January 15, 2018

The Prayer of Jabez   "Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed!"—1 Chronicles 4:10        We know very little about Jabez, except that he was more honorable than his brethren, and that he was called Jabez because his mother bare him with sorrow. It will sometimes happen that where there is the most sorrow in the antecedents, …

1 Chronicles:4:10

January 1, 1970

Exhortation—“Set Your Heart.”   “Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God,”—1 Chronicles xxii. 19.   THIS exhortation may be most fitly directed to those who are already saved. It was first given to the elders of Israel, and we would fain hope that they were already good men and true; but, secondly, the …

1 Chronicles:22:19

April 11, 1912

A Sermon Published on Thursday, April 11, 1912,Delivered by C.H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. “And of the Godites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, …

1 Chronicles:12:8-15

August 24, 1911

A Sermon Published on Thursday, August 24, 1911,Delivered by C.H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington,On Lord’s-Day Evening, April 17, 1864. “Keep and Seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God”-1 Chronicles 28:8. What a mighty master of the art of prayer was Elijah the Tishbite! He was one of those who had the power …

1 Chronicles:28:8

August 17, 1911

No. 3263A Sermon Published on Thursday, August 17, 1911,Delivered by C.H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. “Keep and Seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God” -1 Chronicles 28:8. Is the Lord your God? I must put this question very pointedly to you at the onset; otherwise I shall not be speaking to you …

1 Chronicles:28:8

August 14, 1890

One Worker Preparing for Another   “Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.”— …

1 Chronicles:22:14

August 7, 1890

God’s Handwriting upon David   “All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.”— 1 Chronicles xxviii. 19.   THE temple was not to be built according to the designs of David, or Solomon, or any other man. It was to be built according to …

1 Chronicles:28:19

June 24, 1886

The Best of All is, God With Us   “Is not the LORD your God with you?” — 1 Chron. xxii. 13.   WHILE we were reading this chapter, you must all have been struck with the melting of one man’s life into another. Here is David most anxious about the building of the temple at Jerusalem; he is …

1 Chronicles:22:13

November 9, 1884

The Threshing-Floor of Ornan   “At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing-floor of Oman the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.”— 1 Chronicles xxi. 28. “Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.”— 1 Chronicles xxii. 1. DAVID …

1 Chronicles:21:28

February 17, 1884

Recruits for King Jesus    “And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David. And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye he come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray …

1 Chronicles:12:16-18