Stirring Message Would that we had such sermons preached today instead of what we hear so often, like insupportable drivel about a rapture, a millennium, the modern state of Israel, the Battle of Armageddon, and news headlines passed off as salvation history. My soul hungers for messages such as this one. Thank you, SermonAudio, for making them available.
Great Sermon! God finds nothing in a man to turn his heart, but to turn his stomach. Oh, insufferable stench, if you would only smell your own putrefaction! Behold your ghastly visage, your crawling lusts, your slime and corruption. Don’t your own clothes abhor you? Except for his own pity nothing prevails upon God to bestow converting grace on us. —Joseph Alleine
The Beauty of His Blood! By the blood of the sacrificial Lamb, you have made sinners and lawbreakers clean, making us objects of compassion rather than objects of wrath and retribution. This is the good news of the gospel. Praise and gratitude to the Lamb of God, for our sins were as scarlet, but he made them white as snow, they were red like crimson, but he made them like wool!
Your Precepts Are My Delight On your exceedingly great mercy rests all my hope. Give what you command, and command what you will. —Augustine (354-430)
Stone of Stumbling WORD: Herod hoped to see some miracle done by him. Lk 23:8
PRAYER: Lord Jesus Christ, Ruler of all nations, you did not come to entertain kings or perform miracles to prove yourself to skeptics. You came to seek and to save the lost, to make known your Father in heaven, and to destroy the works of the devil. You are the image of the invisible God, seated at the right hand of the Majesty on High until your enemies are made a footstool for your feet. You are the One who bruises the serpent’s head, who Moses said emerges as a Prophet from the midst of his people, and whose eyes burn like embers as you trample the winepress of the furious wrath of God Almighty. You are the stone that the builders rejected, but who became the chief cornerstone of a new temple, a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, but choice and precious in the sight of God. You are he whom the Father loved before the foundation of the world, and with whom he has delighted to fellowship in eternity. Clothed in majesty like the King that you are, you will return to us like lightning flashing from east to west, and all eyes will see you. You will establish an everlasting kingdom on the earth. Be exalted forever, O King, above every earthly ruler and above every spiritual principality in creation. Amen.
Uplifting Words! Strengthen me to brave resolutely the burdens I must carry, and help me to remember that I am not my own but have been bought with a price. I am a sojourner in a world that sets itself against the almighty God, the world having pushed you aside and murdered the Son of your love. Let me therefore not live for the things that are seen, but for the things that are unseen and eternal, for the petty momentary suffering I now endure is preparing for me pleasures in heaven far beyond the reach of my imagination. May the joy of the Lord be a shield to me, and your word a sword in my hand. Amen.
Blessed Affliction Merciful Lord, you have chastened me severely, but you have not given me over to death. Blessed is the man you chasten and save from ruin. "Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep your word. It is good for me that I was afflicted that I might learn your statutes." Psalm 119:67, 71
To Be Heard, Absorbed, and Lived! Lord of Hosts and King of Glory, teach us the art of contentment: to trust you for everything, to demand nothing, and to be grateful for all that is given. Amen.
Comprehensive comfort! Just when you think nothing else could be said about the words "It is I," Newman Hall draws out more and more scriptural comfort.
Real or Fake? I am surprised that no one has commented on this very clear and precise description of true and real salvation verses artificial salvation. All should listen to this and determine where they are.
The People Of Today This message from 1951 describes most people today. Even in churches everywhere people are unconcerned with their lost state. This short message describes this lack of concern. Most are busy with everything except salvation. Wake up.
Powerful! It has been 13 years since this sermon was preached, and how I long that men would heed these words! “Give us some men who know the truth!”
Great Sermon! Grace gems has been such a blessing to me. How tender God’s truth and love and providences of chastisements are displayed by these (all) of the Puritans sermons! So thankful How needful for our afflicted souls!