Work & Service

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… The persons selected for this work. (a) Human. "Chosen out of the people." (b) Divine. "Thy Holy One." 3. His qualifications for the work. (a) His own ability …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:6-7

… Nations would be born in a day if we believed it and myriads would flock, like doves, to their windows if we did but look for it, work …

Morning, December 31

Jn 7:37

… him come unto me and drink.” John 7:37 Patience had her perfect work in the Lord Jesus, and until the last day of the feast he pleaded …

True Prayer—True Power!

Mark 11:24

… You do not go to work without knowing that there is something that you designed to make; how is it that you go to God without knowing what …

The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith

Job 23:6

… And mark you, it is a blessed sign of the work of grace in the heart, when man begins to consider God. He is not far from God …

Religion–a Present Enjoyment

… His high estate is as much at our service as was His condition of abasement. He who gave Himself for us in the depths of woe and death …

The Glorious Right Hand Of The Lord

Numbers 11:23

… to the weak for strength, or the creature to do the Creator's work! The great folly of Moses is the folly of most Believers. Let us, then …

Prayer 9 — Glorious Liberty

… It is a work of divine power and love over human nature, for now we are the children of the promise, certainly not born according to the strength …

Repentance Unto Life

Acts 11:18

… You may do some work meet for repentance, and yet you may be impenitent. Let me give you a proof of this in a fact authenticated by inspiration …

A Type and Its Teaching

Genesis 22:8

… be true to His promise! It strikes me that this was the master work of Abraham's faith. To sacrifice Isaac was a wonder of patient submission and …

Confession of Sin—A Sermon With Seven Texts

Exodus 9:27

… I dare say, like Balaam, they would overthrow everything in argument with their enchantments; they could work miracles; and yet at the same time there is something about …

By Grace Through Faith

… Faith is the work of God's grace in us. No man can say that Jesus is the Christ but by the Holy Ghost. "No man cometh unto …

Faith

Hebrews 11:6

… His wife said, “Why can’t you let the poor man pray? He does his work very well; you and I do not care about praying, but there …

Christ Before Annas

John 18:12

… For many a long years he had held his own by flattering Herod, the Roman and the Jew—and he set about the work of mastering the Na …

Waiting Only Upon God

Psalm 62:6

… This work of conflagration went on for several nights but the Danes at length surrendered; and on walking some days after among the ruins, consisting of the cottages …

The Good Man’s Life and Death

Philippians 1:21

… There is neither work nor device in the grave, whither we all are hastening. Surely death is loss. When I look upon thee, thou clay-cold corpse, and …

The Light of the World

John 8:12

… He can use means without miracles, or He can work wonders without wantonness. His first act foretold auspiciously. The twelve Apostles, like a little compact square of grenadiers …

The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant

Hebrews 13:20

… He had, moreover, in the covenant arranged the ways and means, and fixed and settled everything which should work together for the effecting of the purpose and the …

The New Song

Psalm 98:1

… How glorious the fact that all whom he ordained to save are saved! Calling was the first work which he wrought in them; they were called every one …

Memento Mori

Deuteronomy 32:29

… Some years ago, a celebrated author—Drelincourt, wrote a work on Death, a valuable work in itself, but it commanded no sale whatever. There were no men who …

Swooning and Reviving Christ's Feet

… In every work of grace for you and within you, I am the first. Like the dew which comes from the Lord, I waited not for man, neither …

'A Song of My Beloved'

Solomon 2:16

… You know that in the Church of Rome they have certain orders of men and women who devote themselves to various benevolent, charitable, or superstitious work—and who …

God's Thoughts and Ours

Psalm 139:17

… that He is always at your right hand to help you in your service for Him! We also learn the preciousness of God's thoughts to us as …

Bands of Love; or, Union to Christ

… Like every other work of the Spirit, the actual implantation of the soul into Christ Jesus is a mysterious and secret operation, and is no more to be …

Holy Song From Happy Saints

Isaiah 5:1

… There is no engagement under Heaven that is more exalting than praising God—and however great may be the work which is committed to the charge of any …

Thanksgiving And Prayer

Psalm 65:11

… Methinks the sweetness of the service and the delightful nature of the ordinance might suggest to Christians that it was well to have it frequently. We cannot be …

God's King Magnified

Psalm 132:18

… when your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation. Was not that enough? Is there any need …

Christ’s First and Last Subject

Matthew 4:17

… Man can sin, and he can continue in it, but to leave the hateful element is a work for which he needs a power divine. As the river …

'The Shadow of a Great Rock'

Isaiah 32:2

… Here is a delightful picture of the mediatorial work of Christ. He puts Himself between the wrath of God and us. The awful beams that streamed from the …

Soul-satisfying Bread

John 6:35

… But the instructed Believer sees in Jesus Christ fitness, fullness, variety of offices, glory of Character, completeness of work, Immutability and a thousand other things which endear Him …

Unimpeachable Justice

Psalm 51:4

… He feels that his confession is superabundantly enough to condemn him—that is almost a work of supererogation to confess all, for there is enough in one tenth …

God's Word Not to Be Refused

Hebrews 12:25

… arise, may be accepted by your mind and may, by God's Spirit, work upon your hearts and conscience. There is great need of this exhortation from many …

Psalm 21

Psalm 21

… Verse 10. "Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth." Their life's work shall be a failure, and the result of their toil shall be disappointment. That …

Heman's Sorrowful Psalm

Psalm 88:13

… I have so much work to do that I am afraid I shall not get through it all. I must have at least three hours' prayer, or else …

"Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?"

Jeremiah 32:26

… The argument is that since Jehovah is the God of all flesh He can effect His purposes by men and work among them things which seem impossible. The …

To the Rescue

Isaiah 49:24

… Old things have passed away, and all things have become new." You cannot work this of yourself. No priest can effect it, but the Holy Spirit can produce …

The Dumb Become Singers

Isaiah 35:6

… We have not let a sentence escape our lips when we could possibly avoid it, but notwithstanding all that, we have found it hard work to keep dumb …

The New Nature

1 Peter 1:23-25

… If I may so speak, there are those qualities, that composition and disposition of nature which will naturally, if circumstances assist, work out in full development certain results …

The First and the Second

Hebrews 10:9

… first, but He will have established the second! The work of destruction will have been accomplished, but the work of re-creation will also have been finished and …

A Command and a Promise

James 4:8

… But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom. That is just what most of …