Work & Service

A Sermon For Men Of Taste

1 Peter 2:1-3

… It is not hand work here, it is mouth work. "Oh but I am afraid I have no taste and that if I did receive Christ into my …

Secret Drawings Graciously Explained

Jeremiah 31:3

… Hence the Lord does not decline to work upon the minds of the guilty by motives drawn from fear. Notice the 23rd and 24th verses of the previous …

Stand Fast

Colossians 1:23

… am "confident of this very thing, that He which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." "I give unto …

The Beloved Pastor's Plea for Unity

Romans 1:7

… He ordained them unto eternal life and He resolved so to work upon them that, while He did not violate the freedom of their wills, or treat them …

Our Thoughts About God's Thoughts

Psalm 139:17

… Yes, that is your name for that force, but it is really God who is everywhere at work! Though the law of gravitation may be said to be …

Christ's Prayer for Peter

Luke 22:32

… If, therefore, Satan could manage to cut through the graft there, then he would defeat the Savior's work most completely. Faith is the very heart of true …

Life From the Dead

Ephesians 2:1

… Corruption has not yet done its work and tender care has guarded the body from what will surely come to it, yet there is death—sure, complete death …

The King's Weighings

1 Samuel 2:3

… By this means they were made strong and glad—they began to sing instead of sighing and to work wonders instead of fainting under their burdens even as …

Broad Rivers And Streams

Isaiah 33:20-23

… Our Lord will still raise pastors after His own heart, and teachers anointed for His work. The living waters shall ever gush from the foot of Mount Zion …

A Great Mistake and the Way to Rectify It

Revelation 3:17

… They thought they were making progress, but they were going backward and because they did not know their true condition, it was hard work to help them. You …

Prayer 6 — The Wonders of Calvary

… May we ascend in joyful contemplation and may our spirit come back again, strong for all its service, armed for all its battles, armoured for all its dangers …

Meat Indeed, and Drink Indeed

John 6:55

… Now Jesus Christ is the only food that can make His people strong for service. Feed on Him and you shall run and not be weary! You shall …

Mistaken Notions About Repentance

Ezekiel 36:31

… But how does God work repentance in the soul when He has renewed the nature? As we read the chapter, we noticed that He gave great mercy to …

The Ark of the Covenant

Jeremiah 3:16

… Let them sit together and begin to talk of the things of God—of the Covenant of Grace; the work of the Spirit in the soul; the preciousness …

Jehovah-Jireh

Genesis 22:14

… purchase you, He will let that work fail because you cannot provide some little odds and ends to complete the work? Oh, dream not so! Dote not on …

An Objection and an Answer

Galatians 5:6

… You go home, working man, resolved to give half a day's work for a whole day's wage. You go home, master, to act the tyrant over …

The Lamentations of Jesus

Luke 19:41

… Tears fall amid the thunders and though the doom is sealed by obstinate impenitence, yet judgment is evidently strange work to the patient Judge. This anguish showed how …

Christians Kept In Time And Glorified In Eternity

… He has begun the work and He will finish it. He will make us so perfectly holy that we shall have no tendency to sin any more. The …

Vanities and Verities

2 Corinthians 4:18

… Yet how bravely he sticks to his work! He faces every danger and never dreams of flinching. Never for a single moment does he seem to take into …

Psalm 87

Psalm 87

… Here's the excellency of the ordinances, and that power and energy which is stirring in the Church of Christ; that it is able to work such a …

A Procession of Cross-bearers

Mark 10:21

… They are to exercise no lordship, the one over the other, nor to seek it, for the truest honor in the Church of God is found in service …

The Righteous Father Known and Loved

John 17:25

… Only the scholars of the New Jerusalem who have, for ages, studied the manifold wisdom of God in the glorious work of redemption and, perhaps not even they …

Reasons For Doubting Christ

Matthew 14:31

… She had become unfit even for the lowest work to which the devil, himself, could put her—and she found all her old companions had cast her away …

The Winnowing Fan

Hebrews 12:14

… If laziness is detestable to good men, much more must it be to God. "My Father works up to now, and I work," says Christ. You find no …

Prayer 10 — The Music of Praise

… Blessed be Thy name forever fruit of holiness, forever work of faith, but oh! for more. Thou hast changed the tree. It is no longer a bramble. It …

A Hard Case

Job 33:14-18

… I find the translation may be that God withdraws man from his work, from that which has been his life-work—from the whole run and tenor of …

Other Sheep and One Flock

John 10:16

… One Gospel of salvation is to be proclaimed everywhere! And no other work is in our commission. Then it is added, "They shall hear My voice." It is …

On Raising Questions

… If I were doomed to die, and I had a hint of mercy, I am sure I should not set my wits to work to find out reasons …

The Wedding Garment

Matthew 22:11-14

… Wood, hay, and stubble building is quick work, but it is a waste of effort; we need continually to examine our materials, and see that we use only …

"After Two Days Is the Passover"

Matthew 26:2

… He was immortal till His work was done. But when the two days of which He spoke were over, He must die. With cruel and wicked hands and …

First Literary Friends (Continued)

… Blessed with a vigorous mind, and with great physical energy, — mens sana in corpore sano, — you have consecrated all to your Master's service, and hence you have …

The Judgment Upon Zacharias

Luke 1:20

… Very likely God will give you some sharp medicine, but it shall work for your good. As his child, he will not chasten you so as to injure …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

… The work of the destruction of the Temple which was in progress in Ps 74:1-23, appears in Ps 79:1-13 as completed, and here, as …

A Real Hindrance to Faith

… If you now trust him, it will be clear that he has begun a good work in you, and we feel assured that he will carry it on.

The Horns of the Altar

1 Kings 2:30

… The kingdom of God has come nigh unto you, but I fear it will work your damnation through your unbelief; for it will be a savour of death …

Prayer 25 — The Washing of Water By The Word

… provoking faults, and go on with us, we pray Thee, till Thy great work shall be completed and we shall be brethren of the First Born, like unto …

Jesus, The Stumbling Stone Of Unbelievers

1 Peter 2:7

… When men stumble at the plan of salvation by Christ's sacrificial work, what is it that they stumble at? The reply must be a somewhat wide one …

Prayer 20 — The Great Sacrifice

… to drive them away. O Spirit of God, make us all more holy. Work in us more completely the image of Christ. We do long to be as …

A Mediator

Galatians 3:20

… One, and would have me to be the second, that there may be work for a Mediator to do! That is clear enough. II. Now go a step …

Difficulty in the Way of Believing

… me.” If hearing and reading suffice not, then deliberately set your mind to work to overhaul the matter , and have it out. Either believe, or know the reason …