_O come, let us sing unto the Lord._ THE GRANDEST OF CREATURE SERVICES I. It is the most righteous. Adoration rendered to-- 1. The greatest Being. (1) Great in Himself (Psalms 95:3). (2) Great in His possessions (Psalms 95:4). 2. The kindest Being. (1) He made us. Possessing reason, imaginati... [ Continue Reading ]
_For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods._ ON THE EXISTENCE, GREATNESS, AND GOVERNMENT OF GOD I. The transcendent greatness of the psalmist’s God. 1. He is great in the eternity of His existence. God “only hath immortality.” Finite beings are always going forward to further i... [ Continue Reading ]
_The strength of the hills is His also._ THE STRENGTH OF THE HILLS The characteristics of the things made are characteristic of their Maker. What, therefore, I find suggestive in the hills I find suggestive of God. What is the strength of the hills? It is not mere bulk, size, hugeness of form, mas... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sea is His, and He made it._ CONSIDERATIONS ON THE SEA When we place ourselves upon the shore, and from thence behold that immense body of waters, stretching away on all sides, far as the eye can reach; and when we consider how large, a portion of the globe is covered in like manner; what a no... [ Continue Reading ]
_O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker._ CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP I. Its principle. God made each, and God rules all; and while of each is demanded individual acknowledgment and homage--“Stand in awe and sin not, commune with your own heart upon your bed and be... [ Continue Reading ]
_To-day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation._ TO-DAY I. The time specified--“To-day if ye will hear His voice.” This is the uniform time and tense of the Holy Ghost’s exhortations. “Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord.” “I command thee this thing today.” “S... [ Continue Reading ]
_Forty years long was I grieved with this generation._ ISRAEL’S PROVOCATION AGAINST GOD, AND THE PUNISHMENT INFLICTED ON THEM I. The conduct of israel. Their conduct was marked by ignorance and error. “They have not known My ways,” and they “do err in their hearts.” 1. Ignorance is not always cri... [ Continue Reading ]
_Unto whom I sware in My wrath, that they should not enter into My rest._ OBSTINATE SINNERS DOOMED TO ETERNAL PERDITION I. The ways by which God usually prepares and ripens a sinner for certain destruction. 1. By withholding the virtue and power of His ordinances; and when God seals up the influe... [ Continue Reading ]