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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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Faith in Christ's Ability
Matthew 9:28
… for Christ—the men and women who do real work for God and do not play at Christian service as some do, making it a kind of amusement …
SERMON • SERMON 2095The Lamb In Glory
Revelation 5:6
… Before He begins His work as the revealing Mediator, the Church adores Him for His work as a Sacrifice. Jesus our Lord is worshipped not so much for …
SERMON • SERMON 3247Unreasonable Reasons
Matthew 14:31
… And mark you, if Jesus waited till sinners of themselves felt their need of Him, He would never save one! It is as much His work to make …
SERMON • SERMON 3242Unparalleled Loving Kindnesses
Psalm 89:49
… Sanctification is being worked in the saints according to the will of God, but it is a secret work—yet, in due time the fruit of it will …
SERMON • SERMON 3266The Priesthood of Believers
1 Peter 2:5
… So they used the belt to brace themselves, gathering up their robes for special labor, or conflict, or flight. So every priest of Christ must wear his belt …
SERMON • SERMON 935The Sad Wonder
Mark 6:6
… We hold as a cardinal truth that "all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to His purpose …
SERMON • SERMON 722The Captive Savior Freeing His People
John 18:8
… Let us never enter upon Christian exercises as a slave would enter upon his labor, hearing the crack of the whip behind him. But let love put wings …
SERMON • SERMON 503Death and Life in Christ
Romans 6:8-11
… Newton has very properly said that the two pillars of our religion are, the work of Christ for us, and his work in us by the Holy Spirit …
SERMON • SERMON 2917The Doors of the Shadow of Death
Job 38:17
… A very large number of such people shrink back from the doors of death because, in the quiet chamber, memory begins to work. Then the evil deed, the …
SERMON • SERMON 584A Hearer In Disguise
1 Kings 14:6
… Ahijah must not die! He has another message to deliver and he is immortal till his work is done. I have no doubt he sweetly slept after he …
SERMON • SERMON 16Paul's First Prayer
Acts 9:11
… Preaching is not child’s play; it is not a thing to be done without labor and anxiety; it is solemn work; it is awful work, if you …
SERMON • SERMON 1098Wonders
Joel 2:26
… Do you labor this morning, any of you, under a horrible sense of your sinfulness? Do you seem, to yourselves, to be the blackest of all unpardoned souls …
SERMON • SERMON 3317A Sweet Bow
Micah 7:18
… professions—and each man, according to his delight, becomes proficient in pursuing a work for the very love thereof. So God is proficient in mercy. He addicts Himself …
SERMON • SERMON 3306Satan, Self, Sin and the Savior
Mark 5:9
… Lord Jesus Christ would work some "immediately" miracles in our midst just now! He can do it if He pleases! Before this service ends, there may be some …
SERMON • SERMON 3119Mistakes Concerning God
Psalm 1:21
… If you come just as you are, with all your sin and hardness of heart—and just rest your guilty soul upon the Person and the work of …
SERMON • SERMON 697God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness
Hebrews 11:34
… I want to show that it is a work of faith to lift us out of it—not to help us in our evil weakness—but to deliver …
SERMON • SERMON 2451"Blessed in Him"
Psalm 72:17
… according to His gracious invitation and promise, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." And as we go …
SERMON • SERMON 3202'It Pleased God'
Galatians 1:15
… They do not think that God should thus do as He pleases in the work of salvation! But let me tell them that it is because they care …
SERMON • SERMON 2772The Minister's Trumpet Blast and Church Member's Warning
Hosea 8:1
… He has heard our prayers, but He will be very jealous of us if we begin to ascribe the good work to ourselves. If we take any honor …
SERMON • SERMON 3396Experiencing Confirming Testimony
Psalm 48:8
… Oh, that He would lay His right hand to His work in these slow times! How little is being done comparatively! Oh, for an hour of the right …
SERMON • SERMON 3535Safe, Though Surrounded By Sin
Psalm 28:1
… There is no profession, no form of labor, no walk of life, no publicity, no retirement in which the Christian is not, in some measure, exposed to the …
SERMON • SERMON 3539Fine Pleading
Psalm 106:4
… He lives upon God and he loves God, and now the question comes, "What shall I do for God?" Service is not first. We make a mistake when …
SERMON • SERMON 736A Happy Christian
Isaiah 58:11
… He believes that the present will work for his good and the future, too, even as the past has done. He is satisfied with God's love. It …
SERMON • SERMON 765Grace—the One Way of Salvation
Acts 15:11
… And those who preach salvation by Grace through Jesus Christ shall find that their work, like gold, and silver, and precious stones shall survive the fire and great …
SERMON • SERMON 3030A Consistent Walk for Time to Come
Colossians 2:6
… Let Your work appear unto Your servants. May we have Grace to devote ourselves entirely to God's service and do the work which He has appointed us …
SERMON • SERMON 3262Satan's Arrows and God's
Lamentations 3:12
… How sad it is that any of us who are sent by God to do such important work as this, should be cold-hearted or lukewarm! Shame on …
SERMON • SERMON 466The Loaded Wagon
Amos 2:13
… nor all the ponderous orbs which His Omnipotence has created, cost Him any labor whatever in their sustenance. The heathens might picture Atlas as stooping beneath the tremendous …
SERMON • SERMON 3475The Soul's Great Crisis
Romans 7:8
… I have sometimes wished that some of our younger Brothers and Sisters who do not seem to have felt very deeply in their hearts the work of Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 3216The Two Gatherings
Psalm 50:5
… Brothers and Sisters in Christ, you know that every true child of God is to be employed in this blessed service! Some seem to think that this work …
SERMON • SERMON 3243The Vine of Israel
Psalm 80:14
… The same regenerated work is needed—the same enlightening of the Holy Spirit—and if the Lord will do this, our hearts shall be exceedingly glad! III. WHAT …
SERMON • SERMON 3327Our Lord's Heroic Endurance
Hebrews 12:3
… Ah, Beloved, how many of us would have given up the work altogether! We might have said, "I came to bless these men, but they reject me. They …
SERMON • SERMON 411Infant Salvation
2 Kings 4:26
… We believe, therefore, that even before the intellect can work, God, who worketh not by the will of man, nor by blood, but by the mysterious agency of …
SERMON • SERMON 240Prayer Answered, Love Nourished
Psalm 116:1
… We have had special work, special trial, special deliverance, and we ought pre-eminently to be a church, loving God, and spending and being spent in his service …
SERMON • SERMON 3211'Feed My Sheep'
John 21:16
… We cease not to do the work of an Evangelist, but we pay special attention to the duties of the pastor, for He who once said, "Cast the …
SERMON • SERMON 2937Too Little for the Lamb
Exodus 12:3
… Everything that has to do with Christ's work is of real, practical, vital consequence to Believers. He is to be the food for our souls. Faith is …
SERMON • SERMON 2238"You Are Now the Blessed of the Lord"
Genesis 26:29
… words in closing. "You are now the blessed of the Lord." "Now!" Beloved, labor to get a hold of a present blessing. If you are, indeed, saved, do …
SERMON • SERMON 334Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing
2 Samuel 3:39
… Whenever we are raised up by God to do any work for Him, we must not sit down and say, "Well I think I am qualified for the …
SERMON • SERMON 884Help for Seekers of the Light
Isaiah 59:9
… When you are about your daily work you find yourself sighing, "O that my load of guilt were gone! O that I could but call the Lord, my …
SERMON • SERMON 3240The Blood of Christ's Covenant
Zechariah 9:11
… you! And you may rest assured that where He has begun a good work, He will continue it until He brings it to perfection. He will never lift …
SERMON • SERMON 1314The Mighty Arm
Psalm 89:13
… You have a mighty arm among the proud and You bring down their heart with labor! They fall down and there is none to help. "He has put …