The Blessedness of Children's Piety. The Withered Fig Tree. Guests for the Wedding-Feast. The Parable of the Wedding Feast. Making Light of Christ. Vitality of the Gospel. Few Talents Will have to be Accounted For. Talents for Small Spheres. The Sovereignty of the Divine Endowments.
Charitable Actions Reveal an Inward Grace. Heaven Prepared Far the Saints. The Reward of the Righteous. The Originality of Service. Watch and Pray -- Danger Lurking in Trifles. The Silence of Jesus. Mocked of the Soldiers. The Crown of Thorns. Let Him Deliver Him Now. Our Lord's Solemn Enquiry. Death and Resurrection of Christ. The Tomb of Jesus. Christly Influence in the Home. Faith and Repentance Inseparable. Low in Repentance, High in Faith. Repentance and Faith Inseparable. The Making of Men Catchers.
The Best House Visitation. The Lord and the Leper. Coming to Christ by Various Roads. Gathering to the Centre. God's Power not to be Limited by Human Calculation. New Things May be True Things. Prejudice a Stumbling Block. Sense not to Limit Faith. The Inconceivable May be True. Christian Work At the Seashore. The Call of Matthew. Christ a Competent Physician. Christ an Authorised Physician. For Whom is the Gospel Meant?
The Great Physician and His Patients. An Interior Reading of Scripture. Bible Glancing not Bible Reading. How to Read the Bible. Illumination Necessary to Emotion. Living in God's Word. The Grace of Bible Doctrine. Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts. A Powerful Reason for Coming to Christ. Crowding to Touch the Saviour. The Seed Upon Stony Ground.
Instruction from the Lord to Hearers. Christ Asleep in the Vessel. The Law of Attraction. The Sinner's Wisest Course. The Antagonism of Evil Provoked by Good. Christ's Curate in Decapolis. Going Home -- a Christmas Story. The Mission of the Saved. Going Home -- a Christmas Sermon. A Cure by the Way. Tell All to Jesus. Told Him All the Truth: Rebuke of Sin Considered Indelicate. A False Respect for Religion. Man's Privilege and God's Power.
Miracle of the Loaves. Order Out of Disorder. Hast Action an Index to Future Help. Evil Thoughts not Trifles. The Heart a Storehouse of Evil. Seeing or not Seeing, or Men as Trees Walking. The Free Agency of Christ. A Witness to the Worth of the World. Gaining the World Pretty Sport. Monuments of Soul Ruin. Preciousness of the Soul. Faith Only in God. Faith's Dawn and its Clouds. Feeble Faith Appealing to a Strong Saviour. Children Brought to Christ, and not to the Font.
Children Need to be Brought to Christ. Childlike Trust in Prayer. Christians Laden with Wealth. A Gospel Sermon to Outsiders. Pertinacity Successful in the End. The Blind Beggar of Jericho. Thy Blind Man a Earners Cries. The Miracle of Faith. The Most Mighty Force. True Prayer -- True Power! The Pleading of the Last Messenger. The First and Great Commandment. The Nature of Our Love to Christ. Danger of This State.
For the Candid and Thoughtful. Common People Heard Him Gladly. All May be Useful. Judas as He Appeared to the Other Apostles.
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Christ the Glory of His People. Christ -- the Fall and Rise of Many. Supposing Him to have Been in the Company. Christ About His Father's Business. The First Recorded Words of Jesus. All May Minister for God. The Ministry of Gratitude. At Thy Word the Watchword of the Saints. Obedience to the Word of Christ. Peter and Nature in Harmony. The Power of God's Word. The Two Draughts of Fishes. Sucking Off the Bait. Prayer the Breath of the Spiritual Man.
The Gospel's Healing Power. The Simplicity of Christ's Method of Healing. Two Kinds of Wonder. Not to Save Life is to Destroy. Danger of Rich Men. Doing Good to an Enemy. The Heroic in Christianity. The Naturalness of Giving. The Choice O a Leader. Laying Hold on the Rock. The Centurion; Or, an Exhortation to the Virtuous. The Centurion's Faith and Humility. The Voice of a Funeral. Young Man, is This for You? Christianity and the Poor. Trophies of the Work of Christ. The Woman that was a Sinner.
The Devil's Punctuality, Power, and Purpose. Uselessness of Mere Hearing. Plain Words with the Careless. God's Power in Changing the Heart. A Welcome for Jesus. Real Contact with Jesus: She was not Hid. Real Grace for Real Need. Self-Denial is the Sign of a Christian. The Corner's Conflict with Satan.
The Devil's Last Throw. The Comer's Conflict with Satan. Why May I Rejoice? The Joy of Jesus. Good News for You. The One Thing Needful. Lead Us not into Temptation. Prayer Certified of Success. Right Replies to Right Requests. Believers as Blessed as the Blessed Virgin. A Greater than Solomon. Take Heed of Unillumined Darkness. Conventional Notions of Sin.
No Secrecy for Sin. The Reward of Confessing Christ. Martyrs Inspired by the Spirit. Death Cannot be Evaded. Darkness Before the Dawn. The Wisdom of Attending to God's Business. Preparation for Death and Judgment. Waiting for the Lord. Fire -- the Want of the Tinges. Signs of the Times. Fruitfulness the Gauge of Value. Judgment Threatening, But Mercy Sparing. The Lifting Up of the Bowed Down. A Bad Excuse is Worse than None.
All Things are Ready; Come. Room Enough in the Gospel. Consider Before You Fight. An Appeal to Sinners. Open House for All Comers. The Approachableness of Jesus. Christian Joy At a Sinner's Conversion. The Good Shepherd in Three Positions. The Parable of the Lost Sheep. The Lost Silver Piece. Abundance in the Father's House. God's Joy At the Sinner's Return. He Came to Himself. The Danger of Trifling with Convictions.
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The Search for Faith. A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth. Receiving the Kingdom of God as a Little Child. Good News for the Lost. Our Saviour's Visit to Zaccheus. The Mission of the Son of Man. A Day to be Remembered. The Servants and the Pounds. Praise Thy God, O Zion. The Tears and Lamentations of Jesus. The Tears of Love. Christ and His Table-Companions. The Sacrament Better than a Sermon. Peter After His Restoration. The Agony in Gethsemane. Our Lord Before Herod.
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Our Lord's Attitude in Ascending. The Ingratitude of Man. The Simplicity and Sublimity of Salvation. A New Year's Guest. Faith and its Attendant Privileges. The Honour of Adoption. The Glory of Christ Beheld. The True Tabernacle and its Glory. The Fulness of Christ Received. The Fulness of Christ the Treasury of the Saints. The Riches of Christ's Grace. The Spiced Wine of My Pomegranate. Jesus the Propitiation for Sin. The Message for Sinners. The First Five Disciples. The Lamb of God in Scripture. Found by Jesus, and Finding Jesus. The Water-Pots in the Way of Christ. The Waterpots At Cana.
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The Unbeliever's Unhappy Condition. Jesus Sitting on the Well. Life's Ever Springing Well. The Activity of Grace. Mercy a Free Gift. The Water of Life. The Axe At the Root. The Samaritan Woman and Her Mission. Every Christian Must be a Missionary. How Souls are Won. Jesus About His Father's Business. Service Should be Willing Service. The Joy of Having Found Christ. Fields White for Harvest. A Singular But Needful Question. The Hospital of Waiters Visited by the Gospel. The Work of Grace the Warrant for Obedience. Work Must be Constant. We are Saved by Believing.
We Must Believe or Perish. Christ Will Bring Men to Judgment. The Doctrine of the Resurrection. Christ Alone is Rejected. Sinners Will not Come to Christ. The Bible to be Studied Often and Lovingly. Unwillingness to Come to Christ. Will -- not Violated by Grace. Will, the Seat of Inability. Free Will -- a Slave. Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ. Believers Must Help Christ. Philip and His Master.
The Lad's Loaves in the Lord's Hands. A Plain Answer to an Important Inquiry. Christ, Like the Manna, is an Abundant Supply. Hunger a Sign of Health. The Soul Needs to be Often Fed. High Doctrine and Broad Doctrine. Invitations of the Gospel -- the Sinner's Warrant. Jesus a Great Saviour. The Accessibleness of Christ. The Certainty and Freeness of Divine Grace. And in proportion as I am thus scripturally confident, and rest in my Lord, will my love to him engross all my heart, and, consecrate my life to the Redeemer's glory.
Beloved, I desire to make this very clear, that to feel love to God we must tread along the road of faith. Truly, this is not a hard or perilous way but one prepared by infinite wisdom. It is a road Suitable for sinners, and indeed saints must come that way too. If thou wouldst love God, do not look within thee to see whether this grace or that be as it ought to be, but look to thy God, and read his eternal love his boundless love, his costly love, which gave Christ for thee; then shall thy love drink in fresh life and vigour.
Remember wherever there is love to God in the soul it is an argument that God loves that soul. I recollect meeting once with a Christian woman who said she knew she loved God, but, she was afraid God did not love her. That is a fear so preposterous that it ought never to occur to anybody. You would not love God in deed and in truth unless he had shed abroad his love in your heart in a measure. But on the other hand, our not loving God is not a conclusive argument that God does not love us; else might the sinner be afraid to come to God. O loveless sinner, with heart unquickened and chill, the voice of God calls even thee to Christ.
Even to the dead in sin, his voice saith "Live. Thou hadst no love at all to him, but all the love lay in him alone; and therefore he began to bless thee, and will continue to bless thee world without end, if thou art a believer in Jesus. In the bosom of the Eternal are the deep springs of all love. It is sadly probable that there are in this house some who once loved God very earnestly, but now they have declined and become grievously indifferent; God's love to us never changes, but ours too often sinks to a low ebb.
Perhaps some of you have become so cold in your affections, that it is difficult to be sure that you ever did love God at all. It may be that your life has become lax, so as to deserve the censure of the Church. You are a backslider and you are in a dangerous condition; yet, if there be indeed spiritual life in you, you will wish to return. You have gone astray like a lost sheep, but your prayer is, "seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments. You went to Christ as a sinner at first, and your first act was to believe the love of God to you when there was nothing in you that evidenced it.
Go the same way again. Do not stop, my dear brother, to pump up love out of the dry well within yourself! Do not think it possible that love will come at your bidding. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. Think of the Lord's unchanging grace, and you will feel the spring-time of love returning to your soul. Still doth the Lord reserve mercy for the sinful, still he waiteth to be gracious; he is as willing to receive you now that you have played the prodigal, as he was to have retained you at home in the bosom of his 1ove.
Many considerations ought to aid you, a backslider, to believe more in the love of God than ever you did. For think what love it must be that can invite you still to return, you, who after knowing so much have sinned against light and knowledge; you, who after having experienced so much, have given the lie to your profession.
He might justly have cut you down, for you have cumbered the ground long enough. Surely, when Israel went astray from God, it was a clear proof to her of Jehovah's love when he graciously said, "They say if a man put away his wife, or she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return to her again? But thus saith the Lord, "Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers, yet return unto me.
Hear yet more of these gracious words, which you will find in the third chapter of Jeremiah's prophecy. I pray thee take the wings of God's love to fly back to him with. But I hear you enquiring, Will he still receive me? Shall I be once more-. It shall be so. Does he not declare that he is God and changes not, and therefore you are not consumed? Rekindled are the flames of love in the backslider's bosom when he feels all this to be true; he cries, "Behold, we come to thee for thou art the Lord our God.
Go to Christ himself at once. If you go to the law and begin to judge yourself, if you get the notion that you are to undergo a sort of spiritual quarantine, that you must pass through a mental purgatory before you may renew your faith in the Saviour, you are mistaken. Come just as you are, bad as you are, hardened, cold, dead as you feel yourselves to be, come even so, and believe in the boundless love of God in Christ Jesus. Then shall come the deep repentance; then shall come the brokenness of heart; then shall come the holy jealousy, the sacred hatred of sin, and the refining of the soul from all her dross; then, indeed, all good things shall come to restore your soul, and lead you in the paths of righteousuess.
Do not look for these first; that would be looking for the effects before the cause. The great cause of love in the restored backs1ider must still be the love of God to him, to whom he clings with a faith that dares not let go its hold. I say again, it is never presumptuous to believe the truth. And this is the truth, that the Lord loves his prodigal sons still, and his stray sheep still, and he will devise means to bring his banished back again, that they perish not.
Remember here that the motive power which draws back the backslider again, is the cord of love, the band of a man, which makes him feel he must go back to God with weeping and repentance, because God loves him still. What man among you this morning hath a son who has disobeyed him and gone from him, and is living in drunkenness, and in all manner of lust?
If you have in anger told him, so that he doubts it not, that you have struck his name out of your family, and will not regard him as a child any longer, do you think that your severity will induce him to return to you in love? But suppose instead thereof, you still assure him that you love him; that there is always a place at your table for him, and a bed in your house for him, ay, and better still, a warm place in your heart for him; suppose he sees your tears and hears your prayers for him, will not this draw him?
Yes, indeed, if be be a son.
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It is even thus between thy God and thee, O backslider. Hear ye the Lord as he argues thy case within his own heart. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man. I will arise and go to him. I will not vex so tender a heart. I will be his loving son again. God does not say to you prodigals, who once professed his name, "I have unchilded you, I have cast you away," but he says, "I love you still; and for my name's sake will I restrain my wrath that I cut you not off.
Beloved, there are few of us who know much of the deeps of the love of God; our love is shallow; ah, how shallow! Love to God is like a great mountain. The majority of travellers view it from afar, or traverse the valley at its base: So in the Church of God. Every Christian abides under the shadow of divine love: Now, mark you, it may bc difficult to ascend so high, but there is one sure route, and only one, which the man must follow who would gain the sacred elevation. It is not the track of his works, nor the path of his own actions, but this, "We love him because he first loved us.
For the highest love that ever glowed in human bosom there was no source but this-God first loved that man. Do you not see how this is?
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The knowledge that God loves me casts out my tormenting dread of God: As fear goes out, love comes in at the other door. So the more faith in God the more room there is for soul-fllling love. Again, strong faith in God's love brings great enjoyment; our heart is glad, our soul is satisfied with marrow and fatness when we know that the whole heart of God beats towards us as forcibly as if we were the only creatures he had ever made, and his whole heart were wrapt up in us.
This deep enjoyment creates the flaming love of which I have just now spoken. If the ardent love of some saints often takes the shape of admiration of God, this arises from their familiarity with God, and this familiarity they never would have indulged in, unless they had know that he was their friend. A man could not speak to God as to a friend, unless he knew the love that God hath toward him. The more true his knowledge and the more sure, the more close his fellowship. Brethren beloved, if you know that God has loved you, then you will feel grateful; every doubt will diminish your gratitude, but every grain of faith will increase it.
Then as we advance in grace, love to God in our soul will excite desire after him. Those we love we long to be with; we count the hours that separate us; no place so happy as that in which we enjoy their society. Hence love to God produces a desire to be with him; a desire to be like him, a longing to be with him eternally in heaven, and this breaks us away from worldliness; this keeps us from idolatry, and thus has a most blessedly sanctifying effect upon us, producing that elevated character which is now so rare, but which wherever it exists is powerful for the good of the church and for the glory of God.
Oh that we had many in this church who had reached the highest platform of piety. Would God we had a band of men full of faith and of the Holy Ghost; strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. It may help those who aspire to mount high in grace, if they keep in mind that every step they climb they must use the ladder which Jacob saw.
The love of God to us is the only way to climb to the love of God. And now I must spend a minute in putting the truth of my text to the test. I want you not to listen to me so much as to listen to your own hearts, and to God's word, a minute, if you are believers. What is it we have been talking about? It is God's love to us. Get the thought into your head a minute: Oh, it is a very sweet thing to feel that we have the love of a dear wife, or a kind husband; and there is much sweetness in the love of a fond child, or a tender mother; but to think that God loves me, this is infinitely better!
Who is it that loves you? God, the Maker of heaven and earth, the Almighty, All in all, does he love me? If all men, and all angels, and all the living creatures that are before the throne loved me, it were nothing to this-the Infinite loves me! And who is it that he loves? The text saith, "us. Beloved believer, does not this melt you? Lessons in Living from Women of the Bible. A Shepherd Looks at Psalm Elijah The Epics Book 2. The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today. Dictionary of the Old Testament: Safe in the Shepherd's Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament.
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