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Joseph And His Brothers
Genesis 45:3-5
… His usual voice is, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." But to you He seems no such …
SERMON • SERMON 356Words Of Expostulation
Jeremiah 2:18
… I can understand why all these are oppressed with sore labor, for I can see the brand of the slave owner upon their backs. Their flesh is scarred …
SERMON • SERMON 741A Troubled Prayer
Psalm 25:18
… While the man was occupied with his daily work and the active labor of his hands, or could be from morning till night at business, sin escaped his …
SERMON • SERMON 2700Growth in Grace
2 Peter 3:18
… It has more to do with contemplation and adoration than with public service. We must look more to the state of the internal'matters, keeping up private prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 3527The Divided Heart
Hosea 10:2
… He had better leave everything alone but his one work. We have not mind enough for two things—and besides, our work is such that if we had …
SERMON • SERMON 891The Vital Force
Hebrews 10:38
… The ground of the sinner's acceptance in the first moment of his faith is the finished work of Christ and, after 50 years of earnest service, that …
SERMON • SERMON 3254The Curse Removed
Galatians 3:13
… O my dear Hearers, could I lay hold of your hands, if you are not converted, I would labor with tears and groans, to get you to grasp …
SERMON • SERMON 2169The Man Who Shall Never See Death
John 8:51-53
… The power and energy of the Holy Spirit which work through the Word are used as the beginning, the sustaining and the perfecting of the inner life. The …
SERMON • SERMON 3370Our Leader Through the Darkness
Isaiah 50:10
… them in their work for Him. This, perhaps, is not so lamentably true as they think. When poverty involves crushing toil, long hours of labor and scarcely enough …
SERMON • SERMON 3196Noah's Eminence
Genesis 7:1
… He practically had to stand alone and standing alone is not easy work. You know how we are all helped by the company of godly people, how good …
SERMON • SERMON 3418An Unalterable Law
Hebrews 9:22
… But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. " Work up" such is the word—"whose waters work …
SERMON • SERMON 3563Cheering Congratulation
Psalm 32:1
… opportunity, but engage with all your heart and soul in the work of faith and labor of love for the Lord Jesus! Some of us were called at …
SERMON • SERMON 2227Wanted!—Volunteers
2 Chronicles 17:16
… retire from active service, he might think it wise to give up some of his work, but never would he retire from the service of his God, for …
SERMON • SERMON 260An Earnest Invitation
Psalm 2:12
… Now, the very first work of grace in the heart is, for Christ to give the sinner the kiss of his affection, to prove his reconciliation to the …
SERMON • SERMON 1081A Visit to the Tomb
Matthew 28:6
… It was a work garment when we put it off—it will be a Sabbath robe when we put it on and it will be fit for Sabbath …
SERMON • SERMON 3341'The Oil of Joy for Mourning'
Isaiah 61:3
… He smells a sweet savor in the Person and work and Sacrifice of His dear Son. If we love Jesus, so does the Father! And if we rest …
SERMON • SERMON 410Not Now, But Hereafter!
Job 21:29-31
… Now, I feel quite at ease in this matter, and am confident that I have done service to our great cause, even though the timid should be alarmed …
SERMON • SERMON 3354'The Old Testament 'Prodigal'
2 Chronicles 33:12
… And when we can produce several astonishing instances, we feel that we are going the right way to work to convince the judgment of our friend and to …
SERMON • SERMON 912The Glorious Hereafter and Ourselves
2 Corinthians 5:5
… same thing by the work of the Holy Spirit in your soul, and you may bless the Lord for it. Joy in service is another sweet preparation for …
SERMON • SERMON 3279'Ever This Our War Cry—victory, Victory!'
Isaiah 53:12
… The work that Christ has come to do is the grandest work that ever stirred the ages. It is God's work and God's question—how shall …
SERMON • SERMON 3219'He Blessed Him There'
Genesis 32:29
… Begging of God must be real work. It is said of begging that it is the worst trade in the world, but a man who is to make …
SERMON • SERMON 846Good Cheer for Christians
Isaiah 25:6
… When one feels that live or die, work or suffer, all is well, how free from care is the heart! How Divinely joyful to know that if one …
SERMON • SERMON 2964'Trust in the Living God'
1 Timothy 4:10
… Paul wrote to Timothy, "Therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God." He meant, by that expression, first, that God is truly …
SERMON • SERMON 904The Eye—a Similitude
Psalm 17:8
… Guard me, O my God, by all the power of those mysterious wheels whose motions I cannot understand, but of whose results You have said, 'All things work …
SERMON • SERMON 247The Best of Masters
John 14:27
… will he say “when I serve Christ, I feel that my work is my wages; that labor for Christ is its own reward. He gives me joy on …
SERMON • SERMON 291A Christmas Question
Isaiah 9:6
… He is content to do the meanest work for the church of Christ, and takes his station—not with Locke or Newton, as a mighty Christian philosopher—but …
SERMON • SERMON 3461The Welcome Visitor
John 11:28-32
… She could neither kneel to do Him service, nor sit to pay Him the reverence of a disciple. She fell all but in a swoon, life gone from …
SERMON • SERMON 3311The Water and the Blood
John 19:34
… can work regeneration in the child's soul? Believe it not, it is a foul lie! But hold you to this—that which alone can work regeneration is …
SERMON • SERMON 2393A Comforting Message for the Closing Year
Psalm 37:7
… I wish that you would sometimes grow weary in that kind of labor, and take to another Master, and work for Him as you have worked for the …
SERMON • SERMON 2283Christ's One Sacrifice for Sin
Hebrews 9:26
… No! He appeared whom the Father chose for the work and sent, commissioned to perform it. His very name, Christ, tells of His anointing for this service— "Thus …
SERMON • SERMON 860Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified
Luke 23:48
… Christ coming from Heaven shall be your Hell! O may God's Grace work a blessed turning of Grace in each of us, that we may not be …
SERMON • SERMON 924Jesus Only
Matthew 17:8
… Oh, I trust it will never be so with us, that as we go about our life work our religion shall melt into fiction and become nothing but …
SERMON • SERMON 246Mr. Fearing Comforted
Matthew 14:31
… you are called to some eminently arduous service for your Lord, and your strength is utterly insignificant compared with the labor before you. If you had great faith …
SERMON • SERMON 2982The Memorable Hymn
Matthew 26:30
… Get your holy praise work done before affliction mars the tune! Fill the air with music while you can. While yet there is bread upon the table, sing …
SERMON • SERMON 497The Procession of Sorrow
John 19:16
… The world has in former days counted it God’s service to kill the saints. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us …
SERMON • SERMON 2777The Queen of Sheba, a Sign
Matthew 12:42
… shun all forms of education—they have no idea beyond their usual day labor, or the pursuits in which they occupy their time. But this queen of Sheba …
SERMON • SERMON 1228Salvation by Faith and the Work of the Spirit
Galatians 5:5
… They say that the preaching up of Jesus Christ as saving men immediately upon their believing in Him ignores, too much, the work of the Holy Spirit. And …
SERMON • SERMON 2112Peace—How Gained, How Broken
Psalm 85:8
… If He speaks peace, who can cause trouble? In Jesus Christ there is Divine peace for the guilty soul. "Come unto Me," says He, "all you that labor …
SERMON • SERMON 899The Unrivalled Friend
Proverbs 17:17
… If Christ is such a Friend to us, what manner of people ought we to be towards Him? So, Beloved, let us pray and labor to be friends …
SERMON • SERMON 3435Sanctified Sorrow
Isaiah 54:11
… We come nearer to Christ, think more of Him, spend more time in meditation, get to understand more of His work and His Person, set our hearts more …