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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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The Candle
Matthew 5:15
… Once again, let me say that this work of lighting is a work which, when it is done upon a man, consecrates him entirely to the service of …
SERMON • SERMON 1475Crowning Blessings Ascribed to God
Psalm 65:11
… work of itself to selfish flesh and blood, but it becomes a self-gratifying luxury to do it unto Him. When our whole life shall be doing service …
SERMON • SERMON 1000Number One Thousand; Or, “Bread Enough and To Spare”
Luke 15:17
… his feet weary with treading the acres of Palestine; his body faint often times with hunger and thirst, and labor; his knees knit to the earth with midnight …
SERMON • SERMON 1982Love at Its Utmost
John 15:9
… there are shoes for your pilgrimage, armor for your warfare, strength for your labor, rest for your weariness, comfort for your sorrow. No good thing does his love …
SERMON • SERMON 2297Sealed and Open Evidences
Jeremiah 32:14
… As for myself, I have not a shadow of a shade of the ghost of a hope apart from the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 2645'The Time of Jacob's Trouble'
Jeremiah 30:7
… Perhaps some of you are saying, "Ah, Sir, you do not know my circumstances! Mine is hard and grinding labor. I am bowed down by it and I …
SERMON • SERMON 948A String Of Pearls
1 Peter 1:3-5
… Singing is Heaven's work, practice it here. At your work, do if you can, quietly raise a hymn and bless the Lord. But oh, keep the fire …
SERMON • SERMON 1811The Road to Honor
1 Samuel 2:30
… sets forth the finished work of Jesus and cries, earnestly, "Behold the Lamb of God," God will honor him. He shall not labor in vain, or spend his …
SERMON • SERMON 257The Scales of Judgment
Daniel 5:27
… There are some men whose consciences are not a safe balance; they have by degrees become so hardened in sin that conscience refuses to work; but still I …
SERMON • SERMON 2601Small Things Not to Be Despised
Zechariah 4:10
… And I am sure that He does so in the great work of His Church. Long ago He began to build a spiritual temple for His own habitation …
SERMON • SERMON 1038Another Royal Procession
Matthew 21:5
… It never can originate outside and work into the interior, this is not the rule of spiritual life; it must commence with the spiritual in the midst of …
SERMON • SERMON 2809Faith—life
Habakkuk 2:4
… our service must be to please God, but "without faith it is impossible to please Him." O Brothers and Sisters, if we always go to our work as …
SERMON • SERMON 453Compassion For The Multitude
Matthew 14:17
… That which is dedicated to Christ in solemn covenant and in earnest prayer and in humble faith, must be dedicated in active service. Are you all at work …
SERMON • SERMON 1613Shut In Or Shut Out
Genesis 7:16
… When the last seven days of Grace had come to a close, the Lord began His work of justice by separating Noah. "The Lord shut him in." Then …
SERMON • SERMON 1631The Main Matter
John 20:30
… Not only did the Lord Jesus speak and do great things as to number, but there was a world ofpower in each word and work. He did not …
SERMON • SERMON 2659Fallen Asleep
1 Corinthians 15:6
… be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. That should …
SERMON • SERMON 1746The Devil's Last Throw
Luke 9:42
… Jesus is able to work in the unseen spirit-world miracles such as were foreshadowed by those, which he wrought in the visible natural world. I suppose that …
SERMON • SERMON 2388Once Dead, Now Alive
Ephesians 2:1
… The Lord help you so to do! You are alive—then another exhortation is, get up and work. You are alive unto God. Are you so alive that …
SERMON • SERMON 947Seeking For Jesus
John 6:24
… The Jews in the present chapter asked our Savior, "What shall we do that we may work the works of God?" and He said, "This is the work …
SERMON • SERMON 2160Not Sufficient and Yet Sufficient
2 Corinthians 3:5
… PAUL had given some account of what God had done by him and had described the work in these words—"You are manifestly declared to be the epistle …
SERMON • SERMON 305Separating the Precious From the Vile
Exodus 11:7
… I will put my shoulder to the wheel, and work up once more;” and so with courage and with confidence in Christ he goes again to his labor …
SERMON • SERMON 791The Arrows of the Bow Broken in Zion
Psalm 76:3
… It is harder work to deal with those who say, "Yes, yes, yes," but who forget what we say—it is more hopeless work to deal with them …
SERMON • SERMON 2612Questions and Answers Concerning Zion
Isaiah 14:32
… When men's minds once begin to work, we are led to hope and pray that the Spirit of God may work with them and work in them …
SERMON • SERMON 2529Compassion on the Ignorant
Hebrews 5:2
… I must make you the special objective of my labor and care"? That boy will surely get on, I think, and so, if you come into Christ's …
SERMON • SERMON 1439Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Little Child
Luke 18:17
… Let us rejoice in the conviction that our children may be brought to Christ and let us labor earnestly to bring them, however little they may be! I …
SERMON • SERMON 1719The Tent Dissolved and the Mansion Entered
2 Corinthians 5:1
… He was spent in his Master's service. He was so full of the heavenly fire that he could never rest! After he had evangelized one city, he …
SERMON • SERMON 1294The Anchor
Hebrews 6:17-20
… of the sea driven with the wind and tossed, what service can he render in the work of the Lord and how can he influence others for good …
SERMON • SERMON 1063Moses' Decision
Hebrews 11:24
… he is in his return! It is altogether a mistake under which they labor, but it is by no means an uncommon one. Perhaps, as we introduce to …
SERMON • SERMON 2087Grace For Grace
1 Corinthians 2:12
… Where God is at work in Divine Grace, abounding sin is conquered, hope begins and good becomes perceptible. This better state is always markedly the effect of a …
SERMON • SERMON 205A Lecture for Little-Faith
2 Thessalonians 1:3
… Only he whom God hath himself ordained and thrust forth into the work, only he who has had his tongue touched with a live coal from off the …
SERMON • SERMON 2922An Infallible Sign Of Revival
Isaiah 2:11
… It is a part of the work of Grace—no, it is the main objective of the work of Grace, and it is an objective, also, of the …
SERMON • SERMON 2465Our Omnipotent Leader
Matthew 28:18
… to work with Him and go on working with Him, and never cease to work until He, Himself, shall come to discharge us from the service because there …
SERMON • SERMON 2761The Free Agency of Christ
Mark 8:22-25
… Neither, dear Friends, must we, for a moment, try to tie the Lord Jesus Christ down to work in our particular manner! I have no doubt that these …
SERMON • SERMON 2449The Rule and Reward of Serving Christ
John 12:26
… No haphazard work ever came from Christ's hands. He spoke with certainty and He worked with the full assurance that His labor would not be in vain …
SERMON • SERMON 1777Esther's Exaltation—or, Who Knows?
Esther 4:13
… I would urge them to remember that there is a something for each Believer to do, a work which he cannot delegate to another. A task which it …
SERMON • SERMON 673Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets
Deuteronomy 7:20
… It is not pleasant work to seek out faults—"take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines." It is not easy work. We do not …
SERMON • SERMON 1797How To Meet the Doctrine of Election
Matthew 15:24
… Yet they never allow it to interfere with their labor for bread, their struggle for wealth, or their race for fame! Why should they dissociate the matter of …
SERMON • SERMON 2323Obedience Rewarded
Matthew 28:8-10
… Stand over your work, be in-stant—standing over it, in season and out of season, constant and instant in the service of your blessed Lord and Master …
SERMON • SERMON 2662Some Marks of God's People
Psalm 68:28
… to work so hard for Christ that they wear themselves out. What a blessed consummation that must be! To wear ourselves away in our Master's service—to …
SERMON • SERMON 2485Love's Vigilance Rewarded
Solomon 3:4
… I want this service to be a time not of carving meat, but of eating it—not of spreading tables, but of sitting at them and feasting to …