Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Vol. 57 - MEDIA SABDA

But my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”-Philippians 4:19. So, for our enormous wants here is A GREAT HELPER: My God shall supply all your need.”.

And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee?

Draw from it, for it is full; and when you plead this promise, the Lord will supply all your need. It is sad for anyone to be in debt, and yet there may be circumstances under which even a man who fears the Lord may die in debt, and leave no.

Tell me, what hast thou in the house?

And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil

Then she came and told the man of God

And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and the children of the rest

I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord

And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thechildren of the rest.

And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow,-

Help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of

Rejoice in the Lord alway

Let your moderation be known unto all men

Be anxious for nothing.” Do not fret, do not worry, do not make other people miserable by your fretting and fuming and fueling.

But in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests to made known unto God. See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit,

I have been initiated”-for that is the word,-”among those who are content with such things as they have.”. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

But I have all, and abound: I am full,-

I have been made invulnerable either to suffering or to abundance.” Blessed is the man who has got as far as that; it is a wonderful work of grace when a man can truly say this. They may have been nothing but poor kitchen-maids, or they may have been among the Praetorian guards who watched and guarded the palace and the.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I am sure that, when they read this verse, they all felt glad that they had had a share in the subscription to relieve the apostle’s wants.

FACTS AND INFERENCES

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied
And he delighteth in his way
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down:-
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment
And the LORD shall help them,-

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdest the righteous. How dreadful it would be for the godly man if the Lord were to leave him in the hand of the wicked.

GOD’S FIREBRANDS

There was a man in the land of Uz,

Whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright,-
And one that feared God, and eschewed evil
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a
And his sons went and feasted in their houses every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters-
And rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt of offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my son
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them
And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it
Thou hast blessed the work of his hands,-
While he was yet speaking,-
While he was yet speaking there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels and have
Then Job arose,-
And rent his mantle, and shaved his head,-
And fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,-
And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job,-See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. There came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS

It is, however, the argument that David used, rather than the prayer that he presented upon which I want to talk to you at this time; so, first, I ask

I think it means, first, that although we are strangers in the world, we are constantly under God’s eye and care. We are strangers in this world, so let us aid one another all we can.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue:- This government of the tongue is a most important part of our ways; it in a

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue
LORD, make me to know mine end,
And the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am
Behold, thou hast made my days as, an handbreadth;
And mine age is as nothing before thee
Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them
And now, Lord,-
My hope is in thee
For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more

It is an incalculably tiny speck when compared with the immeasurable age of the Eternal: “Mine age is as nothing before thee.” When Alcibiades. Then let us say, with Job, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”.

THE HOPE THAT PURIFIES

It is according to the nature and purpose of the love of God to make its object like God. I have heard a thoughtful person say, “If I had a good hope of being saved, and knew that I should go to heaven, I should; live as I liked.” Perhaps you would; but then, you have not that, hope, and God will not give it to you while you are in such a state that you would like to live in sin. Any man who feels, “God has saved me, and I am on the way to being made like Christ,” if he be a man at all, (and he must be to feel that,) will say, “Now that I owe all this to God, how can I show forth my gratitude to him?” He must be a brute, he must be a devil, he must be seven thousand devils in one who would say,.

The man who has this hope in him will not say, “If the door be shut, and nobody hears of it, I may feel free to do evil,” or, “I am in a foreign country where the customs differ from those at home, therefore I will do as others do.” No, such hypocrisy shows a rotten heart.

THE GOSPEL CORDIAL

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha

When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death,- That was not to be the end of it; God had quite another purpose in view in
But for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth;-
Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection,-
And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee See
As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave fourdays already. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shale rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,.

OUR LORD’S PREACHING

You know how sweetly he would say, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life;”-. Are you broken-hearted because your heart will not break as you would desire that it should break; broken- hearted because you repent that you cannot repent as you would, and grieved because, you cannot grieve enough. Are you broken-hearted because you have not such a sense of sin as you ought to have, send such a deep loathing of it as you perceive that others have Are you broken- hearted with despair as to self-salvation; broken-hearted because you cannot keep God’s law; broken-hearted because you cannot find comfort in ceremonies; broken-hearted because the things which looked hast have turned out to be deceptions; broken-hearted because, all the world over, you have found nothing but broken cisterns which can hold no water, which have mocked your thirst when you have gone to them; broken- hearted with longing after peace with God; broken-hearted because prayer does not seem to be answered; broken-hearted because, when you come to hear the gospel, you fear that it is not applied to you with power; broken- hearted because you had a little light, and yet slipped back into darkness;.

I care not why or wherefore you are broken-hearted; Jesus Christ came into the world, sent of God with this object,- “to bind up the broken-hearted.”.

DO NOT SIN AGAINST THE CHILD.”

AT A PRAYER MEETING FOR SABBATH- SCHOOLS IN THE YEAR 1877

Do not sin against the child by such neglect.” “No,” says Reuben, “we will look after him when he is a man. Do not sin against the child by fostering his pride, which, as it is an ill weed, will grow apace of itself. Do not sin against the child” by aiming at anything short of his conversion to God through Jesus Christ the Savior.

And then, you parents, “do not sin against the child by being so very soon angry.

A VISION OF THE KING

After this.-

And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb

There has been a great flight of the Lord’s doves upward to the heavenly dovecotes lately. Salvation to our God.” They know nothing up in heaven of any salvation by the works of the law or by human merits. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountain of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Listen, O isle, unto me, and hearken, ye people from far;

Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my
They shall feed in the ways,-

And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. This is Christ’s work to-day, to call out the forgotten ones who are bidden away in the oubliettes, of the Bastille of Despair. Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that.

The enemies of the Lord’s people are his enemies too, and he will overthrow them in his own good time, and make the whole world know that he is their Savior and Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

WOE AND WEAL

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my

The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly,
The prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom
For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies
Therefore I will look unto the LORD;-
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of shine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his
Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old

God had need of a voice like that of the prophet Micah in the days when his worship was forsaken, and the true faith had almost died out among men. Set this white spot right in the middle of the black darkness of which we have been reading:-. According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will issue unto him marvellous things.

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth bythe transgression of the remnant of his heritage.

THE BLOOD OF CHRIST’S COVENANT

The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man,

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as
And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go
The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make young men cheerful, and new wine the maids

Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.”. And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forthas the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the South.

Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; sothe LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to.

Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners how seen a lie, and trace told fair dreams; they comfort in vain
Therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd
Mine anger was kindred against the shepherds, and I punished the goats
Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together
And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon
And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it and be glad; their
I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they hare increased
And shall smite the wave in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of
And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, faith the LORD

And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of hispeople; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. See how many metaphors the prophet was inspired to use in a single verse in describing the Lord’s chosen ones: “ as the flock of his people; as, the stones of a crown,. 3 For the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.

And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in themire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horse shall be confounded.

THE PAINFUL AND PUZZLING QUESTION

And there arose a great storm of wind,-
And said unto the sea, Peace, be still
And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm
And he said unto them,-
And said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No

Then, “how is it that ye have no faith?” Did not the Lord Jesus teach you to pray, “Lead us not into temptation”. How is it that ye have no faith?” Can you not say as Nehemiah did, “ Should such a man as I flee. Up to this moment, you have been a stranger to him, so I beg to ask you the question, “How is it that ye have no faith.

How is it that ye have no faith?” You squander your substance to get a day’s amusement.

UNPARALLELED LOVINGKINDNESSES

Justice and judgement are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound
They shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day
And in thy righteousness shall they be exalted
I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him
With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen brim
The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him
But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his home be exalted
I will set him hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth
Will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes

So is it with the lovingkindness of the Lord with regard to the forgiveness of sin;. And the heavens shall praise thy wonders O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. The psalmist rejoices in the Lord as the Creator and Possessor of the heavens above and the earth beneath.

In the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the dynasty of David shall endure for ever, and the spiritual seed of Christ shall also never come to an end.

THE VINE OF ISRAEL

ON THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 9TH, 1878

God is our refuge and strength, a very presett help in trouble

Selah