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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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For the Candid and Thoughtful
Mark 12:34
… It strikes me that this scribe was half-hearted in the work of tempting our Lord, even at the first. I should imagine him to have been a …
SERMON • SERMON 1377Taking Hold of God
Isaiah 64:7
… When the outward service of the Church begins to flag and her holiness declines, you may be sure that her communion with God has been sadly suspended. Devotion …
SERMON • SERMON 1678The Samaritan Woman and Her Mission
John 4:27-30
… The habit of the age is to do nothing but what is ostentatious—every work must be with beat of drum or sound of tambourine! I pray that …
SERMON • SERMON 1887Pleading For Prayer
Romans 15:30-33
… He did not so much need what employers harshly call, "hands," to work for him, but he did need hearts to plead for him and he, therefore, sent …
SERMON • SERMON 938A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ
2 Timothy 2:2
… Let us ask to be numbered among the King's mighties, to do noble work for Him and honorable service, that we may bring to our Master's …
SERMON • SERMON 1050A Bright Light in Deep Shades
Isaiah 51:1
… received—for the magnitude of the labor he performed—and for the intensity of the sufferings he endured. The Lord can work as extraordinary a miracle of Grace …
SERMON • SERMON 939The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections
Deuteronomy 8:3-6
… Neither have you been lamed in the way of service. Perhaps you have been called to do much work for Christ, yet you have not grown tired of …
SERMON • SERMON 379Perfect Cleansing
Joel 3:21
… When you and I are delivered from the taskmaster's lash, we must be delivered from the taskmaster's labor—but it is a fact that God's …
SERMON • SERMON 1427A Wilderness Cry
Psalm 63:1
… It is "afterwards" that these things work the fruits of righteousness—but at the time it is often with us as it was with Wilkinson who says that …
SERMON • SERMON 1488More and More, or Less and Less
Matthew 13:12
… Unless Gospel work is inward heart-work—if it merely lies in external reformation—the man often goes back to be worse than he was before. The evil …
SERMON • SERMON 1906How To Become Fishers of Men
Matthew 4:19
… Go to work, you who would be fishers of men, and yet feel your insufficiency. You that have no strength, attempt this divine work. Your Master's strength …
SERMON • SERMON 1479The Work of Grace the Warrant for Obedience
John 5:11
… Thank God, even that was enough for our Lord to work with! The Lord Jesus saves people of all sorts. He has among His disciples men of quick …
SERMON • SERMON 435Obtaining Promises
Hebrews 11:33
… Now, I shall want your earnest attention, and I hope also your memories will be at work while I try to give some practical regulations for obtaining the …
SERMON • SERMON 822The Panting Deer
Psalm 42:1
… all our might, throwing heart and soul into every labor. We felt His sweet Presence in all our service, and indeed, at all times. If we walked by …
SERMON • SERMON 1523The Royal Prerogative
Psalm 68:20
… We are immortal till our work is done! We are immortal till the immortal King shall call us Home to the land where we shall be immortal in …
SERMON • SERMON 521The Power Of Aaron'S Rod
Exodus 7:12
… Yet more is it so in a man who is devoted to God's service. The service of God swallows up everything else when the man is truly …
SERMON • SERMON 874The Overflowing Cup
Psalm 23:5
… As He feels an intense satisfaction in the life, and work and death of His dear Son, we find the very same kind of satisfaction after our measure …
SERMON • SERMON 2273Fickle Followers
Luke 9:57-62
… But, where there is really a deep plowing work done, when the seed comes up, it lives. Where the foundation is dug deep, when the house is built …
SERMON • SERMON 608A Discourse For A Revival Season
Jeremiah 8:19
… There are certain special far-off ones whom we ought to mention in our prayers and whom we ought to labor after in our Christian efforts. Do not …
SERMON • SERMON 803Israel's God and God's Israel
Deuteronomy 33:26-28
… God will work, and you will work. He shall thrust out your enemies, and He shall say to you, "Destroy them." What may be our future lot, as …
SERMON • SERMON 778Plain Words With the Careless
Luke 8:28
… So, then, to make short work of the business, you who whine about religion as being melancholy are generally a set of hypocrites! So come here, Sir, and …
SERMON • SERMON 560Christ is Glorious—Let Us Make Him Known
Micah 5:4
… His service is perfect freedom; to be his subject is to be a king; to serve him is to reign. Blessed are the people who are the sheep …
SERMON • SERMON 314Peace at Home, and Prosperity Abroad
Psalm 147:14
… You may work an evil work which shall tremble in the flames of hell for ever and ever, or you may do a good work, which under God …
SERMON • SERMON 655The Great Itinerant
Acts 10:38
… They were given over to evil—but even there restraining goodness found work for itself in binding them down in iron bands lest their mischief should grow too …
SERMON • SERMON 1431The Message from the Lord's Mouth
Ezekiel 3:17
… training for service! To abide with your Lord must be your college and your preparation class for teaching others. After the fellowship comes the work—"That He might …
SERMON • SERMON 639Zealots
Luke 6:15
… whole heart into his service. Whatever may be the Grace which is in exercise, he seeks to have it thoroughly and actively at work. If his heart is …
SERMON • SERMON 690A Lesson From The Great Panic
Hebrews 12:27
… It stands now in quietude and peace, but on a certain day it will all be swallowed up into the sea, as certainly as the elements still work …
SERMON • SERMON 839The Head of the Church
Colossians 1:18
… blinds many! It makes them labor with all their heart for a bad cause, under the notion that they are doing God service. To know this Truth is …
SERMON • SERMON 1706The Cast-Off Sash
Jeremiah 13:1-11
… if there is priestly work to do, He puts us about Him and makes us to be the instruments of this hallowed service. For us, our blessed Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 1762High Doctrine And Broad Doctrine
John 6:37
… Believe me, my dear Hearers, the business of removing religious difficulties is the least remunerative labor under Heaven. The truest way is to accept the difficulty, wherever you …
SERMON • SERMON 705The Voice Of Cholera
Amos 3:3-6
… Let the wise man work below, but fix his hope above. Let him cleanse and purge away the hotbeds of death, but let him look up to the …
SERMON • SERMON 282Christ’s Estimate of His People
Solomon 4:10-11
… They come from his heart; they do not come from the top of his tongue,—they are not superficial service work, but they come from under the tongue …
SERMON • SERMON 327Vessels Of Mercy—A Sermon Of Self-Examination
Romans 9:23
… They may work out their own salvation with fear and trembling, but they cannot work it out unless God works in them both to will and to do …
SERMON • SERMON 1472The Glory, Unity and Triumph of the Church
John 17:22-3
… Daily we labor to bring others into subjection to that blessed Sovereignty under which we delight to dwell! In this place our Lord tells us that this desirable …
SERMON • SERMON 1526The Fair Portrait of a Saint
Job 23:11
… I am afraid you will say, "Spare us, for even unto the first sentence we have not yet attained." Labor after it then, Beloved. Forgetting the things that …
SERMON • SERMON 715Children'S Bread Given To Dogs
Matthew 15:27
… There is none whatever! The difficulty is in bringing the sinner to trust Jesus! This is the work, this is the labor. In this woman's case the …
SERMON • SERMON 868Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac
Genesis 22:2
… He only expects us to do man's work and to endure man's afflictions when we have passed through the childhood state and have arrived at the …
SERMON • SERMON 303Election and Holiness
Deuteronomy 10:14-16
… HE WHO PREACHES the whole truth as it is in Jesus will labor under continual disadvantages; albeit, that the grand advantage of having the presence and blessing of …
SERMON • SERMON 312Personal Service
Psalm 116:16
… service seldom, if ever—yet nevertheless, the taunt being never so unworthy, it has great power over unthinking minds. Let the Church, however, but beam to work unanimously …
SERMON • SERMON 753Nazareth—or Jesus, Rejected by His Friends
Luke 4:28-30
… In due time He left Nazareth, was baptized by John in Jordan, and began at once His work of preaching and working wonders. The inhabitants of Nazareth, no …