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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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Unanswered Prayer
Psalm 22:2
… Oh, Believer, this is not a hard work for you to do, surely, but it is a very necessary one! Search yourself and breathe the prayer, "Search me …
SERMON • SERMON 3326The Wondrous Covenant
Hebrews 8:10
… be you steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." EXPOSITION BY …
SERMON • SERMON 1716The Bridegroom's Parting Words
Solomon 8:13
… It is essential, even, to an unfallen creature that he should have work to do—fit work and honorable— seeing it is done by a creature for the …
SERMON • SERMON 1247The Special Prayer Meeting
Acts 12:12
… daily labor, they were relieved by another company—and when some were forced to take rest in sleep, others were ready to take up the blessed work of …
SERMON • SERMON 2931Return! Return!
Jeremiah 3:12
… You must see that salvation is all of Grace from first to last—that it is the work of the Holy Spirit and that it is freely given …
SERMON • SERMON 2131To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion
2 Chronicles 30:17-20
… A most strict but most happy service grows out of sonship and no true son wishes to disown it. Should not the son honor his Father? Does not …
SERMON • SERMON 3261The Covenant
Psalm 111:5
… God's people shall get to work, again, and they shall have the fruit of their toil and shall rejoice before God because they do not labor in …
SERMON • SERMON 2086Taking Possession Of Our Inheritance
Joshua 1:2
… and you shall find rest unto your souls." This is a rest discovered and enjoyed through willing service—"You shall find rest unto your souls." Many people are …
SERMON • SERMON 1129The Heart Of Flesh
Ezekiel 36:26
… IT is a peculiar feature in our holy religion that it begins its work within and acts first upon the heart. Other religions, like that of the Pharisees …
SERMON • SERMON 3296Praise for Jesus
Genesis 49:8
… knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; and to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in the cutting of stones …
SERMON • SERMON 3357Heedful Hearing
Luke 8:18
… Do labor, dear Friends, to whomever you may be listening, to put those distractions away—the thoughts of house and home and all besides, while the Gospel is …
SERMON • SERMON 2226"Lay Hold on Eternal Life!"
1 Timothy 6:12
… He loved him greatly and he had much confidence in him, but still he felt that the work of preaching the Gospel was such a responsible undertaking that …
SERMON • SERMON 3433Love's Reward
Psalm 91:14
… You could go forth to your work and labor, and return to seek your recreation without seeking or acknowledging God in all your ways. Gladly would you try …
SERMON • SERMON 2614Strange Things
Luke 5:26
… Oh, labor for the souls of your children, your servants, your neighbors—and the Lord will accept that service, and you may yet have the delight of seeing …
SERMON • SERMON 609Knowledge Commended
Daniel 11:32
… trust in You." Then labor to know God in His actions. Study well the past. Do not be ignorant of the great work of creation! If you have …
SERMON • SERMON 2092God's Own Gospel Call
Isaiah 55:3
… Our third work is to urge the Lord's own SAVING PLEAS. These are not to be mine but the Lord's. I keep to the chapter. The …
SERMON • SERMON 2170The Blessing of the High Priest
Numbers 6:22-27
… I delight to think of my Lord as no amateur intercessor, taking up a work on His own responsibility without heavenly sanction—but He was appointed before all …
SERMON • SERMON 2852Comfort for the Fearful
Matthew 8:26
… I have had, in times gone by, but now the Lord does not seem to work any great marvel for me." No, because there is not any need …
SERMON • SERMON 2079Man Unknown To Man
Proverbs 14:10
… One of the most intense joys I have ever known is the joy of accepted service. The best picture I can show you of what that joy must …
SERMON • SERMON 2051Setting Jesus at Nothing—Treating Him with Contempt
Luke 23:11
… Did not Moses work miracles before Pharaoh? Work a miracle before us." There stands our Lord, with all power in His hands but He will not lift a …
SERMON • SERMON 2629God's Work in Man
Hosea 2:16
… Now for the second, which is, that GOD WILL MAKE THOROUGH WORK OF IT WHEN HE SANCTIFIES A MAN. Note that these Jews were idolaters, yet God says …
SERMON • SERMON 3184Maroth—or, the Disappointed
Micah 1:12
… That is God's rest, the rest of a finished work—and into that rest many never enter. The work by which they might live forever, the finished …
SERMON • SERMON 1146Consolation For The Despairing
Psalm 31:22
… Many have a comparatively smooth pathway through life, but their position in the Church is not that which the experienced Believer occupies, neither could they do his work …
SERMON • SERMON 1229Decision—Illustrated by the Case of Joshua
Joshua 24:15
… A hundred years rolled over his head, but we never discover in him any desire to take up with the service of Baal, or the service of the …
SERMON • SERMON 2998The Rule of Christ
2 Samuel 23:4
… Very soon the fruits begin to appear, bearing seed after their kind—it is Christ being displayed in the convert's life, work and fruit! I remember when …
SERMON • SERMON 2752The Door
John 10:9
… When you rise, tomorrow morning, and start to go out to work, you will have to open a door— probably two doors— and when you reach your work …
SERMON • SERMON 1933"Your Rowers Have Brought You Into Great Waters"
Ezekiel 27:26
… As of now all your labor comes of a joyless servitude—it is slave's work for a slave's wage—and the wage you will get, because …
SERMON • SERMON 3051Lessons From a Dovecot
Isaiah 60:8
… I think that all of us who love the work of God and who especially love that work in connection with our own branch of Christ's Church …
SERMON • SERMON 3120A View of God's Glory
Exodus 33:18
… And if He says, as He does, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," it is His right …
SERMON • SERMON 1020'The Sun of Righteousness'
Psalm 19:4-6
… Comfort your hearts! “Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the …
SERMON • SERMON 2490The Danger of Carnal Security
Judges 18:7
… them which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake …
SERMON • SERMON 1230A Holy and Homely Resolve
Psalm 101:2
… As the scribe halts to mend his pen, or the mower to wet his scythe without loss of time, but rather with more facility to do his work …
SERMON • SERMON 2442"My Beloved Is Mine"
Solomon 2:16
… Now, if this is your habit—to keep up or to labor to keep up continued communion with Christ, and if you are longing for more and more …
SERMON • SERMON 3379Rough, But Friendly
Genesis 42:25
… Your rest which is yet to come is such that you may well despise the labor which makes you eat your bread in the sweat of your face …
SERMON • SERMON 1140Let Him Alone
Hosea 4:17
… The case is become utterly hopeless! Cease your labor. Go somewhere else where your hallowed occupation will be more remunerative, where hearts will be touched and ears will …
SERMON • SERMON 877Leaning On Our Beloved
Solomon 8:5
… Believe me, no sacred work can long be continued with energy except in this spirit, for flesh flags and even the spirit languishes except there is the constant …
SERMON • SERMON 1900Rejoice Evermore
1 Thessalonians 5:16
… Warn the unruly, but "rejoice evermore." Do not pause in the blessed service of rejoicing when you are called upon to comfort the feeble-minded. There is a …
SERMON • SERMON 2516Jesus and His Brethren
Genesis 45:1-5
… If I did see Him, I know that I would fall at His feet as dead, and the rest of this service would have to be spent in …
SERMON • SERMON 3338The Witness of the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:26
… If any in this place should ask, "What mean you by this service?" our ready answer shall be according as it is written—"For as often as you …
SERMON • SERMON 944An Encouraging Lesson From Paul's Conversion
Acts 9:13-16
… their labor who have not been accustomed to attend the house of God, nor of reading religious books—and yet in the middle of their work they have …