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“As the sparrows were permitted to find their house under the eaves of God’s ancient Tabernacle, we, insignificant and worthless as we are, may
come and build under the shelter of God’s great House of Mercy. There we may find a safe refuge from every danger, a perfect security for all
time, and even for all eternity.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3041
“Would you be saved, rich man? There is no way but that whereby the poverty-stricken pauper is also to be saved! Would you be delivered, man
of intelligence? You shall be saved in the same way as the most ignorant! ‘There is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved,’ but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3042
“There is a fullness of the iniquity of every individual sinner in these days, just as there was a fullness of the iniquity of the Amorites in ancient
times.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3043
“But remember, however much you have persecuted God’s saints, however harshly you may have dealt with the followers of Christ, the Lord is
able to transform you into one of them… You think that it is only your child, or your wife, or your mother. But, in persecuting the members of
the body of Christ, you persecute the Head!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3044
“If God says that He will make us a blessing, surely it is implied that once we were not so. Let us look back to the days of our unregeneracy. It
may be that some of us were great curses to our families and to the neighborhood in which we dwelt. If so, we must look back with deep sorrow
upon the past, for, albeit that God has blotted out the guilt of our iniquity, yet the consequences of the sin still continue.”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3045
“Not to the idlers in Herod’s court did Jesus reveal Himself, but to hard working fishermen by the lake of Galilee. If Satan is never far away from
the idle, it is pretty plain that it is no disadvantage to be busy!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3046
“When Omnipotence and Omniscience unite to sift the chaff from the wheat, you may depend upon it that the sifting wall be thoroughly
done!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3047
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“The Spirit was first poured upon Christ and from Him descends to all those who are in union with His adorable Person. Let us bless the name of
Christ if we are united to Him—and let us look up to our Covenant Head, expecting that from Him will flow down the heavenly unction which
shall anoint our souls!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3048
“A deep sense of sin is often a blessedly impelling power to drive us to the Savior. I desire never, in this world, to be free from a deep sense of the
bitterness and guiltiness of sin. Even though freed from the guilt of sin by the precious blood of Jesus, I still desire to feel what an abominable
thing sin is, that I may go, eagerly and passionately, to my dear Lord’s wounds, and get the one only effectual remedy for all my soul diseases.”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3049
“Do not I recollect the time when I would have given my eyes for a tear and would have been willing to suffer anything if I could have but bent
my knees and uttered one groan? But my heart would not yield a sigh or my eyes a tear! I turned to the Book of God but that did not move me. I
listened to the preacher without emotion. It seemed as if even a dying Savior’s groans could never move a heart so base as mine—and yet I bear
witness that Christ came to save such, for I do myself rejoice in His salvation! You who are lost to all feeling may well catch at this text, ‘The Son
of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3050
“When a man has kept his promise once, it does not stand good any longer—but God’s promises may be fulfilled a hundred times over and yet
remain just as valid as when He first gave them. So what God did for His Church at Pentecost He is prepared to do today—and He will do it on a
yet larger scale in those happy times that are yet to come, the latter days for which we look and long with joyful expectation!”—Volume 53,
Sermon #3051
“David lamented the villainy of Ahithophel, but the Savior, inasmuch as He was of a more tender spirit than the son of Jesse, even more keenly
felt the treachery of Judas”—Volume 53, Sermon #3052
“There never was anyone else so kind in heart as He was, yet He clearly taught the dreadful Truth of God that sinners shall be punished in Hell
forever! There never can be any question about the Savior’s view of sin as being a very evil thing and of the punishment of sin as being a very terrible
thing.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3053
“Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3054
“Have you never felt, when you have seen the faults of your own children, that you ought to lay the rod on your own back because, in some way
or other, you were an accomplice in your children’s sins? How much of the ruin of many children’s souls lies at their parents’ door!”—Volume
53, Sermon #3055
“Sometimes it has been asked by unconverted men, ‘Why do you talk so much about atonement? Why could not God be generous and forgive sin
outright? Why should He require the shedding of blood and the endurance of great suffering?’ Sinner, if you had a right sense of sin you would
never ask such a question!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
“I can truly say to every one of you that the main thing you have to do, in this world, is first to follow Christ until you find him as your Savior
or, in other words, the first thing for you to do is to look to Him, to trust in Him. We live in vain if we do not live unto God and if we do not live
by faith in Jesus Christ, the one and only Savior.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3057
“And there comes even a brighter day than has ever dawned upon this poor misty earth—the day of the coming of the Son of Man, when the Sun
of Righteousness shall arise, when Christ shall thrust in His golden sickle and shall reap the harvest of this world! And then shall the righteous
rejoice before Him with a greater joy than ten thousand harvest years have ever known!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3058
“GOD is the poor man’s Friend. The poor man, in his helplessness and despair, leaves his case in the hands of God and God undertakes to care
for him.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3059
“He who is convinced that he knows nothing as he ought to know, gives up steering his ship and lets God put His hand on the rudder. He lays
aside his own wisdom and cries, ‘O God, my little wisdom is cast at Your feet. Such as it is, I surrender it to You.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3060
“I learn from…that it is not the preacher’s business to seek to please his congregation. If he labors for that end, he will in all probability not
attain it. But if he should succeed in gaining it, what a miserable success it would be! He must lose the favor of his Master if he should once aim at
securing the favor of his fellow men. We therefore ought to preach many Truths of God which will irritate our hearers!”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3061
“At the commencement of spiritual life we believe that we are nothing. As we advance, we find that we are less than nothing. May the Holy Spirit
so work in you! Some of you are, perhaps, depending and thinking that you are not children of God, or else you would not be so cast down as you
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are. I pray you to understand this matter aright. Instead of having any reason for despondency, you will find a subject for joy, for I am sure that
the Spirit is honoring Christ when He is lowering you in your own estimation.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3062
“They are the strongest who are the weakest in themselves. They are the richest who know how poor they are apart from God. They have the most
Grace who know how utterly empty they would be of Grace if the Lord should ever withdraw His hand from giving it to them.”—Volume 53,
Sermon #3063
“Since the time when you believed in Jesus, you have had many needs, both spiritual and temporal, but He has promised no good thing will He
withhold from them that walk uprightly. What say you, Brothers and Sisters? Your needs have come—have the supplies come also? I am sure you
will say, ‘it was so’—strangely so—but always so!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3064
“No man ever becomes truly meek, in the Christian sense of that word, until he first knows himself and then begins to mourn and lament that he
is so far short of what he ought to be. Self-righteousness is never meek. The man who is proud of himself will be quite sure to be hard-hearted in
his dealings with others. To reach this rung of the ladder of the Light of God he must first set his feet upon the other two. There must be poverty
of spirit and mourning of heart before there will come that gracious meekness of which our text speaks.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3065
“Whenever a thing is a sin, we need not appeal to Christ to know whether we shall commit it, for we are taught to avoid even the appearance of
evil! If we consider that a thing is wrong, we have no right to do it, even though it might tend to our advantage in worldly affairs. We must not
do evil that good may come, for if we were to do so, then indeed our damnation would be just!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3066
“The best man here will, at times, have painful memories of the past and to look at the past, except through the glass made red by our Savior’s
precious blood, is to look upon despair—for our past transgressions would drag us down to Hell were it not for the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus
Christ.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3067
“Brothers and Sisters, the sayings of Christ upon the Cross have a deeper meaning than that which appears upon the surface. They were texts of
which His eternal life should be the sermon—they were no common words. As no word of Scripture is of private interpretation, no word of the
Savior upon the Cross loses its force and significance in later times.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3068
“Depend upon it, no mutilation and no disease of man’s body was ever so sickening to the most delicate taste as sin is sickening to God!”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3069
“It is not easy for a man who has constantly enjoyed good health and prosperity, to sympathize with the poor and the suffering. Even our great
High Priest, who is full of compassion, learned it by carrying our sorrows in His own Person. To see the sufferings of the afflicted, in many cases,
would be enough to move a stone. And if we visit a hospital and come back with a more tender heart, we shall have found it a sanatorium to ourselves.”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3070
“The Christian Church is the home of Christian love. When it is what it should always be, it is a family—it is ‘the household of faith,’ of which
God Himself is the Father, the Lord Jesus is the Elder Brother, and all the members are Brothers and Sisters—all equal, all one in Christ Jesus,
all seeking to serve the rest, laying themselves out to be servants to the whole band of Brothers and Sisters in Christ.”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3071
“Oh, infinitely better is the end of a spiritual life than the beginning! Contrast the Slough of Despond with the Celestial City and human intellect
cannot fail to see how much better, how infinitely better, the end is than the beginning!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3072
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“There are two sorts of sorrow—the sorrow that rushes like a mighty torrent, and the sorrow which is, perhaps, the worse of the two, which
goes drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip—like the constant dripping which wears away stones—and which makes even the boldest heart to feel the
attrition.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2969
“I would not give twopence for your religion if you are a tradesman—but not fair in your dealings! I do not care if you can sing like David, or
preach like Paul—if you cannot measure a yard of material with the proper number of inches, or if your scales do not weigh rightly, or your
general mode of business is not straight and true—you had better make no profession of religion!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2994
“But many of you who have heard the Gospel, have not believed it…This is your greatest sin—that you have not believed on Jesus Christ, whom
God has sent! Oh, that God the “My soul begs and beseeches of you to renew your prayers for me, that I may preach with greater vigor. What if
my ministry should become as dull and stupid as the ministry of one-half of my Brothers Holy Spirit would convince you of the sin of unbelief and
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enable you to repent of it and to lay hold on Jesus Christ by a act of childlike faith, that you might live through Him!”—Volume 51, Sermon
#2951
“I had sooner die than live to be such a being as many who stand up in the pulpit wholly to waste people’s time and not to win souls!”—Volume
52, Sermon #3013
“It is not said in Heaven, ‘Moral, moral, moral are You, O God!’ But, ‘Holy, holy, holy are You, O Lord!’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2902
“Whatever there may be in the sealed scroll that records God’s purposes in predestination, there cannot be anything there to contradict what is
written on the open scroll of Divine Revelation.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2864
“It is an unspeakable blessing to have sin forgiven.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3037
“If you could ask those Believers who are now in Heaven, they would tell you that they came through great tribulation—many of them not only
washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb, but they sealed their faithfulness to Him with their own blood!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2983
“If you lament your loneliness, cure it by seeking heavenly company. If you have no companions below who are holy, seek all the more to commune
with those who are in Heaven where Christ sits at the right hand of God!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3052
“I have sometimes heard of ministers that have been quite exhausted by the preparation of a single Sunday sermon. I am told, indeed, that one
sermon on a Sunday is as much as any man can possibly prepare! It is such laborious work to elaborate a sermon! And then I say to myself, “Did
my Lord and Master require His servants to preach such sermons as that?” Is it not probable that they would do a great deal more good if they
never tried to do any such fine things, but just talked out of their hearts of the simplest Truths of His blessed Gospel!”—Volume 51, Sermon
#2927
“There is no necessity for saints being on earth that I know of, except for the good of their fellow men. Sanctification might be completed in a
moment. As for all the rest, it is already done. God ‘has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.’ Why do we stay
here, then, at all, but that we may be salt in the midst of putrefaction—light in the midst of darkness—life in the midst of death? The Church is
the world’s hope!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2952
“The separation at what, is called, “religious,” from the, “secular,” is one of the greatest possible mistakes. There is no such thing as a religion of
Sundays, and of chapels and churches. At least though there is such a thing, it is not worth having. The religion of Christ is a religion for seven
days in the week—a religion for every place and for every act! And it teaches men, whether they eat, or drink, or whatever they do, to do all in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and to the glory of God! I pray that you may be kept from falling away from that religion, and that you may be
kept up to the mark in serving the Lord in all things, and attending diligently to the little commonplace matters of daily life.”—Volume 52,
Sermon #2994
“Do not imagine that you can live for twenty, thirty, or forty years in sin and yet be just as likely to be converted as anybody else is! I know that
God can, if He pleases to do so, call you at the 11th hour as easily as at the first, but, as far as you are concerned, if you harden your neck, you have
no right to expect that He will do so, but rather to expect that you shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3037
“If we can but believe in God, He will never desert us! If we can dare, God will do! If we can trust, God will never allow us to be confounded,
world without end! It is sweet beyond expression to climb where only God can lead and plant the standard on the highest towers of the foe!”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3052
“Just in proportion as you enter into your royal heritage and live in it, and believe in it—in this proportion Jesus Christ will be precious to
you.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3014
“Beloved, nothing so delights God, next to the Person of His own dear Son, as the sight of one of those whom He has made like unto the Lord
Jesus! Know you not that Christ’s delights are with the sons of men and that the holiness, the patience, the devotion, the zeal, the love and the
faith of His people are precious to Him?”—Volume 52, Sermon #2970
“What arrow will ever pierce the heart of sin unless it is dipped in the blood of Jesus? When I see sin punished on Christ, I see the evil of it. When I
see Christ dying for my sin, I see the great motive for my dying for my sin. When I behold His griefs and pangs on my behalf, I see a reason why I
should make abundant sacrifices in order that I may glorify Him. Beloved, the death of Christ is the great sin-killer and he who truly knows it
and understands it, will feel its sanctifying power!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2942
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“I recommend some of you, instead of praying, “Lord, give me a sense of pardoned sin. Give me a new heart. Give me to feel that You love me”—
pray those prayers, by-and-by, but for the present, pray like this, “Lord, help me to believe. Lord, give me faith. Lord, drive away my unbelief.”
Direct your prayers to that one point—for that is the matter in which you are lacking. Unbelief is the great stone lying at the door of your heart
and preventing that door from being opened!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2881
“Do you not see that the greater your value of Christ, the greater your strength against temptation? Although the devil may tempt you with this
and that, yet Jesus Christ, being more precious than all else, you say, ‘Get you behind me, Satan. You cannot tempt me while Christ is dear to my
spirit.’ Oh, may you set a very high value upon Christ, that thus you may be kept firm in the day of temptation!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3014
“If anyone should proclaim a religion without a sacrifice, you would soon see how quickly this building would be emptied, or any other place of
worship. There are always more spiders than people where the Atonement is left out. Men must have a sacrifice—in their inmost hearts they
know their absolute need of it when they seek to approach the Lord.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2951
“Christ never meant Christians to be stoics. There is a wide and grave distinction between a gracious acquiescence in the Divine will and a callous
steeling of your heart to bear anything that happens without any feeling whatever. ‘You shall be sorrowful,’ says our Lord to His disciples, and
‘you shall weep and lament.’ It is through the weeping and the lamenting, oftentimes, that the very kernel of the blessing comes to us!”—Volume
52, Sermon #2983
“Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will
shake the very gates of Hell!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2934
“The best sermon Paul preached was when he took bread and gave thanks. He did not do that for show. It was just in the daily course of his habitual
godliness that the man of God came forth boldly before their eyes. Do not conceal your godliness from those around you! Though at first
they may laugh at you and despise you, who can tell but that, like Paul, you may gain influence till they will do anything you tell them? And like
Paul, by means of that influence, you may save all that are in the house and so the text may come true of you, ‘God has given you all them that sail
with you.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2952
“Hark to the shriek that goes up from the midst of the Red Sea, when the waters that stood upright as a heap, suddenly descend and lock in their
death-wooing arms the multitudes of Egyptian chivalry! Do you not see here the Justice of God? You do, but you do not see it so completely,
because a multitude of sinners, in front, have escaped by this very destruction…for had Divine Justice slaughtered all sinners on that occasion,
Israel would have been drowned as well as Egypt! ”—Volume 53, Sermon #3038
“No one man is tempted in all points exactly like another man and each man has certain trials in which he must stand alone amid the rage of war,
with not even a book to help him, or a biography to assist him—no man ever having gone that way before except that one Man whose trail reveals
His nail-pierced feet. He alone knows all the devious paths of sorrow. Yet, even in such by-ways, the Father is with us, helping, sustaining
and giving us Grace to conquer at the close.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3052
“They [God’s people] are not all alike and they never will be! All attempts at uniformity must fail and it is very proper that they should. We need
not wish to be one in the sense of uniformity, but only in the sense of unity not all one jewel, but many set in one crown. It little matters whether
we shine with the sapphire’s blue, or the emerald’s green, or the ruby’s red, or the diamond’s white, so long as we are the Lord’s in the day when
He makes up His jewels!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2970
“If we open our mouth wide, India may be evangelized—and China—and the new world of America and the far-distant world of Australia will
feel the power of the Gospel that we take there in the name of the Lord! Let us pray, as David did long ago, that the whole earth may be filled
with God’s Glory! What is the whole earth, after all, compared with the greatness of God, and with the Infinite Sacrifice that Christ has offered?
Well may the Lord say to each one of us, ‘Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2879
“I like, and the world likes, a religion that will wash—a religion that will stand many showers and much rough usage. Some Christians’ joy
disappears in the wear and tear of life—it cannot endure the world’s rough handling. Let it not be so with us, Beloved, but let us praise, bless
and magnify the name of the Lord as long as we have any being!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2994
“I would recommend you to choose the church of which you would be a member and the pastor whom you would hear by this one thing—by how
much of Christ there is in that church and how much of the savor of Christ there is in that ministry!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3014
“We may also be ‘partakers of other men’s sins’ by joining a church that holds unscriptural doctrines, or that does not act according to Apostolic
precedent. Some people say, ‘We belong to such-and-such a church, but we don’t approve of its teaching or its practice.’ What? You belong to it
and yet you do not approve of its principles? Out of your own mouth you are condemned!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3055
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“When we reach the highest point in our devotions, we still need a Savior. I do not at all like the boastful talk about ‘the higher life’ in which
some people seem to revel. We cannot have too high a life, but, ‘God be merciful to me a sinner,’ is about as big a prayer as I can manage at
present. And often does my soul pray with such earnestness the dying thief’s prayer that his petition is forced to my lips, ‘Lord, remember me
when You come into Your Kingdom.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2941
“I solemnly believe that there are those who have not the shadow of an idea of the meaning of the words which they hear every Sabbath in a form
of prayer! They repeat those prayers without any appreciation of the sense of them. They would probably not notice if the words were put in any
other way. Doubtless they would get as much good out of them if they were thrown together in wild disorder, as they do out of the beautiful and
magnificent array in which they are marshaled! ”—Volume 52, Sermon #2984
“The death of Christ gloriously set forth Divine Justice, because it taught manifestly this Truth of God, that sin can never go without punishment.”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3038
“Now, my Hearer, let me speak to you about your own conversion. If you have skipped the first page of the book, namely, repentance, go back
and begin again, for that faith which has a dry eye and never wept for sin is not the faith of God’s elect! There must be repentance! It is an essential
Grace—no man is truly saved who has not a hatred of the sin he loved before and who has not made a confession of it before God with an
earnest prayer for pardon.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2928
“I will not discuss that question just now, whether the practice of teaching children a form of prayer is proper or not. I would not do it. Children
should be instructed in the meaning of prayer, and their little minds should be taught to pray, but it should be rather the matter of prayer than
the words of prayer that could be suggested. And I think they should be taught to use their own words and to speak to God in such phrases and
terms as their own childlike capacities, assisted by a mother’s love, may be able to suggest.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2943
“But supposing you have joined a church whose doctrines are Scriptural, you may be ‘partakers of other men’s sins’ if the discipline of the church
is not carried out as it should be. If we know that members are living in gross sin and do not deal with them either by way of censure or excommunication
in accordance with the teaching of Christ and His Apostles, we become accomplices in their sin. I often tremble about this matter, for
it is no easy task where we count our members by the thousands. But may we never wink at sin, either in ourselves or in others! May you all, Beloved,
exercise a jealous oversight over one another and so help to keep one another right!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3055
“When a man imagines that all his corruptions are gone, that is no proof that he is rid of them, but only that he does not really know his true
condition, for, if God were but to lift the veil that covers his eyes and let him see the great deeps of sin that are in his nature, he would soon discover
that he has grave cause for fear—and he would be driven to cry out to God, ‘Oh, keep me, I beseech You, or else I shall commit spiritual
suicide! I must and shall become like the vilest of apostates unless Your Sovereign Grace shall hold me on my way.’”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2971
“It is better to count Christ precious than it is to count orthodoxy precious. It is not loving a creed, but it is loving Jesus that proves you a Christian.
You may become such a bigot that it may be only the laws of the land which keep you from burning those who differ from you, and yet you
may have none of the Grace of God in your heart!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3014
“Never was shame more shameful than in the experience of our Lord. Here God seemed to declare, once and for all, how shameful in His sight sin
was. When sin lay but by imputation upon His own dear Son, His Son must be an object of scorn to the universe!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3038
“If there is a poor sinner here who sees the lifeboat of faith come close up to him and he is afraid to step in, if it is any comfort to you, Sinner, let
me tell you that if you step into that lifeboat and are lost, I must be lost, too, for I do not know of any other way of escape!”—Volume 51, Sermon
#2951
“I remember my mother saying to me, ‘I prayed that you might be a Christian, but I never prayed that you might be a Baptist.’ But, nevertheless,
I became a Baptist, for, as I reminded her, the Lord was able to do for her exceedingly above what she asked or thought—and He did! She expected,
of course, that I should be an Independent. Well, as long as your children are saved, you need not put any conditions as to the mode.
Sooner see your son and daughter go to the Established Church, saved, than see them go to your own place of worship and be lost.”—Volume
51, Sermon #2952
“I press it on you—it seems to me to be the greatest of all inconsistencies that a man should think himself able to guide a nation and yet should
lose his own soul! That he should have schemes by which to turn this world into a Paradise and yet lose Paradise for himself! That he should declaim
violently against war and all sorts of evils and yet, himself should be at war with God! Himself a slave to sin! Shall he talk of freedom while
he is manacled by his lusts and appetites? Shall he be enslaved by drink and yet be the champion of liberty?”—Volume 52, Sermon #2995
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“The judge who winks at sin, is the abettor of sin. If the supreme Ruler does not punish sin, He becomes Himself the patron of all guilt and sin
may take its rest beneath the shadow of His wings! But it is not so and, Sinner, God would have you know, and have angels know, and have devils
know that however lightly any of His creatures may think of sin—and however foolishly simple man may toy with it—He knows what a vile
thing it is and He will have no patience with it. ‘He will by no means spare the guilty.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
“We have plenty of Baptist churches educating cowards by the score! They never come out before the whole church—that would be too trying for
their nerves! They are never expected to come out boldly on the Lord’s side. Too often, Baptism is administered somewhere in a corner, when as
few as possible are present and, in that way, where we ought to have lion-like men, we breed those who hide their principles and are ready to
amalgamate with any sect of people so long as they can but bear the name of Christians!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2984
“To think that my case is so bad that God cannot blot out my sin is to doubt His Omnipotence and to do Him grievous dishonor. For me to despair
of receiving the mercy of Christ is to do despite to that generous and self-sacrificing Savior who bled to death on Calvary’s Cross! To think
that He is either unable or unwilling to forgive us is to add to our former offenses—and that which is, in itself, sinful cannot be a help to salvation!”—
Volume 50, Sermon #2911
“It is a blessed temptation to find one of God’s precious promises, for you feel then as if you were tempted to pray, so as to plead it!1904, Sermon
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“Each Christian is a manifestation and display of some attribute or other of God—a different part may belong to each of us, but when the whole
shall be combined, when all the rays of evidence shall be brought, as it were, into one great sun, and shine forth with meridian splendor—we
shall see in Christian experience a beautiful Revelation of our God. ”—Volume 53, Sermon #3036
“Is there a harlot here? O poor fallen woman, I pray that Christ may so forgive you that then you will wash His feet with your tears and wipe
them with the hairs of your head! Is there a thief here? Men say that you will never be reclaimed, but I pray the same Eternal Mercy which saved
the dying thief to save the living thief! Have I any here who have cursed God to His face a thousand times? Return unto your God, for He comes
to meet you! Say to Him, “Father, I have sinned.” Bury your head in His bosom! Receive His kiss of forgiveness, for God delights to pardon and
to blot out transgression. Now that He has smitten Christ, He will not smite any sinner who comes to Him through Christ. His wrath is gone and
He can now say, “Fury is not in Me.” Here, then, is a great wonder—that Christ’s precious blood can cleanse the vilest of the vile and you may
now pray the prayer of the text, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.””—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
“I love Protestantism, but if there is anything in this world that I have a horror of, it is that political Protestantism which does nothing but sneer
and snarl at its fellow citizens—but which is as ignorant as a cow about what Protestantism truly is.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3014
“Oftentimes the Good Shepherd, in caring for the sheep, ‘makes us lie down,’ but He is glad when we come of our own accord that we may rest
and listen to His Word.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2927
“Do not grieve the Spirit of God by unworthy doubts and mistrusts—these things will be like fiery arrows in your own soul and drink up the
very life of your strength. However hard the struggle and difficult the trial, if you seek the Lord, seek Him in the confidence He deserves.”—
Volume 51, Sermon #2923
“It is hard to keep to the narrow way when the broad road runs so near to it that sometimes they seem to be one! The time was when the broad
road was so distinct from the narrow one that we could easily discern who was travelling to Heaven and who was going to Hell. But now the
devil has engineered the broad road so very close up to the side of the narrow way that there are many people who manage to walk on both of
them—they were never so pleased as when they could first take a little turn on the narrow road and then, afterwards, take another turn on the
broad one.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2971
“God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without temptation. The natural man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward—and
the Christian is born to temptation just as certainly and necessarily.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2997
“The pains of the damned in Hell are no atonement for sin! They suffer in consequence of sin, but no atonement has been made by them, for all
they have suffered has not lessened what they have to suffer. And when ten thousand times ten thousand years shall have rolled over their poor
accursed heads, they will be just as far off having satisfied Divine Justice as they are now, for sin is such a dreadful thing that even Tophet cannot
burn it up, though ‘the pile thereof is fire and much wood,’ and though ‘the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.’ Sin is
cast into its flames and men suffer there—but all the burnings of Gehenna never did consume a single sin, and never could. Think of that! Earth,
Heaven and Hell could never take away a single sin from a single soul!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
“‘Tis greatly wise to talk about our last hours. The shroud, the grave, the shovel may teach us more of true wisdom than all the learned heads
that ever pondered vain philosophy, or all the lips that ever uttered earth-born science!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2929
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“It is true that nothing could add to His Glory as God, but seeing that He assumed our Nature and became Man as well as God, He added to His
Glory by all the shame He bore. There is not a reproach that pierced His heart which did not make Him more beautiful! There is not a line of
sorrow that furrowed His face which did not make Him more lovely—that marred Countenance is more to be admired by us than all the comeliness
of earthly beauty! He was always superlatively beautiful. His beauty was such as might well hold the angels spellbound as they looked upon
Him!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2983
“I do not care to what church you belong, or what creed you are ready to die for, you do not know the Truth of God unless the Person of Christ
is dear to you!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3014
“In these days, we know right well that there are unconverted persons in the audience and it is proper, therefore, to have one message to the saints
and another message to the sinners—and to let it be seen, all through the sermon, that the preacher is aware that the Lord has made a distinction
between Israel and Egypt—between them that fear Him and them that fear Him not.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2953
“The reporter has not got a sign in all his stenography, I think, by which he can record a cry. A cry is the heart’s own language with which the
tongue cannot interfere. Is there anybody here that does pray and yet cannot pray—who groans before God, ‘Oh, that I might be saved’—whose
only words are tears—whose only language is the anguish of his silent spirit? Ah, you are the person—the person that can cry! Cry then unto the
Lord with all your might. It is said of such, ‘He sent His word and healed them.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2921
“If our sins had been punished upon ourselves with the utmost rigor of the Divine law, that Law would not have been as honored throughout the
entire universe of intelligent beings as it now must be when they hear that God, Himself, would sooner pay the penalty of sin than allow His Law
to be broken with impunity!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2905
“Martin Luther would never have been the Martin Luther he was if it had not been for the devil. The devil was, as it were, the proof-house for
Martin Luther. He must be tried and tempted by Satan and so he became fit for the Master’s use.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2997
“No sinner, when converted, although God has forgiven him, can ever forgive himself—and no child of God, although God has blotted out his
sin, can ever blot it out of his own memory as long as he is here on earth.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3037
“If I were to tell you that I was commissioned by God to say that if you walked from here to John o’Groat’s House in the cold and wet, barefooted
and ate nothing on the way but dry bread and drank nothing but water, you would inherit eternal life, you would all be on the road tomorrow
morning, if not tonight! But when I say just this, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved,” what do you do, then? Are
you such a fool as to be damned because the way to be saved is too simple? My anger waxes hot against you, that you should play the fool with
your own soul and be damned because it is too easy.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
“I consider the form of prayer to be no more worthy of being called prayer than a coach may be called a horse. The horse will be better without
the coach, travel much more rapidly and find himself much more at ease. He may drag the coach, it is true, and still travel well. Without the heart
of prayer, the form is no prayer—it will not stir or move—it is simply a vehicle that may have wheels that might move, but it has no inner force
or power within itself to propel it.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2943
“A little while, Sinner, and you will never have another invitation to come to Christ. A little while and there will be no outstretched arms of Him
who died upon the Cross, ‘the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2953
“The man who dares not have his ship examined is the man who knows that some of the timbers are rotten! And if you do not like being examined,
you are the very men who ought to put yourself through that process without a moment’s delay, obeying the injunctions of the Apostle,
‘Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves. Know you not yourselves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be
reprobates?’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2971
“I call that real happiness which I can enjoy by the hour together in my room alone, calmly looking into things and feeling content. I call that
real joy which I feel when I wake up at night and, though full of pain, can lie still and bless God for His goodness.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3016
“I believe that if we could brighten the faces of all the saints and anoint them with the oil of gladness, we would do more than anything else could
do to spread Christianity. I mean if we could make the children of the King rejoice, we should cause worldlings to ask, ‘Where does this joy come
from?’ And as they asked this question, we would give them the answer and so the Gospel would be sure to spread.”—Volume 51, Sermon
#2941
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“Regeneration is an absolute necessity before any soul can enter Heaven—and you must not be satisfied with anything short of that! Yet you may
be grateful if, like Timothy, from a child you have known the Scriptures, or if, like Samuel, you have been brought up in the house of the Lord
from your very early years.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3037
“God is so inflexibly just that He has never forgiven and will never forgive the sinner without having exacted the punishment for his sin! He is so
strictly true to His threats and so inexorably severe in His justice, that His holy Law never relaxes its hold upon the sinner till the penalty is paid
to the utmost farthing.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3054
“It is a fine word, that word, “silly.” Hardly do I know another that is so eminently descriptive. There may be some sort of dignity in being a
fool—but to be silly—to attract no attention except ridicule—is so utterly contemptible that I do not know how a more sarcastic epithet could
be applied!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2984
“And we know some who when they go on the Continent, for instance, say, ‘Well, we need not be quite so exact there.’ And therefore the Sabbath
is utterly disregarded and the sanctities of daily life are neglected, so reckless are they in their recreations. Well, Sirs, if your religion is not warranted
to keep in any climate, it is good for nothing!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2902
“No faith brings greater glory to God than the faith of the audaciously guilty when they dare to believe that God can forgive them!”—Volume
51, Sermon #2934
“If all the Believers who have ever lived, or who ever shall live, could be gathered together, we might maintain that there is not, in the whole
universe, a single sin that can be laid to the charge of any soul that believes in Jesus.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2998
“Such, my Brothers and Sisters, is the true philosophy of a Christian’s life. You are to do good works as zealously as if you were to be saved by
your good works—and you are to trust in the merits of Christ as though you had done nothing at all! So, too, in the service of God, though you
are to work for God as if the fulfillment of your mission rested with yourselves, you must clearly understand and steadfastly believe that, after all,
the whole matter, from first to last, rests with God! Without Him, all you have ever planned or performed is unavailing.”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2913
“There are many very sweet conditional promises—one of them helped to save my soul at rest, it was this, ‘Look unto Me, and be you saved, all
the ends of the earth.’ The condition there is, ‘Look unto Me.’ But you cannot prove it unless you look unto Christ! Here is another, ‘Whoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’ What a blessed promise that is! But then you cannot prove the promise unless you call on the
name of the Lord. So that, whenever we see the promise to which a condition is attached, if we wish to prove it in our own experience, we must
ask of God to give us Grace to fulfill the condition!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3036
“Brothers and Sisters, the Virgin Mary was a sinner, saved by Grace, as you and I are! That Savior whom she brought forth, was a Savior to her
as much as to us. She had to be washed from sin, both original and contracted, in the precious blood of her own Child, ‘the Son of the Highest.’
Neither could she have entered Heaven unless He had pronounced her absolution and she had been, as we are, ‘accepted in the Beloved’”—
Volume 52, Sermon #3018
“It is powerful pleading when you have Christ praying by your side and know that you have Him there—and when you feel that your prayer is
not the petition of a suppliant who is pleading alone, but the utterance of one who is covered up and lost sight of in the Person of the greater
Pleader—the Lord Jesus Christ. This is, indeed, seeing Christ. ‘You see Me,’ said Christ to His disciples, and we do see Him when we realize His
power with us in the hour of prayer!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2953
“But even the Man Christ Jesus, in association with the Godhead, could not have taken away your sins unless He had died. I never read in Scripture
that all that He did in His life could take away sin. The Savior’s life is the robe of righteousness with which His people are covered, but that
is not the bath in which they are washed.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
“Every Divine promise, if it is rightly viewed by faith, will make the heart leap for joy.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2864
“Dear Brothers and sisters, may you, by God’s Grace, be preserved from sin, but if sin should come upon you unawares, may your bones be broken
by it and may you feel that your very heart is wounded because you have wounded your God! To repent of sin is one of the hallmarks of a
Christian, but to have a hardened, untrembling heart is one of the sure marks of the reprobate who is far off from God!”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2971
“And are you practically keeping Christ’s words as to the precepts of the Gospel? Have you believed on Him? Believing on Him, have you been
baptized according to His command? Being baptized, do you come to His Table according to His bidding, “This do in remembrance of Me”? Or
do you turn on your heels and say that these are nonessential things?”—Volume 50, Sermon #2895
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“A religion without the blood of Christ in it is a lifeless religion. A religion without the Atonement and reconciliation by the blood of the Covenant
has missed the most essential part of true godliness!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2928
“Do, I beseech you, put the Lord in mind of His own promises and He will most assuredly fulfill them! Here is a challenge to all the redeemed,
‘Prove Me now.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3036
“What can be our reason for calling God our Lord if we refuse to consult Him? Do not even the heathen always conclude that a god is to be consulted?
Though their lying oracles have deluded them, yet have they always been right in the idea that the very thought of godhead implied guidance!
And shall we turn away from Jehovah who really can guide us? While the heathen look to stocks of wood and stone, shall we confide in
human oracles and neglect to consult God who knows all things?”—Volume 52, Sermon #2996
“Even if any of you are looking forward to a dreaded sickness, or to a painful operation, or to business losses which may sink you from your
present comfortable position to one of great trial and poverty—think of this blessed Truth of God—‘God is faithful.’”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2912
“I remember the story of a felon, in those days when they used to hang people for very little indeed. A poor man, who had committed some offense,
was condemned to die. While he lay waiting for the sentence, the Lord sent a choice minister of the Gospel to him and his heart was enlightened
so that he found Christ. As he was on the way to the gallows, what, do you think, was this man’s cry? He was overwhelmed with joy and,
lifting up his hands, he said many times, “Oh, He is a great Forgiver! He is a great Forgiver!” Death was no terror now that he had found forgiveness
through Jesus Christ!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3016
“Remember what we said the other night—there is all the difference in the world between the religion that is made up of, ‘Do, do,’ and that
other religion that is spelt ‘D-o-n-e, done.’ He who has the religion of, ‘It is all done,’ loves God out of gratitude and serves Him because he is
saved. But he who has the religion of ‘Do’ is always a slave, never gets salvation, but perishes in his doings—as they deserve to do who will look
to themselves instead of looking to Christ!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
“All the life that any Believer ever had on the face of the earth, he must have derived from the Lord Jesus Christ for he had none of his own. And
when the Holy Spirit had given him this life from Jesus Christ, he could not keep it alive by his own power. He had to remain in union with Jesus
if he was to continue to live, as Christ reminded His disciples, ‘Without Me, (severed from Me), you can do nothing.’ Let us recognize this fact,
Beloved, that we who have seen Christ have a new life within us which we did not create and which we could not nourish and sustain, but which
Jesus keeps, feeds and preserves through the gracious ministry of the Holy Spirit. And thus we live as the world does not live—it is dead in sin,
but we are alive unto God by Jesus Christ!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2953
“The very thought of sin, the word of sin, the very garments spotted with the flesh should be hated by the Christian. The Lord give us to feel
more and more of this! We shall only get it, however, by living more where the groans of Calvary can meet our ears and the sight of the Savior’s
wounds can melt our hearts!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3038
“Blessed Savior, we rejoice that You have gained by all Your sorrows, for therefore has God highly exalted You, and given You a name which is
above every name!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2983
“Blessed is the man who, in his holy things, fears always—the man who is afraid when he is alone on his knees, lest he should not pray rightly—
the man who is afraid lest, either in public or in private, he should act the hypocrite before his God!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2971
“Never do men give so freely to the cause of God as when they are rejoicing over pardoned sin! Keep a deep sense of your indebtedness to God
alive in your soul and you will feel that you can never do enough for Him who has forgiven you so much!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
“Somebody or other always seemed to object to Mary! If Martha does not do it, Judas will. To be found guilty of excess of love to Christ is such a
blessed criminality that I wish we might be executed for it! It were sweet to be put to death for such a crime! It was that that Christ died of—He
was found guilty of excess of love. (Joh_12:3-7)”—Volume 51, Sermon #2927
“We would pray better than we do if we meditated more, before prayer, upon the God whom we address in our supplications.”—Volume 51,
Sermon #2943
“Beware, dear Friends, of the devil! Beware of him most when you think you have least need to beware of him!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2997
“There are those who love the high places of the earth where they can exalt themselves. But he who is wise will choose to be numbered among the
hungry whom the Lord fills with good things and not among the rich whom He sends away empty. He will delight to be reckoned among those
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that are of low degree, whom God exalts, even the humble and the meek—and he will not wish to be gathered with the proud, against whom the
Lord has registered His solemn declaration that He will stain the pride of their glory.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2878
“Not even the unfallen seraphim can render to God purer homage than when you, a defiled and condemned sinner, dare to believe in the mercy of
God in Christ Jesus and so believe as to say, with David, ‘Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2934
“Sanctification is a lifelong work, continuously effected by the Holy Spirit, but justification is done in an instant! It is as complete the moment a
sinner believes as when he stands before the Eternal! Is it not a marvelous thing that one moment should make you clean?”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3054
“And while it is cause for congratulation that you may not have wandered so far into sin as others, it is also cause for trembling, for verily I say
unto you, publicans and harlots often enter the Kingdom of Heaven before Pharisees! Some who were the vilest of the vile have come to Christ—
have penitently accepted His righteousness while others robed in their own righteousness have gone down to Hell and perished with a double
destruction with the rags of their righteousness about them!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2924
“Never dream that you can be pardoned and then be allowed to live as you did before—the very wish to do so would show that you were still
under condemnation.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3016
“The wrath of the Lamb is the worst thing a sinner can ever feel. “The wrath of the Lamb!” Think of that! When love turns to anger, it is cruel as
the grave. To despise Incarnate Love is to entail upon yourself infinite misery! They who perish without the knowledge of Christ, perish happily
compared with you! It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for you if you have despised Christ!”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3038
“When you are ill, bless God for the health you will enjoy when you get well! When you are down-hearted, bless God for the joy that you will
have when He shall again lift up the light of His Countenance upon you! When you go to the grave of a Christian friend, bless God because you
will meet that friend again!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2864
“The Doctrine of Final Perseverance, or the Eternal Preservation of Believers, seems to me to be written as with a beam of sunlight throughout
the whole of Scripture! If that is not true, there is nothing at all in the Bible that is true, for that Truth of God is there if anything is! It is impossible
to understand the Bible at all if it is not so. But it is so, glory be to God!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2953
“I know that on a certain day I shall stand before the judgment bar of Christ—but that Judgment Day is mine! I fear it not, I dread it not. I know
that soon I must die, but the River of Death is mine! It is mine to wash me, that I may leave the dust of earth behind. It is a glorious river though
its waters may be tinged with blackness, for it takes its rise in the mountains of love, hard by the Throne of God!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3054
“I cannot see a bleeding Savior without understanding that there must be pardon! Gethsemane, Gabbatha, Golgotha—three sacred words, three
irresistible arguments by which it is proved beyond controversy that there is forgiveness even for the chief of sinners!
“It is said that the bow of William the Conqueror was so strong that no man in England, except himself, could bend it. And the great bow of
King Jesus is such as none of us can bend! It has the power of the Holy Spirit in it—it is the Holy Spirit, Himself, who gives force and power to
the Word so that it pierces through all the sinner’s armor, the most vital part of his being and smites him even in the heart. ”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3039
“When Satan tempts us, he strikes sparks on tinder. But, in Christ’s case, when the devil tempted Him, it was like striking sparks on water, yet he
kept on striking. Now, if the devil goes on striking where there is no better result than that, how much more will he do it when he knows what
inflammable stuff our hearts are made of? Expect it, then. Though you become ever so sanctified by the Holy Spirit and destroy sin after sin and
lust after lust, you will have this great dog of Hell still barking at you!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2997
“I cannot see a bleeding Savior without understanding that there must be pardon! Gethsemane, Gabbatha, Golgotha—three sacred words, three
irresistible arguments by which it is proved beyond controversy that there is forgiveness even for the chief of sinners!”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2972
“If all the mighty orators who have moved the Christian Church at once to tears and to joy, could stand here, I would defy them to weigh this
burden of the Lord, or estimate its tremendous meaning, ‘Christ was made a curse for us.’ Christ a curse! Jehovah-Tsidkenu a curse! Jesus, the
darling of the Father, made a curse! He, who ‘counted it not robbery to be equal with God,’ a curse! O angels, you may well marvel at this mystery,
for its astounding depths you cannot fathom! Yet so it is. ‘He has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in Him.’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
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