Work & Service

The Sojourn in Mesech

Psalm 120:5

… Love will not wait—it delights to render its service as speedily as it can—"they came unto the se-pulcher at the rising of the sun." 3 …

The Two Debtors

Luke 7:41

… They seldom come to a Prayer Meeting and only occasionally to the week-night service. They take just sufficient spiritual nourishment to keep them alive! I suppose they …

Solomon's Plea

1 Kings 8:53

… We shall try to work out the plea in reference to the various petitions of Solomon's prayer, for they comprehend most, if not all, of the trials …

Ordered Steps

Psalm 119:133

… try it, for they cannot entice me away from my dear Master's service. "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." I bared my …

Seeing God's Goodness Here

Psalm 27:13

… subject to peculiarly trying infirmities, which keep you from the work you love and the field of service where you have long been so happy and useful. Well …

Number 2400—or, "Escape for Your Life!"

Genesis 19:17

… We had to delay the service, you remember, while he was quietly carried away. He was a child of God, but suppose it had been some of you …

A Message to the Glad and the Sad

Job 22:29

… On the left hand, where He does work, but I cannot behold Him: He hides Himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him. If this is …

The Best Thing in the Best Place

Psalm 37:31

… How is it with you in this respect? Do you know anything about the work of the Holy Spirit in your heart? Alas, there are many who do …

Christ's 'New Commandment'

John 13:34

… Yes, dear Brothers and Sisters, if we cannot differ, and yet love one another—if we cannot allow each Brother to go his own way in the service …

The Greatest Exhibition of the Age

1 Corinthians 11:26

… yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he dose God service. Can you remain faithful to your Master, then, when you lose your position …

The Talking Book

Proverbs 6:22

… Suppose the sacred volume had all been like the book of the prophet Ezekiel, small would have been its service to the generality of mankind. Imagine that the …

The Bond of the Covenant

Ezekiel 20:34-38

… If we take the passage as referring to the work of Grace, it signifies that they shall know under what Covenant they stand. Beloved, there is scarcely a …

The Story of a Runaway Slave

… So Onesimus will go back to Philemon and work out his term of years with him, or otherwise do Philemon's wishes, for though he might have preferred …

A Bundle of Myrrh

Solomon 1:13

… But the Orientals believed that in times of pest and plague, a little bag of myrrh worn between the breasts would be of essential service to whoever might …

The Love of Our Espousals

Jeremiah 2:2

… You do not care much about an extra service in the week. You are so busy now, although you are not busier than you used to be—you …

Christ in Gethsemane

Mark 14:32

… It was almost the last service that any of them could have rendered to Him before He died for them—yet they failed to render it and left …

Bad Lodgers and How To Treat Them

Jeremiah 4:14

… infinitely better to get to work and perform the little which you are able to do—to give the Lord your service while you can serve Him—than …

The Spirit's Work in the New Creation

Genesis 1:2

… Only as the Spirit came, did the work of Creation begin. That fact I intend to use this evening, spiritualizing it. It is a literal fact and we …

Sin's True Character

Romans 7:13

… Now, it is conceivable that if God were some vast Being who had a natural right to our service, yet if His Character—(forgive, great God, the supposition …

Lessons from the Christ of Patmos

Revelation 1:16

… The hammers of iconoclasts might find good work in breaking those images in pieces which now pollute our churches! Take these things away! They are not becoming in …

Mistrust of God Deplored and Denounced

Numbers 14:11

… Him no more, but abide in fixed and steadfast confidence! O Holy Spirit, work us to this end! III. This brings me, in the third place, to dwell …

The Blood of the Covenant

Hebrews 9:20

… our translation is as nearly perfect as we can look for a human work to be. I do not know what the new translation will turn out to …

Prayer, The Cure for Care

Philippians 4:6

… Lydia and her household and the Philippian jailor were among the first fruits of Paul's work at Philippi and there was always a very intimate love between …

A Singular Plea in Prayer

Psalm 41:4

… God can scarcely have begun to work in that man who thinks that he needs no longer make confession of sin, or seek mercy from God. David tells …

A Poor Man's Cry—and What Came Of It

Psalm 34:6

… Are you at this service, Hannah? You were here the other morning with a sorrowful spirit and now I see by your countenance that the Lord has smiled …

Welcome! Welcome!

Luke 9:11

… desired, just then, to hold a conference with His Apostles as to the work they had done and the future which was opening up before them. Perhaps He …

The Blind Befriended

Isaiah 42:16

… any good upon which you could rest—cannot discover, even in God's work apart from Christ—any foundation on which to build! You cannot find in Heaven …

Before Sermon, At Sermon and After Sermon

James 1:21

… If we are to be acceptable before God, there must be no keeping of favorite sins, no sparing of darling lusts, no providing for secret iniquities—our service …

The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

… God has been pleased highly to exalt man; but we must remember how the psalmist speaks of him: “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers …

Marah Better Than Elim

Exodus 15:22-26

… Even so it is with the Lord and the service His people seek to render to Him. He takes our trifles and makes much of them. 3-5 …

Hope for the Worst Backsliders

Jeremiah 3:22

… Exactly so, but Christ does not want you to begin the work of salvation and then let Him finish it! He never came to be a make-weight …

A Sermon of Personal Testimony

Deuteronomy 32:47

… Is there such a Person? Does He work upon the hearts of men? I speak now, not for dozens or hundreds, but for thousands, and for tens and …

The Believer's Death Day Better Than His Birthday

Ecclesiastes 7:1

… But if this should not occur in our day, we shall, in due course, fulfill our service and fall asleep. At this hour, before yet the sand in …

Barabbas Preferred To Jesus

John 18:40

… and the binding of the innocent, a sort of type of that great work which is accomplished by the death of our Savior? You and I may fairly …

April 27 — GOD FINISHES HIS WORK

Ps. 138:8

April 27 GOD FINISHES HIS WORK "The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me" Ps. 138:8 He who has begun will carry on the work which is …

God Is With Us

Romans 8:31

… Now, He who has called you is faithful and He will not forsake the work of His own hands. He has not called you in order to put …

A Bad Excuse Is Worse Than None

Luke 14:18

… We believe that we can work out our own salvation with our own doings. "Or, if not, we are content to take our chance. If it shall go …

He Ran, and He Ran

Mark 5:6

… and all men did marvel This is the kind of ready-made preacher whose service for his Lord is usually most effectual. The man who, though he has …

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

… I find, however, that the greatest deficiency lies in this point, forgetfulness of the work of the Holy Spirit. I find them very easily remembering the work of …

The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption

Romans 8:15

… We usually draw a distinction between Law-work and Gospel-work, but Law-work is the work of the Spirit of God and is so far a true …