Work & Service

Faith and Life

2 Peter 1:1-4

… It is not enough for us to know that he must make us perfect in every good work to do his will, but we must be taught that …

The Final Separation

Matthew 25:32

… That division will be the one work of the Judgement Day. He will divide them as readily and unerringly as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats …

The Gentleness Of Jesus

Matthew 12:19

… He was satisfied to pick out His few fishermen and His other disciples in whom His Grace would be placed like a sacred deposit—and let the work …

Power With God

Genesis 32:28

… Another supposition is that the prayer is all the better for being offered by a certain individual who is ordained to that particular work, so those who are …

Prayer 19 — God's Unspeakable Gift

… O God the Holy Ghost, work mightily, we pray Thee. Flood the world with a baptism of Thy power and "Let the whole earth be filled with a …

The Red Heifer

Numbers 19:2

… The work of Jesus Christ just meets the case. Moreover, Beloved, the work of the Holy Spirit also meets the case, for what is His business but constantly …

Peter's Restoration

Luke 22:60-62

… May His Holy Spirit work with His Holy Word! I. First, LET US LOOK AT THE LORD, WHO LOOKED UPON PETER. Can you picture Him up there in …

Christ's Love to His Spouse

Ephesians 5:25

… Even when He had risen from the dead and had no more work to do for their redemption, yet He came to them that He might enjoy their …

An Epistle Illustrated by a Psalm

Psalm 118:13

… I believe that such memorials silently work for lasting good and the more of them the better. In this case, at least, if there are not "sermons in …

Prayer 15 — The Peace of God

… We would offer a prayer to Thee for those who are quite strange to the work of the Spirit of God, who have never owned their God, who …

Divine Surprises

Isaiah 64:3

… Never did a stony heart turn itself to flesh, or a blind eye remove its own darkness! God must come in infinite freeness of Grace and work with …

Mocked of the Soldiers

Matthew 27:29

… It is easy work to scoff at the Bible and to deny the Truth of God. I think that I could, myself, pose as a learned man, in …

God's Goodness Leading to Repentance

Romans 2:4

… On the other hand, I do not doubt that some have strong propensities to evil which have been at work within them from their very birth, so that …

The War of Truth

Exodus 17:9

… You are a tract distributor; go on with your work, do it earnestly. You are a Sunday-school teacher; go on, do not stay in that blessed work …

Divine Interpositions

Psalm 18:16

… without violating one single law of nature, God is able to work the same end as we sometimes wish he would work by a miracle. He will not …

All the Promises

2 Corinthians 1:20

… When He came to earth and died upon the Cross, He accomplished the work of redemption upon which God's heart was set and He is still doing …

"The Tender Mercy of Our God"

Luke 1:77-79

… but this full energy of power is best seen when his work is grace. When he stirs up his strength to come and save us, and brings the …

Jesus Knew What He Would Do

John 6:6

… If he only makes a needle, it must be tested by the work it can do. When the pillars that now support these galleries were cast, they were …

The Man With The Measuring Line

Zechariah 2:1-5

… He appears to be interrupted in his work by another angel who foretells that so greatly shall Jerusalem extend that she will be as a town without walls …

Sentence Of Death, The Death Of Self-trust

2 Corinthians 1:9

… He was not able to get at his work, for these persons were always about him, howling at him, uttering falsehoods against him and hindering him. He became …

The Best Friend

Proverbs 27:10

… Their Friend, however, giving far more than sympathy and mere words—giving a lifetime of holy service for the sake of those whose cause He had espoused and …

Adoption—The Spirit and the Cry

Galatians 4:6

… We do not doubt tee the loving union of all in the work of deliverance. We reverence the Father, without whom we had not been chosen or adopted …

The Priest Ordained by the Oath of God

Hebrews 7:20-22

… It would be a very delightful subject to work out the betterness of Christ, of His blood, of His Covenant and to show that however good other things …

Psalm 11

Psalm 11

… For what created power in the earth is able to dissolve that work which cruelty and subtlety, like Simeon and Levi, brothers in evil, are combined and confederate …

Putting the Hand Upon the Head of the Sacrifice

Leviticus 1:4

… In those various sacrifices we have views of our Lord's atoning work taken from different standpoints. On another occasion it will be profitable to note these delightful …

A Portrait No Artist Can Paint

Revelation 1:16

… The hands that worked out our redemption have not ceased to work for us. Christ holds in His hands that which He bought with the blood of His …

The Believer Catechized

John 11:26

… There is no reaching the land of the Truth of God unless you will work your passage by thinking over the teaching of the Lord. What I tell …

Ben-Hadad'S Escape—An Encouragement For Sinners

1 Kings 20:31-34

… Misery, where are you? In yonder sinner have you taken up your lodging? I would gladly do you service, and therefore will I speak. Sinner, if you sit …

Why Saints Persevere

… He is faithful to His purpose; He doth not begin a work and then leave it undone. He is faithful to His relationships; as a Father He will …

Concealing the Words of God

Job 6:10

… The Roman Catholic Church stands convicted of concealing the Words of the Holy One by the use of the Latin tongue in the daily service. Whatever there is …

Regeneration

John 3:3

… The firemen are at their work; a stream of water is pouring upon the house; but hark ye! hark ye! there is a man up stairs; there is …

The Voice Behind Thee

Isaiah 30:21

… The very best thing you can do is to yield at once, and let me hold a service to-night in your camp.’ That was sound advice; and …

What Are the Clouds?

Nahum 1:3

… There is such a thing as heaping so many books on your brains that they cannot work—pouring such piles of type, and letters, and manuscripts, and papers …

The Prosperous Man's Reminder

Hosea 13:5-8

… God and backslide—the keyhole is stuffed up and the key will not work. The heart suffers from fatty degeneration until it might almost be said of the …

The Heart Full and the Mouth Closed

Ezekiel 16:62

… What said the Scripture? "He has finished transgression and made an end of sin." Grand work! Made an end of it. And if there is an end of …

Healing for the Wounded

Psalm 147:3

… It is easy enough to get religious notions and fancy yourself safe, but a real saving work is the work of God, and God alone. Seek not to …

Encouragement to Trust and Pray

Isaiah 30:19

… creatures, He is also merciful to His sinful creatures! Judgment is His strange work, but He delights in mercy! Nothing pleases Him more than to pass by transgression …

Prayer 3 — The Love Without Measure or End

… Let no child of Thine have any dead work upon his conscience and may our conscience be purged from dead works to serve the living and true God …

Our Lord's Preaching

Isaiah 61:1

… He was always preaching! "What?" you say, "did He not work miracles?" Yes, but His miracles were sermons—they were acted discourses, full of instruction. He preached when …

"Much More"

Romans 5:10

… And when it was certified that Christ had finished all the work which His Father had given Him to do, then the sheriffs officer of Heaven, "the angel …