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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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Christ's Testimony Received
John 3:33
… There are more Christians, but there are fewer Christians in proportion to the population! There is much reason for crying earnestly to God to work more mightily upon …
SERMON • SERMON 2831Burden-bearing
Galatians 6:2
… be personal service.' 'Every man shall bear his own burden." That is, if you and I are saved, we must, each one, have a work of his own …
SERMON • SERMON 1930Is It True?
Daniel 3:14
… It was our Lord's custom to bid men consider what His service might involve. His frequent declaration was, "He that takes not his cross, and follows after …
SERMON • SERMON 2593A Welcome for Jesus
Luke 8:40
… I also know that He will come because His work is there. I expect to find you, tomorrow morning, dear Brother, where your work is. My Sisters, I …
SERMON • SERMON 2898The Search Warrant
John 6:64
… This is the faith which saves the soul! We are not saved by faith, itself, as a meritorious work. There is no merit in believing in God and …
SERMON • SERMON 2694Grace Preferred to Gifts
1 Corinthians 12:31
… I knew something of his holy life, his power with God in prayer, his faith and the great work which it had enabled him to accomplish. So the …
SERMON • SERMON 2934Great Changes
Luke 13:30
… For many a long year the precious sons of God, comparable to fine gold, have been esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter …
SERMON • SERMON 2021Nathanael—Or, the Ready Believer and His Reward
John 1:50
… If there is a melancholy disposition, it tends to darken the work of the Spirit in the heart. And whereas the work of the Spirit makes the man …
SERMON • SERMON 2900How God Comes to Man
Genesis 3:8
… Yet judgment is My strange work—it is mercy in which I delight. This morning I drew back the curtains that had shielded them during the night and …
CHAPTERAwakening
… Tell me where I can find my property, and you have done me real service; but merely to know my loss is no comfort whatever.” Even so, to …
SERMON • SERMON 1250The Priest Dispensed With
1 John 5:10
… To come directly to Jesus Christ with the whole heart needs thought, consideration and heart work—but to confess to a priest and get his assurance of pardon …
SERMON • SERMON 971The Open Fountain
Zechariah 13:1
… He was guilty upon his own confession. “I certainly,” said he, “have no reason to complain of my hard work in the galleys, for if I had my …
SERMON • SERMON 1307Enoch
Genesis 5:21-24
… in! He often went to his morning's work weary, except by the rest which he found in the service of Christ. He would sometimes meet a Brother …
SERMON • SERMON 2987The 'Beau Ideal' of Life
Psalm 90:14
… It is poor weaving on the part of the man at the loom, when he has a flaw at the beginning of his work—however carefully he may …
SERMON • SERMON 523From Death To Life
1 Samuel 2:6
… Work, O you saints of the Lord, with all your might! Work with both your hands, by night and by day! Sow beside all waters! In the morning …
SERMON • SERMON 824The Heavan of Heavan
Revelation 22:4
… But up yonder they not only do not sin, but they cannot sin—they are not tempted, for there is no space for the Tempter to work upon …
SERMON • SERMON 1815The Great Birthday and Our Coming of Age
Galatians 4:3-6
… By way of rendering service unto God on our behalf, He came under the Moral Law. He kept His Father's Commandments. He obeyed to the full, both …
SERMON • SERMON 313Terrible Convictions and Gentle Drawings
Psalm 32:3-4
… You can well understand, if a man had been wounded, that it were hard work for the most skillful surgeon to heal him if some vile wretch should …
SERMON • SERMON 3117Eyes Opened
2 Kings 6:17
… But nothing less than vital godliness will avail for them—nothing but the real work of God the Holy Spirit upon the soul! It is all in vain …
SERMON • SERMON 2269Impotence and Omnipotence
John 5:5-9
… But Jesus answered them, My Father works hitherto, and I work. The whole work of Nature is continued on Sabbath Days as well as other days. Stars shine …
CHAPTERReal Contact With Jesus
… Others there are who come to the house of prayer, and try to enter into the service, and do so in a certain fashion; but it is only …
SERMON • SERMON 2155The Beginning of Miracles Which Jesus Did
John 2:11
… We are likely to do our work best when we feel most our insufficiency and are driven to God for help. If we go blundering to our service …
SERMON • SERMON 656Preceding Grace
Galatians 1:15
… God did not begin to work with him when he was on the road to Damascus. That was not the first occasion on which eyes of love had …
SERMON • SERMON 359The Tabernacle—Outside The Camp
Exodus 33:7
… The vessels and implements for the service of the sanctuary had not then been made. Not even had the pattern been seen by Moses in the holy mountain …
SERMON • SERMON 2480The Tender Grapes
Solomon 2:13
… Dear Friends, we must serve God! We must bring forth, from our very soul, love to God and service to Him as the fruit of our renewed nature …
SERMON • SERMON 3098Needless Fears
Isaiah 51:12
… I will work, and who shall let it? (who shall hinder it?)— "When He makes bare His arm, Who shall His work withstand? When He His people's …
SERMON • SERMON 691An Immovable Foundation
Psalm 11:3
… If this foundation were removed, I will ask you gray-haired saint, hoary with many years of service, what could you do? You bow your head and say …
SERMON • SERMON 3132A Question for You
John 9:35
… I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work As long as I am in …
SERMON • SERMON 2653The Head and the Body
Ephesians 4:15
… There was no change in the Worker, for the one work was worked by the one Person, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Why, then, should we split …
SERMON • SERMON 592The True Position Of Assurance
Ephesians 1:13
… Faith in Christ is the work of God's Holy Spirit. In proof of this we have many Scriptures. No man ever did yet believe in Christ until …
SERMON • SERMON 3009Our Champion
Judges 16:3
… First, come and behold our Champion at His work Then, let us go and survey the work when He has accomplished it And thirdly, let us enquire what …
SERMON • SERMON 2382The Holy Spirit's Chief Office
John 16:14
… Any doctrine which makes sin less and, therefore, makes Christ's work less—away with it, away with it! This shall be your infallible test as to whether …
SERMON • SERMON 875"Things To Come"
1 Corinthians 3:22
… You who are struggling in the service of your Divine Master, you may reckon up the joy or success, or at least of acceptance at His hands. You …
SERMON • SERMON 3220'A Time to Love'
Ecclesiastes 3:8
… That is no concern of mine, but I am greatly concerned to work with all my might for my gracious Lord and Master while I may. So long …
COMMENTARYPsalm 86
Psalm 86
… What others might think a degrading illustration he uses with delight, to show how intensely he loved the Lord's service; and also as a reason why the …
COMMENTARYPsalm 52
Psalm 52
… Whetted by malice, and guided by craft, he did his cruel work with accursed thoroughness. Verse 3. Thou lovest evil more than good. He loved not good at …
SERMON • SERMON 1150Life More Abundant
John 10:10
… And you must have respect not to what you can work in yourself, but to what He can work in you. Remember that God's declaration is that …
SERMON • SERMON 228The Blood
Exodus 12:13
… What is the basis of that great truth, that all things work together for good to them that love God? What is the cause that all things so …
SERMON • SERMON 2626"Peace in Believing"
Romans 15:13
… He does not say that all things shall work together for good. No, but that they do work together. They are nowworking for your present good. This is …
SERMON • SERMON 1100Good News for the Lost
Luke 19:10
… He has hung up His royal robes and put on a workman's garb, a human toiler's garments! He means work, stern, persevering work. He has cast …