| Devotional | Fellowship with God
Fellowship with God, then, as to privilege, is communion with Him; the actuality of friendship and fellowship with God, as to responsibility, is partnership with Him. . . Fellowship with God means we have gone into business with God, that His enterprises are to be our enterprises.
. . . . How many people are there in company with whom you can p ...read |
| Sermon | Fellowship with God
Our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 2:3
The great word of this passage, which at once arrests our attention, is the word "fellowship." While not exclusively so, it is peculiarly the word of John; and as I find it in this letter, and in the two brief ones which follow, I am always impressed with the thought th ...read |
| Sermon | Final Words
The Lord be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. 2 Timothy 4:22
Grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever. Amen. 2 Peter 3:18
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. Amen. Revelation 22:21
Let me say immediately that the texts are chosen for a definite purpose, ...read |
| Sermon | Follow Me
Follow Me. John 1:43
I have selected these two words for our present meditation because they seem to have been the favorite form of invitation on the lips of our Master, and I have selected them from this particular verse because it gives us the earliest recorded use of them.
Other occasions of their use we read as lesson. A little later on one ...read |
| Sermon | Forgiveness
... the forgiveness of our sins. Colossians 1:14
These words constitute a phrase of interpretation. It stands in this verse in apposition to the word "redemption," and declares its fundamental value. "In Whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins." Redemption in its finality means far more than forgiveness of sins. In that finality ...read |
| Sermon | Four Mistakes About Christ
Is not this the Carpenter...? Mark 6:3
John the Baptizer is risen from the dead, and therefore do these powers work in him. Mark 6:14
Jesus therefore perceiving that they were about to come and take Him by force, to make Him King, withdrew again into the mountain Himself alone. John 6:15
... they, when they saw Him walking on the sea, supp ...read |
| Devotional | Fragrance of the Rose of Sharon
Holiness does not need to be talked about; it talks. You remember Emerson's words--I do not quote the pisissima verba, but the spirit of what he said--"I cannot hear what you say for listening to what you are." I repeat, holiness does not need to be talked about; it talks. I quite agree with you that the nearer a man lives to his Lord, the less he ...read |
| Sermon | Gethsemane: The Garden of Spices
Then cometh Jesus with them unto the place called Gethsemane. Matthew 26:36
In the Hebrew economy, on the Day of Atonement the High Priest entered the Holiest of all three times. First, he passed within the veil, carrying fire in the golden censer and incense in his hands. There he cast the incense on the fire, and the cloud of it overshadowed t ...read |
| Sermon | God in Christ
God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. 2 Corinthians 5:19
The hour of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth was that in which the Light that lighteth every man came into the world. To describe the event in terms which suggest its value in the economy of God, I should be inclined to speak of it as the last crisis in the Divine procedure. ...read |
| Sermon | God's Fighting Forces
By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you. Judges 7:7
In his address from the chair of the Congregational Union last month, Mr. J. D. Jones, of Bournemouth, uttered these words:
Numbers are not the first consideration with the Christian Church. We need to be delivered from the tyranny of schedules and from the craven fear of comparat ...read |
| Devotional | God's Sufficient Grace
"My grace is sufficient for thee." Upon that great word many a weary head has rested; many wounded hearts have been healed by it; discouraged souls have heard its infinite music and have set their lives to new endeavor until they have become victorious.
That stake in the flesh, that messenger of Satan, is in My grace. It is part of My method. T ...read |
| Sermon | God's Thought of The King
This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased. Matthew 3:17
These words constitute the inscription stamped around the Image imprinted on this gospel according to Matthew. The Image is that of the King. We have the book of His genealogy, the story of His birth, the record of the ministry of His herald. Then we see Him as lawgiver, Administrat ...read |
| Sermon | God-Governed Life
The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain. Deuteronomy 1:6
The sojourn of the people of God at Mount Horeb had been a most vital one. There they had received the law, an expression of the Divine grace. There the national constitution had been perfected, so that they were in very deed a theocracy, ...read |
| Sermon | Godliness and Gain
Supposing that godliness is a way of gain. But godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Timothy 6:5, 6
The arresting word of the text is "godliness," for it is twice repeated. The word becomes more arresting when this letter is read through in close relation and connection, and it is discovered that it occurs therein no less than ten times.
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| Sermon | Grace And Law
Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that His fear may be before you, that ye sin not. Exodus 20:20
In those wonderful days of the emancipation of the Hebrew people and their realization of the constitutional national life Moses twice uttered these words, "Fear not." In each case they were addressed to the people when they were filled wit ...read |
| Sermon | Halting
How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow Him. 1 Kings 18:21
Ahab was King of Israel. The kingdom was in a most deplorable condition, perhaps at a period darker than any other in its history. Ahab was a veritable incarnation of evil, and his influence, together with that of Jezebel, had been ...read |
| Sermon | Hardened
But exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called Today, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin . Hebrews 3:13
"Hardened by the deceitfulness of sin."
The warning of the text is addressed to people familiar with the letter of God's word. Hence its applicability to such an audience as this. Most of us heard the first ...read |
| Sermon | High Purpose, Failing and Fulfilled
And Peter answered Him and said, Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee upon the waters. And He said, Come. And Peter went down from the boat, and walked upon the waters, to come to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, and too ...read |
| Sermon | His Workmanship
We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
This verse contains a remarkable statement as to the Christian life. All other conceptions of life at its very best are idealistic, but the Christian conception is also dynamic. "We are His workmanship," not merely ...read |
| Sermon | Holiness 1: It's Definition
The Gospel according to Luke is that of the Universal Saviour. In it, Jesus is seen as Man, and His work is dealt with in its widest application. The true ideal of God's ancient people Israel is recognized. Messiah is revealed as of the stock of Abraham, and yet as the Saviour of all men. The song of Mary, the prophecy of Zacharias, the chanting of ...read |
G. Campbell Morgan