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Work, calling, diligence, stewardship, and service
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Refuges of Lies and What Will Become of Them
Isaiah 28:17
… And when he rejects the solid Refuge which the mercy of God has provided in Christ Jesus, he sets to work to build another shelter and to lay …
SERMON • SERMON 2656The Death of Christ for His People
1 John 3:16
… There is space in my poor soul for the Lord, Himself, to work some miracle of mercy." 4-7. I must work the works of Him that sent …
SERMON • SERMON 1468The Philosophy and Propriety of Abundant Praise
Psalm 145:7
… We have quite enough fluent people about, but they are, many of them, idlers for whom Satan finds abundant work to do. May the Lord deliver us from …
SERMON • SERMON 1447Three Crosses
Galatians 6:14
… When his tongue begins to speak of the glorious work which the Christ of God has done for the sons of men, it finds a sudden liberty and …
SERMON • SERMON 1337Love's Medicines and Miracles
Isaiah 38:17
… Self-examination is a great benefit to us, Brothers and Sisters, and anything which brings us to it does us real service. Brother, go over the whole of …
SERMON • SERMON 2345Moses' Dying Charge to Israel
Deuteronomy 8:2
… Sometimes it is our lack of dealing with things as a whole that leads us to make mistakes. "All things work together for good to them that love …
SERMON • SERMON 2504Jonah's Object-lessons
Jonah 4:6-8
… He was one who wished to make thorough work of anything he undertook and to go to the very end of it. We need more of such men …
SERMON • SERMON 1277Trial by the Word
Psalm 105:19
… Do not congratulate yourself, and sing, "Soul, take thine ease; thou art happy in possessing such special gifts," but prepare to do the life-work to which thou …
SERMON • SERMON 792Mary Magdalene
Mark 16:9
… the Lord's work and acts like a tonic to our spirits. It refreshes the doubting ones, and those who have become dispirited in service, take courage and …
SERMON • SERMON 1342Dagon's Ups and Downs
1 Samuel 5:2-4
… Then, when the service was over and they had worshiped Dagon to their heart's content, they shut up the temple and there was darkness in the holy …
SERMON • SERMON 625Jesus Appearing To Mary Magdalene
Mark 16:9
… In yon garden she was first to work our woe—let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes …
SERMON • SERMON 1881The Dying Thief in a New Light
Luke 23:40-42
… I pray God that you and I may have such a thorough work as this in our own hearts as the result of our faith. Then, see, this …
SERMON • SERMON 3265Faith Tried and Triumphing
Job 13:15
… We expect to die looking for our Lord's appearing and still resting upon His finished work. And all between the alpha and the omega—all the other …
SERMON • SERMON 2714Those Who Desire
Nehemiah 1:11
… The time was, you know—and not very many years ago—when no man could be a member of a corporation, or could be employed in the service …
SERMON • SERMON 825The Sieve
Amos 9:9
… In almost every land they have been hunted like the partridges upon the mountain—he that killed them thought he did God service. The followers of that greatest …
SERMON • SERMON 1841Divine Forgiveness Admired and Imitated
Colossians 3:13
… When the Spirit of God has fully done His work, He sheds abroad in their hearts the love of God, so that experimentally they feel themselves to be …
SERMON • SERMON 237Hypocrisy
Luke 12:1
… Show him one who is liberal, doing what he can for his Master’s service, spending, and being spent for him; “Rash and imprudent,” says he, “extravagant; the …
SERMON • SERMON 1611The Word of the Cross
1 Corinthians 1:18
… The crucifix represents Christ on the Cross, but He is not on the Cross any longer, He has finished His sacrificial work and has ascended to His Glory …
SERMON • SERMON 1818The Song of a City, and the Pearl of Peace
Isaiah 26:3
… May the Holy Spirit, who is the Comforter, and whose fruit is peace, now work peace in each of us! I. First, we are going to answer this …
SERMON • SERMON 2129Pleading, Not Contradicting
Matthew 15:27
… He goes the wrong way to work if he begins a discussion with you and contradicts your statements. If beggars must not be choosers, certainly they must not …
SERMON • SERMON 2564Strange Ways of Love
Hosea 2:14
… I have a nice little income, but I need some relief." How much will he get out of you? He goes the wrong way to work! But here …
SERMON • SERMON 2796A Man of God Alone With God
Psalm 119:26
… I do not suppose that any unregenerate sinner will act thus towards his God until the Holy Spirit has begun to work graciously within him. While the prodigal …
SERMON • SERMON 3158The Fifth Beatitude
Matthew 5:7
… That He does in many other places, but He here gives us the signs and evidences of the work of Grace in the soul. We would greatly err …
SERMON • SERMON 1422The Chief Physician and the Centurion's Servant
Matthew 8:7
… This Anointed One was to work wonders among mankind and especially wonders of healing. Thus he had gathered that Jesus was the Christ and he believed in Him …
SERMON • SERMON 632Consider Before You Fight
Luke 14:31
… Think, again, how much you are personally in His hands! You are strong, you say—you will do a day's work with any man. There are few …
SERMON • SERMON 2460God's Fire and Hammer
Jeremiah 23:29
… But, beloved Brothers, have you not also felt that there is fire-work and hammer-work in the teaching of the Gospel? Oh, how often have we seen …
SERMON • SERMON 1416The Faithful Saying
1 Timothy 1:15
… If they try to compromise the business and make salvation to be partly a matter of human effort and human merit—and partly a work of Divine Grace …
SERMON • SERMON 2863Great Forgiveness for Great Sin
Ephesians 1:7
… By-and-by, that man has been trusted by God with some service for Him, as Paul and others were put in trust with the Gospel—and as …
COMMENTARYPsalm 106
Psalm 106
… They would have him change the plans of his wisdom, supply their sensual appetites, and work miracles to meet their wicked unbelief: these things the Lord would not …
SERMON • SERMON 3292The Almighty Warrior
Psalm 45:3-5
… Bless the LORD, O my soul—Come, my Soul, wake up, bestir yourself, for you have a great work to do! Such work as angels do forever before …
SERMON • SERMON 2469The Incomparable Bridegroom and His Bride
Solomon 5:9
… If you are barely moral and no more—it is of no service that you should try to speak of Christ—the world will not reckon you as …
SERMON • SERMON 1773What Is Your Life?
James 4:14
… A man may addict himself to the service of his country, but his patriotism will not protect him. He may be surrounded with a wall of affection, but …
SERMON • SERMON 3308Gathering in the Chosen
Jeremiah 31:8
… Even if others go back, shall not the blind be left behind? Of what service are the blind? How shall they behold the beauty of the Lord? But …
SERMON • SERMON 851Nearness To God
Ephesians 2:13
… As having finished the work which was given Him to do, He is near to God in acceptance. As having gone up to Heaven to take the promised …
SERMON • SERMON 3331Knowing and Believing
2 Timothy 1:12
… The Greek word means, "Stand up to it," as when a man is determined to finish his work, he stands right up to it. Stand over your work …
SERMON • SERMON 1582The Fruit of the Spirit—Joy
Galatians 5:22
… Even when we look to Christ, by the work of the Spirit one of the first fruits is sorrow—"They shall look on Him whom they have pierced …
SERMON • SERMON 1938The Master Key—Opening the Gate of Heaven
Genesis 32:12
… Indeed, when the Lord wrestled with him at Jabbok, that night's prayer, weeping and supplication did the work! Esau was won, after all, not by Jacob's …
SERMON • SERMON 2605Death and Its Sentence Abolished
Colossians 2:13
… I have set forth all too feebly the great work of God in removing the death that was within us, but if you feel that my words are …
SERMON • SERMON 191Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church
Zechariah 6:13
… No acceptable service can be offered to Christ except by his church. Only those who believe in Christ can offer songs, and prayers, and praises, that shall be …
SERMON • SERMON 2513How to Please God
Hebrews 11:6
… Oh, that God would hear the cries of His children and work faith in men, for this, also, is the gift of God! Not only the blessing which …