Work & Service

Psalm 6

Psalm 6

… The final suspension of earthly service considered in various practical aspects. Verse 5. The duty of praising God while we live. Verse 6. Saint's tears in quality …

The New “Helensburgh House,” Nightingale Lane

… upon us in connection with the work of the Lord. You are also aware that, for the sake of my service for the Master here, I have refused …

Psalm 119

Psalm 119

… If we give God service it must be because he gives us grace. We work for him because he works in us. Thus we may make a chain …

Our Public Prayer

… As you would avoid a viper, keep from all attempts to work up spurious fervour in public devotion . Do not labour to seem earnest. Pray as your heart …

Psalm 145

Psalm 145

… city, it was again brought to light, encouraging them in their work of faith and labour of love.— From John Bate's "Cyclopoedia of Illustrations," 1865. Verses 13 …

Psalm 3

Psalm 3

… and troubles, that ordinarily, before he calls his saints to any hard service, or hot work, he gives them a draught of this cordial wine next their hearts …

Psalm 78

Psalm 78

… If God will work to save, who shall let it? and if God will work to destroy, who will or what shall let it? Joseph Caryl. Verse 51 …

Baptismal Regeneration

Mark 16:15-16

… The work of salvation is commenced in you, so far as the Spirit’s work is concerned: it is finished in you so far as Christ’s work …

Psalm 96

Psalm 96

… What we hope for, we labour for all the more that our hope is no dream of fancy, but has its basis in the science and certainty of …

Psalm 30

Psalm 30

… Do not need to be stirred up so often to so pleasant a service. And give thanks . Let your songs be grateful songs, in which the Lord's …

Psalm 9

Psalm 9

… Here is eternal work for us, for there can be no end to the showing forth of all his deeds of love. If we consider our own sinfulness …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… O that our household may never lack a man to stand before the Lord God of Israel to do him service. David left this somewhat sorrowful ode in …

Psalm 91

Psalm 91

… But I say the work they stoop to for you is much beneath them, and therefore why should we not stoop to any work commanded, though it lie …

Psalm 111

Psalm 111

… His work is honourable and glorious. His one special work, the salvation of his people, is here mentioned as distinguished from his many other works. This reflects honour …

Psalm 44

Psalm 44

… What work thou didst. Why only work in the singular, when such innumerable deliverances had been wrought by him, from the passage of the Red Sea to the …

Psalm 85

Psalm 85

… Thou wilt not thus leave thy work unfinished." Thou hast covered all their sin. All of it, every spot, and wrinkle, the veil of love has covered all …

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… 2. Work for here and hereafter. 1. "While I live"; or a period of uncertainty and mystery. 2. "I will praise the Lord"; or a service definite, determined …

Memorable Services at the Tabernacle, 1861-1874

… of the congregation back to “the boy-preacher’s” first service in London:—”The greatness of our work compels us to confess that it must be of God …

Nonconformity

From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7

… God’s grace and help, to raise each other to more earnest labour in the work of evangelizing the people, and of training the population of this country …

Psalm 115

Psalm 115

… The work of men's hands. Works, and not the makers of works. Adam Clarke. Verse 4. The work of men's hands. And therefore they must needs …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890

… I want to take your Sunday service some day when you afe unable to preach. " Cordially yours, " Henry Allon." Dr. Allon's wish to take a service at …

Psalm 18

Psalm 18

… Being possessed of poetic genius, he served the Lord by composing this Psalm for the use of the Lord's house; and it is no mean work to …

Psalm 49

Psalm 49

… The man that by hard labour and hazard of his life did climb up to the top of the steeple to set an egg on end, was deservedly …

Psalm 138

Psalm 138

… Other masters cut out work for their servants, but do not help them in their work; but our Master in heaven doth not only give us work, but …

Laboring And Not Fainting

Revelation 2:3

… It is work with an emphasis. It means hard work, intense exertion, vigorous action. Men may work, but yet not labor and I fear there are many who …

Exposition of the Doctrines of Grace

… The certainty of the result quickens us in our work, and surely it would stay none but a fool in his labour. Because God ordains that his word …

Psalm 141

Psalm 141

… Certainly work, or the lifting up of the hands in labour, is prayer if it be done in dependence upon God and for his glory: there is a …

The Old Gospel for the New Century

Matthew 11:28

… you that labor." That is the picture of a beast that has the yoke upon its shoulder. Men think to find pleasure in the service of Satan and …

Rest, Rest

Matthew 11:28-30

… Take the work “meek” first. I think that refers to the yoke-bearing, the active labor. If I actively labor for Christ I can only find rest in …

A World Wide Welcome

Matthew 11:28

… You are not to labor for that which you cannot get without labor and you are to labor for that which you cannot get by labor! The Savior …

The Believer's Present Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… Divine work that is already completed. What a blessed thing it is to rest both from the sinful service of Satan and from the servile service of the …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… better to hang them on willows than profane them to the service of idols. Sad indeed is the child of sorrow when he grows weary of his harp …

Farm Laborers

1 Corinthians 3:6-9

… service and a personal reward—"Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor." The reward is proportionate, not to the success, but to labor …

Farm Laborers

… Here we have mention of a personal service, and a personal reward: “Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.” The reward is proportionate …

Romans, But Not romanists

Romans 16:1-16

… graduated by the scale of service done! It is an honor to labor for Christ, it is a still greater honor to labor much. If then, any, in …

Rest For The Laboring

Matthew 11:28-30

… To you, then, do we speak, "all you that labor." You who work so hard to earn a crust that your limbs are weary with your daily toil …

Jesus Calling

Matthew 11:28

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1878. "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will …

Psalm 14

Psalm 14

… To answer sceptical cavillings will be labour lost until grace enters to make the mind willing to believe; fools can raise more objections in an hour than wise …

A Question for Hard-hearted Hearers

Amos 6:12

… SHOULD ALWAYS CONTINUE TO LABOR IN VAIN. These people have been preached to, taught, instructed, admonished, expostulated with and advised—shall this unrecompensed work be always performed? We …

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

… Redemption in its various meanings; faith in its universal preservation; the Lord in his unrivalled glory in the work of grace. WORK UPON THE THIRTY-FOURTH PSALM Meditations …