Work & Service

Prayer Found in the Heart

2 Samuel 7:27

… And He washed you, clothed you, nourished you and now He has even begun to use you in His service and you are already beginning to be rather …

Now, A Sermon for Young Men and Young Women

Ezekiel 12:27

… Now, consider how well prepared you will be for life's work and service if you give your hearts to Jesus. Young man, you will be the right …

"God, and Not Man"—What Does It Mean?

Hosea 11:9

… It is His own infinite Grace that has begun to work in you to will and to do of His own good pleasure, for here is seen the …

Fat Things, Full of Marrow

Isaiah 54:7-10

… Isaiah speaks of both sonship and service. "This is the heritage," or portion obtained by heirship, which implies sonship. The promise, then, is ours, if we have been …

Barriers Obliterated

Isaiah 44:22

… Our delight in God is no longer manifest—we have little or no zeal in His service, or joy in His worship. Beneath that cloud we feel like …

Comfort From Christ's Omniscience

John 21:17

… And when this service is over, it will be vain and futile for you to come to the Communion Table and eat the bread, and drink of the …

A New Leaf for the New Year

Genesis 42:21

… I shall be happy if any have come here in trouble, if that trouble should work with my rebuke to stir up their hearts and move them to …

The History of Little-Faith

Matthew 14:31

… You cannot go forth to Christian service, for you are lame through spiritual weakness—but the day comes when the lame man shall leap as a hart! The …

My Hourly Prayer

Psalm 119:117

… This is poor work! This produces a sorry sort of Christian! Under such double influences we shall be unsafe and rather a curse to others than a blessing …

The Hospital of Waiters Visited with the Gospel

John 5:8

… If I want to believe a statement, how do I go to work? Why, I hear it and faith comes by hearing. If I have any doubt about …

A Honeycomb

Hebrews 12:3

… Consider Jesus, and push on in the allotted path of holy service just as He did. Consider Him, and look forward with expectancy to the joy of triumphing …

The Heart—a Den of Evil

Matthew 15:19

… Therefore it is the failure of the affections to work accurately which leads men to the commission of this terrible deed. An evil nature sits by the fireside …

Abraham's Great Reward

Genesis 15:1

… I have had many years of service in my congregation, but they are most ungrateful and do not appreciate me. They even want to get rid of me …

The Cleansing of the Leper

Leviticus 13:12-13

… The sinner is so lost that Christ must begin, and carry on, and finish all; but when the sinner is saved, then he begins to work in right …

Redemption By Price

1 Corinthians 6:19

… Within the idea of purchase lies hidden the essence of the Savior's work and, therefore, it is to be adhered to. He is coming again to complete …

Comforted and Comforting

2 Corinthians 1:3

… But if God does not work with the means, no cure will be worked. You who have the Creator, Himself, as your Comforter, are like the man who …

The Personal Pentecost and the Glorious Hope

Romans 5:5

… Our hope rests upon the solemn promises of God which He has made to us by His Prophets and Apostles—and confirmed in the Person and work of …

Christ Put On

Romans 13:14

… Their design in service is to earn eternal life or prevent the loss of the favor of God. Thus they come under Law and forsake the true way …

Honest Dealing with God

1 John 1:8-10

… Though you compliment God by saying with the church service, "We are miserable sinners," you do not mean it at all; you mean that if you have sinned …

Fellowship With God

1 John 1:3

… He beareth witness to his Son Jesus, and we can bear witness too. “The Father worketh hitherto” that his Son may be glorified, and we work too. O …

What The Church Should Be

1 Timothy 3:15

… In all Churches of the living God it is a great fault if the whole of the people are not recognized in the work of the Lord, in …

Helps to Full Assurance

1 John 5:13

… Trust in His glorious Person, in His finished work, in His accepted Sacrifice, in His prevailing intercession and in His glorious advent which is yet to be. Look …

The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

… which we speak, in which discipleship is the highest degree, in which divine service is the patent of nobility. It is a kingdom, strange to say it, in …

Accepted In The Beloved

Ephesians 1:6

… And I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him." "Let us make man," said God. "in Our own image"—calling Christ into creation's work. "Without Him …

The Great Mystery of Godliness

1 Timothy 3:16

… Well may we say with David, "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained; what is man …

Psalm 24

Psalm 24

Psalm 24 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Work Title. A Psalm of David. From the title we learn nothing but the …

"If There Is No Resurrection"

1 Corinthians 15:12-19

… with an effectual salvation? Now will I work for Him! Now will I spend and be spent in His service! Now will I hate every false way, and …

Hagar at the Fountain

Genesis 16:13

… The wrong element would not work in Abram's family. It might do very well for the Canaanites around him, but in a house where God was feared …

The Voice from the Cloud and the Voice of the Beloved

Matthew 17:5

… are disabled from the Divine service through fear and Jesus renews our strength by saying, "Arise," so that we are able to work, again—then do we believe …

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Luke 15:4-7

… His work of love cannot in any degree become a failure. His death in vain! No, not in jot or tittle. I can imagine, if it were possible …

Spiritual Glean1ng

Ruth 2:15

… Beloved, so let it be with every Believer! Let him not be afraid of a little weariness in his Master's service. If the gleaning is good, the …

Fire—the Need of the Times

Luke 12:49

… We will suppose when a preacher whom God has truly called to the work, proclaims this Gospel, you will see for a second time that it is a …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… see how God hath put the bones together, so as to be of the greatest service and use to thee. See how he hath arranged thy nerves and …

The Shield Of Faith

Ephesians 6:16

… Then when the enemy makes his cut at the sword-arm of a Christian, to disable him if possible from future service, faith protects the arm like a …

Ten Wrong Kinds of Hearers

Isaiah 58:1

… They hear the preacher's message, the service is over and, at the door of the sanctuary they leave behind everything that they have gathered there—in fact …

'Do I Love the Lord or Not?'

John 21:17

… Mournfully must I confess that when I look back upon my past service for my Master, I could wish to blot it out with tears of penitent compunction …

A Memorable Interview

John 20:27

… this, renew his personal betrothal to Christ and his positive consecration to His service "My Lord," he says, "You Are, and I am Your servant. My God, henceforth …

The Way

John 14:6

… If He, the aggrieved party, feels that Christ has finished the work and that He can now justly forgive us, why need we raise questions? O God, if …

A Sad Confession

Isaiah 53:3

… Perhaps some of you were compelled by force of circumstance to attend the sanctuary, though no part of the service was attuned to your taste. You mixed with …

A Miracle of Grace

… Was there not a great deal to please the eye in its pageant, and much to charm the ear in its worship? The beautiful artistic work in the …