Work & Service

The Second Time

Acts 7:13

… sure work of it, even as the second time Joseph was made known unto his brothers! As for you strangers who are with us at this service, if …

The Blessings of Public Worship

Luke 18:10

… the Lord, yet even then we would find strength and help in our service for God by meeting together for united worship. The Apostolic command is, "Let us …

'The Lamb of God'

John 1:29

… The unloosing of shoe laces was work for a slave to do, but if we are privileged to perform this work for Christ, it will make us as …

Christ and His Table-Companions

… My dear brethren and sisters, are you all Christ’s servants consciously? If so, though the service may at times seem heavy because your faith is weak, yet …

Jesus, The Delight of Heaven

Revelation 5:9

… And when the money lent upon them, or the service due for them, was paid, the land was said to be redeemed. An inheritance first belonged to a …

The Cripple at Lystra

Acts 14:9-10

… If there were any words in any language that would melt you, this tongue is at your service to utter them. If there is any form of speech …

Particular Redemption

John 6:44

… The pillar was not shattered; it fell, and it fell in one piece, and there it lies along, the mightiest remnant of God’s once perfect work in …

Jesus Known by Personal Revelation

Matthew 16:13-17

… Make sure work with Him. Know what you do know concerning Jesus. Have no secondhand information, no hypothesis, no inference. But say, "You are the Christ, the Son …

God's Innumerable Mercies

Psalm 71:15

… It is a mercy that so many of you are not brought to poverty—that when so many others are out of work, you workingmen are not among …

Five Divine Declarations

Isaiah 45:24

… A dear Brother reminded us in prayer, before this service, that we may tremble on the Rock, but the Rock never trembled under us. Another reminded me of …

The Broken Fence

Proverbs 24:30-32

… Dear me, he was not going to sleep much longer, he would only have forty winks more and then he would be at his work—and show you …

Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings

2 Corinthians 1:5

… Her Majesty’s Service is a fine thing, that he has nothing to do but walk about in his flaming colors, that he will have no hard service …

"Take Heed, Brethren"

Hebrews 3:12

… The joy of the Lord sweetens trial, lightens care and turns service into delight. But if you lose that joy, you are as one who travels alone in …

Christ’s People—Imitators of Him

Acts 4:13

… BEHOLD! what a change divine grace will work in a man, and in how short a time. That same Peter, who so lately followed his master afar off …

Marrow and Fatness

2 Samuel 7:18-22

… Warm love always urges the soul to service. None are so ready to wear the yoke of Christ as those who have leaned on His bosom. The nearer …

Christ, the Glory of His People

Luke 2:32

… these evils as they come, you could believe the heavenly declaration, "All things work together for good, to them that love God." Faith must be tried. God had …

Justice Vindicated And Righteousness Exemplified

Romans 3:24-26

… God had not yet laid bare His terrible right arm—judgment was then His strange work. He did not put both His hands to the tremendous work of …

Joy in Place of Sorrow

John 16:22

… So let us again take up the language of the hymn we sang at the beginning of the service— "The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets …

Joseph's Bones

Hebrews 11:22

… Ah, this is a great triumph of faith, and I would urge any of my dear Brethren here, who really love the Lord, to seek that the work …

Christ in Bonds

John 18:24

… You have loosed my bonds, now bind me to Yourself and to Your blessed service once and for all!" V. The last lesson is one which I pray …

Thorns and Thistles

Genesis 3:18

… You do not have a week's dealing, a week's work, a week's going to and fro in this world without getting a pricking thorn here …

The Tenses

2 Corinthians 1:10

… He began to work for our deliverance long before we sought Him. The first movement was not from us to God, but from God to us! We were …

Solitude, Silence, Submission

Lamentations 3:28

… I think that, on the Lord's Day, when people go home, after service, they sometimes make a mistake in talking with those who do not feel as …

"And We Are"—a Jewel from the Revised Version

1 John 3:1

… The most faithful service does not make a servant into a son. Had you been perfect, what would you have given to God as purchase money for this …

Jehovah-Shammah

Ezekiel 35:10

… But if it is a daughter, then she shall live." O deep-laid scheme of a cruel and wily despot! Now he thinks that the work is surely …

"Glory Be Unto the Father"

Ephesians 1:3

… Courage, Brothers and Sisters, it is yet beyond us, but He that has begun the good work in us will perform it unto the day of Christ! We …

Scales Taken From the Eyes

Acts 11:18

… Dear Brothers and Sisters, there are some of you, if you are but alive to it, whom God will bless in like work! Perhaps this very night, though …

Our Sanctuary

Jeremiah 17:12

… THIS book of Jeremiah is a very thorny one—it might be called, like his smaller work, "The Book of Lamentations." Our text is as a lily among …

Psalm 68

Psalm 68

… We expect God to bless his own work. He has never left any work unfinished yet, and he never will. "When we were without strength, in due time …

Offended Because of Christ?

Matthew 11:6

… And so the mind, after its extraordinary tension in the great service to which John was called, may have been dragged down by the half-stifled body till …

"Now Then, Do It"

2 Samuel 3:17

… Probably you cannot recollect a time when there were not some holy agencies at work upon your heart. And you remember the effect they had upon you, even …

"Honey In The Mouth!"

John 16:14

… If the full work of salvation requires a Trinity, so does that very breath by which we live. You cannot draw near to the Father except through the …

The Mission of Affliction

2 Samuel 16:11

… splendid day's work he would do! That is in the winter, but in the summer I have not been half a day at work before I begin …

Abraham, A Pattern To Believers

Hebrews 11:9

… You see, faith and fear can live in the same heart—and they can work together to build the same ark. Faith and fear are very sweet companions …

Healing and Pardon

Isaiah 33:24

… To the forgiven man, "all things work together for good," yes, even those things which naturally follow upon the sin which is now forgiven. The curse is turned …

The Unbeliever’s Unhappy Condition

John 3:36

… They would not absent themselves from the usual service of the place of worship. They are most careful to respect the Sabbath, they venerate the Book of God …

The Pleading of the Last Messenger

Mark 12:6-9

… in sin! Grace can make you more free in the service of God than in the service of yourself! Self lies at the bottom of all rejection of …

The Three Witnesses

1 John 5:8

… His first years of obscurity were years of holiness, and his after years of service were spotless. ‘In him was no sin.’ Who ever exercised a ministry so …

The Word a Sword

Hebrews 4:12

… May the Lord cause His Word to prove its power in us by making us fruitful unto every good work to do His will! Through the "washing of …

Joseph of Arimathaea

Mark 15:43-46

… Beware of the pride of life, the lust for rank, the desire to hoard—for any of these may prevent your service to your Lord. Riches puff men …