Work & Service

Hidden Manna

Jeremiah 15:16

… The Bible is to many carnal minds almost as dull a book for reading as an untranslated Latin work would be to an ignorant ploughman, because they cannot …

Joyful Anticipation of the Second Advent

Luke 21:28-31

… He can work even this in you if you but cast yourself on Him and live wholly to Him. Once more, the time when we are to be …

Once A Curse But Now A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… May the Lord in His infinite mercy first put it into His people's hearts to pray for Israel, and then to work in love and labor in …

Seeing and Testifying

1 John 4:14

… And what was the scope of Christ's work? "The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world." He did not come to condemn the …

Out Of Egypt

Matthew 2:14

… They had to smart beneath the lash and faint beneath their labor—the iron bondage entered into Israel's soul so that an exceedingly great and bitter cry …

The Church Encouraged and Exhorted

Isaiah 43:6

… All the dispensations of His Providence shall work to that end. This seems to me to be a charge given to all God's people, as well as …

Praying and Pleading

Jeremiah 14:7

… confounded, utterly dejected—it is vain for them to lift the hand of labor. Down in the valleys the dumb cattle express their feeling with throes of anguish …

The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:3

… This braced him to his work. By this consciousness he was made to speak as one having authority. There was no hesitancy about him, for he spoke what …

The Sine Qua Non

John 13:8

… We are serving under His banner in the same holy war, and laborers in the same sacred service. We have a part with Him as His friends and …

A Description of Young Men in Christ

1 John 2:13

… You are no longer weaklings—do not, therefore, count yourselves mere babes lest you plead exemption from hard service! You are hardly yet mature enough to rank with …

An Anxious Enquiry for a Beloved Son

2 Samuel 18:29

… There is never a babe dropped into a mother's bosom but it brings care, labor, grief, and anxiety with it. There is a joy in the parental …

The Plain Man's Pathway To Peace

Matthew 9:27-30

… We are not to suppose that a conversion is a less genuine work of the Holy Spirit because it is extremely simple. May the Holy Spirit bless our …

Household Salvation

Acts 16:32-34

… Here is work for himself, and work for gentle hands to do, to assuage the pains of those poor bleeding backs; to wash out the grit that had …

The Baptist's Message

John 1:29

… Wherever else I fail in my testimony, for my soul's labor and travail, even unto anguish, is to get you away from depending even in the slightest …

A Cure For Unsavory Meats—or, Salt for the White of an Egg

Job 6:6

… But will you please remember, Brothers and Sisters, that the giving of reproofs is delicate work and needs a delicate hand. It was said of good Andrew Fuller …

Eternal Life!

John 17:3

… It was the great end of the life, death and work of Christ to give this eternal life to all Believers. He came into the world on purpose …

The First Resurrection

Revelation 20:4

… First, let us look at the words of the Apostle in that Chapter which we use generally as a burial service, the First Epistle to the Corinthians, 15 …

The Holy Spirit's Threefold Conviction of Men

John 16:8-11

… The work of proclaiming the Gospel to the world was far too great for the 12, but it was by no means too great for the Spirit of …

General And Yet Particular

John 17:2

… But as to my work he was quite wrong, for the work of God's minister is not the gathering out of a people. Christ surely knows what …

An Exhortation By Rev. C.H. Spurgeon

2 Samuel 11:1

… for the work is hard among the Roman Catholics and the infidels of the Continent. But as our Brother, in the beginning of the service, reminded you—from …

The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ

2 Corinthians 4:6

… Having such a work before us, we faint not, but press onward with our whole heart. I. With no other preface than this we shall ask your attention …

Knowing and Doing

2 Corinthians 8:9

… of service to God which a man ever does, that in which he is willing of himself. It is the slave who is flogged to his work—the …

The Lion-slayer—the Giant-killer

1 Samuel 17:36

… And when he has learned to overcome the depressing influence of prudent friends he makes short work of the opposition of avowed adversaries. Observe that David had first …

Sin Subdued

Micah 7:19

… It will be, by far, the easier work of the two, though in itself it will be impossible to you. The Lord can do it! He can make …

A Blast of the Trumpet Against False Peace

Jeremiah 6:14

… be troubled, ye careless ones.” The work of the ministry is no child’s play; it is a labor which might fill an angel’s hands—did fill …

Seeing And Not Seeing—Or, Men As Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-25

… The work of the Spirit and the work of the Savior they frequently confuse in their minds. They possess justification and they possess sanctification, but it is probable …

Sincerity And Duplicity

1 John 2:3

… It has been hard work for me thus to mention these inconsistencies. I cannot venture farther, though I might have stated more. The labor of my lips is …

Christ the Cure for Troubled Hearts

Luke 24:38

… He lives to make intercession for the transgressors! He lives to give to sinners the Holy Spirit to work in them true belief and true repentance! He lives …

Characteristics of Christ's Disciples

Luke 14:26

… But he said, "My dear Brother, you are not called of God to undertake such work, so I cannot ordain you, or give you a living. I will …

The Secret of a Happy Life

Psalm 16:8

… He presses forward with changeless intensity of purpose towards the completion of the work which the Father had committed to Him. You see Him present at a wedding …

Good News For Thirsty Souls

Revelation 21:6

… They are not the work of the Spirit of God—they are malicious in- ventions of the devil and you are infinitely better without them than with them …

The Moral of a Miracle

Mark 11:22

… You are called to fight! You must fight if you would reign! Do not be mistaken—you are called to work miracles—moral miracles, spiritual miracles! You are …

The Covenanter

Psalm 25:10

… You can play with religion until you are laid low and then it becomes serious work. The romance of religion is one thing—the reality of it is …

The Perpetuity of the Law of God

Matthew 5:18

… easing from all servile work and from all work done for self! The rest of faith is the true Sabbath and the service of God is the most …

Love Stronger Than Death

John 13:1

… He looked upon their redemption as being already accomplished, for in His prayer He said to His Father, "I have finished the work which You gave Me to …

A Sermon for the Most Miserable of Men

Psalm 77:2

… He believes of his trial that the Lord has done it—he calls God his Father—he knows that all things work together for good. He is persuaded …

Christ in You

Colossians 1:27

… Each separate individual must have Christ revealed to him and in him by the work of the Holy Spirit, or else he will remain in darkness even in …

Saints Guarded From Stumbling

… Is there any work which we should complete without praise to God? Prayer should always have praise mingled with it. The preaching of the Gospel, or the writing …

Marah; or, The Bitter Waters Sweetened

Exodus 15:23-25

… Half the work is done when it is brought before God in supplication. Note, next, that as soon as we have a prayer God has a remedy. The …

Faith Versus Sight

2 Corinthians 5:7

… It is yours to be watchful and careful, and to believe that all things work together for the good of those who love God and are the called …