Test All Things
Earnestly Contending For The Faith Which Was Once Delivered Unto The Saints
Sermon preached by brother John S. Green, at Gower Street Memorial Chapel, London, 3rd February 1957. “I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my Beloved that knocketh,...
The LORD’s people cannot sin away the grace and mercy of God in Christ but they can surely bring upon themselves great trouble and heartache in this world because of that...
Do not judge your eternal state by what you now feel. You may, by the terrors of the LORD be in anguish and tribulation and the very subbarbs of hell and...
“Remove from me the way of lying.” (Psalm 119:29) How we should be humbled by such a prayer as this, for it is evidently an appropriate one for all the LORD’s...
As I had the happiness of being born of believing parents, I imbibed the sound doctrines of the Gospel from my infancy; nor was I without touches of heart, checks of...
“Be sure your sin will find you out.” (Numbers 32:23) Is there an honest believer anywhere that does not worry about this verse? Is there an honest child of God, who...
Those who are so foolish as to allow ANYTHING IN THEIR LIFE to cause them to renounce their faith in Christ and neglect their duty and privileges as children of the...
“Peter went out and wept bitterly.” (Luke 22:62) Peter had sat in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. He had walked on the water to go to Him. He had lived in...
“Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.” (Matthew 26:75) There has been much...
“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely…” (Hosea 14:4) There is a wonderful difference between backsliding and apostasy (leaving the gospel). Apostasy is the conduct and manifestation of...
“The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.” (Galatians 2:20) There is no way except by being spiritually immersed into...
“Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” (Micah 7:19) When God takes all our iniquities with His own hand, and casts them with His own arm...
“She went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD. Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will...
“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37) To those of you who truly...
Jacob is about to pronounce his dying blessings, and what does he say concerning Reuben? Reuben, “unstable as water, that shalt not excel.” (Genesis 49:4) What has Moses to say concerning...
“This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.” (Luke 15:2) There are two kinds of religion in the world. One is where a person has a real knowledge of himself as...
When a child of God is renewed by regeneration, it is the spirit only which is quickened, the body remains the same. The old man, as it is called, the body...
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” (Psalm 119:71) Have you ever noticed how believers who have been SEVERELY tried under the...
Nothing changes God’s affection. Whom He loves and how He loves, He loves to the end. His love is like Himself…“the same yesterday, today and forever.” If you love Him as...
When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do: love one day—and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites,...
The Scriptures faithfully record the falls of believers—the drunkenness of Noah, the incest of Lot, the unbelief of Abraham, the peevishness of Moses, the adultery of David, the idolatry of Solomon, the...
“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.” (Hosea 14:4) Have you never backslidden from God? The LORD in mercy may have...
How many poor souls are struggling against the power of sin—and yet never get any victory over it! How many are daily led captive by the lusts of the flesh, the...
Shall we quarrel with—these doubts and fears—these temptations and trials—these assaults from Satan—these workings-up of inward corruption—when they are, in God’s mercy and in God’s providence, such blessed helpers? If they...
“And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.” (Hosea 11:7) There is a vast difference in...
There is nothing more common, in an early profession of religion, than for the enemy to watch the constitutional or besetting sin, and to work upon that, and if possible in...
Preached by brother J. K. Popham at Galeed Chapel, Brighton, on Wednesday evening, 2nd April, 1919. “The prudent man forseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and...
Most men and most women who fear God have a problem: there is at times something in their lives which they know is wrong, but they cannot stamp it out. Conscience...
“And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.”(Genesis...
“This Man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.” (Luke 15:2) This was spoken by the Pharisees, in a derogatory way, as they despised and hated Christ, for they were attempting to...
“Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while he have the light, lest darkness come a upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he...
“Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.” (Psalm 51:11) —————————— There is nothing more terrible to a child of God then to think...
“And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck,...
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5) —————————— I...
Pardon for the Greatest of Sinners ———— Psalm 25:11 For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity; for it is great. ———— It is evident by some passages in this...
“And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired [to have] you, that he may sift [you] as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not:...
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us...
“He seemed as one that mocked…” (Genesis 19:14) Lot was a righteous man. He believed God and worshipped God. He was saved, justified, and forgiven. But Lot made some very careless decisions, early in life, that proved...
“Thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme.” (2nd Samuel 12:14) How sad! What terrible consequences followed David’s transgression. Our lives affect a lot of people...
Is there any real hope for real sinners? I know that men and women who think of themselves as good moral people have no problem in this matter. They think they...
True mourning for sin has a distinct and constant reference to the Lord Jesus. If I hate sin because I am exposed, I have not repented; I merely regret that I...
Whenever a child of God strays from the Word of God and becomes involved with actions and activities that dishonor Christ and the Gospel of grace, God will chastise him and...
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