Work & Service

Sin Laid on Jesus

Isaiah 53:6

… Our College, which is doing so much service greatly needs, and demands the help of all who love our work, and love the Lord’s truth. But in …

Abram And The Ravenous Birds

Genesis 15:11

… But here you have some who think the Sunday must be all work, work, work. Instead of which, if they were to stop to whet the edge of …

A Sermon to Open Neglecters and Nominal Followers of Religion

Matthew 21:28-32

… SPURGEON, At the Agricultural Hall, Islington “But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to …

Satan in a Rage

Revelation 12:12

… When God begins His great work in a sinner's heart, to lead him to Christ, it is no bad sign if the man feels more hatred to …

Resurrection—Christ The First Fruits

1 Corinthians 15:20

… Yet toil for toil's sake we would not choose, and when God's work is done we are too glad to think that our work is done …

'Bought with a Price'

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

… Our bodies used to work hard enough for the devil; now they belong to God we will make them work for him. Your legs used to carry you …

Dressing In The Morning

Romans 13:11-14

… Certain duties arise out of the hour. "Man goes forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening." From morning to evening and from evening to …

The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God

1 Timothy 1:11

… The sermon is slow, the service is dull, the whole affair is a weariness to which nothing but propriety makes men submit. Some people do their religion as …

Importance of Small Things in Religion

… When we have got Scripture to back us up we defy the world; but when we have nothing but our own whims or the work of some great …

Dr. Rippon’s Prayer and its Answer

… Keach trained his church to labor in the service of the Lord. Several were by his means called into the Christian ministry, his own son, Elias Keach, among …

A Savior Such As You Need

Hebrews 10:15-18

… Surely God is not unjust to forget the Savior's work and labor of love! Now there was no connection, you see, between the blood of a bull …

God Justifieth the Ungodly

… To make him just who is just is no work for God--that were a labor for a fool; but to make him just who is unjust--that …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… An illiterate man cannot see that it is work, but he who is capable of mental labor soon feels the reality of it. Just transfer that thought. Coming …

Are You Prepared To Die?

Jeremiah 12:5

… He who works for God should seek to do his work well and should strive to be fit for labor. To feed the saints and gather in Christ …

Runaway Jonah and the Convenient Ship

Jonah 1:3

… work? Whatever reason he had, it must have been a bad one, for no servant of God ought, on any account whatever, to think of quitting the service …

Hope for Your Future

… In fact, this one thing is clear of all Believers who have grown in Grace—that the work of Grace in them is nearer completion. They are getting …

God's Longsuffering: An Appeal to the Conscience

2 Peter 3:15

… of the poor, to the grinding down of those who, with the hardest labor, can scarcely earn bread enough to keep body and soul together, how does the …

Early Religious Impressions

… must not allow unnecessary labor in or about our habitations on the Lord’s-day, and must devise means to make the necessary work as light as possible …

Eccentric Preachers

… The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the color of a beryl : and they four had one likeness ; and their appearance and their work …

Wheat in the Barn

… It has rewarded the labor of the husbandman, and it is housed. Oh, long-expected day, begin! Oh, brethren, what a blessing it will be when you and …

The Hunger-Bite

Job 18:12

… And, thirdly—and it is grievous work to have to say it—this is a form of chastisement upon Believers who are not living near to God as …

The Principal Wheat

… Our Lord’s service is the principal wheat, let us labor most in connection with it. This, I think, should also take possession of us so as to …

A Good Confession.–Baptism

… The right depth, with sure footing, may soon be found, and so the delightful service proceeds in the gently-flowing stream. No accident or disorder has ever marred …

Retrospect—"The Lord Has Blessed"

Joshua 17:14

… Though we read no denunciation service; though we do not speak to you from Ebal and Gerizim, with the blessing and the curse, yet rest assured that there …

God Forgiving Sin

Isaiah 55:7-9

… Above all, to Him be Glory, that an afflicted and poor people, detained from public service, have by these sermons been refreshed. So may it be while this …

Help for Your Sickness

Matthew 8:16

… The Savior would gladly have healed them on the Sabbath, for that was to Him a high day for holy work—but they did not think it right …

Eyes Opened

Genesis 21:19

… If it may please God to permit me to return in full vigor to my delightful work, I shall indeed rejoice! Till then be so good as to …

The Orphan's Father

Hosea 14:3

… that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands." In gathering in the corn, the field was not raked, but all that …

Taught That We May Teach

Ezekiel 40:4

… But, at the same time, He does favor some of His servants who live near to Him and who are called by Him to special service, with very …

The Son Glorified by the Father and the Father Glorified by the Son

John 17:1

… a great work in selling Bibles and healthy literature. Owing to the depression of trade and the falling off of subscriptions, this branch of holy service is, at …

The Lord’s Hand behind the Maid’s Mistake

… I should love to work my own way as much as possible. I know you like this feeling. “4.I am not uneducated. I have many opportunities of …

The Dual Nature and the Duel Within

Romans 7:23

… It is at deadly enmity with the old nature which it will, in the end, destroy, but, as I have said before, it has its work to do …

Loyal to the Core

2 Samuel 15:21

… We do not like that service which is pressed out of a man: and certainly the Lord of love will not accept forced labor. No; let your willinghood …

Till We Meet Again

Revelation 22:21

… For our labor as Gospel fishermen He supplies all the nets that we shall require. For our work in His vineyard He gives us every tool. May the …

The Special Call And The Unfailing Result

1 Corinthians 1:9

… And so far there appears reasonable evidence that the Spirit of God has set His seal to their being His genuine work by maintaining them in the Truth …

My Comfort In Affliction

Psalm 119:50

… Nobody who consulted his own comfort would enter upon dignities attended with so much labor and sore travail. Child of God, remember that neither goodness nor greatness can …

The Heart—a Gift for God

Proverbs 23:26

… service we shall be miserable unless our hearts are fully engaged. Whenever we feel that preaching is heavy work, or Sunday school teaching, after six days' labor, is …

The Long Pastorate Commenced, 1854

… As soon as such a man strikes out a project, or sets about a work which none but men of his mold would venture upon, straightway there arises …

Exhortation—"Set Your Heart"

1 Chronicles 22:19

… should be for Him at its best—and kept well at work for His royal service. The yoke of Christ should be laid not merely on the shoulder …

The Poor Man's Prayer

Psalm 106:4

… Merely to come with the crowd and professedly to worship is but poor work. But when a man gets to feel the weight of his own sin and …