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“It is easy to get black by sin, but remember that it is so hard to get clean that only God’s Omnipotence, in the Person of Christ, could provide a
Cleanser for your sins.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3056
“Christ keeps nothing back from His chosen. Between the heart of a true saint and Christ there are no secrets! We pour our hearts into His heart
and He pours back His heart into ours. Does He not, this day, manifest Himself unto us as He does not unto the world? You know that He does!
And therefore you will not ignorantly cry out, as this woman did, ‘Blessed is the womb that bore You,’ but you will intelligently bless God that,
having heard the Word, and kept it, you have, first of all, as true a communion with the Savior as the Virgin had, and you have, in the second
place, as true an acquaintance with the secrets of His heart as she can be supposed to have obtained!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3018
“Now, we may find Christ, in a sense, so as to know much about Him, to read about Him, to hear about Him and even to understand much about
Him, yet not truly find Him. The root of the matter is to get Christ for yourself! In this respect, you must be selfish and you can thus be selfish
without being sinful. You must personally lay hold of Christ if you would be saved!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3041
“Rutherford says, in one of his letters, ‘When Christ’s dear child is carrying a burden, it often happens that Christ says, ‘Halves, My love,’ and
carries half of it for him.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2983
“You cannot say that Jesus Christ ever troubled His head about what He should eat, or what He should drink—His meat and His drink consisted
in doing His Father’s will!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2973
“Oh, what wonders God can do! He loves us to state the difficulty we are in, so that when He gets us out of it, we may remember that we were in
such a condition! It was a real disaster and a time of real trial—and yet the Lord redeemed us from it.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2923
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“God has been pleased to add to us, year by year, pretty nearly after the rate of four hundred members in a year till our numbers have been swollen
beyond our most sanguine hopes. Oh, how greatly has He multiplied the people and increased our joy! Surely the Spirit of God is with us!”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3058
“We are told by Luke that Jesus Christ was full of the Holy Spirit. He was full of the Holy Spirit, yet He was tempted! Why? Because the Holy
Spirit is never given in vain and, if given to us, it is as a preparation for conflict in order that we may have strength proportioned to our
need.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2997
“If a man keeps the Lord’s commandments, He will have power with God in prayer. But when a man lives habitually in sin, or even occasionally
falls into sin, he cannot pray so as to prevail, he cannot win the ear of God as he used to do. You know right well that if you have offended the
Lord in any way, you cannot enjoy the Gospel as you did before you so sinned. The Bible, instead of smiling upon you, seems to threaten you in
every text and every line—it seems to rise up, as in letters of fire, and burn its way into your conscience!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2895
“He that believes in Jesus is safe forever!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3041
“Cold prayers court a denial. God hears by fire and the God that answers by fire let Him be God!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2943
“Yes, and let a man really have the fear of Hell before his eyes and a sincere desire for reconciliation with God—let his soul be really hungering
after peace with God through Jesus Christ—and he will be at mercy’s door both night and day! He will hammer away at the knocker and give
God no rest until He puts forth His hand and gives the Bread of Life to that poor starving suppliant. Yes, it is holy importunity that wins the
day—and the spiritually hungry man gets the blessing because his importunity gives success to his pleading with God!”—Volume 52, Sermon
#3019
“Some of the worst men were once, apparently, meek-hearted hearers of the Word, but they sat under the preaching of the Gospel till they grew
ripe enough to deny God and curse Him. The unsanctified hearing of the Gospel has sometimes produced more gigantic specimens of sin than the
deaf ear of the adder. Beware, my Hearer!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2984
“It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him—
be your faith weak or be it strong.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2954
“If you would obey Christ and so serve Him, be like He, for the sum and substance of His teaching is, “Follow Me.” Watch, then, His every footstep,
and ask for Grace to put your foot down where He put His. Whatever you see to be His temper under any circumstances, cultivate that temper
when you are in similar circumstances. If you want to know what you should do at any special time, think what He would have done if He had
been in your place, for what He would have done is what you should do.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2874
“Out of those who are added to the Church, there are always some who are not saved. Let us judge carefully and watch earnestly. Some come like
Judas with a lie in their right hand, and put on Christ by profession who are not followers of Christ in spirit and in truth. Search yourselves,
Brothers and Sisters, and if you are not Christ’s, do not dishonor His name by venturing to be called by it!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3058
“Heaven on earth can only be known by those who are saved and who know that they are saved. May that be your case and mine, beloved! Christ’s
own words are, ‘He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned.’ May God bless us all with the true
belief which is eternal life to all who possess it, for Jesus’ sake! Amen.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2898
“Having done all that we can do by honest labor and earnest prayer, let us leave the rest with God, for He would not have His children cumbered
with much serving, nor have them vexed with earthly cares.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2973
“Cultivate more and more your love for the assemblies of the saints! We have no reverence for bricks and mortar, stones and wood, glass and
iron—we do not believe in the sanctity of any one place above others—but we have a reverence for the living Temple of God, built up of living
men and living women whose hearts are sanctified by the Holy Spirit!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3041
“If we are, indeed, Christians, we have broken a great many idols, we have still some more to break and we must keep the hammer going till they
are all broken!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2928
“He that gave you breath may take it back, but you may not give it up yourself! To die by your own hand is not to escape from suffering, but to
plunge yourself into it forever, for we know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. Therefore he that murders himself, if he knows what
he is doing, gives sure evidence that eternal life is not in him.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2917
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“At this very day we have serfs in England who, with sternest toil, cannot earn enough to keep body and soul together and to maintain their
families as they ought to be maintained. And where masters are thus refusing to their laborers a fair remuneration for their work, let them know
that whoever may excuse them and whatever may be said of the laws of political economy, God does not judge the world by political economy!”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3059
“It has been often said that there are but two steps to Heaven—and that those two are but one—out of self and into Christ.”—Volume 51, Sermon
#2954
“With some professors, presumption is a very common sin. They will go into worldly amusements and all sorts of frivolities and say, ‘Oh, we can
be Christians, and yet go there!’ Can you? It may be that you can be hypocrites and go there—that is far easier than going there as Christians!”—
Volume 52, Sermon #2997
“As it is in the pulpit, so is it in the Sunday school, and so is it with all classes of Christians—there is a difference. Some seem to be all heart and
others seem to have no heart at all. There are some who serve the Lord with their whole soul and others who give Him just the odds and ends of
their time and strength. I pray God to raise up among us many Brothers and Sisters who shall be eminent for their Grace and consecration to
Christ!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3015
“As it was with God’s ancient people in the days of Sennacherib, so is it with us. This principle holds good all along—the faith that relies upon
God will bring to us both salvation and strength.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2985
“Every Christian should think that what is good for himself is good for his children! He who does not labor and pray for the salvation of his own
offspring has good reason to doubt whether he knows the Grace of God, himself.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3041
“When the people of Judah came to their foes they found there were no foes. There they all lay dead! None of the men of might could raise their
hands against those whom God had favored. After this fashion will God deliver you, Brothers and Sisters—in answer to prayer He will be your
defense! Therefore, sing unto His name. ”—Volume 51, Sermon #2923
“Christ came to bring healing to those who are spiritually sick—you say that you are perfectly well, so you must go your own way and Christ
will go in another direction—towards sinners.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3059
“The joy of Jesus is, first, the joy of abiding in His Father’s love. He knows that His Father loves Him—that He never did anything else but love
Him—that He loved Him before the earth was—that He loved Him when He was in the manger and that He loved Him when He was on the
cross. Now that is the joy which Christ gives to you—the joy of knowing that your Father loves you!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2935
“I charge you, Christian people, if you want your piety to be increased, never to blunt your sensibility of sin. Do not begin to look at sin in any
light which takes away any of it blackness. The devil himself is not as bad as sin is, for it is sin that made the devil.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2873
“There is a certain denomination which is constantly engaged in stealing the sheep that are in other flocks—it would be much better if such
people would ask the Lord, by His almighty Grace to turn lions into lambs and sheep so that they might gather their own flocks! That is the
proper spirit in which all Christians should act.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2944
“O Christ of God, it could not be that You should die and yet that sinners cannot be forgiven! It would be a monstrous thing that You should
have bled to death and yet that no sinner should be saved by that death! It cannot be—there must be forgiveness—there is forgiveness since Jesus
died, ‘the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2882
“The noblest of the peers of Heaven were here below daily pensioners upon God’s love—they were fed, and clothed, and housed by the charity of
the Lord—and they delighted to have it so.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3040
“The wear and tear of life comes not out of the Providential trials which we have to endure, but out of the unbelieving cares and burdens which
we make for ourselves. You can carry easily enough the load that God appoints for you, my Brothers and Sisters, but if you let the devil sit on the
top of it in the form of your own anxieties, doubts and fears, then the burden will crush you to the earth! Imitate your blessed Lord and Master,
and never despair, but hope on, hope always and even if God, Himself, should seem to forsake you, yet cry, ‘My God, my God,’ even as Jesus did
when God had forsaken Him!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2973
“If Christ has taken your sins upon Himself—and He has done so if you have truly trusted Him—your sins have ceased to be! They are blotted
out forever! Christ nailed to His Cross the record of everything that was against us and now, every poor sinner who is indebted to God’s Law and
who trusts in Christ, may know that his debt is cancelled and that he is clear of all liability for it forever!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3059
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“As Christ is mine and Christ is All, I have in Christ all that I can ever desire! It is a blessed fullness, a Divine satiety, a heavenly satisfaction which
the Lord gives to us when He makes our youth to be renewed like the eagles by filling our mouth with good things!”—Volume 52, Sermon
#3019
“I pray you, members of this Church, and members of Christ’s body everywhere, touch nothing upon which you cannot ask God’s blessing! The
moment you perceive that God cannot be consulted about a thing, turn your back upon it and say, ‘Let those who mean to damn their souls do
the devil’s work! But a Christian must not and will not touch it.’ I am aware that in my saying these things, I may strike some persons who are
engaged in trades which they conduct lawfully. My censure is not intended for those persons who, though in a trade which I might not choose, yet
do their best to conduct it honorably. Still, I would make the censure as sweeping as it ought to be, for there are far too many men merely for
gain following that which they know is damnable—and must in the end ruin their own souls!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2996
“People tell us that in the pulpit, the minister should always say, ‘We,’ as editors do in writing. We would lose all our power if we did. The minister
of God is to use the first person singular and constantly to say, ‘I bear eyewitness for God that, in my case, such-and-such a thing has been
true.’ I will not blush nor stammer to say, ‘I bear my personal witness to the truth of Christ’s Gospel in my own case.’”—Volume 51, Sermon
#2955
“How much trouble Christians would save themselves if when they have committed their case into the hands of Jesus, they would leave it there
and not attempt to deal with it on their own account! I say to the devil, when he comes to tempt me to doubt and fear, ‘I have committed my soul
to Jesus Christ and He will keep it in safety. You must bring your accusations to Him, not to me. I am His client and He is my Counselor. Why
should I have such an Advocate as He is, and then plead for myself?’”—Volume 53, Sermon #3059
“Our motto must be, ‘Anywhere with Jesus, nowhere without Jesus.’ Anywhere with Jesus! Yes, even in Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace! When we have
the Son of God with us, the glowing coals cannot hurt us, they become a bed of roses to us when He is there! Where Jesus is, our sorrow is turned
into joy.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2983
“So needy are we that even in lying down to die, we need our last bed to be made for us by Mercy and our last hour to be cheered by Grace. So
needy are we that if Jesus had not prepared a mansion for us in eternity, we would have no place to dwell! We are as full of needs as the sea is full
of water!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3040
“Full often the Truth of God shines out the more brightly from the very fact that an error has beclouded the world with its dense shadows. Go
on, then! Strive with coolness and courage! Be not daunted by the comely face, the princely figure, or the battle array of your antagonist! Let not
his vaunting words deter you. Call on the name of Jehovah, the Lord of Hosts, and use, even in God’s battles, those weapons which you have
tested and proved. But take care to go through with God’s work—do it thoroughly, looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your
faith—and so, Beloved, you may expect to go from strength to strength and bring glory to God!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2913
“When Noah offered a sacrifice to God, Jehovah smelled a sweet savor of rest—not in Noah’s sacrifice, but in what Noah’s sacrifice typified and
symbolized—that is, in the Sacrifice of Christ.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2905
“Some glib professors talk of having got out of the 7th of Romans—I hope they will grow in Grace until they get into the 7th of Romans! It seems
to me as if they were in the 1st of Romans, so they have a long way to travel before they will get into the 7th of Romans.”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2873
“…while it is, in some senses, a high privilege to have wealth, yet it involves such solemn responsibilities that a man should never have it without
enquiring of God how he can rightly use it.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2996
“Self-satisfaction is the death of progress. Contentment with worldly goods is a blessing, but contentment in spiritual things is a curse and a
sin.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3019
“Observe that the Christian does not find comfort in himself. ‘I am poor and needy.’ That is the top and bottom of my case. I have searched myself
through and through and have found in my flesh no good thing. Notwithstanding the Grace which the Believer possesses and the hope which he
cherishes, he still sees a sentence of death written upon the creature and he cries, ‘I am poor and needy.’ His joy is found in Another! He looks
away from self to the consolations which the eternal purpose has prepared for him.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3040
“I might thus multiply figures and illustrations of how we commit ourselves to Christ. We do it very much in the way in which our blind friends,
sitting under the pulpit, got here this evening—they came by committing themselves to the care of guides. Some of them can walk a good long
way without a guide, but others could not have found their way here tonight without some friend upon whose arm they could lean. That is the
way to get to Heaven, by leaning upon Jesus.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3059
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“The argument which our holy religion needs at the present moment is a new appeal to the senses of men. You will ask me, ‘What is that?’ The
holy living of Christians! The change which the Gospel works in men must be the Gospel’s best argument against all opposers!”—Volume 51,
Sermon #2955
“There were great preachers before Luther and Calvin, before Wickliffe and Huss and Jerome—they went about preaching and preaching to
great crowds, too, but they did not save souls! That was not because they could not speak and were not attractive, but because they had not this
story to tell—the story that is in this Book—the story of Him who did hang upon the Cross.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2921
“To get and to hold seems to be the great end-all and be-all of some men’s being—but it can never be so with a true Christian. He, by Divine
Grace, is like His Master, who, “though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor.” His riches consisted in giving and, therefore, He was the
richest man who ever lived, for He gave more than anyone else when He gave Himself that He might redeem His people!”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2973
“Why is it that we sometimes find that faith is difficult? It is because we are too proud to believe in Jesus. If we did but see ourselves as we really
are, we would be willing enough to trust the Savior—but we do not like going to Heaven like blind people who need a guide, or like debtors
who cannot pay a farthing in the pound. We want to have a finger in the pie. We want to do something towards our own salvation. We want to
have some of the praise and glory of it. God save us from this evil spirit!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3059
“If your heart begins to suck in the sweets of another man’s sin, it is unsound in the sight of God! If you can even wink at another man’s lust,
depend upon it that you will soon shut your eyes on your own, for we are always more severe with other men than we are with ourselves! There
must be an absence of the vital principle of godliness when we can become partakers of other men’s sins by applauding or joining with them in the
approval of them! Let us examine ourselves scrupulously, then, whether we are among those who have no evidences of that holiness without which
no one can see God!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2902
“The blood of all the bullocks, and rams, and lambs offered in sacrifice, had possessed no real efficacy in putting away sin. They had no virtue
except as types, symbols and prophecies of the one great Sacrifice that was to come!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3040
“I would have the hearts of Christians insatiable as death and the grave, for how can we stand that men should be forever lost? How can we be
quiet while Hell is being filled and souls are perishing day and night? How can we be at ease while God is blasphemed, while Christ is unknown in
a great part of the world, and where He is known, He is not loved?”—Volume 52, Sermon #3019
“What is there for a Christian to fear in death? It is not dying—it is living—about which we ought to be anxious, if anxious at all! But you say,
‘It is the thought of the pains of death that trouble me.’ But pains belong to life, so do not lay them upon poor death’s back! Death is the physician
that eases pain! He does but lay his skeleton hand upon the patient and, straightway, the fever has departed and the sufferer is where the
inhabitant shall no more say, ‘I am sick.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2998
“The salvation which Jesus gives is salvation from unbelief, salvation from a seared conscience, salvation from pride, from lust, from malice, from
envy, from evil of every kind!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2985
“Come close to your Lord, Beloved! I delight to come very near to Him. To touch the hem of His garment is enough for sinners, but it is not
enough for saints. We need to sit at His feet with Mary and to lay our heads upon His bosom as John did.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2935
“You cannot count God’s thoughts of you. If He were only to think of us once, in tender mercy, that one thought would run on throughout eternity,
for He does not retract either a thought that He thinks or a word that He utters!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3040
“While it is a very simple thing for the spiritually poor to commit themselves to Christ, let me also say that it is an act which greatly glorifies
God. Christ is honored when any soul trusts in Him—it is a joy to His heart to be trusted. When the feeble cling to Him, He feels such joy as
mothers feel when their little ones cling to them. Christ is glad when poor sin-sick souls come and trust Him. It was for this very purpose that He
came into the world—to meet the needs of guilty sinners.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3059
“Occasionally, I hear or read remarks about the great excitement caused by our Brothers, Moody and Sankey in their evangelistic services, but I
must confess that I have failed to see the excitement, although I have been to several of their meetings. We Londoners do not know anything
about real religious excitement—we have not begun to be excited yet, though I pray God that we soon may. I would like to see such a stir all over
the metropolis, that the press would rave and rage about our fanaticism—and I shall not believe that God has done very much among us until we
are accused of something like that!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2944
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“I know some people who earn their living in employments which are very hazardous to their immortal souls. They are in the midst of evil, yet
they tell me that God can keep them in safety there. I know that He can, but I also know that we have no right to go, voluntarily, where we are
surrounded by temptation!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2997
“We are not saved by faith itself as a meritorious work. There is no merit in believing in God and even if there were, it could not save us, since
salvation by merit has been once and for all solemnly excluded.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2898
“Christ has vanquished death by dying! He has disrobed the grave of its triumphal garments by wearing its cerements Himself! He consecrated the
sepulcher by slumbering in its dark recess! Death is now no more the destroying angel, the tomb no more a morgue!”—Volume 51, Sermon
#2929
“The best preparation that you young people can have for the highest honor and service in your future life is to bathe frequently in the Word of
God and to perfume your whole life by a familiar and accurate acquaintance with Scripture Truths. Nothing else can make you so pure, or so
prepared for all service which God may yet have for you to perform.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3019
“It is a bad sign concerning any man’s ministry when the children do not understand him! I always look upon it as being one of the highest compliments
I ever receive when I see some little boy’s or girl’s bright eyes, that are all too apt to wander here and there, fixed upon me, while they
seem to be drinking in what I have to say. There is a great lack in the preachers of the present day, in this respect, and we need to have the Master’s
words to Peter, ‘Feed My lambs,’ as well as the command, ‘Feed My sheep,’ more and more impressed upon our hearts. May you, Beloved,
find a place of prayer for your children where it shall be their delight to go with you and to join intelligently in the worship of God.”—Volume
53, Sermon #3041
“If I had anything of which I could say, ‘God has not given me this,’ I hope, by Divine Grace, I would turn it out of doors. Food, raiment, health,
breath, strength—everything, comes from Him and we are constantly dependent upon Him!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3060
“While Christ was here on earth, He was the great Light-Giver—and He is still the great Light-Giver! And now that His visible Presence has
been withdrawn from the world, His people are to be ‘the light of the world’ by reflecting the light they have received from Him! In such works
as you will be unable to perform after death, you are now to give light to the sons of men.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3032
“…this is all we ask of you—we only ask you, if you wish to join the church, to be able to confess that you are a changed character, that you are
a new man, that you are willing to be obedient to Christ and to His ordinances. And then we are only too glad to receive you into our midst.
Come out, come out, I pray you, you, that are hiding among the trees of the forest, come forth! Whoever is on the Lord’s side, let him come forth!
It is a day of blasphemy and rebuke. He that is not with Christ is against Him, and he that gathers not with Him scatters abroad.”—Volume 51,
Sermon #2955
“Those who have stood foot to foot with Apollyon and fought with him, and overcome him in the hour of temptation, will never doubt that
there is a great fallen spirit who strives to lead men into sin! Satan and his myriads of followers still lie in wait for the ungodly, or openly drive
them into fierce lusts and evil passions so that they sin again and again.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2886
“Do you know, in your own soul, that God has ever heard your prayers? Then bless Him and love Him all your days.”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2879
“The objective of parents, preachers and teachers should be that children should be saved while they are children!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3041
“You need to know whether you shall move to such-and-such a town. Well, is there a good Evangelical minister there? Can you hear the Word to
profit in that town? If not, unless there are some very strong reasons why you should go there, you ought to remain where your soul can be best
profited. A man would often be better off with less earnings where he could hear a faithful minister than with more money in a place where the
Gospel is not preached. Ask the question, too, ‘Can I serve God there?’ If you cannot, what right have you to go there?”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2996
“It happens to many and many a heart that after it has obtained the blessing of salvation and has been healed of the disease of sin, a time of fear
occurs. After it has made its confession of faith, a season of trembling follows occurring, perhaps, as a reaction from the joy of salvation, a rebound
of the spirit from excessive delight.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3020
“God is a Sovereign and may therefore save whom He wills. And He may also save them how He wills. Yet when He is about to save a man, He
does not depart from His usual method of working, but saves him according to the way in which He is accustomed to save.”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3061
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“Returning to God includes turning from sin. Do you think that the prodigal, when he came back to his father, brought his dice in one hand and
some other implement of sin in the other? He may come foul with the filth of the wine. He may come wretched through hunger and famine. But he
must leave his riotous living, his wine-cup, his debauchery in the far country—these cannot be tolerated in his father’s house!”—Volume 52,
Sermon #2985
“O beloved Brothers and Sisters who are bought with the blood of Christ, we cannot, any of us, say this about our own lives! Yet we ought to be
able to say it and we ought now to pray God’s blessed Spirit to enable us to concentrate all our thoughts, powers and energies upon this one
objective—that we might, in all things, glorify God!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2973
“The praise of gratitude for the past is sweet, but that praise is sweeter which adores God for the future in full confidence that it shall be well.
Therefore, take down your harps from the willows, O you people, and praise you the name of the Lord, though the fig tree still does not blossom
and the cattle still die in the stall and the sheep still perish from the folds—though there should be to you no income to meet your needs and you
should be brought almost to necessity’s door—still bless the Lord whose mighty Providence cannot fail and shall not fail as long as there is one
of His children to be provided for!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2923
“I have heard of an idiot who was, one day scouring a brass plate to get the name out, but, the more he scoured, the more clearly it shone! And
when the devil tries to erase the impressions made upon my mind and heart by my mother’s tears and my father’s prayers, he is as much like an
idiot as he possibly could be, for, let him scour as he may, those impressions will never be removed, but will continue to shine yet more
brightly.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3041
“In conclusion, I pray every spiritually poor heart to commit itself to God. I like to do this every morning. Satan often comes and says, ‘You are
no Christian! All your supposed Christian experience is false.’ Very well, suppose it has been false? Then I will start afresh—saint or no saint! I
will begin over again by trusting Christ to be my Savior. When you, dear Friend, wake tomorrow morning, let this be the first thing that you
do—commit yourself to Jesus Christ for the whole of the day. Say, ‘My Lord, here is my heart which I commit to You. While I am away from
home, may my heart be full of fragrance of Your blessed Presence. And when I return at night, may I still find my heart in Your kind keeping!’”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3059
“The Last Great Day will call me to account for every word I utter in delivering my Master’s message—and it will also call each one of you to
account for the reception or rejection of that message! You young men and young women, and you graybeards will have to answer in that day for
the way you deal with the message now!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2899
“I fear that some Christians need quickening for God’s service because they have so much to do for themselves. The shop shutters are down so
long that there is little time for anything but business, and the ledger is such a big book that it quite hides the Bible!”—Volume 51, Sermon
#2944
“Blessed be God, where Jesus rules, even the thought of death is not a cloud! If you are not under the rule of Jesus Christ, you will have many
clouds, but if you are under His rule, if you have faith in Him, and live upon Him, and are a subject of His Kingdom, you will find that He is to
you as ‘a morning without clouds.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2998
“If we have believed in Jesus, we need not weep, even though the dread archer may have lodged the fatal shaft quite near our heart. What is there
to weep about? When a Christian has received an intimation that he is soon to be with his Savior in Glory, we may congratulate him that he is the
sooner to be out of the strife and the sin—and to wear the crown of victory and glory forever! So we will not weep about that.”—Volume 51,
Sermon #2956
“I have known certain timid ones who have wished to unite with the Church on the sly and to make no open confession either by word of mouth
or by Baptism. I have refused to be a party to the breeding of cowards, and they have lived to thank me for what seemed a harsh demand.”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3020
“I advise you to study Matthew, Mark, Luke and John—and to preach the crucified Savior of which the Gospels and Epistles will tell you! And
when you get to the Revelation, keep it in its proper place and ask the Holy Spirit to teach you the meaning of its mysteries. May God save this
generation from the follies of some of the generations that have preceded it—and may we be most of all concerned about being born-again, about
faith in Jesus, about preaching His Gospel and following Him all the days of our life!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3057
“It is not a transient faith. It is not saying, ‘I was converted so many years ago.’ But it is a living faith, an abiding faith, a constant vital union
with Christ that marks the true heir of Heaven.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2935
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“How many hundreds of times have I said from the pulpit that if you cannot come to Christ with a broken heart, come to Him for a broken heart!
If you cannot come as you should, come anyway that you can, in order that you may be taught to come as you ought! It is quite true that your
condition is bad, but then Christ ‘came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2985
“That man is like Christ who lives, not for himself, but for others. It has been all too truly said that there are some people whose first care is for
themselves, and whose second care is for themselves, and whose third care is for themselves, and whose fourth care is for themselves, and so on as
many times as you like to repeat it.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2973
“We must mind, when we are preaching experience, that we do not so put the experience of the strong as to make it the standard for the weak.
That is almost as wrong as to make the experience of the weak to be the standard of the strong, as some have done. The fact is, there is no experience
that is a real standard of the Christian life except the experience of a change of heart and of simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.”—
Volume 50, Sermon #2878
“It matters not who you may be—unless you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you cannot have eternal life. Do not suppose, dear Hearers, that
there is some secret decree of God that will override this—there is no such decree! The Truth of God with which you have to do is this, “He that
believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned.” If you do not believe in Jesus, there is no hope for you!”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3061
“Oh, it is hard work to deal with sinners! It needs a sharper tool than man can keep in his toolbox. Only God Himself can break hearts—and
when they are broken—only the same hand that broke them can bind them up.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3044
“If you think of the condescension of the Holy Spirit in taking of the things of Christ and showing them to us, you will not talk any more about
coming down to the level of children when you talk to them.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2907
“The teachings of Christ and of His Apostles concerning sinners being saved through faith in Him are blessedly clear. The Gospels and Epistles
tell us that a perfectly holy and Divine Substitute for sinners was required—and that Jesus was that Substitute and stood in the place of all His
chosen people—and bore the punishment which was due for all their sins.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3053
“‘Without Me, you can do nothing,’ said Christ to His disciples—and the fruit of the Christian is practically Christ, for if the Christian brings
forth the fruit of holiness, it is the glory of Christ reflected in him! If he is bright with hope, it is Christ within him who is the hope of Glory. If
there are any graces in us, they are the virtues which Christ has given to us! Our green grass is Christ, Himself, appearing in us. Our verdure, our
beauty, our fruit, our everything is Christ manifest in us!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2998
“If you, dear Friend, have just come out from the world and have newly said, ‘I am on the Lord’s side,’ do not be surprised if what you have just
done should, upon calm consideration, look almost like presumption. A sense of fear is natural when you see to what a service your dedication
vows have bound you. At such a time, Jesus will give you the comfort of the text, ‘Be of good cheer; your faith has made you whole.’ (Luk_8:48)"—Volume 53, Sermon #3020
“Do you ask, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved.’ That was Paul’s answer to the question and
I cannot give you a better one. Believing does not take a week, or even a minute. Your heart rests and relies on Christ and Christ saves your heart.
See me leaning here, with all my weight, upon this platform rail? Lean so upon Christ, with all your weight! Have done with everything but Jesus—
and when you have believed on Him, then obey Him by being baptized in His name, for He put belief and Baptism together when He said,
‘He that believes and is baptized shall be saved.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2899
“Let us not only submit to the will of the Lord, but let us ask Him to grant us Grace to acquiesce in it, for in quietness and in confidence shall be
our strength.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2985
“It is the work of His Spirit to change you. You are not to work a miracle and then come to show the miracle to Christ, but you are to come to
Chris to have the miracle worked.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3044
“I charge all of you, men and women, in these evil days to keep close to Jesus! Follow Him with the utmost care, reverence and love. Follow Him
with intense ardor and with all your heart, soul and strength—and make that the one thing for which you live! Do not let anything divert you
from the straight path of obedience to your Lord, for to that you are called above everything else! If men come to you talking about mental culture
and modern thought, stand firm to this, that you will follow Christ wherever He leads you!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3057
“Brothers and Sisters, I repeat it, that Christ did not institute a memorial of His life because He would have you be the living memorials of Himself.
He has not left us any ordinance in which His acts, His words, His thoughts can be set forth before the eyes of men in visible signs—He has
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done better than that for He has made you to be His signs and ordinances! “You are My witnesses,” says the Lord.”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2872
“When your heart is brought to rest upon what Christ has done. When, laying aside all confidence in your own works, knowledge, prayers,
doing, or believing, you come to rest upon what Christ has done in its simplicity—then is Jesus Christ exalted in your heart and it must have been
the work of the Spirit of Divine Grace.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3062
“Do not imagine that restoration to communion with Christ need occupy a longer time than conversion—and remember, conversion is often
worked instantaneously!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2956
“Behold, as Samson carried the gates of Gaza to the top of Hebron—doors, posts, bars and all—so has Christ carried the gates of Death to the
top of Heaven’s hill—posts, bars and all—and all the legions of Hell cannot bring back the trophies which our Samson has torn away!”—
Volume 51, Sermon #2929
“There was a young man who was impressed with the idea that he ought to preach for me one Lord’s-Day. But as I was not impressed to let him
do so, he lost out and probably will continue to lose out for some little time! He had no gifts of speech, but he thought his impression was quite
sufficient. When I receive a similar impression, the Revelation will be a proper one and you will have the pleasure of listening to his voice, but
certainly not before that!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2996
“After a seeker has found the Lord and has experienced salvation, he is sometimes tempted to question whether he is really a Believer in Jesus. He
reasons within himself thus—‘My faith is so mixed with unbelief that I am ashamed of it. Why did I come to Jesus in such a way as I did? It was
well to come, but oh that I had come in a more childlike spirit and that I had done Him the justice to have a greater confidence in Him!’ Do you,
dear Friend, know this experience? If so, to you and to all others who are thus exercised, the comfort of our text is addressed! (Luk_8:48).”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3020
“It is the eternal purpose of God that we shall be saved through faith in Jesus Christ and if there is no faith in Jesus Christ, that is a proof that
there is no Divine Purpose to heal that soul! But where there is the Divine Purpose to heal, it is evidenced, sooner or later, by a submissive yielding
to the ordained way of salvation and simple trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3061
“The things that concern your soul’s salvation are plain enough for a child to comprehend! If you are lost, it will not be a mystery that damns
you—and if you are ever to be saved, it is the simplicity of the Gospel that will save you! The Truths of God that relate to your ruin through
sin—and the only remedy for that ruin—through the Grace of God, are ‘as plain as a pikestaff,’ as our common proverb puts it.”—Volume 53,
Sermon #3053
“Was that prophetic when the woman broke the alabaster box and filled the house with the perfume? Was that prophetic of what every repentant
sinner does when his broken heart fills Heaven and earth with the sweet perfume of joy because he is saved? And when she washed the Savior’s feet
and wiped them with the hair of her head, was that also prophetic? Did that show how Jesus gets His greatest honor, His purest love, His fairest
worship and His sweetest solace from sinners saved by blood?”—Volume 53, Sermon #3044
“It is not poetical work to be a Royal Humane Society’s officer, seeking to pull drowning people out of the river—and there is not much poetry
about our work in trying to be the means of saving your souls!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2944
“Paul says, “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not, with Him, also freely give us all things?” What?
Will He deny you bread for your body after He has given you Christ, the Bread of Heaven, for your soul? Will He deny you clothes for your body
after He has clothed your soul with the robe of Christ’s perfect righteousness? Will He deny you a sufficient store of earthly goods that you may
get through this world when He has already given you a mansion in the skies and a crown of life that fades not away? If we should forget our cares
anywhere—surely we should do so at the Communion Table!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2973
“Beloved, you that have been healed, do you not ascribe your healing to the secret mysterious power of the Holy Spirit? You know you give Him
the glory. Hence when you wish to bring men to Christ, always honor the Holy Spirit. Do not forget to adore Him, to lean entirely upon Him for
all the power with which the healing of a soul is to be accomplished. There is no faith in the world that will save except the faith which is of the
operation of the Spirit of God! There is no true glance of the eye toward Christ on the Cross but such as the Spirit of God has given!”—Volume
51, Sermon #2921
“There is much talk about an operation, wisely performed by an eminent surgeon upon the poor body which must soon become food for worms.
Yet little or nothing is said about the soul which is so vastly more precious. The soul of an emperor or the soul of a beggar is of the same value in
God’s sight. ‘Where does it take its flight when its earthly cage is broken?’ Is that a question which is never asked by some of you? If so, what
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arrant fools you must be! O blessed Spirit of God, teach us the solemnity of the Gospel which concerns the soul which must live forever in raptures
or in woe!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3053
“I would, young people, that you would so value the Christian experience of others that you would trust Christ for yourselves! He has been a
good Master to me. I have served Him now for 25 years and, blessed be His name, He has never once done me or mine an ill turn! His work is
good, His wages are good and He, Himself, is best of all! Oh, that you all would trust, and love, and serve Him! [1875.]”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2998
“After we are saved, we may do something in the way of almsgiving and other things to show our gratitude to God, but they are worse than useless
if we begin to boast of them as a reason for our salvation.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3061
“If there is anything about the Lord’s will that you do not like, my dear Brothers and Sisters, that is a point in which you are wrong!”—Volume
50, Sermon #2906
“Quiet majesty is the characteristic of the man of faith, just as unquiet weakness is the characteristic of the unbeliever. May God make you strong,
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, by taking from you the fret and the worry in which you have too long indulged—and by giving to you the quietness
and confidence which shall be your strength for the future!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2985
“The results of good or evil deeds will abide forever and ever, so let us beware what we do since it can never be undone.”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3045
“We talk of “Providences” when we have hairbreadth escapes—but are they not quite as much Providences when we are preserved from danger?”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3022
“You must not expect at this time to have Grace to die with, when, perhaps, God intends you to live another 50 years. What would you do with
such Grace? Where would you put it? You shall have it when you come to die. Only trust in Christ, today, and do His bidding—when the dying
time shall come—the Dying Grace shall be afforded you.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2917
“Where faith is genuine, through the Holy Spirit’s power, it works a cleansing from sin, a hatred of evil, an anxious desire after holiness and it
leads the soul to aspire after the image of God. Faith and holiness are inseparable.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2999
“It was God who took Jacob into Egypt and, therefore, though it took 400 years to bring Israel out of Egypt, God brought them out at last. He
kills and He makes alive. He wounds and He heals. Rest in this Truth of God as a matter of absolute certainty!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3061
“Take care, Christian workers, that in this day of activity, when there is so much to do, you do not neglect the personal act of faith which unites
your soul to Christ. See to this vital and all-important matter.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2898
“The very best of men have had to smart under the wounds caused by that cruel, accursed thing, slander! No quality of purity, no degree of piety
can screen a man from the tongue of slander. In fact, as the birds peck most at the ripest fruit, it is often the best of men who are most slandered.”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3059
“There was a boy once, a very sinful child, who hearkened not to the counsel of his parents. But his mother prayed for him and now he stands to
preach to this congregation every Sabbath. And when his mother thinks of her first-born preaching the Gospel, she reaps a glorious harvest that
makes her a glad woman!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2896
“If you have many infirmities which make you weak, there is a way of glorying in infirmities because the power of Christ rests upon you! Suppose
that you are not only weak, but that you are weakness itself—that you are nothing and nobody? When you have reached that point, the cause of
your weeping will have vanished because, where you end, there God begins!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2956
“The Lord will chasten those whom He loves and His children shall suffer—you can be sure of that. It is as sure as any other thing in the world,
‘You shall have tribulation.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2974
“There is no poverty in the world so dire as the poverty of those who have been rich—and there are none who can know the value of the Savior,
in His absence, but those who have enjoyed His preciousness by dwelling in His Presence.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2945
“Trust in God, Beloved, for faith in Him will keep your vision clear and your judgment sound. Trust in God and then, in the day of stern conflict,
there shall be no man’s arms that shall be as strong as yours. ‘In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.’”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2985
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“Every good thought you have ever had, every right word you have ever spoken, every holy action you have ever done has been a mercy from God
to you! He gave these blessings to you, or else you would never have had them—and I challenge you to try to count this great budget of mercies!”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3022
“Good works are to be insisted on, for they have their necessary uses. James never contradicts Paul—it is because we do not understand him that
we fancy he does so. Both the doctrinal Paul and the practical James spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. Paul builds the tower and
James puts the railing around it—Paul conducts us to the summit of God’s House and bids us rejoice in what we see there. And then James points
us to the railing that is built up to keep us from overleaping the truth to our own destruction.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2999
“I believe that God will yet bring back into the fold every one of His own sheep and they shall all be saved. It is something to feel our wanderings,
for if we feel ourselves to be lost, we shall certainly be saved! If we feel ourselves to have wandered, we shall certainly be brought back.”—Volume
53, Sermon #3060
“When I hear a Christian man finding fault with his minister, I always wish that the devil had found somebody else to do his dirty work.”—
Volume 51, Sermon #2936
“Flatter not yourself, Sinner, with the false and foolish notion that your sin is forgotten. You may possibly forget it, but God never forgets. You
may keep no record of your transgressions, but God’s recording angel does not fail to write in His Book of Remembrance, and to engrave them as
‘with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever,’ as Job said concerning the preservation of his own words.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3043
“A promise in the Bible is often a promise to a deaf ear—but the promise, applied by the Spirit of God, goes right through the outer organ and
penetrates to the ear of the soul! I am sure, dear Friends, that you can never be backward in prayer when God opens your ear, and puts a promise
into it.1904, Sermon #2869
“No man ever knows the Spirit of God so as consciously to be aware that the Spirit is at work with him until he knows Jesus Christ. As no man
comes to the Father but through the Son, so no man comes to realize and to be aware of the work of the Spirit on his soul till he knows Jesus
Christ.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2921
“Above all, let me admonish you young people not to be ‘unequally yoked together.’ Marriage without the fear of God is a fearful mistake. Those
ill-assorted unions between Believers and unbelievers rob our churches of more members than any other popular delinquency that I know of!
Seldom—I might almost say never—do I meet with a woman professing godliness who becomes joined in wedlock to a man of the world but
what she goes away. She ceases to follow Jesus and we hear no more of her.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2914
“Whenever any of you have anything to do which you know is right, do it! After you have enquired of God, do not stop to consult friends, but go
and do it! Take your sling and your stone and, in God’s name, sling the stone into the giant’s forehead and, like David, come back victorious, for
that shall be your last answer to those who would persuade you not to do it!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2996
“Sin is an everlasting thing—unless it is put away by God, Himself, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake—no grave in the world can hide it.”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3043
“I think it is well, dear Friends, to remember the Lord’s past goodness, but we must not live on that— we must go and get fresh supplies from
Heaven.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2974
“God has all sorts of stones in His Temple and some of them are of such a strange shape that I am glad the placing of them is not left to me, for I
could not do it! I am thankful that God never sent me into the world to make people perfect, but to use them as I find them. And I believe that He
also uses them as He finds them and gradually prepares them for higher uses and for the place which He means them to occupy in His Temple
above. So do not say, ‘I am wondering what this man will do and what that man will do, and what others around me will do’—but do what you
can for Christ and, as for others—leave them to the Master.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3057
“It is very sweet when the Holy Spirit shows us the love of Christ—how intensely He loves men! How He loved them of old, for His delights were
with the sons of men—not because He had redeemed them, but He redeemed them because He loved them and delighted in them!”—Volume 50,
Sermon #2907
“Apart from the Atoning Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, there is not one sinner living in the whole world who could stand before God! It is
not justice, but boundless compassion and infinite pity which put a measure to man’s iniquity and allows him to live on until he has reached that
point, for sin is worthy of death in every case, and in any degree—so says the Word of the Lord.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3043
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“The work of God in the soul is a lasting and an everlasting work! If you are once healed by Christ, He has worked in you an effectual cure which
will hold good throughout time and throughout eternity!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3020
“We can never understand how Father, Son and Holy Spirit can be Three and yet One. For my part, I have long ago given up any desire to understand
this great mystery, for I am perfectly satisfied that if I could understand it, it would not be true, because God, from the very nature of
things, must be incomprehensible!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2958
“I wish that we all had more of that spirit—calm, quiet, self-possessed or, rather, God-possessed. I believe that is the best spirit for preachers to
have. We can do most by way of moving others when we ourselves are firmly fixed upon a solid base. You need not fluster yourself, young man, in
the way that you often do. You will not save souls by stamping your foot, thumping your Bible and shouting at the top of your voice. From the
very bottom of your heart, in an earnest Spirit, tell your hearers something that is worth their hearing and pray God to put His blessing upon
it!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2985
“People talk about free-will Christians and tell us o