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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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A Call to Holy Living
Matthew 5:47
… Can any holiness be too precise in return for the infinite love which has been bestowed upon you from before the foundation of the world? Can any service …
SERMON • SERMON 3445Strong Faith in a Faithful God
Psalm 57:2
… It is his to work and to exercise prudence, but it is his to call in the aid of God to his work and to leave the care …
SERMON • SERMON 1283Conversions Encouraged
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
… Are you poor, have you come down from a comfortable position to one of hard labor and of scant provision? When you are in this tribulation then turn …
SERMON • SERMON 2444Cheering Words
John 15:9
… This is God's plan, to work out His own purpose by an exhortation. Diligent students of God's Word must have noticed that the very things which …
SERMON • SERMON 979Faith and Regeneration
1 John 5:1
… He whom the Holy Ghost shall instruct will not give way to presumption and despise the Spirit’s work within, neither will he forget that salvation is of …
SERMON • SERMON 692Joy And Peace In Believing
Romans 15:13
… In different forms and ways the most of men are trying to obtain joy and peace through something done by themselves, instead of resting upon the finished work …
SERMON • SERMON 542Paul—His Cloak And His Books
2 Timothy 4:13
… But if not, if this is but a reasonable service and such as the infinite Grace of God which Paul experienced required of him, then let us do …
SERMON • SERMON 1855What is the Verdict?
1 John 3:21
… Looking within can be easily overdone—we ought to have higher work than that of continually laying the foundation of repentance from dead works. When a ship first …
SERMON • SERMON 583The Lamb—The Light
Revelation 21:23
… when He strengthened the fountains of the deep." He was that Wisdom who was never absent from the Father's counsels in the great work of creation, whether …
SERMON • SERMON 1823Peter's Blunder—a Lesson for Ourselves
Acts 10:14
… We may well pray— "Dismiss me not Your service, Lord," if we have been pickers and choosers of our work. Do what the Lord bids you, when He …
SERMON • SERMON 2862The Way of Wisdom
Job 28:7
… But as it is far beyond the comprehension of the mightiest human intellect, we recognize that it is the work of the Infinite God. Infinite must His Gospel …
SERMON • SERMON 509Lead Us Not Into Temptation
Matthew 6:13
… There is courage here, for the suppliant calmly looks the temptation in the face and dreads only the evil which it may work in him. But there is …
SERMON • SERMON 1163Redemption and Its Claims
1 Corinthians 6:20
… One of the best days' work I ever did was to be the means of calling him out to such a service! Is there not some young man …
SERMON • SERMON 2635Depths and Heights
Hebrews 1:2
… After He had finished His great work of salvation, He "sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high." I. It is not possible that any …
SERMON • SERMON 345Self-Sufficiency Slain
John 15:5
… You can neither lift a finger, nor stir a hand in this spiritual work apart from God! You cannot put on the white robe of Glory— no, more …
SERMON • SERMON 1269The New Fashion
Mark 2:12
… I believe the very reverse—he should rather labor to kill their self-trusting activities dead and to make them know that all that they can do of …
SERMON • SERMON 2494The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit
Proverbs 18:14
… He who can trust can work. He who can trust can suffer. The spirit that can sustain a man in his infirmity is the spirit that can say …
SERMON • SERMON 2984A Silly Dove
Hosea 7:11
… If that should work but feebly, then the wheels cannot revolve beyond a proportionate rate—and every part soon discovers that there is some lack of motive force …
SERMON • SERMON 937The Profit Of Godliness In This Life
1 Timothy 4:8
… He had learned to be poor, and to labor with his hands. He certainly never reckoned health to be the promise of the life that now is, for …
SERMON • SERMON 958Dei Gratia
Ephesians 1:6
… Now, Brethren, in the work of the salvation of man you have a parallel case, for one attribute is not more glorious than another. "The praise of the …
SERMON • SERMON 2194Between the Two Appearings
Hebrews 9:26-28
… But our Lord has come once for this Divine purpose and He has so achieved that purpose that He could truly cry, "It is finished," for the work …
SERMON • SERMON 1345For Whom Is The Gospel Meant?
Mark 2:17
… First, EVEN A SUPERFICIAL GLANCE AT OUR LORD'S MISSION SUFFICES TO SHOW THAT HIS WORK WAS FOR THE SINFUL. For, dear Brothers and Sisters, the descent of …
SERMON • SERMON 2450The Joy of Redemption
Isaiah 44:23
… It remained a question whether He really had accomplished the work, for if He had, God would set two seals to it—first, by His rising from the …
SERMON • SERMON 848Jesus Christ Immutable
Hebrews 13:8
… In all the teachings of His middle life, in those laborious three years of diligent service, both in His public ministry and in His private prayer, He is …
SERMON • SERMON 1159Counting the Cost
Luke 14:28-30
… We have been beguiled into a service which disappoints us." Unlike the enlisting sergeant, who sets forth all the glories of military service in glowing colors in order …
SERMON • SERMON 1157Shiloh
Genesis 49:10
… Perhaps, tonight, in many thousands of places that are open for Divine worship, the like magnetic influence is at work! I only wish I could hope that there …
SERMON • SERMON 1508The Philosophy of Promise
Isaiah 42:9
… This seems to me a clear proof of how heartily He went about the great work of our redemption—because He dwelt so much upon the prospect of …
SERMON • SERMON 1397The Peace of God
Philippians 4:7
… The machinery of manhood has fallen into serious disorder—its cogs and wheels do not work in due harmony, but miss their touch and stroke. The passions, instead …
SERMON • SERMON 1158The Sieve
Matthew 7:21
… To work or to give where the deed will be blazoned abroad is after their minds. To take the chair at a public meeting and receive a vote …
SERMON • SERMON 1481The Red Heifer
Hebrews 9:13
… Since the stain is upon the conscience, its removal is a far greater work than is the removal of a mere ritual uncleanness. Secondly upon this head, our …
SERMON • SERMON 1725Imitators of God
Ephesians 5:1
… upright in all our ways. "God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have showed towards His name." Another inference—only a …
SERMON • SERMON 2346Earth's Vanities and Heaven's Verities
Psalm 39:6-8
… Note how they plod, toil and labor. How much of brain-work is done by the light of the midnight oil! Many a man agitates his mind and …
SERMON • SERMON 1332Our Urgent Need of the Holy Spirit
Romans 15:13
… That is His work and a very necessary work, for if Believers become unhappy they became weak in many points of service. I am certain that the joy …
SERMON • SERMON 2995Very Singular
2 Samuel 17:23
… and no one has done the work better than you, and yet, though you have been so careful in your labor, you have never sown to the Spirit …
SERMON • SERMON 1072My Prayer
Psalm 119:37
… binds me with another cord to His service. I will love Him more and devote myself more intensely to His work." Christian example, too, sometimes stirs us up …
SERMON • SERMON 1028The Glorious Master and the Swooning Disciple
Revelation 1:17-18
… He who thinks lightly of the Lord Jesus renders to him but small service; he does not estimate the Redeemer's love at a rate high enough to …
SERMON • SERMON 3013Warning and Encouragement
Solomon 5:2
… You are in a sort of spiritual somnambulism! The work that you are called upon to perform, you do after a fashion, but there is none of the …
SERMON • SERMON 1302Good Cheer For Outcasts
Psalm 147:2
… Yes, He gathers them into His Church and He gathers them into His work. The outcasts of Israel He uses for His own Glory. And when He has …
SERMON • SERMON 770The Water of Life
John 4:15
… He had endeavored to catch her attention by using a metaphor to her work and her position. Water was uppermost in her thoughts and Jesus sanctified the element …
SERMON • SERMON 2424The New Song On Earth
Psalm 40:3
… You may labor and toil and tug, and all the wage you get you may hold in the hollow of your hand—and it shall melt in the …