"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him". - Hebrews 12:5 God's people can never, by any possibility, be [...]

"Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe". - John 4:48 You will remember that Luke in his letter to Theophilus speaks of things which Jesus began both to do and to teach, as if there was a connection [...]

"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world". - John 17:16 Christ's prayer was for a special people. He declared that He did not offer a universal intercession. "I pray for them," said He. "I pray not for the [...]

"The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away". - Psalm 1:4 And who are the ungodly? Are they open and willful sinners, men who take God's name in vain, and curse, and blaspheme, men who break the laws of [...]

"Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall". - 1 Corinthians 10:12 It is a singular fact, but nevertheless most certain, that the vices are the counterfeits of virtues. Whenever God sends from the mint of heaven a precious [...]

"The carnal mind is enmity against God". - Romans 8:7 This is a very solemn indictment which the apostle Paul here speaks against the carnal mind. He declares it to be enmity against God. When we consider what man once was, only second to [...]

"For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land [...]

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them". - Galatians 3:10 My hearer, are you a [...]

"By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went". - Hebrews 11:8 Abraham's faith was of the most eminent order, for he is [...]

"And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee: but..." - Luke 9:61 When you have walked through a cemetery, you have frequently seen over a grave a broken column, intended to memorialize the death of some one who was taken away in the [...]

"And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but by every word that proceedeth out of the [...]

"For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes." - Psalm 119:83 The figure of "a bottle in the smoke" is essentially oriental. We must therefore go to the East for its explanation. This we will [...]

"If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse." - Job 9:20 Ever since man became a sinner he has been self-righteous. When he had a righteousness of his own he never gloried [...]

"When I see the blood, I will pass over you." - Exodus 12:13 God's people are always safe. "All the saints are in His hands," and the hand of God is a place of safety, as well as a place of honor. Nothing can hurt the man who [...]

"Without shedding of blood is no remission." - Hebrews 9:22 I will show you three fools. One is yonder soldier, who has been wounded on the field of battle, grievously wounded, well nigh unto death. The surgeon is by his side and the [...]

"The blood of the everlasting covenant." - Hebrews 13:20 All God's dealings with men have had a covenant character. It has so pleased Him to arrange it that He will not deal with us except through a covenant, nor can we deal with Him [...]

"And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry [...]

"I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing" - Hosea 8:12 This is God's complaint against Ephraim. It is no mean proof of His goodness, that He stoops to rebuke His erring creatures. It is a [...]

"Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you; not as the world gives, give I unto you" - John 14:27. The gospel of John is peculiarly the history of Jesus, the Son of God. Matthew deals with Jesus as the Prince of the house of David. [...]

"Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us" - Romans 8:34. The protest of an innocent man against the charge of an accuser [...]

"Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase" - Job 8:7 This was the reasoning of Bildad the Shuhite. He wished to prove that Job could not possibly be an upright man, for if he were so, he here affirms that [...]

"For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it". - Isaiah 28:20 God has so made men that there are two things essential for their comfort, if not for their [...]

"We shall see him as he is" - 1 John 3:2 It is one of the most natural desires in all the world that when we hear of a great and a good man, we should wish to see his person. When we read the works of any eminent author, we are accustomed [...]

"Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of [...]

"Peace, peace; when there is no peace" - Jeremiah 6:14 Ministers are fearfully guilty if they intentionally build up men in a false peace. I cannot imagine any man more greatly guilty of blood than he who plays jackal to the lion of hell [...]

"Thus hath the Lord GOD shown unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass [...]

"These are the two covenants", Galatians 4:24. There cannot be a greater difference in the world between two things than there is between law and grace. And yet, strange to say, while the things are diametrically opposed and essentially [...]

"Therefore let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober", 1 Thessalonians 5:6. What sad things sin has done. This fair world of ours was once a glorious temple, every pillar of which reflected the goodness of God and every [...]

"As thy days, so shall thy strength be", Deuteronomy 33:25. Beloved, it seems a sad thing that every day must die and be followed by a night. When we have seen the hills clad with verdure to their summit and the seas laving their base with [...]

"Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him", Psalm 2:12. It will not be needful for me this morning to be controversial in my [...]

"This man receives sinners", Luke 15:2. DEARLY BELOVED, It has pleased the Lord by a painful illness to interrupt, for a little while my usual labors. As I was unable to preach last Lord's day, accept this week the issue of an old sermon. [...]

"The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground", Genesis 4:10. Cain was of the wicked one and slew his brother. "The way of Cain" is not hard to describe. He is too proud to offer atonement for his sin, he [...]

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me", Philippians 4:13. The former part of the sentence would be a piece of impudent daring without the latter part to interpret it. There have been some men who, puffed up with [...]

"And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father", Galatians 4:6. We do not find the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity set forth in Scripture in formal terms, such as those which are [...]

"There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they [...]

"He hath made us accepted in the beloved". Ephesians 1:6. "THE beloved"! This was a golden name which the ancient church in her most joyous moments was wont to give to the Anointed of the Lord. When the time of the singing of [...]

"But when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away". Genesis 15:11 We might use this text, if we chose, as a picture of the ease with which faith repels all attacks that are made upon Christ, the great sacrifice of the [...]