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“There are no slaves like those who serve their enemies and those are the greatest slaves who are slaves to their own soul-destroying lusts.”—
Volume 52, Sermon #2992
“There is nothing standing between you and the pardon of your sins but your unbelief—and if you will but shake that off, you shall march triumphantly
through the gate of Glory.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3009
“If a thing is not right—if it is not right all round, it is sin, you can be sure of that. I heard the other day of a man who was said to be a splendid
Christian God-wards, but a wretched creature man-wards. But there cannot be such a monstrosity as that. Such a man as that was not a Christian
at all. Our righteousness, if it is real and true, must be an all-round righteousness towards men as well as towards God!”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3071
“I believe there are many Truths in Scripture that are just like two pictures on a stereoscopic slide—they are really one—only you and I have not
the stereoscope! When we get to Heaven, we shall get a stereoscope and then they will appear to be one. And we shall see that conflicting Truths
of God, such as free-agency and Divine Sovereignty, were only different views, after all, of the same Truth taken from a little different angle. And
we shall see how God gave us both the Truths and how foolish we were to go against them.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2967
“Hear this Gospel, Sinner! You have no good works and you will never have any until you repent of sin and trust the Lord Jesus Christ! If you try
to have any, they will all break down because the motive at the back of those supposed good works will be this—you will do them in the hope of
thereby saving yourself. What is that but sheer selfishness—dead selfishness, which cannot be acceptable with God?”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2980
“I see an old gentleman, over there in Rome, with a triple crown on his head. We do not want him, for “Christ is All.” He says that he is the vicegerent
of God. That is not true, but if it were, it would not matter, for “Christ is All,” so we can do without the Pope!”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2888
“There is not one Heaven for the great sinners and another for the little ones—but there is the same Heaven for those who have been the greatest
sinners, but who have repented and trusted in Jesus, as there is for those who have been kept from running into the same excess of riot. Let us
admire the wondrous tenderness of Divine Grace in its dealings with the very chief of sinners!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3029
“All the flowers in God’s spiritual garden bloom double. There never was any mercy of His which had not many other mercies wrapped up in it.
Every one of them contains far more blessing than we thought it did.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2883
“Do I speak to any Ritualist who finds himself awkwardly situated here? Do I speak to any Romanist who has entered into a place where not the
works of the law, but the righteousness of Christ is preached? Let me remind you again, very solemnly, my Hearer, that those fine hopes of yours
built upon the maneuvers of the priests and upon your own performances shall utterly fail you in that day when most you shall need them! Your
soul shall then stand in shivering nakedness when you most need to be well equipped before the eyes of God. These men know not true holiness!”—
Volume 50, Sermon #2902
“It is ours to do what Jesus bids us, just as He bids us and because He bids us, for His command is our authority!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2939
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“Surely we may praise and bless the Lord whenever we see His Law written upon a human heart because it is God’s Law, because it is God who
wrote it and because it is the Spirit of God who is the Agent, through the Word, by whom that writing is put there! Let us join in hearty
thanksgiving to Father, Son and Spirit, the Covenant-keeping God who writes His Law in our hearts.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2992
“As the volcano is but the index of a mighty seething ocean of devouring flame within the heart of the earth, so any one sin is only a token of far
greater sinfulness that seethes and boils within the cauldron of our nature! ‘Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive
me.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #3009
“Another blessed sharpener of our sense of sin is a consciousness of sin’s tendency—knowing what sin really is and what it would do if it could
have its way without those blessed checks which Omnipotence put upon it. What would sin do if it could? What did it do when God gave it liberty?
It took God Himself and accused Him, brought Him before its bar and there the sinner dared to sit and judge his God—yes, and to condemn
his God and even to slay his God!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2873
“Would those in my congregation be saved? They must all be saved by one way! Do they object to Christ as the plan of salvation? Then they must
be damned, for there is no other hope for them! Do they think this too hard? Do they think the revealed plan of salvation too humbling? Then
they must sink, even as the sons of Adam sank beneath the mighty flood and all flesh was utterly consumed by the overwhelming billows. There is
but one way!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3042
“Most people like those things in which there are plenty of great armies. But there are chosen men who always stand where there is nothing to
rest upon but the bare arm of God. This seems to be the test of the Christian when he can dare to say, ‘This is the field of usefulness which God has
put in my way. Though my strength is not sufficient, I have faith. Here I am, and I will do it.’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2967
“The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ…Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they
never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3030
“Sirs, if you will only trust the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall receive the immediate pardon of your sin and with that pardon will come heartfelt
gratitude to Him who gives you the pardon! And with that gratitude will come intense hatred of everything that He hates, and fervent love of
everything that He loves. And then you will do good works! But from what motive? Why, out of gratitude to Him—and not being the result of
selfishness, they will really be good works, for they will be done with the view of pleasing God—not as a means of getting something for yourself.”—
Volume 52, Sermon #2980
“I know this, if the Lord had not first loved me, I never would have loved Him. And if there is any good thing in men whatever, it must have been
implanted there by the Holy Spirit. If salvation is of works, then I can never have it—and if it is the reward of natural goodness, then I shall never
have it. I feel that it must be of Grace, and of Grace alone.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2948
“Sin in a Christian is quite as much sin as it is in anybody else! Indeed, it is a great deal more sinful, for never does a black stain seem so black as
when it falls on spotlessly white linen—and never is sin as sinful as when it is committed by one who is greatly loved by the Lord and is the subject
of peculiar favor.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2933
“You would not teach your children, I suppose, to say their prayers backwards and begin at, “Amen.” And you are beginning at the wrong end
when you want, first of all, to know your election instead of commencing with repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ!”—
Volume 51, Sermon #2920”
“Never let us doubt the universal benevolence of God. Let us hold it as a fundamental Doctrine that ‘the Lord is good to all; and His tender mercies
are over all His works.’ And let us firmly believe that if any man shall be consigned to carnal misery, it will be because it is just that he should
so suffer and he has brought his terrible doom upon his own head, for, as the Apostle Peter tells us, God is ‘not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.’ Yet, we must never forget that inside this universal love there is a private, secret, distinguishing, discriminating
love which is set only upon those whom God chose, before the foundation of the world, to be His own peculiar people.—Volume 52,
Sermon #3012
“If God were now to give to any man all the blessings that He means to bestow upon him in a few years’ time, it would ruin him!”—Volume 50,
Sermon #2879
“Do not think, Beloved, because we preach election, that we preach the election of a few? I find that this is a common mistake. Someone will say
to me, ‘I don’t like your Calvinism, Sir, because it says that there are a few elected and that nobody else will be saved.’”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3042
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“The Law of God is perfect! Let us say nothing against it. But it is not so glorious as the Law which Christ has brought in and which He exhibited
in His own Person. The glory of the Law was great, but the glory of Christ’s Gospel is far greater! Remember, Christian, that there is to be
written on your heart the whole of God’s Law, but it is the spirit of that Law—not the letter of it—which is to be written there. And what that
spirit is, you know, for our great Teacher epitomized it in one word, and that one word is ‘LOVE.’ Love that furnishes the impulse while it prescribes
the duty.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2992
“If you really desire to have Christ’s love shed abroad in your heart, that is a proof that Christ has already fixed His love upon you! If your head is
now beaten upon by the fierce sunlight of God’s wrath, you may come and find a shelter in the great rock of Christ’s atoning Sacrifice!”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3031
“I do not think that a Christian knows much of doing business on the great waters if he does not feel, sometimes, as if he would give all he has to
have as good a hope as the meanest lamb in Jesus’ fold has.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2967
“Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared
for the next. Why it elevates and glorifies the secular duties which otherwise would trail in the mire if our conversation, our citizenship is
in Heaven, even while we are on the earth!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2916
“Faith in the storm is true faith! Faith in a calm may be, or may not be, genuine faith.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2893
“Come, heavenly Wind, and breathe upon these dry bones! Quicken them into life and activity so that where there was nothing but death, there
may be a living army to serve the living Lord! And, blessed be His holy name, He will do it for, wherever there is a true, heart-felt prayer for His
Presence, He is already present, dictating that prayer!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980
“If some of the prayers I have heard at Prayer Meetings—though I must say that the fault is less in this place than in most others with which I
have become acquainted—if some of the prayers at certain Prayer Meetings were less doctrinal, less experimental and more argumentative with
God, they would be more like true prayer should be, for true prayer is just pleading with the Most High, spreading our case before Him, and then
pressing our suit with all the arguments we can muster!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3010
“The richest blessing that you ever get from Christ is no new thing—it is just a continuation of His old habits and practices and if He were, at
this moment, to lift His hands and give us some special blessing—as I pray that He may—it would only be another link in a long chain of which
every link is more precious than the most valuable diamond in the world!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2949
“I think it would have been less painful to have been burned alive at the stake than to have passed through those horrors and depressions of spirit
which some of us passed through while we were seeking pardon, but seeking it in the wrong way.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3031
“Whenever we repair to the Lord’s Table, which represents to us the Passover, we ought not to come to it as to a funeral. Let us select solemn
hymns, but not dirges. Let us sing softly, but none the less joyfully. This is no burial feast! These are not funeral cakes which lie upon this table,
and yonder fair white linen cloth is no winding sheet. “This is My body,” said Jesus, but the body so represented was no corpse!”—Volume 52,
Sermon #2982
“When Christ came and redeemed us, there was, on His part, no display of physical or mere brute power. There was a display of power, but it was
the power of goodness, the power to suffer, the power to be patient, the power to love. As if God said to men, ‘Sinners and rebels as you are, I
love you more than you hate Me. And great as your badness is, My goodness shall overwhelm your badness, My pardoning mercy shall overpower
your power to transgress.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2876
“O beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, love without beginning is indeed sweet, but there is a still more luscious sweetness in love without
end!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2880
“The same Truth of God is taught in the memorable sentence which I quoted to you just now—‘He that believes and is baptized shall be saved.’
There is no saving efficacy in Baptism, yet belief and baptism are joined together by our Lord Jesus Christ and again I say, ‘What, therefore, God
has joined together, let not man put asunder.’ I would not like to attend to one duty and neglect another when I found my Master laying both
upon me. The path of obedience is always the path of happiness and if any God-given command should ever seem to your imperfect apprehension
to be less important than another, remember the wise words of the mother of Jesus to the servants at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, ‘Whatever
HE says unto you, do it’—and do it conscientiously, gladly, promptly, because He commanded it, even though you cannot see any other reason
for doing it.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011
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“You will find it recorded in Scripture that ‘it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart,’ but you
never read that He repented of redemption! Nowhere in Scripture is there such a passage as this, ‘It grieved the Lord at His heart that He had
given His Son to die for such unworthy ones.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2968
“Who is so honored as the venerable Christian who has his sons and his grandsons around him? He is a king, every inch of him, though, perhaps,
he never earned more than a day-laborer’s wages. As he lays his hands upon the heads of his children’s children and implores his God to be their
God, also, I seem to see a Patriarch stand before me in a grandeur which an emperor might envy! God will honor you in your family if you honor
Him there.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2906
“Nor is Christ’s Kingdom limited to the Church in Heaven and the Church on earth, for He reigns today over all things. ‘All power,’ said He, ‘is
given unto Me in Heaven and in earth.’ Providence is at the disposal of the Nazarene!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2940
“We hold a happy festival when we break bread on the first day of the week. We come not here trembling like bondsmen, cringing before the
Lord as wretched condemned serfs! They eat on their knees—we approach as freemen to our Lord’s banquet, like His Apostles, to recline at
length or sit at ease—not merely to eat bread which may belong to the most sorrowful, but to drink wine which belongs to men whose souls are
glad. Let us recognize the rightness, yes, the duty of cheerfulness at this commemorative supper and, therefore, let us sing a hymn!”—Volume 52,
Sermon #2982
“Self-esteem naturally keeps Jesus out of the heart. And the more our self-esteem increases, the more firmly do we fasten the door against Christ.
Love of self prevents love of the Savior!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3033
“The Lord, then, has a people whom He regards with a special love which is not shed abroad in the hearts of others. These people He set apart for
Himself from eternity.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3012
“Unless your heart is in your prayer, it is a wicked one, and God will not answer it! He must hear it, but it will be only in indignation and He will
say to you, ‘What have I done that you should thus provoke Me to My face and bring to Me mere empty shells when the kernel of the heart is altogether
absent?’”—Volume 51, Sermon #2950
“Jesus Christ lifted up upon the Cross has such mighty power that if a man had all the sins of mankind resting upon him, yet, if he did but look to
Christ by faith, his sins would be all gone in a moment!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980
“You may rest perfectly sure that falling back on the Doctrine of Election in order to exonerate you from what God commands you to perform is
but a pitiful pretense! You are commanded to believe and what God commands no Doctrine may teach that it is unfit for you to do! May God
help you to believe, for this Doctrine comes not to excuse you. The Gospel commands you and Election through the Holy Spirit enables you.”—
Volume 51, Sermon #2920
“I can perfectly understand God’s pitying me. I can perfectly understand God’s having compassion on me. But I cannot comprehend God’s loving
me—nor can you.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2968
“I was told once, ‘When you sow seeds in your garden, put them in a little water overnight—they will grow all the better for it.’ So, if you have
been sowing your seed, put it into tears and it will make your seed germinate better. ‘They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Steep your seed in
tears and then put it into the ground—and you shall reap in joy. No bird can devour that seed! No bird can hold it in its mouth! No worm can
eat it, for worms never eat seeds that are sown in tears.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2896
“Self and the Savior can never live in one heart. He will have all, or none. So, where self is on the throne, it cannot be expected that Christ should
meekly come and sit upon the footstool.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3033
“Many churches, nowadays, have given up the old-fashioned custom which once prevailed in Baptist churches, of candidates coming before the
Church and making a public avowal of their faith before their fellow Believers and, through the abandonment of that Scriptural method, they
have bred a race of cowardly good-for-nothings who hardly dare to say that their souls are their own, who never know what their religious convictions
are, but are turned this way and that with every wind that blows, like so many weather-cocks!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011
“Ah, my Brothers and Sisters, when you think of unbelief as aiming her darts at Jesus Christ, the Well-Beloved of our soul, surely you will say
that it is a shameful sin and a disgraceful crime against Infinite Love!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2890
“There are two sides to all the moral questions in the world. There is holiness, for instance. You all know on whose side that is. And there is unholiness—
and you have no difficulty in deciding on whose side that is.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2884
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“Sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal must be more musical in the ears than the mere chattering of formalists, or the pretended prayers of those
who hope to gain thereby. He hears not prayers in which men sin as they pray and insult Him when they appear to be devout.”—Volume 51,
Sermon #2950
“Where, Beloved, can we find richer instruction than at the Table of our Lord? He who understands the mystery of Incarnation and of Substitution,
is a master in Scriptural theology. There is more teaching in the Savior’s body and in the Savior’s blood than in all the world! O you who
wish to learn the way to comfort and how to tread the royal road to heavenly wisdom, come to the Cross and see the Savior suffer, and pour out
His heart’s blood for human sin!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2982
“I utterly abhor that so-called, ‘piety,’ which belongs only to places and to dates! Your ‘holy’ places, and your ‘holy’ dates, and your ‘holy’ water,
and so on are all alike anti-Christian and Popish! To the Christian, every day is alike holy, every place alike holy and everything alike holy.
He is a sanctified man and all things that are around him are sanctified to God’s service and to his fellow creatures’ good and, to that end, he
confesses Christ with his mouth at all times.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011
“God knows, to an ounce, just what His children and His servants can carry and He never overloads them. It is true that He sometimes sends them
more trouble than they could have carried by themselves, but then, as He increases the weight of their burden, He also increases the strength of
the back upon which He places it!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2912
“Though you are ready to lie down in despair. Though you suppose that Hell yawns for you and will soon receive your guilty soul—He can turn
this shadow of death into the morning of peace and joy!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3034
“Jesus Christ, the Seed of the woman, sets His foot upon the monster, Sin, and breaks its head. And if you believe in Jesus, that pierced foot of His
shall crush the life out of your sin and you shall be delivered from its power. Oh, that you might have Grace to trust in Jesus for instantaneous
pardon, instantaneous regeneration, instantaneous deliverance from nature’s darkness into God’s most marvelous light! If you are as prostrate as
Peter’s wife’s mother was, you ought not to lie still any longer when Christ is ready to give you such a lift as that!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980
“Sweet above all other things is love—a mother’s love, a father’s love, a husband’s love, a wife’s love—but all these are only faint images of the
love of God!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2968
“Be not surprised, young converts, if you find sin to be terribly fierce within you and if, sometimes, it seems even to be stronger than Divine
Grace! It is not really so, but it may sometimes appear to you to be so. And rest assured of this—that sin in you is so strong that unless God the
Holy Spirit shall help you, it will get the victory over you. It will fail to get the victory over you because God will help you, but if He did not, the
smallest soldier in the army of sin would be too strong for you, however powerful you may think yourself to be!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2933
“Love is the Law of the Gospel! ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength; and
your neighbor as yourself.’ This is the Law of the Christian, and this is the Law which is written on his heart! This is the sum and substance, the
distilled essence of all the Ten Commandants. You may forget those Ten Commandments, O Believer, if you will but remember this new Law
which is written on your heart, ‘Love, love, love!’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2992
“Depend upon it, our sins will come home to us sooner or later! Jacob must have bitterly regretted that he had ever wronged Esau. There was a
long interval between Jacob going away and his coming back, but his sin came home to him! And if you are a child of God and you do wrong, it is
more certain to come home to you, in this life, than if you were one of the ungodly! As for them, they are often left to be punished in another
world, but if you are a child of God, you will be chastened here for your iniquity.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3010
“Brothers and Sisters, if you never doubt your Lord till you have just cause to do so, you will never doubt Him at all! And if you never have any
mistrust of His goodness till He betrays your confidence in Him, you will never mistrust Him!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2877
“To the unbeliever, it will prove a terrible thing that Jesus ever came into the world! He is a precious cornerstone to those who build upon Him,
but those who stumble upon Him shall be broken—and if this Stone shall fall upon any man, it shall grind him to powder!”—Volume 53, Sermon
#3034
“I would that the men who can so well write popular songs and give to the people attractive words and tunes to sing in the street or in the home,
would consecrate their talents to a better purpose by writing hymns and spiritual songs to the praise and glory of God. We would then be the
richer in our Psalmody, as, indeed, we always are when God sends us a true revival of religion, for revivals of religion always bring with them
new hymns and spiritual songs.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2941
“If the resurrection of Christ is not credible, there remains nothing credible in history! I go further than that, and say that the news of yesterday,
which you read in this morning’s paper, you had no right to believe if you do not believe in Christ’s resurrection, for the evidence in its favor is
not half as strong as the evidence concerning the resurrection of Christ from the dead.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2950
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“Holiness excludes immorality, but morality does not amount to holiness, for morality may be but the cleaning of the outside of the cup and the
platter, while the heart may be full of wickedness. Holiness deals with the thoughts and intents, the purposes, the aims, the objectives, the motives
of men. Morality does but skim the surface, holiness goes into the very caverns of the great deep—holiness requires that the heart shall be set on
God and that it shall beat with love to Him.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2902
“How often that is still the cry of sinners, ‘Let us alone. Why do you not hold your own views and let us alone?’ Yes the devils, and those whom
they control, still say, ‘Let us alone.’ But it is a part of the Gospel to attack that which is not the Gospel—and it is as much the duty of the minister
of the Gospel to denounce error as to proclaim the Truth of God. If we do so, the old cry will still be heard, ‘Let us alone. Let us alone.’”—
Volume 52, Sermon #2980
“Since you who so constantly hear the Gospel must have it made to you either a savor of death unto death or of life unto life, I pray that the Eternal
Spirit may show you the wisdom of seeking God by Jesus Christ—and of seeking Him now!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3034
“We should openly acknowledge Jesus Christ, my Brothers and Sisters, if only for our own sakes, for really, it does a Christian great good to say
openly, ‘I love the Lord.’ It gives happiness, comfort, satisfaction, rest of heart and lasting joy to confess Christ before men!”—Volume 52, Sermon
#3011
“It is a grand thing to be able to bury in eternal forgetfulness every unkind word or act that has ever caused us pain. If any of you have any
thought of anger in your heart against anyone—if you have any feeling of resentment—if you have any recollection of injuries. If there is anything
that vexes and grieves you, come and bury it all in the grave of Jesus—for if He loved you when you were dead in sins—it cannot be half so
wonderful for you to love your poor fellow sinner whatever ill treatment you may have received at his hands!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2968
“A Christian silent when others are praising His Master? No! He must join in the song. Satan tries to make God’s people dumb, but he cannot,
for the Lord has not a tongue-tied child in all His family! They can all speak and they can all cry, even if they cannot all sing—but I think there
are times when they can all sing—yes, they must, for you know the promise, “Then shall the tongue of the dumb sing.” Surely, when Jesus leads
the tune, if there should be any silent ones in the Lord’s family, they must begin to praise the name of the Lord!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2982
“Our converts are worth nothing. If they are converted by man they can be unconverted by man! If some charm or power of one preacher can
bring them to Christ, some charm or power of another preacher can take them from Christ. True conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit and of
the Holy Spirit alone!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2920
“Jesus never forgets the price He paid for the redemption of even one soul! I think I hear Him say, my Brothers and Sisters, ‘By My agony and
bloody sweat, by My Cross and passion, by My death and burial, I will have him as My own, for I cannot have suffered all these things in
vain.’”—Volume 50, Sermon #2889
“Some men go to God and ask only for temporal favors and, possibly, they do not obtain them. He who would be content with this world will
probably never get it—but he who craves spiritual good may ask with the absolute certainty of receiving it!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2879
“Providential care extends not only to the righteous, but also to the wicked—yes, and not only to the wicked among men, but to the very beasts
of the field. You know what I said to you, the other Sabbath morning, about the God who makes the grass to grow for the cattle. [See Sermon No.
767, Volume 13—IN THE HAY FIELD—Read/download the entire sermon, free of charge at hyperlink.] It is the same great Provider who feeds
the young ravens when they cry, and the hungry lions when they roar for their food. God’s Providence not only extends to mankind in general,
and to the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and the innumerable fish in the sea, but also to every atom of matter in the universe.”—
Volume 52, Sermon #3012
“Christ’s ministers may all go home, for their office is useless, if there is no forgiveness of sins!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2882
“He who is his own guide is guided by a fool. He that trusts to his own understanding proves that he has no understanding.”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2893
“You, also, must often have heard of the death of friends—and some day people will tell the survivors that you, too, are gone. With unremitted
sin upon you, you know where you will go, do you not? I need not tell you where they are driven whose sin has never been forgiven—and whose
sin never will be forgiven—as they have passed out of this world unwashed in the precious blood of Jesus!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2951
“I believe, Brothers and Sisters, that it is the duty of all converts to test the various sections of the professing church by the Word of God and
then to cast in their lot with that part which holds the Truth of God most fully and clearly. And, having conscientiously done that, to rally with
the hosts of God in the great battle against wrong.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2884
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“To ask the way to Zion, then, means to seek to come to Christian fellowship, to desire to be united in Christian bonds with Brothers and Sisters
who love each other because they love one common Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, their blessed Savior!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035
“Trouble, like a sharp spade, digs up the earth that is about our roots and then we bring forth more fruit. Were it not for the thorns in our nest,
we would be so content with its soft lining that we would sit in it till we died. But the sharp thorns prick our breasts and then we turn our eyes
aloft and learn to try our wings, ready for the time when they shall have fully grown and we shall mount to joys above! ”—Volume 52, Sermon
#2993
“You who have the most familiarity with Christ and enjoy the most holy fellowship with Him may soon become the very leaders of the hosts of
Satan if your Lord withdraws His Grace!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3013
“The more work we have to do with men for God, the longer we ought to be at work with God for men. If you plead with men, you cannot hope
to prevail unless you first plead with God.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2980
“Look at that great crowd gathered in Smithfield! Who is that poor wretch standing in the middle? Many of those around him look upon him
with the utmost scorn and derision. They have chained him up to a stake, and they are bringing dry firewood, for they are going to burn him to
death! Who is that man? People in the crowd cry out that he is a dreadful heretic who deserves to die! But if you turn to Foxe’s Book of Martyrs,
you will find his name recorded there among the noble army who died as heroes of the Cross. Because he suffered for Christ, God has honored him
and, at this present day, who among us would not rather be the martyr who was burned than the cardinal who was the means of getting him
burned? Who would not rather have been numbered among the faithful multitudes in the valleys of Piedmont whose names are all unknown, than
have been the Duke of Savoy, or the King of France, or the Pope of Rome who conspired together to put them to death?”—Volume 50, Sermon
#2906
“You have never had half as many trials from God as you have manufactured for yourself. Death, which you so much dread, is nothing compared
with the thousand deaths that you have died through the fear of death.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2890
“And though I like some of the new tunes very much and am glad that they are so popular, yet, for my own part, I like a good old Psalm tune
much better. It seems to me like going away from the snows of Lebanon to seek after the stale cisterns of earth when we leave the old music, and
the old hymns, and the old Psalms for any of your modern melodies. Still, if you can praise God better with the new songs, do so, but let it always
be done reverently.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2941
“Those who ask the way to Zion also thereby confess that they are not yet saved. It is a great work, a Divine work, to bring His people to confess
that they are not yet saved, for the most of mankind have the notion that, somehow or other, all is well with them in the sight of God.”—
Volume 53, Sermon #3035
“We should openly acknowledge Jesus Christ, my Brothers and Sisters, if only for our own sakes, for really, it does a Christian great good to say
openly, ‘I love the Lord.’ It gives happiness, comfort, satisfaction, rest of heart and lasting joy to confess Christ before men! I have not the time to
tell you of all the blessings that I personally received through publicly acknowledging that Christ was my Savior. One thing I may say, however, I
believe that up to that time I was one of the most timid persons in the world! I never spoke to anybody and never ventured to give an opinion
upon anything without tears coming into my eyes. But, from that happy day when I walked into the water, at Isleham Ferry, to be baptized into
the name of Christ, I have never been afraid of any man in the world, nor of the devil, either, while engaged in the pursuit of the things of God!
My Baptism was a sort of crossing of the Rubicon for me. I had burnt my boats, drawn my sword and thrown away the scabbard—so there was
no possibility of going back—and I never wished to do so. And I believe that others, who are always timorous, trembling and afraid, would derive
perpetual benefit from once and for all boldly openly acknowledging themselves to be on the Lord’s side!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011
“There is a sin which is unto death, but those who commit it never ask for mercy, or desire it. They are dead even while they live, their conscience
is seared as with a hot iron, and they rush to Hell willingly.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2951
“Afflictions also are often to the benefit of Believers in leading them to search for sin. Our trials should be search warrants, sent to us from God
that we may search and find out the secret evil that is within us—the offense that we have hidden, the lie that is in our right hand.”—Volume 52,
Sermon #2993
“If Thomas will not believe that Christ is risen until he has put his finger into the print of the nails in His hands and thrust his hand into his Savior’s
wounded side, that is bad enough—but it is worse if you who do believe that He is risen and who do not doubt any one of the doctrines
that He has taught you, still have unbelief mingled with the faith which you possess! Whether that supposed faith is all true, or not, is more than I
can say, but, with so much faith as you profess to have, how can you still continue to doubt?”—Volume 50, Sermon #2890
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“If you are not yet saved, I pray that you may be made to know that you are not. It is only God’s gracious Spirit who can convict a man who
thought all was well with him, that he is lost. Only the Holy Spirit can prove to him that he is not a Christian, though he thinks he is one! And
when he is made to realize this, he will probably soon be transformed into that which he now fancies that he is—a true child of the living
God!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035
“He [David] was a grand man, one in whom the Grace of God shone very conspicuously, but he was a man of like passions with ourselves and we
have reason to thank God that he was—because his experience becomes all the more instructive to us from the fact that while it teaches us that
God can and will forgive us if we repent of our great and gross sins, yet it also teaches us that sin is an evil and a bitter thing, and that, though
the guilt of it may be removed, the evil consequences of it will cling to us and be a subject of sorrow to us till God shall wipe away all tears from
our eyes.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2981
“Keep to a cause that is despised if you believe it is a right one and love it all the more because it is despised!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2969
“I charge you, sons and daughters of Adam, to remember that since your father, Adam, even in his state of innocence, could not direct his own
way aright, but lost Paradise for us all, there is no hope that, in your fallen state, you can find your way back to Paradise! No, but you will keep
on wandering further and further and further from the way of peace and holiness, for, ‘it is not in man who walks to direct his steps’[Jer_10:23.]”—Volume 50, Sermon #2893
“I used to think that believing in Christ was some mysterious thing and I could not make out what it was—but when I heard that it was just
this—‘Look unto Me, and be you saved,’ I found that the only reason why it was so hard was that it was so easy!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2898
“I have known such a clatter of worldliness or pride, or some other noise in the soul of man, that the still small voice of the Holy Spirit has been
drowned to the serious detriment of the disciple.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2927
“Shall others fight to win the prize and shall you, as a coward, abide by the stuff? God forbid! Instead thereof, the Lord help you to confess Christ
in the day of His rejection that you may be honored with Him in the day of His exaltation! God help you to take His part in the midst of the
sinners of the world, that you may be with Him when the acclamations of cherubim and seraphim, and the innumerable host redeemed by His
blood, shall make all Heaven ring and ring again with the music of His matchless name!”—Volume 52, Sermon #3011
“Brothers and Sisters, there is no teaching, no ministry, even of the best-taught servant of God, that can do you such good as sanctified experience
will! You must learn for yourselves—under that blessed schoolmaster, Mr. Affliction—you must study the sacred science of Divinity! It is
good to go to his school, for the lessons to be learned there are so beneficial. One of his scholars wrote, ‘Before I was afflicted I went astray: but
now have I kept Your Word.’”—Volume 52, Sermon #2993
“Morality is a sweet, fair corpse—well washed, robed and even embalmed with spices—but holiness is the living man, as fair and as lovely as the
other, but having life! Morality lies there, of the earth, earthy, soon to be food for corruption and worms—holiness waits and pants with heavenly
aspirations, prepared to mount and dwell in immortality beyond the stars!”—Volume 50, Sermon #2902
“It is usually a sure sign that we are in love with the Master when we are in love with His servants and when we find delight in the company of His
people. It is surely because there is a secret drawing of our hearts towards Him.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035
“If God were to give you all earthly good and yet took His Presence from you—which He will do if sin is within you, and unrepented of—the
loss of His Presence would be a greater loss than the loss of the whole world, or even of Heaven itself!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2981
“A way is none the less right because it is rough. Indeed, often it is all the more sure to be the right way because it is so displeasing to flesh and
blood.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2969
“‘There is no devil,’ said one, ‘like having no devil.’ That is to say, there is no temptation like the temptation of not being tempted!”—Volume
52, Sermon #3013
“You tried Believers must not imagine that God does not love you as much as He did in the days of your spiritual youth when He did not test you
as He does now. He loves you quite as much as He did then and He trusts you even more than He did then because He has made you stronger than
you used to be! He gives you the honor and privilege of marching with the vanguard of His army, or leading the forlorn hope, or standing foot to
foot with old Apollyon.”—Volume 50, Sermon #2912
“We fell, federally, in Adam, and we fell, actually, by our own sin. But Christ has put us back where Adam was in his state of innocence. No, He
has done more than that for us, for man was but man before he fell, but now man is linked to the Eternal in the Person of the God-Man, Christ
Jesus, so we are nearer to God than Adam was before he fell!”—Volume 51, Sermon #2951
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“Christ is superlatively sweet to us and the next sweetest thing in all the world is Christ’s dear Cross. He is, Himself, most precious, but next to
the kisses of His lips are the blows—the love pats—of His pierced hands.”—Volume 52, Sermon #2993
“One’s eyes might weep tears of blood when we think how unhappily some children are placed in the very first moment of their advent into society.
Glory be to God, however, there are some of these that shall be first. God will find His jewels in the dens, alleys and slums of London—and
take up to His Eternal Throne those that were the sons of harlots and the children of the thief—that they may sing forever of His amazing
Grace.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2934
“Remember this—there never was a saint who repented as much as he should have, for repentance should be perfect and no Christian has ever
attained to that height.”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035
“O dear Friends, let us never be satisfied with any kind of worship which does not take up the whole of our inner and higher nature! It is what
you are within that you really are before the living God! And it is quite a secondary matter how loud the chant may be, or how sweet the tune of
your hymn, or how delightfully you join in it unless your spirit, your soul, truly praises the Lord! You can sometimes do this in ‘songs without
words’—and he that has no voice for singing can, after this fashion, magnify the Lord with his soul and spirit.”—Volume 51, Sermon #2941
“A man never talks rightly of God’s works till he knows God’s ways. And it is idle to talk of them if there is no doing at the back of the talking.”—
Volume 52, Sermon #2969
“A man clad in armor may go walking through the woods and may never feel the thorns, but another man who has had his armor taken off, will
be scratched and torn to pieces! Sinners clad in the armor of sin feel not the thorn of Christ’s desertion—but saints who have thrown this armor
aside and are tender of heart, feel even His slightest frown.”—Volume 52, Sermon #3013
“Oh, that we felt more the weight of our ministry! It is, perhaps, the great fault of this age that so many who do preach, yet preach with so little
earnestness and are not sufficiently alive to the value of immortal souls! Oh, that the Holy Spirit would make our ministry to be ‘the burden of
the Lord’ upon us!”—Volume 52, Sermon #2993
“Though your faith is no bigger than a mustard seed, so that you can hardly see it, it will bring salvation to you! Even if you cannot see it, God
can. If you do but touch the hem of Christ’s garment, virtue will flow out of Him to the saving of your soul!”—Volume 53, Sermon #3035