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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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His Own Funeral Sermon*
Acts 13:36
… If we cannot find a successor to enter upon our service when we have to leave it, yet let us do all we can to make his work …
SERMON • SERMON 3236The Gospel Cordial
Proverbs 31:6
… Christ felt that His day was not over and that He could not die before His work was done and, therefore, He did not fear the stones cast …
SERMON • SERMON 201The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Acts 10:44
… The work still progresses, if anything, at a more rapid rate than before, and that which makes me believe the work to be genuine is just this—that …
SERMON • SERMON 1833A Proclamation from the King of Kings
Jeremiah 3:12
… God must be just, but to punish is His left-handed labor, while to forgive is His right-handed work. He is happy at it! He finds pleasure …
SERMON • SERMON 2294The Memory Of Christ's Love
Solomon 1:4
… I commend this prayer to you, "Lord, draw me; draw me." It is the work of Christ to draw. "I, if I am lifted up from the earth …
SERMON • SERMON 3400The Day of Atonement
Leviticus 16:34
… And as He lays hold upon this work of Christ, He makes a sweet smell of it—which is poured out throughout Heaven and earth—"the savor of …
SERMON • SERMON 3443Seeing Jesus
John 14:19
… Our faith does not depend on something done in the past in us, but on that finished work which abides still for us, and to which we look …
SERMON • SERMON 3218Preaching Christ Crucified
1 Corinthians 1:23
… When He says to you, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," He speaks for His Father as …
SERMON • SERMON 1096Divine Love and Its Gifts
2 Thessalonians 2:16
… off any good work or word. Depression of spirit often leads to slackness of hand. No doubt many, through sad hearts, have ceased to labor for Christ. A …
SERMON • SERMON 3233God's Firebrands
Zechariah 3:2
… He will to the end carry on His work till He brings you up to Heaven. Why, I think some of you who were very great offenders ought …
SERMON • SERMON 3148Christ's Ambassadors
2 Corinthians 5:20
… I know there are some who fancy that to some of us who have preached so long, it is easy work to deliver a sermon. Martin Luther used …
SERMON • SERMON 1116Medicine For The Distracted
Psalm 94:19
… that God is just, for He is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love. He is not unrighteous to forget His promises or break the …
SERMON • SERMON 975The Parable of the Wedding Feast
Matthew 22:2
… honorable character of the guest, and willingly come to the palace, not to labor or serve at the table, but to feast and to rejoice. Observe, then, the …
SERMON • SERMON 859The Old Way of the Wicked
Job 22:15-17
… When the Lord did not accept his service, the envious heart of the self-righteous man boiled over with indignation and he became a persecutor, yes, a murderer …
SERMON • SERMON 3062The Spirit's Office Towards Disciples
John 16:14
… When your heart is full of Christ you will want to sing! It is a blessed thing to sing at your labor and work, if you are in …
SERMON • SERMON 3422A Call to the Depressed
Isaiah 52:2
… It is hard enough to fight with Satan, but it is all the harder work for the army to have to carry so many sick folk with it …
SERMON • SERMON 3455A Message From God
Judges 3:20
… Remember that sickness—fever, or cholera, or diphtheria—which prostrated your strength, disqualified you for your daily labor, or your ordinary business and summoned you in the quiet …
SERMON • SERMON 2253The Perseverance of Faith
Matthew 15:28
… When lost, ruined, condemned, the man who casts himself at Christ's feet is saved immediately! It is not the work of hours or weeks, or years, when …
SERMON • SERMON 576Quiet Musing!
Psalm 39:3
… spent more time in waiting upon God and gathering spiritual strength for labor in His service. Where lives there upon earth, in these days, a man who spends …
SERMON • SERMON 954A Most Needful Prayer Concerning The Holy Spirit
Psalm 51:11
… Cast me not off as one whom You can no longer employ for high and honorable service. Take not Your Holy Spirit from me"? Or is it not …
SERMON • SERMON 3071Idolatry Condemned
1 John 5:21
… Let us tear this ivy down wherever we find it beginning its deadly work! Believe me, my Brothers and Sisters, that the Church of Christ, if not the …
SERMON • SERMON 1240The Song of Songs
Isaiah 44:23
… This is the work, this is the labor! To redeem man from his iniquity is a work which all the cherubim and seraphim could not have accomplished, a …
SERMON • SERMON 1440The Great Emancipator
Exodus 4:22
… This is the work of God, the grandest work a man can do—to believe on Him whom He has sent. The godlike work, the work of works …
SERMON • SERMON 3133Christ's Prayer for Believers
John 17:20
… But Christ's ministers give themselves to the work because they feel they must preach—and they would rather preach on dry bread than be silent! We have …
SERMON • SERMON 963Our King, Our Joy
Psalm 149:2
… In proportion as we become what we should be, as children of Zion, by the work of Grace within us—in that proportion we must inevitably and necessarily …
SERMON • SERMON 1107A Call To Worship
Zechariah 8:21
… We know that the Lord is able to work according to our desires and that He is willing to be entreated of us. I have never known a …
SERMON • SERMON 3122Craving the Best Things
1 Samuel 21:9
… This power shows itself in their public work They may he preachers and if God has given them spiritual power, their ministry is very fruitful in conversions and …
SERMON • SERMON 2142Our Lord's Triumphant Ascension
Psalm 68:18
… His work be frustrated. Nothing is left undone of all His covenanted engagements. "It is finished" is a description of every item of the Divine labor and, therefore …
SERMON • SERMON 2024What Is the Wedding Garment?
Matthew 22:11-13
… for the work of self-examination. Even in the Apostolic College Judas carried on his dishonesty, as if to warn us that no rank in service, no honor …
SERMON • SERMON 436A Sermon For Spring
Solomon 2:10-13
… To everything there is a time and a purpose, and every season has its special labor. It seems, from the text, that whenever it is springtide in our …
SERMON • SERMON 1312Good News for Seekers
Psalm 22:26
… Men, too, who are in their prime, are coming to Jesus to spend their strength in the service of the Redeemer. The Lord is gently touching many hearts …
SERMON • SERMON 2324The Followers of the Lamb
Revelation 14:4
… He will work in you to will and to do of His own good pleasure. And the highest holiness for you is to be like Christ! The very …
SERMON • SERMON 2103The Hunger and Thirst Which Are Blessed
Matthew 5:6
… He carries it to his work, carries it to his house, carries it to his bed, carries it wherever he, himself, goes, for it rules him with its …
SERMON • SERMON 1153The Matchless Mystery
Ephesians 5:30
… The influences of a warm, sunny climate and rest from great labor are being blessed by Infinite Mercy to my restoration. I commend the work I am obliged …
SERMON • SERMON 1178Glorying in the Lord
1 Corinthians 1:31
… All things work not only for the good of the elect, but for the glory of the Most High—"For of Him and through Him and to Him …
SERMON • SERMON 3070A Visit to Christ's Hospital
Psalm 107:17-22
… Observe that in their praises they ascribe all to God—they praise Him for His wonderful work Salvation is God's work, from beginning to end. Their song …
SERMON • SERMON 2207Redemption Through Blood—The Gracious Forgiveness Of Sins
Ephesians 1:7
… I notice that some Believers, when they get rather dull and cold, begin the work of self-examination. This may appear very proper, but it is dreary work …
SERMON • SERMON 2482An Unparalleled Cure
Matthew 9:32
… This poor man's dumbness came of the possession of the devil and so does this inability to pray—it is often the work of Satan upon the …
SERMON • SERMON 1122Fresh Grace Confidently Expected
Psalm 92:10
… And you might well throw down the staff of your pastorate and leave work if you were not sure that your sufficiency is of God. In such work …
SERMON • SERMON 1077The Lord Blessing His Saints
Psalm 115:15
… We read of Him that He has a desire to the work of His own hands. He has made you and He will not leave you. Do you …