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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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"The King Can Do No Wrong"
2 Samuel 3:36
… Whatever service the King requires of you will please you. He may put you in a pulpit, or He may put you in a kitchen. He may put …
SERMON • SERMON 2812Causes and Cure of Fainting
Isaiah 40:29
… There are some who become faint through increasing infirmitywhich makes them unfit for such service as they formerly rendered. When David, in his later years, went out to …
SERMON • SERMON 529The Cedars Of Lebanon
Psalm 104:16
… No canals keep their leaf from withering—man uses no labor and employs no skill to irrigate the steeps of Lebanon—and yet do the cedars need anything …
SERMON • SERMON 2636The Perpetuity of the Gospel
Luke 21:33
… Is not that a blessed Truth of God? He said, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Come …
SERMON • SERMON 2032The Charge of the Angel
Acts 5:19
… They are so eaten up with objections, that to attempt to answer all the questions they raise would be as vain as the labor of filling a bottomless …
SERMON • SERMON 1278Reasons For Parting With Sin
Isaiah 1:18
… IT is the great joy of our heart that we do not labor in vain nor spend our strength for nothing. God is calling out from the congregations …
SERMON • SERMON 2109The Eye and the Light
Luke 11:33-36
… They are the common inheritance of those who labor and are heavy laden. As the morning breaks for all weary, watching eyes, so shines the light of the …
SERMON • SERMON 2459"Better Than Wine"
Solomon 1:2
… It enables a man to do great exploits and makes him strong for suffering, strong for self-sacrifice, and strong for service. It is wonderful, in reading the …
SERMON • SERMON 2980A Lift for the Prostrate
Mark 1:31
… His hard day's work probably ran on far into the night. Yet, "a great while before day," He was up at the sacred work of supplication! The …
SERMON • SERMON 777Helps
1 Corinthians 12:28
… Some have thought that they were assistant ministers who occasionally aided settled pastors both in the pastoral work of visiting and in occasionally preaching the Word. Others have …
SERMON • SERMON 1199The Agony in Gethsemane
Luke 22:44
… When we were originally made, we were created for immortality and, therefore, to die is strange and uncongenial work to us. The instincts of self-preservation cause us …
SERMON • SERMON 2340The Best Christmas Fare
Psalm 119:103
… Did you ever notice that saying of our Lord, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest"? Yes, you …
SERMON • SERMON 577Let Us Go Forth
Hebrews 13:13
… Her bishops will not touch the Burial Service, although four thousand clergymen petition for a little ease for their consciences. Nor will they give up reading in God …
SERMON • SERMON 2835Patients for the Great Physician
Luke 5:31
… Touching his leprosy, He might heal him—and coming into the hospital of sick souls, He might there work His great miracles of mercy! But, turning from the …
SERMON • SERMON 3345Sunlight for Cloudy Days
Psalm 40:17
… Our Lord Jesus never rested till He had finished the work that His Father gave Him to do, which work was all for us—and the great Providence …
SERMON • SERMON 3079A Searching Question
1 Samuel 30:13
… If you belong to Satan, I know that you will do Satan's work. Perhaps you will do it in his uniform and there is some sort of …
SERMON • SERMON 1417"Your Salvation"
Luke 2:28-30
… We are bid to come, not to His work, but to Him—"Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden." To Him we come and …
SERMON • SERMON 2053Concerning Prayer
Psalm 86:6
… Will the reader join in asking that for the sake of my work I may soon recover strength and return to my field of service? I have more …
SERMON • SERMON 982The Ascension of Christ
Ephesians 4:7-12
… All his work and warfare done, He into his heaven is gone, And beside his Father’s throne, Now is pleading for his own: Sing, O heavens! O …
SERMON • SERMON 2049Driving Out the Canaanites and Their Iron Chariots
Joshua 17:18
… Here is a labor worthy of all the valor of faith and the power of love. They must all be driven out, for every sin is our enemy …
SERMON • SERMON 1175Stephen's Death
Acts 7:59
… and thereby he did most useful service, for it gave the Apostles opportunity to give themselves wholly to their true work, namely, that of preaching and prayer. It …
SERMON • SERMON 1318Increased Faith the Strength of Peace Principles
Luke 17:5
… They felt that only faith could work such a wonder of patient love! It was far out of the ordinary line of action—flesh and blood could not …
SERMON • SERMON 2016Jesus Affirmed To Be Alive
Acts 25:18
… In such a case, we have done our work successfully, even if souls are not saved. For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ as well …
SERMON • SERMON 1256The Old Man's Sermon
Psalm 71:17
… must come to this, for all Divine service which is not rendered with this motive is unacceptable and idle work! If we could preach with the tongues of …
SERMON • SERMON 2003Young Man, Is This For You?
Luke 7:11-17
… We want fresh laborers in all sorts of places—in our Sunday school work, our mission among the masses and in all manner of service for the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 1217Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
2 Timothy 2:15
… God save us from that! We want sure work—lasting work—a work of Divine Grace in the heart. If you are not converted, do not pretend that …
SERMON • SERMON 2094Foundation Work
1 Kings 5:17
… Not so the wise king engaged in the service of God. He paid great attention to underground work. And "great stones, costly stones and hewed stones," were brought …
SERMON • SERMON 2321The Heavenly Singers and Their Song
Revelation 5:8-10
… Do you not think that we often come into our places of worship with a great deal of carelessness? And while the service is going on, are we …
SERMON • SERMON 3140The Glory of Our Strength
Psalm 89:17
… He makes the young man vigorous and the full-grown man mature in strength, so He ought to have the service of the strength which He has, Himself …
SERMON • SERMON 1690Chariots of Iron
Judges 1:19
… a question? Let us get at the work, my Brothers and Sisters—and the greater the danger, the greater the labor, the greater the difficulty—so much the …
SERMON • SERMON 533The Queen Of The South, Or The Earnest Enquirer
Matthew 12:42
… This I am sure of, no man has ever had an intelligent idea of the Person of the Savior, of the graciousness of His work, who ever could …
SERMON • SERMON 1265The Eternal Truth of God
Psalm 100:5
… IT was very solemn work, this morning, to lay bare the sin of unbelief. [Sermon #1238, Beware of Unbelief] It was the burden of the Lord to him …
SERMON • SERMON 3128Good Cheer From Christ's Real Presence
Mark 6:45-52
… Twenty-four hours had not passed since they had seen Him perform a work of creation, for He had taken bread and fish and multiplied them so as …
SERMON • SERMON 3105The Search after Happiness
Psalm 4:6
… We assert that from first to last, the work of salvation is all of Grace and we are not afraid of any licentious tendency of that Doctrine, or …
SERMON • SERMON 1388Jesus Christ Himself
Ephesians 2:20
… Love to our Lord is, I trust, moving all of you to personal service. You might have paid a subscription and allowed others to work, but you cannot …
SERMON • SERMON 1304Enquire of the Lord
Ezekiel 36:37
… Well, now, Brothers and Sisters, if united, earnest, hearty enquiry of the Lord is a Covenant gift and a work of the Spirit, we dare not despise it …
SERMON • SERMON 2084The Bible Tried and Proved
Psalm 12:6
… Their labor is in vain. For the Sacred Book remains still what it always was—the pure Words of the Lord. But some of our misconceptions of its …
SERMON • SERMON 2706Feeding on the Bread of Life
John 6:47
… Still, I say again that this communion service is a very choice way of feeding upon Christ. And I want to try to show you, by this picture …
SERMON • SERMON 2731Bringing Sinners to the Savior
Mark 9:17-20
… know that it is not easy work for some of you to break the ice and make a beginning in such service, but I can assure you that …
SERMON • SERMON 2928Sham Conversion
2 Kings 17:25
… Six days shallyou labor, and do all the work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any …