Collection: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 27

The Pentecostal Wind and Fire

September 18, 1881

The Pentecostal Wind and Fire   “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, …

Acts:2:2-4

Is It Nothing to You?

September 11, 1881

Is It Nothing to You?   “Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.” — Lamentations i. 12.   SYMPATHY with suffering ones is never content to …

Lamentations:1:12

Holiness, the Law of God’s House

September 11, 1881

Holiness, the Law of God's House    “This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.” — Ezekiel xliii.12.   I SHALL not enter into the immediate meaning of Ezekiel’s vision. I believe that the house of …

Ezekiel:43:12

Love’s Labours

September 4, 1881

Love's Labours   "Charity beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."—1 Corinthians 13:7.   THE grace of charity, or love, of which so much is most admirably spoken in this chapter, is absolutely essential to true godliness. So essential is it that, if we have everything beside, but have not charity, it profiteth us …

1 Corinthians:8:7

Saved in Hope

August 28, 1881

Saved in Hope    “For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do wo with patience wait for it.”— Romans viii. 24, 25.   ACCORDING to our version “we are saved by …

Romans:8:24-25

The Principle Wheat

August 25, 1881

The Principle Wheat   “The principal wheat.” — Isaiah xxviii. 25.   THE whole passage runs on this wise: “Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he …

Isaiah:28:25

Dressing in the Morning

August 21, 1881

Dressing in the Morning    “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour …

Romans:13:11-14

Shut In or Shut Out

August 14, 1881

Shut In or Shut Out    “The Lord shut him in.” — Genesis vii. 16.   NOAH w a s a very different man from the rest of those who lived in his time, for the grace of God had set a division between him and them. They forgot God, and he feared him; they lived for things seen …

Genesis:7:16

Singing in the Ways of the Lord

August 11, 1881

Singing in the Ways of the Lord    “Yea, they shall slug in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.” — Psalm cxxxviii. 5.   ACCORDING to the connection this is spoken of kings. “All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth. …

Psalms:138:5

The Minstrel

August 7, 1881

The Minstrel   The text is a somewhat singular one, but I hope it will suggest a profitable idea.        "But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him."—2 Kings 3:15.   ELISHA needed that the Holy Spirit should come upon him to inspire …