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Preparation for the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:28
… Destitute of faith, it matters not how bright your profession—you shall be banished from His Presence! If it is not Grace-work and heart-work, you may …
SERMON • SERMON 1354All Things Are Ready, Come
Luke 14:17
… As for Adam, when God came to make Him as His last and noblest work of creation, all things were ready. The garden was laid out upon the …
SERMON • SERMON 412God'S First Words To The First Sinner
Genesis 3:9
… and wake him up to such a sense of danger, that he should labor to escape from the wrath to come. "Adam, where are you?"—look at yourself …
SERMON • SERMON 2302Watching For Christ's Coming
Luke 12:37
… getting yourself and your service ready for His appearing, and cheering yourself all the while with this thought, "While I am at work, my Master may come. Before …
SERMON • SERMON 3130'In Remembrance'
1 Corinthians 11:24
… I would like to forget, at this Table, everything that is faulty in my own work, or in the work of my Brothers and Sisters, or in their …
SERMON • SERMON 2174Fever and Its Cure
Luke 4:38
… Should these things be so? In choosing our residence, we should have large respect to its relation to our soul's work and welfare. We should ask, "Shall …
SERMON • SERMON 2012Grace Abounding Over Abounding Sin
Romans 5:20
… The Lord had said, "You shall surely die," and He must thus undo His own work and destroy a creature which He had made in His own image …
SERMON • SERMON 893Strong Consolation
Hebrews 6:17
… to persevere in the pilgrimage, to contend in the fight and to labor in the service, because the sinews of our strength are well knit and the muscles …
SERMON • SERMON 1033Faith's Dawn and Its Clouds
Mark 9:24
… If Jesus did not choose to work by them on this occasion, the suggestion would arise in the man's heart, 'Perhaps his own power also has become …
SERMON • SERMON 2121The Keynote of the Year
Psalm 103:1
… assembly! We are all needed for this work. Who among us would like to be excused from so honorable a service? Thus have I shown you the blessed …
SERMON • SERMON 3064'And It Was So'
Genesis 1:7
… See, Brothers and Sisters, when God blesses us, then we begin to work for Him. When He works, we work. He blesses the barren land with fruitfulness and …
SERMON • SERMON 1246The Blessings Of Following On
Hosea 6:3
… But if it is the Lord's work, it will stand, for neither time nor eternity, nor life nor death, shall ever cast down that which Divine Omnipotence …
SERMON • SERMON 1145The Great Jail—and How To Get Out Of It
Galatians 3:22
… otherwise work is no more work." He will have it that we are saved as poor sinners by the Sovereign Grace of God, through faith in Christ Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 60Sovereignty and Salvation
Isaiah 45:22
… Salvation is God’s greatest work; and, therefore, in his greatest work, he specially teaches us this lesson, That he is God, and that beside him there is …
SERMON • SERMON 729Cheering Words and Solemn Warnings
Isaiah 3:10
… It is right here—I have done my work, and God accepts it! It is right up there—Christ has finished His work on my account, and now …
SERMON • SERMON 2101Life and Pardon
Colossians 2:13
… To find instances of the work of God in quickening souls and in pardoning sins, Paul does not look far afield. In the text he says, "And you …
SERMON • SERMON 3059The Poor Man's Friend
Psalm 10:14
… And here, too, if the employers of labor refuse to give to the agricultural laborer his just wage, God will surely visit them in His wrath. At this …
SERMON • SERMON 274Paul's Desire to Depart
Philippians 1:23
… I hope that the service of this morning may have the effect of leading every one of us to self-examination. I shall endeavor while preaching to search …
SERMON • SERMON 2783A Worthy Theme for Thought
Psalm 48:9
… labor to understand it. In fact, you must think it over. But the amazing thing is that many people will do almost anything except think. A pretty service …
SERMON • SERMON 324Effects Of Sound Doctrine
Matthew 24:24
… out of season we may labor for the winning of men's souls—knowing that to God's Churches is committed the work of gathering in those sheep …
SERMON • SERMON 1385Jesus Interceding For Transgressors
Isaiah 53:12
… This, indeed, is the great work which He is carrying on today. We rejoice in His finished work, and rest in it, but that relates to His atoning …
SERMON • SERMON 1183Is Conversion Necessary?
2 Corinthians 5:17
… and there was light." Immediate work is God's method of creating! All through the six days' work He spoke and it was done. He commanded and it …
SERMON • SERMON 3194A Look and Its Lessons
Isaiah 51:1
… If I were to feel that I was too good to mix with the worst of men in the hope of being of service to them, or that …
SERMON • SERMON 3053Jesus Christ's Idiom
John 3:5
… But go not a-hunting after novelties, for they will be of no service to perishing souls. If you are to be like Jesus, your teaching must be …
SERMON • SERMON 2848Theocracy
Psalm 44:4
… Many and many a time I have tried till my head has ached, to work out a problem in Church government, but have not discovered the solu-tion …
SERMON • SERMON 1078The Saints Blessing The Lord
Psalm 103:1
… It is necessary that the whole nature bless God, for at its best, when all engaged in the service, it fails to compass the work and falls short …
SERMON • SERMON 1131Clearing the Road to Heaven
Isaiah 62:10
… When I have attempted this good work, I shall do far better still, for I shall point the coming sinner to Him who in His own Person has …
SERMON • SERMON 779God's Foreknowledge of Man's Sin
Isaiah 48:8
… Sanctification has need to be in us, my Brethren, a perpetual work, a daily work. If ever we are to be sanctified wholly—spirit, soul, and body (as …
SERMON • SERMON 163Awake! Awake!
1 Thessalonians 5:6
… Now you will work, will you? Now you will work, when it is of no use, and when the shrieks of drowning women shall toll you into hell …
SERMON • SERMON 2116The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob in His Change of Dwelling Place
Genesis 46:1-4
… When you begin business, this thought should be upon you— "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." Therefore, wait upon Him for …
SERMON • SERMON 3303A Very Early Bible Society
2 Chronicles 34:15
… You are doing this when you help the man who spends his life in the work of translation. How can there be Bibles to give away in foreign …
SERMON • SERMON 2579Waiting, Hoping, Watching
Psalm 130:5
… I, for one, am waiting for the Lord to bless my work of faith and labor of love in the preaching of the Gospel. And are not you …
SERMON • SERMON 2875Confirming the Witness of Christ
1 Corinthians 1:6
… Many of them could work miracles—they could heal the sick, they could restore the lepers, they could work wonders by the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit …
SERMON • SERMON 1449A Vile Weed and a Fair Flower
Hebrews 13:5
… Let your actions, then, in trade and labor, as well as your words, be without covetousness. But this will not do unless the word, "conversation," takes in our …
SERMON • SERMON 1134Paved With Love
Solomon 3:10
… out of pure gratitude for what they have received, rejoicing as they work in the service of One they love so well! Beloved, may the love of God …
SERMON • SERMON 1090For The Troubled
Psalm 88:7
… Only mark this, ungodly ones, mark this—for you these things work no good! You pervert them to mischief—but for the saints, they work eternal benefit! For …
SERMON • SERMON 3377The Greatest Wonder of Grace
Ezekiel 9:8
… Until these were marked, the destroyers did not commence their work. Whenever the Lord lays bare His arm for war, He first gathers His saints into a place …
SERMON • SERMON 421Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit
John 19:30
… Now I say it boldly—if all the greatest intellects of all the ages could set themselves to work out this problem, to invent another key to the …
SERMON • SERMON 657Satanic Hindrances
1 Thessalonians 2:18
… remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our Father …
SERMON • SERMON 2265Harvest Joy
Isaiah 9:3
… Then I think I see you go grumbling down the aisle after every service, or you sit there and look up at the pulpit and long for what …