wanting, But Jehovah Found Faithful

Isaiah 46:1-4

… The boastful "thinkers" carried up their elaborate systems into their places with great labor and then they carried them away again and buried them with equal labor. What …

One More Cast of the Great Net

Joel 2:32

… You say, "What have we to do with that?" We have much to do with it! Let us pray for our Lord's own countrymen! Let us labor …

A Delicious Experience

Hebrews 4:3

… Six days shall you labor and do all your work—but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God." And therefore, because it is His …

The Great House and the Vessels In It

2 Timothy 2:20

… work which we cannot achieve and, therefore, we cry, "Cleanse me, O God! Sanctify me! Make me meet for Your service and prepared for every good work." Beloved …

Christ's Rest and Ours

Isaiah 11:10

… His service and His suffering were both glorious. His death was in the truest sense, glorious, and now, all the rest which has followed upon His consummated service …

Jericho Captured

Joshua 6:2

… and expect the catastrophe—they were to labor and Jericho would fall as the result of their toil. Their work is to consist of a daily procession. They …

Preventing Grace

1 Samuel 25:32

… You will see he was in a very difficult position—he must find work for these men. They were soldiers of fortune and they must be employed, yet …

The Servants and the Pounds

Luke 19:12

… Exercise your very best judgment and get into that line of holy service in which you can bring in the largest revenue for your glorious Master. The work …

Jesus Sitting on the Well

John 4:6

… that your daily work is very hard— and I know that I speak to many who earn their bread with very severe toil and labor—and when the …

The Peace of the Devil and the Peace of God

Luke 11:21

… I know that many of you sigh for rest—you labor that you may enter into it. If you have found the rest which Jesus gives, your heart …

Freshness

Job 29:20

… Be encouraged by that! I think that a little of what people call oddness is just, after all, leaving God's work alone. All the trees that God …

Truly Eating the Flesh of Jesus

John 6:53-56

… Hunger after Him more and more, but never leave Him to spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which satisfies not …

Gladness For Sadness

Psalm 90:15-17

… and give them help to accomplish their holy service—this will be our richest possible comfort—"Let Your work appear unto Your servants." Lord, our Brothers and Sisters …

Proclamation of Acceptance and Vengeance

Isaiah 61:2

… Beloved Hearers, listening to the Gospel should always be very solemn work since it is listening to the Word of God! Though the voice is that of man …