Worship, Beauty, Holiness-George Campbell Morgan

Worship, Beauty, Holiness-George Campbell Morgan Worship, Beauty, Holiness O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Psalm 96:9  The word that attracts our attention in this text is the word “beauty.” “O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” Whether in application this word is of supreme importance may be another question. The […]

Witnesses-George Campbell Morgan

Witnesses-George Campbell Morgan Witnesses  We are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Ghost, Whom God hath given to them that obey Him. Acts 5:32       In these words Peter was the spokesman of the infant Church, and he was at once answering a challenge and declaring the solution of a problem. We can […]

Wisdom: The False and The True-George Campbell Morgan

How Can a Pure Heart be Obtained? – William Booth Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email   Wisdom: The False and The True  Christ Jesus, Who was made unto us wisdom from God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30       This letter of Paul was addressed to “the ecclesia of God which is at […]

Winning Souls-George Campbell Morgan

Winning Souls – George Campbell Morgan Winning Souls  He that is wise winneth souls. Proverbs 11:30       The slight difference between the Authorized Version and the Revised Version in the translation of this text suggests two different meanings. The Authorized Version reads, “He that winneth souls is wise,” and that seems to mean quite simply that […]

What is Man?-George Campbell Morgan

What is Man ? – George Campbell Morgan What is Man? The Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of […]

We Have the Mind of Christ-George Campbell Morgan

We Have the Mind of Christ-George Campbell Morgan We Have the Mind of Christ   We have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16 This is one of the superlative apostolic claims for the Church of God. It has nothing to say of organization, of polity, or of methods of service. It is concerned with its […]

Watching for Souls-George Campbell Morgan

Watching for Souls – George Campbell Morgan Watching for Souls   They watch in behalf of your souls. Hebrews 13:17   “Watching for souls” was a common phrase in the speech of our fathers. It has largely fallen out of use in the Christian Church in the present day, or it is carelessly used, with sad […]

Was Thomas Mistaken?-George Campbell Morgan

Was Thomas Mistaken ? – George Campbell Morgan Was Thomas Mistaken? Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God. John 20:28 In the Biblical order this is the eighth day after Easter, and consequently, the anniversary of the day on which Thomas uttered his great confession; and our Lord, His final beatitude. […]

Waiting for God-George Campbell Morgan

Waiting for God- George Campbell Morgan Waiting for God For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God beside Thee, Which worketh for him that waiteth for him. Isaiah 64:4 Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into […]

Unpardonable Sin-George Campbell Morgan

Unpardonable Sin-George Campbell Morgan Unpardonable Sin Verily I say unto you, All their sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and their blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: but whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin. Mark 3:28, 29 It is impossible to […]

Understanding, or Bit and Bridle-George Campbell Morgan

Understanding, or Bit and Bridle-George Campbell Morgan Understanding, or Bit and Bridle Be ye not as the horse or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, else they will not come near unto thee. Psalm 32:9 Be yet not foolish, but understand what the […]

Tribulation, Kingdom, and Patience-George Campbell Morgan

Tribulation, Kingdom, and Patience-George Campbell Morgan   Tribulation, Kingdom, and Patience … the tribulation and kingdom and patience… in Jesus…. Revelation 1:9  The text is only a phrase. But what a phrase it is. Taken thus, in separation from its context it is full of suggestiveness. Its opening word, “tribulation,” is tremulous with sadness. It […]

Tongues Like as of Fire: The Symbol of the Church-George Campbell Morgan

Tongues Like as of Fire: The Symbol of the Church-George Campbell Morgan   Tongues Like as of Fire: The Symbol of the Church  And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them. Acts 2:3       The Day of Pentecost had come. The week of weeks […]

Thou Shalt Remember-George Campbell Morgan

Thou Shalt Remember-George Campbell Morgan Thou Shalt Remember   And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee. Deuteronomy 8:2 When these words were uttered, Israel was at the parting of the ways. A change was imminent, both of leaders and of circumstances. Moses well knew that very soon he would […]

Things Shaken-Things Not Shaken-George Campbell Morgan

Things Shaken-Things Not Shaken-George Campbell Morgan Things Shaken-Things Not Shaken And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. Hebrews 12:27 The first value of these words is that they constitute a Christian […]

Things New and Old-George Campbell Morgan

Things New and Old-George Campbell Morgan Things New and Old    Have ye understood all these things? They say unto Him, Yea. And He said unto them, Therefore every scribe who hath been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which bringeth forth out of his […]

The Young Ruler-George Campbell Morgan

The Young Ruler-George Campbell Morgan The Young Ruler One thing thou lackest. Mark 10:21 It seems to us as though Jesus never said a more startling thing to any man who came to Him than this, “One thing thou lackest.” Yet whether the “one thing” be much or little depends wholly upon what it is. […]

The Work of Faith-George Campbell Morgan

The Work of Faith – George Campbell Morgan The Work of Fait This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him Whom He hath sent. John 6:29 The message of this text is a sequel to the subject of our previous consideration. I then spoke from the first words our Lord uttered when […]

The Word Became Flesh-George Campbell Morgan

The Word Became Flesh – George Campbell Morgan The Word Became Flesh And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us… full of grace and truth. John 1:14 Whatever, in the complexity of present-day thought, may be our view of the method of the advent, it is impossible to deny that nigh two thousand years […]

The Well-Doing That Brings Harvest-George Campbell Morgan

The Well-Doing That Brings Harvest – George Campbell Morgan The Well-Doing That Brings Harvest Let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. Galatians 6:9 This apostolic injunction has a much wider application than its context. There the reference is to the fellowship which they […]

The Way to the Altar-George Campbell Morgan

The Way to the Altar-George Campbell Morgan The Way to the Altar  If, therefore, thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy […]

The Way of Righteousness-George Campbell Morgan

The Way of Righteousness – George Campbell Morgan The Way of Righteousness . thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Matthew 3:15 These are the first recorded words of Jesus after He had come to man’s estate. We have in the Gospel of Luke a record of what He said as a boy twelve […]

The Wages of Sin-The Gift of God-George Campbell Morgan

The Wages of Sin-The Gift of God – George Campbell Morgan The Wages of Sin-The Gift of GodFor the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23  In the previous chapter we considered the tremendous declaration of Paul that where sin abounds, […]

The Vine-George Campbell Morgan

The Vine – George Campbell Morgan The Vin I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for severed from Me ye can do nothing. John 15:5 These words are among the most simple, the most sublime and the most solemn which […]

The Victorious Christian Life-George Campbell Morgan

The Victorious Christian Life-George Campbell Morgan The Victorious Christian Life  Having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6:13 The words thrill with a sense of power even when taken, as I have now taken them, out of their setting. They suggest assured victory. “Having done all, to stand.” Considered in their textual relation this becomes far […]

The Verdict-George Campbell Morgan

The Verdict – George Campbell Morgan The Verdict  What then shall I do unto Jesus which is called Christ? Matthew 27:22 This question occurs in the story of the appearance of Jesus before the Roman Governor Pilate. If we read the story superficially, we shall declare that Jesus was arraigned before Pilate. If we read […]

The Vengeance of God-George Campbell Morgan

The Vengeance of God – George Campbell Morgan The Vengeance of God “The Lord is a jealous God and avengeth; the Lord avengeth and is full of wrath; the Lord taketh vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserveth wrath for His enemies” (Nahum 1:2, ERV). Robert William Dale, the great preacher and theologian of a […]

The Value of Vision-George Campbell Morgan

The Value of Vision – George Campbell Morgan The Value of Vision Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint. Proverbs 29:18 This is among the “proverbs of solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.” It is the crystallization into a brief sentence of a national principle of the […]

The Value and Proof of the Resurrection-George Campbell Morgan

The Value and Proof of the Resurrection-George Campbell Morgan The Value and Proof of the Resurrection If Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain. 1 Corinthians 15:14 Strauss, who was one of the most brilliant of the critics of Christianity, and one of the most unbelieving of […]

The Untrodden Pathway-George Campbell Morgan

The Untrodden Pathway-George Campbell Morgan The Untrodden Pathway Ye have not passed this way heretofore. Joshua 3:4 Last Sunday morning we looked back. This morning we look on. The Children of Israel are still seen at the parting of the ways. There is some change of circumstances from those at which we looked before, but […]

The Unstraitened Christ-George Campbell Morgan

The Unstraitened Christ-George Campbell Morgan The Unstraitened Christ The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach. Acts 1:1 This at first sight appears a strange opening to a book, and yet it is perfectly natural when we remember that the writer had already written another […]

The Unchanging One-George Campbell Morgan

The Unchanging One – George Campbell Morgan The Unchanging One Jesus Christ… the same yesterday and today, yea and for ever. Hebrews 13:8 There is nothing more certain or more impressive than the transitory nature of all earthly things. We change our calendars, and become conscious as we do so, that we ourselves have changed. […]

The Turning Again of Peter-George Campbell Morgan

The Turning Again of Peter-George Campbell Morgan The Turning Again of Peter  From that time began Jesus to show unto His disciples that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. And Peter took Him, and […]

The True Focus-George Campbell Morgan

A MAN ASKED – Hannes Zegement Grove The True Focus And I said, This is my infirmity… the years of the right hand of the Most High.      Psalm 77:10 True focus is all important. This is known to every person who has looked upon a landscape through a fieldglass or has seen its beauties gathered up […]

The Triumphal Entry-George Campbell Morgan

The Triumphal Entry – George Campbell Morgan The Triumphal Entry On the morrow a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took the branches of the palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried out, Hosanna: Blessed is He that cometh in the […]

The Training of our Children-George Campbell Morgan

The Training of our Children – George Campbell Morgan The Training of our Children Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 One is inclined to commence this morning by asking in the presence of this text a somewhat […]

The Tragedy of Life Without Faith-George Campbell Morgan

The Tragedy of Life Without Faith-George Campbell The Tragedy of Life Without Faith I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13 The psalm from which our text is taken is a song of conflicting emotions, in which victory is on the […]

The Touch of Faith-George Campbell Morgan

The Touch of Faith – George Campbell Morgan The Touch of Faith Who is it that touched Me? Luke 8:45 In this narrative we have an illustration in the concrete of Christ’s relation to the crowds, and in the particular question which constitutes the text a revelation of that principle of discrimination which was always […]

The Terms Of Discipleship-George Campbell Morgan

The Terms Of Discipleship – George Campbell Morgan The Terms Of Discipleship If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. Matthew 16:24 So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:33 In […]

The Teaching Of The Resurrection-George Campbell Morgan

The Teaching Of The Resurrection – George Campbell The Teaching Of The Resurrection This Jesus did God raise up. Acts 2:32 “This Jesus”! That opening word fastens attention upon a particular Person, and compels us to consider Him, even before we pay attention to the declaration of the apostle. The lesson we read constitutes the […]

The Supreme Inspiration of Faith-George Campbell Morgan

The Supreme Inspiration of Faith-George Campbell Morgan The Supreme Inspiration of Faith Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead…. 2 Timothy 2:8 This is an hour peculiarly trying to the young people of our church. The child, thank God, has no consciousness either of the suffering of the hour or of the problems by which […]

The Stumbling Block of the Cross-George Campbell Morgan

he Stumbling Block of the Cross – George Campbell Morgan The Stumbling Block of the Cross The stumbling-block of the Cross. Galatians 5:11 The Authorized Version reads, “the offence of the Cross.” The apostle was arguing that if he would but preach circumcision, he would no longer be persecuted; if he would conform to the […]

The Strength of the Name-George Campbell Morgan

The Strength of the Name – George Campbell Morgan The Strength of the Name The name of Jehovah is a strong tower: The righteous runneth into it, and is safe. Proverbs 18:10 Life is full of strain and stress. Sooner or later we all come to the consciousness of this fact. The illustrative figures of […]

The Spirit’s Testimony To The World-George Campbell Morgan

The Spirit’s Testimony To The World-George Campbell Morgan The Spirit’s Testimony To The World  Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send Him unto you. And He, when […]

The Spirit Of Life-George Campbell Morgan

The Spirit Of Life – George Campbell Morgan The Spirit Of Life The Spirit Of Life Romans 8:2 The Spirit is described in the New Testament as “the Spirit of truth,” “the Spirit of promise,” “the Spirit of grace,” “the Spirit of glory.” “The Spirit of life” is a suggestive and comprehensive phrase, indicating the […]

The Spirit of Christ; The Supreme Test-George Campbell Morgan

The Spirit of Christ; The Supreme Test – George The Spirit of Christ; The Supreme Test Ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. Romans 8:9 Two […]

The Spell Which Jesus Casts On Men-George Campbell Morgan

The Spell Which Jesus Casts On Men – George Campbell Morgan The Spell Which Jesus Casts On Men And He called unto Him the multitude with His disciples, and said unto them, If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. Mark 8:34 This is […]

The Son Of Man–Delivered Up-George Campbell Morgan

The Son Of Man–Delivered Up – George Campbell Morgan The Son Of Man–Delivered Up The Son of Man is delivered up to be crucified. Matthew 26:2 The first thirty verses of this Chapter are characterized by contrast, by conflict, and yet by a strange and arresting co-operation. We are in the vestibule of the Holy […]

The Sifting of Peter-George Campbell Morgan

The Sifting of Peter – George Campbell Morgan The Sifting of Peter Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Matthew 16:16 He began to curse, and to swear, I know not this Man of Whom ye speak. Mark 14:71 The contrast is a startling one. It is […]

The Shock Which the Spell of Jesus Brings to the Soul-George Campbell Morgan

The Shock Which the Spell of Jesus Brings to the Soul-George Campbell Morgan The Shock Which the Spell of Jesus Brings to the Soul And He called unto Him the multitude with His disciples, and said unto them, If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and […]

The Secrets of Rest-George Campbell Morgan

The Secrets of Rest – George Campbell Morgan The Secrets of Rest Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. Psalm 37:7 Whatever place Mendelssohn really occupies in the firmament of composers, it is certain that no single number of the great oratorios has made profounder or more lasting appeal to the heart of […]

The Secret of the Lord-George Campbell Morgan

The Secret of the Lord – George Campbell Morgan The Secret of the Lord The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him; And He will shew them His covenant. Psalm 25:14 The sob of a great sorrow sounds throughout this psalm. The circumstances in which it was written are most evidently revealed […]

The Sanctions of Ordinances-George Campbell Morgan

The Sanctions of Ordinances-George Campbell Morgan The Sanctions of Ordinances Is it lawful on the sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to kill? Mark 3:4 The story of the healing of the man with the withered hand is part of a larger whole. Matthew, Mark, and Luke […]

The Rights of God-George Campbell Morgan

The Rights of God – George Campbell Morgan The Rights of God He spake this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none. And he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this tree, and find […]

The Righteousness Which Exceeds-George Campbell Morgan

The Righteousness Which Exceeds – George Campbell Morgan The Righteousness Which Exceeds Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:20 These are the closing words of the first section of the Manifesto of the King. As to their […]

The Resurrection-George Campbell Morgan

The Resurrection – George Campbell Morgan The Resurrection … it was not possible that He should be holden of it. Acts 2:24  So far as the records of the New Testament reveal, these words constitute the first Pentecostal comment upon the fact of the Resurrection. They occur in the second part of the discourse delivered […]

The Responsibilities of Salvation-George Campbell Morgan

The Responsibilities of Salvation – George Campbell Morgan The Responsibilities of Salvation How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Hebrews 2:3 There are moods and tenses in the practical conjugation of the verb to live in which this may be said to be the central and supreme question of the New Testament. […]

The Purpose of the Advent 4: To Prepare for a 2nd Advent-George Campbell Morgan

The Purpose of the Advent 4: To Prepare for a 2nd Advent-George Campbell Morgan The Purpose of the Advent 4: To Prepare for a 2nd Advent Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for Him, unto salvation. Hebrews […]

The Purpose of the Advent 3: To Reveal the Father-George Campbell Morgan

The Purpose of the Advent 3: To Reveal the Father-George Campbell Morgan The Purpose of the Advent 3: To Reveal the Father  He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father. John 14:9  This is now the third study on the general subject of the purposes of the Advent. Having spoken of the fact that […]

The Purpose of the Advent 2: To Take Away Sins-George Campbell Morgan

The Purpose of the Advent 2: To Take Away Sins-George Campbell Morgan The Purpose of the Advent 2: To Take Away Sins Ye know that He was manifested to take away sins; and in Him is no sin. 1 John 3:5 Last Sunday evening we spoke on a verse in this same chapter, “To this […]

The Purpose of the Advent 1: To Destroy the Works of the Devil-George Campbell Morgan

The Purpose of the Advent 1: To Destroy the Works of the Devil-George Campbell Morgan The Purpose of the Advent 1: To Destroy the Works of the Devil To this end was the Son of God manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8  We are approaching the festival of […]

The Purpose of Life-George Campbell Morgan

The Purpose of Life – George Campbell Morgan The Purpose of Life Every one that is called by My name, and whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him. Isaiah 43:7 The first application of this text was to God’s ancient people Israel. The whole message of […]

The Problems of Religious Life 10: The All-Sufficient Solution-George Campbell Morgan

he Problems of Religious Life 10: The All-Sufficient Solution-George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 10: The All-Sufficient Solution Christ Jesus–Mighty To Save and To Keep In looking back over the subjects we have considered together I am quite conscious that I have laid myself open to the charge of having approached these inquiries […]

The Problems of Religious Life 9: Is Religious Life Worthwhile?-George Campbell Morgan

The Problems of Religious Life 9: Is Religious Life Worthwhile ? – George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 9: Is Religious Life Worthwhile? In this question the emphasis is changed once more. In the first question, whether the religious life is possible, the beauty of the ideal is not for a moment questioned, […]

The Problems of Religious Life 8: Is the Religious Life Necessary?-George Campbell Morgan

The Problems of Religious Life 8: Is the Religious Life Necessary?-George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 8: Is the Religious Life Necessary I confess to a great sense of difficulty in approaching this subject, resulting from the obviousness of the reply from my standpoint. To me the question is as though one should […]

The Problems of Religious Life 7: Is the Religious Life Possible?-George Campbell Morgan

The Problems of Religious Life 7: Is the Religious Life Possible ? – George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 7: Is the Religious Life Possible? This is the question of one who desires to live the religious life, but who is afraid. I do not think that a man who sees nothing attractive […]

The Problems of Religious Life 6: The Opposing Forces (The Devil)-George Campbell Morgan

The Problems of Religious Life 6: The Opposing Forces (The Devil) – George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 6: The Opposing Forces (The Devil) In this study, as in the previous ones, our appeal is made wholly to the Scriptures of truth. It is impossible to make such appeal and at the same […]

The Problems of Religious Life 5: The Opposing Forces (The Flesh)-George Campbell Morgan

The Problems of Religious Life 5: The Opposing Forces (The Flesh) – George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 5: The Opposing Forces (The Flesh) Because of the near personal relation of the flesh to every human being, this subject is at once supremely interesting and vitally important. The flesh is part of the […]

The Problems of Religious Life 4: The Opposing Forces (The World)-George Campbell Morgan

The Problems of Religious Life 4: The Opposing Forces (The World) – George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 4: The Opposing Forces (The World) The world, the flesh and the devil constitute the trinity of forces which oppose the religious life. These are distinct from each other, yet they act in perpetual concert, […]

The Problems of Religious Life 3: What Does God Require of Man?-George Campbell Morgan

The Problems of Religious Life 3: What Does God Require of Man ? – George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 3: What Does God Require of Man? This inquiry is the outcome of those which have preceded it. If it be granted that man has to do with God, the inquiry is natural […]

The Problems of Religious Life 2: Can a Just God Forgive Sins?-George Campbell Morgan

The Problems of Religious Life 2: Can a Just God Forgive Sins ? – George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 2: Can a Just God Forgive Sins? It will be admitted at once that the possibility of the forgiveness of sins has been believed in and proclaimed by the Christian Church for nineteen […]

The Problems of Religious Life 1: Has Man Anything to do With God?-George Campbell Morgan

The Problems of Religious Life 1: Has Man Anything to do With God ? -George Campbell Morgan The Problems of Religious Life 1: Has Man Anything to do With God? To the ears of the Christian believer the question seems superfluous, and I think I may almost say it sounds grotesque. That fact notwithstanding, to […]

The Problem of How to Begin-George Campbell Morgan

The Problem of How to Begin – George Campbell Morgan The Problem of How to Begin The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom…. Proverbs 9:10  There are hours which suggest new beginnings. At the dawn of the year, on our birthdays, when we leave school or college and enter upon life’s business, we […]

The Priestly Benediction-George Campbell Morgan

The Priestly Benediction-George Campbell Morgan The Priestly Benediction And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise shall ye bless the children of Israel; ye shall say unto them, The Lord bless thee, and keep thee; The Lord make His face to shine upon thee, and […]

The Presence Needed-George Campbell Morgan

The Presence Needed – George Campbell Morgan The Presence Needed  If Thy presence go not… carry us not up hence. Exodus 23:15 In the history of the world there has been nothing comparable to the creation of the Hebrew nation and its attempted realization of the theocratic form of government. Moreover, in the history of […]

The Powers of the Presence-George Campbell Morgan

The Powers of the Presence – George Campbell Morgan The Powers of the Presence Verily I say unto you, What things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. And what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, that if two of […]

The Power Of The Gospel-George Campbell Morgan

The Power Of The Gospel – George Campbell Morgan The Power Of The Gospel For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is revealed a righteousness of God by faith […]

The Potter’s Work On The Wheels-George Campbell Morgan

The Potter’s Work On The Wheels – George Campbell Morgan The Potter’s Work On The Wheels   Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought his work on the wheels. Jeremiah 18:3       The figure of the potter and the clay is perennially attractive. Perhaps it has not been so popular in recent […]

The Possibility of Restoration-George Campbell Morgan

The Possibility of Restoration – George Campbell Morgan The Possibility of Restoration  If from thence ye shall seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou search after Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Deuteronomy 4:29       The Book of Deuteronomy is a singularly beautiful one. It is not a […]

The Perils Of Procrastination-George Campbell Morgan

The Perils Of Procrastination – George Campbell Morgan The Perils Of Procrastination    As the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye shall hear His voice, harden not your hearts. Hebrews 3:7, 8       The letter from which our text is taken differs from the majority of the New Testament epistles in that it was written to people […]

The Pathway to Power-George Campbell Morgan

The Pathway to Power – George Campbell Morgan The Pathway to Power Then came to Him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping, and asking a certain thing of Him. And He said unto her, What wouldest thou? She saith unto Him, Command that these my two sons may sit, one […]

The Pathway of the Passion-George Campbell Morgan

The Pathway of the Passion-George Campbell Morgan The Pathway of the Passion From that time began Jesus to show unto His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. Matthew 16:21 The ultimate […]

The Passion-Baptism-George Campbell Morgan

The Passion – Baptism – George Campbell Morgan The Passion-Baptism I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptised with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished. Luke 12:49, 50 In the calendar of the Christian […]

The Optimism of Faith-George Campbell Morgan

The Optimism of Faith – George Campbell Morgan The Optimism of Faith Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 The history of the world’s progress is the history of the triumphs of faith. Faith, to all human seeming, does the most unwarranted things. It sings in […]

The Opportunity Of Calamity-George Campbell Morgan

The Opportunity Of Calamity – George Campbell Morgan The Opportunity Of Calamity Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:16 In these words we have a remarkable revelation of Christian privilege and responsibility in days of calamity. In the text are outstanding words which arrest our attention: first, the opening word, “Redeeming”; then […]

The One Offering-George Campbell Morgan

The One Offering – George Campbell Morgan The One Offering For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Hebrews 10:14 The Biblical conception of religion is right relationship between God and man. The Biblical doctrine of man is, essentially, that he is the offspring of God, whose relation to God, […]

The Nearness Of God 2: The Nearness Of God Discovered-George Campbell Morgan

The Nearness Of God 2: The Nearness Of God Discovered-George Campbell Morgan The Nearness Of God 2: The Nearness Of God Discovered Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. Genesis 28:16 Last Sunday evening I preached from this text, leaving my […]

The Nearness Of God 1: The Nearness Of God Unrecognized-George Campbell Morgan

The Nearness Of God 1: The Nearness Of God Unrecognized-George Campbell Morgan The Nearness Of God 1: The Nearness Of God Unrecognized Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. Genesis 28:16 A preacher of a generation ago introduced a sermon on […]

The Name Jesus-George Campbell Morgan

The Name Jesus – George Campbell Morgan The Name Jesus Thou shalt call His name Jesus; for it is He that shall save His people from their sins. Matthew 1:21 Even today the naming of a newborn child is an event full of interest. The principles of choice are varied in these complex and somewh […]

The Mind of Christ-George Campbell Morgan

The Mind of Christ – George Campbell Morgan The Mind of Christ Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Philippians 2:5 The letter to the Philippians is pre-eminently the letter of Christian experience. It is most difficult to analyze, because it is so largely personal, and almost exclusively a love-letter, the […]

The Madness of Jesus-George Campbell Morgan

The Madness of Jesus – G eorge Campbell Morgan The Madness of Jesus And when His friends heard it, they went out to lay hold on Him: for they said, He is beside Himself. Mark 3:21 The first matters that arrest our attention are that this was said by the friends of Jesus, and that […]

The Looking of Jesus -George Campbell Morgan

The Looking of Jesus – George Campbell Morgan The Looking of Jesus  And He entered into Jerusalem, into the temple; and when He had looked round about upon all things, it being now eventide, He went out unto Bethany with the twelve. Mark 11:11 This was the final incident in a wonderful day, and it […]

The Limitations Of Liberty -George Campbell Morgan

The Limitations Of Liberty – George Campbell Morgan The Limitations Of Liberty All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any. 1 Corinthians 6:12  All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All […]

The Lack of the Spirit -George Campbell Morgan

The Lack of the Spirit – George Campbell Morgan The Lack of the Spirit Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed? Acts 19:2 “Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed?” not, “Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?” There is no warrant for the introduction of that word “since” […]

The Kingdom Shall Be The Lord’s-George Campbell Morgan

The Kingdom Shall Be The Lord’s – George Campbell Morgan The Kingdom Shall Be The Lord’s “And saviors shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau, and the Kingdom shall be the Lord’s” (Obadiah 21). The prophecy of Obadiah is admittedly a strange page in the Old Testament.   One could almost imagine […]

The Kingdom 5: Traitors-George Campbell Morgan

The Kingdom 5: Traitors – George Campbell Morgan The Kingdom 5: Traitors Men shall be… traitors… from these also turn away. 2 Timothy 3:2, 4, 5 We have in this letter in all probability, the last words of the great apostle. It is very largely a personal letter. One illustration of that will be discovered […]

The Kingdom 4: Thy Kingdom-George Campbell Morgan

The Kingdom 4: Thy Kingdom – George Campbell Morgan The Kingdom 4: Thy Kingdom Thy Kingdom…. Matthew 6:10 Our theme this evening is that of the Kingdom over which the King reigns. The phrase I have read as text is taken, apparently, almost ruthlessly from its setting. These words are selected from the Lord’s prayer. […]

The Kingdom 3: The Oath of Allegiance-George Campbell Morgan

The Kingdom 3: The Oath of Allegiance – George Campbell Morgan The Kingdom 3: The Oath of Allegiance  Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God. Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:15, 27 Our theme tonight is that of the […]

The Kingdom 2: Of Such is the Kingdom-George Campbell Morgan

The Kingdom 2: Of Such is the Kingdom – George Campbell Morgan The Kingdom 2: Of Such is the Kingdom Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3 Our theme tonight is that of the character necessary for entrance to the Kingdom. […]

The Kingdom 1: The King-George Campbell Morgan

The Kingdom 1: The King – George Campbell Morgan The Kingdom 1: The King He hath on His garment and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Revelation 19:16 This is a view of Christ in His glory, a poetic and prophetic description of a glory upon which the […]

The King’s Thought of Man -George Campbell Morgan

The King’s Thought of Man – George Campbell Morgan The King’s Thought of Man Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4 The story of the temptation of our Lord appeals to men irresistibly by reason of its essential naturalness. In all […]

The King At The Door-George Campbell Morgan

The King At The Door-George Campbell Morgan The King At The Door Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear My voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me. Revelation 3:20 The first and true application of these words […]

The Justification of the Sinner-George Campbell Morgan

The Justification of the Sinner – George Campbell Morgan The Justification of the Sinner … that He might Himself be just, and the Justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus. Romans 3:26 The measure in which we apprehend the meaning of the words of the text is the measure in which they challenge our […]

The Holy Spirit Through Christ, In The Church, For The World-George Campbell Morgan

The Holy Spirit Through Christ, In The Church, For The World-George Campbell Morgan The Holy Spirit Through Christ, In The Church, For The World Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear. […]

The Healing of the Life-George Campbell Morgan

The Healing of the Life – George Campbell Morgan The Healing of the Life In his strength he strove with God; yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him. Hosea 12:3, 4 The story from which our text is taken is a very old one; it has […]

The Harvests of the Word of God-George Campbell Morgan

The Harvests of the Word of God – George Campbell Morgan The Harvests of the Word of God For as the rain cometh down and the snow pom heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to […]

The Great Confession-George Campbell Morgan

The Great Confession – George Campbell Morgan The Great Confession And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. […]

The Great Commandments-George Campbell Morgan

The Great Commandments – George Campbell Morgan The Great Commandments One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, tempting Him, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? And He said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy […]

The Great Apostle-George Campbell Morgan

he Great Apostle – George Campbell Morgan The Great Apostle  I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2 Corinthians 11:5 This claim of Paul occurs in the midst of which he was evidently ashamed, but which was necessary in defense of truth. There is no surer sign of modesty than the absence […]

The Grace of Giving a Million Shillings!-George Campbell Morgan

The Grace of Giving a Million Shillings ! – George Campbell Morgan The Grace of Giving a Million Shillings! See that ye abound in this grace also. 2 Corinthians 8:7 The passages read for our lesson had so evidently a local and immediate application that they seem to have very little value for us. I […]

The Fruit-Bearing Friends of Jesus-George Campbell Morgan

The Fruit-Bearing Friends of Jesus – George Campbell Morgan The Fruit-Bearing Friends of Jesus No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known unto you. Ye did not choose […]

The Fruit Of The Spirit-George Campbell Morgan

The Fruit Of The Spirit – George Campbell Morgan The Fruit Of The Spirit  The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 “The fruit of the Spirit is love.” While perhaps the sublimest statement the Bible contains concerning God is […]

The Fourfold Glory of the Church-George Campbell Morgan

The Fourfold Glory of the Church – George Campbell Morgan The Fourfold Glory of the Church  Who is she that looketh forth as the morning. Fair as the moon. Clear as the sun, Terrible as an army with banners? Song of Solomon 6:10 There have been three methods of interpreting the Song of Songs, which, […]

The Fixed Heart in the Day of Frightfulness-George Campbell Morgan

The Fixed Heart in the Day of Frightfulness – George Campbell Morgan The Fixed Heart in the Day of Frightfulness  He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Psalm 112:7 The first part of the text describes a most desirable state of mind, that of being able […]

The Firstborn-George Campbell Morgan

The Firstborn – George Campbell Morgan The Firstborn  And she brought forth her first-born son. Luke 2:7       Who is… the first-born of all creation. Colossians 1:15       Who is… the first-born from the dead. Colossians 1:18       The first-born among many brethren. Romans 8:29 We celebrate at Christmas the supreme event in human history, the central act […]

The First Message of Jesus-George Campbell Morgan

The First Message of Jesus – George Campbell Morgan The First Message of Jesus From that time began Jesus to preach, and to say, Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Matthew 4:17  That is the way in which Jesus always begins. His first message to men is always, Repent! He does […]

The Filling of the Spirit-George Campbell Morgan

The Filling of the Spirit – George Campbell Morgan The Filling of the Spirit  They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:4 That is the central and supreme word about the day of Pentecost. The sound of the wind and the sign of the fire were symbolic, and not essential. The ecstatic speech […]

The Fight of Faith 2-George Campbell Morgan

The Faith That Cancels Fear – George Campbell Morgan The Fight of Faith 2 Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal. 1 Timothy 6:12 We are accustomed to speak of the Christian life under different figures. Sometimes it is described as a pilgrimage in which, staff in hand and […]

The Fight of Faith-George Campbell Morgan

The Faith That Cancels Fear – George Campbell Morgan The Fight of Faith Our Saviour Jesus Christ, Who abolished death. 2 Timothy 1:10 We come to Easter morning with joy and gladness, and with a great sense of triumph filling our hearts. We have been treading the shadowed way that led to Calvary, and standing […]

The Faith That Cancels Fear-George Campbell Morgan

The Faith That Cancels Fear – George Campbell Morgan The Faith That Cancels Fear The eternal God is thy dwelling place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. Deuteronomy 33:27 There are two realms of mystery which persistently assault the soul of man and produce in it a sense of fear. They are the unknown future, […]

The Exalted Christ-George Campbell Morgan

The Exalted Christ-George Campbell Morgan The Exalted Christ Wherefore God also highly exalted Him, and gave unto Him the name “which is above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in Heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that […]

The Evangel of Grace-George Campbell Morgan

The Evangel of Grace – George Campbell Morgan The Evangel of Grace The gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24 The text is not a complete sentence; it is only a phrase, but what a phrase it is! The mere reading of it lifts the soul to the highest levels of thought; the horizons […]

The Ethic and Evangel of Jesus-Georgew Campbell Morgan

The Ethic and Evangel of Jesus – Georgew Campbell Morgan The Ethic and Evangel of Jesus Ye, therefore, shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48 The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke 19:10 Here we have two superlative utterances of Jesus, which, at […]

The Divine Worker-George Campbell Morgan

The Divine Worker – George Campbell Morgan The Divine Worker Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts. Zechariah 4:6The earlier part of the prophetic ministry of Zechariah was contemporary and co-operative with that of Hazzai. Its burden was that of inspiring the people in the rebuilding of […]

The Disciples’ Problem–The Master’s Answer-George Campbell Morgan

The Disciples’ Problem –The Master’s Answer – George Campbell Morgan The Disciples’ Problem–The Master’s Answer As He passed by, He saw a man blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Rabbi, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, […]

The Deity of Jesus-George Campbell Morgan

The Deity of Jesus – George Campbell Morgan The Deity of Jesus In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:9 In the midst of multiplied service it is good that we should ever and anon remind our hearts of the central creeds which are the perpetual inspiration of service. No one, […]

The Darkness of Golgotha-George Campbell Morgan

The Darkness of Golgotha – George Campbell Morgan The Darkness of Golgotha From the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. Matthew 27:45 There’s always a danger that we might read this verse too quickly. We treat it too often as though it were merely the record of something […]

The Cross 5: Promise at the Cross-George Campbell Morgan

The Cross 5: Promise at the Cross – George Campbell Morgan The Cross 5: Promise at the Cross He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not also with Him freely give us all things?–Romans 8:12. We now come to the last of these studies around […]

The Cross 4: Power by the Cross-George Campbell Morgan

he Cross 4: Power by the Cross – George Campbell Morgan The Cross 4: Power by the Cross The aspect of the Cross of Christ which is now to occupy our attention is one that has application only to a certain number of people, whom the Apostle refers to in the words, “to us which […]

The Cross 3: Peace by the Cross-George Campbell Morgan

The Cross 3: Peace by the Cross – George Campbell Morgan The Cross 3: Peace by the Cross Peace in human experience is the issue of pardon and purity. There can be no peace so long as sin is unforgiven; there can be no perfect peace so long as impurity remains in the life, dominant […]

The Cross 2: Purity by the Cross-George Morgan Campbell

The Cross 2: Purity by the Cross-George Morgan Campbell The Cross 2: Purity by the Cross How much more shall the blood of Christ … cleanse your conscience from dead works? –Hebrews 9:14 IN OUR PREVIOUS STUDY WE CONSIDERED THE FIRST BLESSING that comes to men by the way of the Cross-first, I mean in […]

The Cross 1: Pardon by the Cross-George Campbell Morgan

The Cross 1: Pardon by the Cross – George Campbell Morgan The Cross 1: Pardon by the Cross Everything a sinning man needs he finds at the Cross. Apart from the fact of human sin, the Cross is indeed foolishness, a veritable stumbling-block. To the Greek, seeking for the culture of uncultured man, “foolishness,” something […]

The Crippling That Crowns-George Campbell Morgan

The Crippling That Crowns – George Campbell Morgan The Crippling That CrownsAnd He send, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed. Genesis 32:28 Taken in all its simplicity, it will readily be granted that this old and very familiar story […]

The Conditions of Renewal-George Campbell Morgan

The Conditions of Renewal – George Campbell Morgan The Conditions of Renewal Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 20:21 We at once recognize that this is not a sentence, as a matter of fact, the text consists of two phrases, incidentally employed in the course of apostolic discourse. Paul halted […]

The Conditions of Coming to God-George Campbell Morgan

The Conditions of Coming to God – George Campbell Morgan The Conditions of Coming to GodHe that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that seek after Him. Hebrews 11:6 The text is part of a verse which breaks in on the continuity of the chapter […]

The Coming of the Word: Rejected or Received?-George Campbell Morgan

The Coming of the Word: Rejected or Received?-George Campbell Morgan The Coming of the Word: Rejected or Received? He came unto His own, and they that were His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on […]

The Cities of Men and the City of God-George Campbell Morgan

The Cities of Men and the City of God – George Campbell Morgan The Cities of Men and the City of God Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run […]

The Church’s Debt to the World-George Campbell Morgan

The Church’s Debt to the Worl I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. Romans 1:14 It is almost certain that Paul had never been to Rome when he wrote these words. A question naturally arises therefore as to the reason why he wrote this letter […]

The Church The Pillar and Ground of Truth-George Campbell Morgan

The Church The Pillar and Ground of Truth – George Campbell Morgan The Church The Pillar and Ground of Truth The Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 1 Timothy 3:15 This is a text. It is not a statement. It makes no definite declaration. It is, nevertheless, full of […]

The Children’s Playground in the City of God-George Campbell Morgan

The Children’s Playground in the City of God – George Campbell Morgan The Children’s Playground in the City of God And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. Zechariah 8:5 One almost expects to hear someone say, “How Extremely shocking!” Some people would probably be […]

The Burning Of Heart-George Campbell Morgan

The Burning Of Heart – George Campbell Morgan The Burning Of Heart Was not our heart burning within us, while He spake to us in the way, while He opened to us the scriptures? Luke 24:32 Burning of heart. That, I take it, is the supreme need of the Church today. We have principles, but […]

The Beginning of Sin-George Campbell Morgan

The Beginning of Sin – George Campbell Morgan The Beginning of Sin I do not propose to take any one verse in this chapter as text. It is complete in itself for all that it is intended to teach, and it is required as a whole if we are to understand that teaching. Of course […]

The Authority Of Jesus-George Campbell Morgan

The Authority Of Jesus – George Campbell Morgan The Authority Of Jesus And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at His teaching: for He taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes. Matthew 7:28, 29 These words occur at the close of the manifesto of […]

The Atonement-George Campbell Morgan

The Atonement – George Campbell Morgan The Atonement You, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before Him. Colossians 1:21, 22 There are two brief declarations […]

The Ascension-George Campbell Morgan

The Ascension-George Campbell Morgan The Ascension Now this, He ascended, what is it but that He also descended into the lower parts of the earth. He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things. Ephesians 4:9, 10 These words are placed within brackets both […]

The All-Sufficient Grace-George Campbell Morgan

The All-Sufficient Grace – George Campbell Morgan The All-Sufficient Grace My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Corinthians 12:9 This phrase forms part of a story in the life of one man. It is, however, a great word, revealing a profound philosophy of life, unfolding the deepest truth concerning God; in the knowledge of which […]

The Accomplished Mystery-George Campbell Morgan

The Accomplished Mystery – George Campbell Morgan The Accomplished Mystery It is finished. John 19:30 When I approach the Cross of our Lord I feel increasingly that I am beaten, baffled; its mystery is so vast, so wonderful that it is impossible to understand it. With that increased consciousness of its mystery there grows in […]

Suffer the Children-George Campbell Morgan

Suffer the Children – George Campbell Morgan Suffer the Children Suffer the little children to come unto Me; forbid them not: for of such is the Kingdom of God. Mark 10:14 That is the Magna Charta of the children. Its words are of the simplest which ever fell from the lips of our beloved Lord. […]

Submission And Responsibility-George Campbell Morgan

Submission And Responsibility – George Campbell Morgan Submission And Responsibility I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh. Matthew 8:9 All the scenes of New Testament history lie in the atmosphere of Roman government. Its […]

Spiritual Leprosy-George Campbell Morgan

Spiritual Leprosy – George Campbell Morgan Spiritual Leprosy And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Leviticus 14:1, 2 Leprosy remains until this hour more or less a mystery to medical science. In the New Year’s Honors List a name included was […]

Spare Thyself-George Campbell Morgan

Spare Thyself – George Campbell Morgan Spare Thyself From that time began Jesus to show unto His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. And Peter took Him, and began to rebuke […]

Sour Grapes-George Campbell Morgan

Sour Grapes – George Campbell Morgan Sour Grapes In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. Jeremiah 31:29; 30 […]

Songs in Prison-George Campbell Morgan

Songs in Prison – George Campbell Morgan Songs in Prison .. about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them; and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison-house were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened; and every […]

Sin, Sorrow, Silence-George Campbell Morgan

Sin, Sorrow, Silence – George Campbell Morgan Sin, Sorrow, Silence  Scripture: Psalm 32 Whoever wrote this Psalm knew much of spiritual experience on ordinary human levels. It is difficult sometimes to understand how some of these psalms were written so long before the coming of Christ. They seem to have been written by men who […]

Sin-George Campbell Morgan

Sin – George Campbell Morgan Sin Sin is lawlessness. 1 John 3:4 Lust when it hath conceived beareth sin. James 1:15 In these two brief passages we have inclusive statements of the nature and the genesis of sin. I am proposing to consider this subject in the most personal and immediate way, desiring to discuss […]

Short Beds and Narrow Coverings-George Campbell Morgan

Short Beds and Narrow Coverings – George Campbell Morgan Short Beds and Narrow Coverings For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Isaiah 28:20 This is the language of a fine satire. At this point the prophet, […]

Shining Faces-George Campbell Morgan

Shining Faces – George Campbell Morgan Shining Faces It came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the Mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone by reason of His speaking with him. Exodus […]

Secret and Revealed Things-George Campbell Morgan

Secret and Revealed Things-George Campbell Morgan Secret and Revealed Things The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29 These words contain one of the most important principles […]

Sanctuary-George Campbell Morgan

Sanctuary – George Campbell Morgan Sanctuary A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. Jeremiah 17:12 Jeremiah’s prophecies were uttered when the religious and moral conditions of the ancient people of God had become idolatrous and profligate. They are full of the sorrow of his heart, and yet […]

Sanctification-George Campbell Morgan

Sanctification – George Campbell Morgan Sanctification In sanctification of the Spirit. 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2 The two outstanding figures in the book of the acts of the Apostles are Peter and Paul. Each in his respective sphere was a pioneer in the great Christian campaign springing from the Pentecostal effusion. The phrase which […]

Salvation in Zion-George Campbell Morgan

Salvation in Zion – George Campbell Morgan Salvation in Zion I will place salvation in Zion. Isaiah 46:13 The forty-sixth and forty-seventh chapters of the prophecy of Isaiah constitute a complete message in themselves. The forty-sixth has to do with God’s determination to destroy Babylon; the forty-seventh describes that destruction. The reading of the forty-sixth […]

Saints-George Campbell Morgan

Saints – George Campbell Morgan Saints To the saints…. As becometh saints. Ephesians 1:1 and 5:3 It would appear as though this were an unwarrantable wresting of texts from their context, yet it is not really so. I grant at once that nothing of the teaching of this letter can be gained from these isolated […]

Righteousness or Revenue-George Campbell Morgan

Righteousness or Revenue – George Campbell Morgan Righteousness or Revenue “Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24). These words occur in that part of the Manifesto of Jesus in which, after enunciating His laws for the government of human life, both in its human and Divine relationships, He declared the necessity for a super […]

Restlessness and It’s Remedy-George Campbell Morgan

Restlessness and It’s Remedy – George Campbell Morgan Restlessness and It’s Remedy  Who will shew us any good? Psalm 4:6 That is not the inquiry of the psalmist. It is a question which he quotes, in order that he may reply to it. Let us, therefore, read not only the inquiry but also the answer:– […]

Regeneration-George Campbell Morgan

Regeneration – George Campbell Morgan Regeneration Born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:13 The principal and inclusive thought of the text is contained in the phrase “begotten… of God.” By this phrase we are ushered into the presence of the […]

Progressive Revelation-George Campbell Morgan

Progressive Revelation – George Campbell Morgan Progressive Revelation I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. John 16:12 These were some of the final words of Jesus to His disciples, spoken amid the messages of which we speak as His Paschal discourses. They were uttered in the hearing […]

Preparing the Highway-George Campbell Morgan

Preparing the Highway – George Campbell Morgan Preparing the Highway The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a high way for our God. Isaiah 40:3 These words are taken from the prologue to the second part of the prophecy of Isaiah. […]

Preparation for Service-George Campbell Morgan

Preparation for Service – George Campbell Morgan Preparation for Service In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above Him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he […]

Preaching With Passion-George Campbell Morgan

Preaching With Passion – George Campbell Morgan Preaching With Passion In the true sermon there must always be passion. Our Lord’s testimony concerning John, His forerunner, was this: “He was a burning and a shining light” (John 5:35). It is one thing to shine; it is quite another to burn as well. Half the sermons […]

Prayer or Fainting-George Campbell Morgan

Prayer or Fainting – George Campbell Morgan Prayer or Fainting They ought always to pray, and not to faint. Luke 18:1 Such is Luke’s interpretation of the meaning of the parable which Jesus uttered to His disciples concerning the uprighteous judge “which feared not God, and regarded not man,” but who granted the request of […]

Power for Service-George Campbell Morgan

Power for Service – George Campbell Morgan Power for Service But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Acts 1:8 If we know our Lord only […]

Playing the Fool-George Campbell Morgan

Playing the Fool – George Campbell Morgan Playing the Fool    … behold, I have played the fool…. 1 Samuel 26:21 That is autobiography; clear, truthful, inclusive. In half-a-dozen words we have the story of Saul, Israel’s first king, like the nations. Under stress of circumstances, men often tell truths and whole truths, which, if they […]

Peace Among Men of God’s Pleasure-George Campbell Morgan

Peace Among Men of God’s Pleasure – George Campbell Morgan Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men in whom He is well pleased. Luke 2:14 These words constituted the angelic anthem of welcome to the New Race. The angel messenger had told the shepherds of “a babe wrapped in swaddling […]

Peace-George Campbell Morgan

Peace – George Campbell Morgan Peac His name shall be called… Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6  I came not to send peace,… but a sword. Matthew 10:34 The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable. James 3:17 That is a startling combination of text. The first is part of one of the […]

Our Hope And Inheritance-George Campbell Morgan

Our Hope And Inheritance – George Campbell Morgan Our Hope And Inheritance Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not […]

Our Altar-George Campbell Morgan

Our Altar – George Campbell Morgan Our Altar We have an altar. Hebrews 13:10  The majority of days in the lives of the majority of men are ordinary days. Nevertheless, all men have extraordinary days, red-letter days; and whatever may be the nature of the experience which makes them stand out from all the rest, […]

Nehushtan-George Campbell Morgan

Nehushtan – George Campbell Morgan Nehushta He brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. 2 Kings 18:4 We at once realize what an astonishing statement the Chronicler makes here concerning king Hezekiah. Hezekiah ascended […]

My Lambs-My Sheep-George Campbell Morgan

My Lambs – My Sheep – George Campbell Morgan My Lambs-My Sheep Feed My Lambs… Tend My sheep… Feed My sheep. John 21:15, 16, 17 These words constitute our Lord’s final commission to Peter, and as Peter stands ever before us as the representative man, the words were spoken through him to the Church. We […]

My Friend-George Campbell Morgan

My Friend – George Campbell Morgan My Friend He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24 Those of you who are familiar with the rendering of this text in the Authorized Version must notice the very striking change of […]

Men Looking for Their Lord-George Campbell Morgan

Men Looking for Their Lord – George Campbell Morgan Men Looking for Their Lord Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning; and be ye yourselves like unto men looking for their Lord. Luke 12:35, 36 Every man has some conception of life as a whole, a conception which affects all his attitudes […]

Maran Atha!-George Campbell Morgan

Maran Atha ! -George Campbell Morgan Maran Atha! If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be Anathema Maran atha. 1 Corinthians 16:22 These words do not constitute a malediction. If you are inclined to question the accuracy of that statement notice what the Apostle himself says about them. “The salutation of me Paul […]

Manifestations Of The Risen Lord-George Campbell Morgan

Manifestations Of The Risen Lord – George Campbell Morgan Manifestations Of The Risen Lord After these things Jesus manifested Himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and He manifested Himself on this wise. John 21:1 Our subject is the whole of the twenty-first chapter of John in the light of this first […]

Love’s Proof and Prize-George Campbell Morgan

Love’s Proof and Prize – George Campbell Morgan Love’s Proof and Prize He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him. John 14:21 I cannot read the sublime […]

Like Gods or Godlike-George Campbell Morgan

Like Gods or Godlike – George Campbell Morgan Like Gods or Godlike They that make them shall be like unto them. Psalm 115:8 We shall be like Him. 1 John 3:2 In the Chapter of “Conformity to Type” in his “Natural Law in the Spiritual World,” Henry Drummond wrote: The protoplasm in man has a […]

Light And Darkness-George Campbell Morgan

Light And Darkness – George Campbell Morgan Light And Darkness In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 1:4 The text consists of two statements:       First, “In Him was life.”      Second, “The life was the light of men.”       These are related to a group of ten, with which the seer opens […]

Life: In Flesh, Or In Spirit-George Campbell Morgan

Life: In Flesh, Or In Spirit – George Campbell Morgan Life: In Flesh, Or In Spirit Ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. Romans 8:9 I […]

Life Through Death-George Campbell Morgan

Life Through Death – George Campbell Morgan Life Through Death I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd layeth down His life for the sheep. John 10:11 In this particular statement of the text and in the whole of the passage surrounding it we have an illuminative statement of Christ with regard to His death […]

Life In The Light-George Campbell Morgan

Life In The Light – George Campbell Morgan Life In The Light While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. John 12:36 These words of our Lord were spoken to critical and unbelieving men, and as their context shows, their intention was that of urging these men […]

Lessons of the Welsh Revival-George Campbell Morgan

Lessons of the Welsh Revival – George Campbell Morgan Lessons of the Welsh Revival Sermon By the Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, D.D.Delivered in Westminster ChapelSunday evening, 25th December, 1904 “For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day; but this is that which hath been spoken […]

Led Out- Led In-George Campbell Morgan

Led Out- Led In – George Campbell Morgan Led Out- Led In He led them out until they were over against Bethany: and He lifted up His hands, and blessed them. Luke 24:50 After His Resurrection from the dead, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ lingered on the earth for forty days, as though He […]

Keep Yourselves In The Love Of God-George Campbell Morgan

Keep Yourselves In The Love Of God – George Campbell Morgan Keep Yourselves In The Love Of God Keep yourselves in the love of God. Jude 21 These words are most remarkable in the light of their context. Taken apart therefrom, it would be the easiest thing in the world to misunderstand and misinterpret them. […]

Jubilation in Desolation-George Campbell Morgan

Jubilation in Desolation – George Campbell Morgan Jubilation in Desolation For though the fig tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in […]

Jesus and Sinners-George Campbell Morgan

Jesus and Sinners – George Campbell Morgan Jesus and Sinners This man receiveth sinners. Luke 15:2 These words were uttered in condemnation of Jesus of Nazareth, and yet to us they contain an inclusive statement of the truth concerning Him as the Saviour of men. It is a very interesting thing to notice in the […]

Jehovah of Hosts-God of Jacob-George Campbell Morgan

Jehovah of Hosts – God of Jacob – George Campbell Morgan Jehovah of Hosts-God of Jacob Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Psalm 46:7; 11 In the history of the human race nothing has ever been done for its help or uplifting save through the principle of faith. […]

Individuality in Religion-George Campbell Morgan

Individuality in Religion – George Campbell Morgan Individuality in Religion Behold, all souls are Mine. Ezekiel 18:4 The Bible is unified by the eternal principles which it reveals. Every great principle of religion finds explicit statement somewhere in the Sacred Writings. Elsewhere that particular principle is always implicit, and has occasional manifestation in some special […]

In the Beginning God-George Campbell Morgan

In the Beginning God – George Campbell Morgan In the Beginning God In the beginning God…. Genesis 1:1 I am quite conscious that the text is not a complete statement. It does not give us the full affirmation of the writer, but it reveals his assumption; and the affirmation is valueless apart from this assumption. […]

If Christ Did Not Rise: What Then?-George Campbell Morgan

If Christ Did Not Rise: What Then ? – George Campbell Morgan If Christ Did Not Rise: What Then? If Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain…. If Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins…. If we have only […]

Humanity and Deity-George Campbell Morgan

Humanity and Deity – George Campbell Morgan Humanity and Deity Being then the offspring of God. Acts 17:29 The text occurs in the course of the address which Paul delivered on Mars Hill. I am quite conscious that Paul has been somewhat criticized for the method he adopted at Athens. It has been said that […]

How to Succeed in Life-George Campbell Morgan

How to Succeed in Life – George Campbell Morgan How to Succeed in Life In all thy ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:6 This text has a peculiar place in my heart. It has been with me day by day for three-and-thirty years. It was on the morning when I […]

How the Wall is Built-George Campbell Morgan

How the Wall is Built – George Campbell Morgan How the Wall is Built So the wall was finished. Nehemiah 6:15 These words constitute a declaration of success. They are vibrant with triumph and joy. So far as the actual event to which they refer is concerned, they record what I may term an incidental […]

How God Has Made Possible What He Requires-George Campbell Morgan

How God Has Made Possible What He Requires – George Campbell Morgan How God Has Made Possible What He Requires As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him. Colossians 2:6 In reading these words we find ourselves in the same realm of ideas as that in which our thought has moved […]

How Can a Man Walk With God?-George Campbell Morgan

How Can a Man Walk With God ? – George Campbell Morgan Shall two walk together, except they have agreed? Amos 3:3 The sermon tonight is a sequel to that of last sunday evening, and the text is a starting point. In that sermon we considered what God requires of a man as that requirement […]

Horizoned by Resurrection-George Campbell Morgan

Horizoned by Resurrection – George Campbell Morgan Horizoned by Resurrection  Declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. Romans 1:4 These words constitute the second part of a double statement concerning one Person. That Person is indicated by a reference preceding the […]

Hope-George Campbell Morgan

Hope – George Campbell Morgan Hope By hope were we saved. Romans 8:24 The experience of hope is that of triumph over conditions and circumstances which are calculated to produce despair. Where there is no place for despair there is none for hope. If there is no danger of despair there is no possibility or […]

Holiness 5: It’s Hindrances-George Campbell Morgan

Holiness 5: It’s Hindrances – George Campbell Morgan Holiness 5: It’s Hindrances Ye were running well; who did binder you that ye should not obey the truth? Galatians 5:7 This is an outburst of appeal in the midst of an argument, and incidentally reveals a failure which has many other causes and manifestations than those […]

Holiness 4: It’s Fruit-George Campbell Morgan

Holiness 4: It’s Fruit – George Campbell Morgan Holiness 4: It’s Fruit Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. But all things are of God. 2 Corinthians 5:17, 18  The words, “he is” which appear in our Bibles are […]

Holiness 3: It’s Conditions-George Campbell Morgan

Holiness 3: It’s Conditions-George Campbell Morgan Holiness 3: It’s Conditions Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Corinthians 7:1 In the first study in this series on Holiness I attempted to answer the inquiry, Is holiness of character […]

Holiness 2: A Present Possibility-George Campbell Morgan

Holiness 2: A Present Possibility – George Campbell Morgan Holiness 2: A Present Possibility That ye may be blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world.Philippians 2:15 In our first study we attempted to understand the […]

Holiness 1: It’s Definition-George Campbell Morgan

Holiness 1: It’s Definition – George Campbell Morgan Holiness 1: It’s Definition The Gospel according to Luke is that of the Universal Saviour. In it, Jesus is seen as Man, and His work is dealt with in its widest application. The true ideal of God’s ancient people Israel is recognized. Messiah is revealed as of […]

His Workmanship-George Campbell Morgan

His Workmanship – George Campbell Morgan His Workmanship We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 This verse contains a remarkable statement as to the Christian life. All other conceptions of life at its very best are idealistic, but the […]

High Purpose, Failing and Fulfilled-George Campbell Morgan

High Purpose, Failing and Fulfilled-George Campbell Morgan High Purpose, Failing and Fulfilled And Peter answered Him and said, Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee upon the waters. And He said, Come. And Peter went down from the boat, and walked upon the waters, to come to Jesus. But when he saw […]

Hardened-George Campbell Morgan

Hardened-George Campbell Morgan Hardened But exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called Today, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Hebrews 3:13 “Hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” The warning of the text is addressed to people familiar with the letter of God’s word. Hence […]

Halting-George Campbell Morgan

Halting-George Campbell Morgan Halting How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow Him. 1 Kings 18:21 Ahab was King of Israel. The kingdom was in a most deplorable condition, perhaps at a period darker than any other in its history. Ahab was a veritable […]

Grace And Law-George Campbell Morgan

Grace And Law – George Campbell Morgan Grace And Law Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that His fear may be before you, that ye sin not. Exodus 20:20 In those wonderful days of the emancipation of the Hebrew people and their realization of the constitutional national life Moses twice uttered […]

Godliness and Gain-George Campbell Morgan

Godliness and Gain – George Campbell Morgan Godliness and Gain Supposing that godliness is a way of gain. But godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Timothy 6:5, 6 The arresting word of the text is “godliness,” for it is twice repeated. The word becomes more arresting when this letter is read through in close […]

God-Governed Life-George Campbell Morgan

God-Governed Life – George Campbell Morgan God-Governed Life The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain. Deuteronomy 1:6 The sojourn of the people of God at Mount Horeb had been a most vital one. There they had received the law, an expression of the Divine […]

God’s Thought of The King-George Campbell Morgan

God – Governed Life-George Campbell Morgan God’s Thought of The King  This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased. Matthew 3:17 These words constitute the inscription stamped around the Image imprinted on this gospel according to Matthew. The Image is that of the King. We have the book of His genealogy, the […]

God’s Fighting Forces-George Campbell Morgan

God’s Fighting Forces-George Campbell Morgan God’s Fighting Forces By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you. Judges 7:7 In his address from the chair of the Congregational Union last month, Mr. J. D. Jones, of Bournemouth, uttered these words: Numbers are not the first consideration with the Christian Church. We need to […]

God in Christ-George Campbell Morgan

God in Christ-George Campbell Morgan God in Christ God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. 2 Corinthians 5:19 The hour of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth was that in which the Light that lighteth every man came into the world. To describe the event in terms which suggest its value in the […]

Gethsemane: The Garden of Spices-George Campbell Morgan

Gethsemane: The Garden of Spices-George Campbell Morgan Gethsemane: The Garden of Spices Then cometh Jesus with them unto the place called Gethsemane. Matthew 26:36 In the Hebrew economy, on the Day of Atonement the High Priest entered the Holiest of all three times. First, he passed within the veil, carrying fire in the golden censer […]

Four Mistakes About Christ-George Campbell Morgan

Four Mistakes About Christ-George Campbell Morgan Four Mistakes About Christ  Is not this the Carpenter…? Mark 6:3 John the Baptizer is risen from the dead, and therefore do these powers work in him.Mark 6:14 Jesus therefore perceiving that they were about to come and take Him by force, to make Him King, withdrew again into […]

Forgiveness-George Campbell Morgan

Forgiveness-George Campbell Morgan Forgiveness  … the forgiveness of our sins. Colossians 1:14 These words constitute a phrase of interpretation. It stands in this verse in apposition to the word “redemption,” and declares its fundamental value. “In Whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.” Redemption in its finality means far more than forgiveness […]

Follow Me-George Campbell Morgan

Follow Me  Follow Me. John 1:43 I have selected these two words for our present meditation because they seem to have been the favorite form of invitation on the lips of our Master, and I have selected them from this particular verse because it gives us the earliest recorded use of them. Other occasions of […]

Final Words-George Campbell Morgan

Final Words – George Campbell Morgan Final Words The Lord be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. 2 Timothy 4:22 Grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever. Amen. 2 Peter 3:18 The grace of the Lord Jesus be […]

Fellowship with God-George Campbell Morgan

Fellowship with God – George Campbell Morgan Fellowship with God Our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 2:3 The great word of this passage, which at once arrests our attention, is the word “fellowship.” While not exclusively so, it is peculiarly the word of John; and as I […]

Famine for the Word of God-George Campbell Morgan

Famine for the Word of God-George Campbell Morgan Famine for the Word of God  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. And they shall wander from sea […]

False Fire-George Campbell Morgan

False Fire – George Campbell Morgan False Fire  And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. And there came forth fire from before the Lord, and devoured them, […]

Faith’s Outlook-George Campbell Morgan

Faith’s Outlook – George Campbell Morgan Faith’s Outlook   Lift up now thine eyes; and look from the place where thou art. Genesis 13:14 This was the word of Jehovah to Abram under strange circumstances. The point and the power of the particular words are found when they are placed in contrast with an earlier statement […]

Exaltation and Humbling-George Campbell Morgan

Exaltation and Humbling-George Campbell Morgan Exaltation and Humbling  Everyone that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke 18:14 This is Christ’s application of His own parable. Whatever other suggestiveness it may have, it is quite certain that here we are at the heart of the teaching. Most of […]

Ethical Perfection-George Campbell Morgan

Ethical Perfection-George Campbell Morgan Ethical Perfection Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48 Perhaps no words in the teaching of our Lord have given more pause to honest hearts than these. With a due sense therefore of their solemnity, combined with a conviction of the reasonableness of our Master, […]

Eternal Life-George Campbell Morgan

Eternal Life-George Campbell Morgan Eternal Life He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life. John 3:36 The first word of Jesus is, “Repent.” When men, hearing that call, indeed change their mind, and ask, “What must we do to work the works of God?” He answers, “This is the work of God, that ye […]

Dwellers In Fire-George Campbell Morgan

Dwellers In Fire – George Campbell Morgan Dwellers In Fire The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless ones: who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings? Isaiah 33:14 This chapter is a graphic description of Divine deliverance wrought, and the text reveals […]

Divine Selection-George Campbell Morgan

Divine Selection – George Campbell Morgan Divine Selection Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to Him. Acts 10:34, 35 The training of the Apostle Peter for the fulfilment of his work in the world may be […]

Daniel, A Man of Excellent Spirit-George Campbell Morgan

Daniel, A Man of Excellent Spirit – George Campbell Morgan Daniel, A Man of Excellent Spirit Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Daniel 6:3 The story of daniel is very old and fascinating. […]

Conscience-George Campbell Morgan

Conscience-George Campbell Morgan Conscience To-night I have no text. If anyone is sufficiently under the power of tradition to feel that a text is necessary, then either of the twenty-nine verses in the New Testament in which the word “conscience” is found will serve, for conscience is my theme. Conscience is that at which some […]

Clean, for Service-George Campbell Morgan

Clean, for Service – George Campbell Morgan Clean, for Service Be ye clean, ye that bear the vessels of the Lord. Isaiah 52:11 These words reveal a philosophy of service for the people of God. They define the responsibility which constantly rests on those who bear His name, that responsibility being indicated in the words, […]

Church Ideals 4: The Church At Work-George Campbell Morgan

Church Ideals 4: The Church At Work-George Campbell Morgan Church Ideals 4: The Church At Work From you hath sounded forth the Word of the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 1:8 This is the continuation and completion of the brief series of meditations on the subject of the Church of God according to the New Testament. We […]

Church Ideals 3: The Church Disciplined-George Campbell Morgan

Church Ideals 3: The Church Disciplined-George Campbell Morgan Church Ideals 3: The Church Disciplined  And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at […]

Church Ideals 2: The Church Governed-George Campbell Morgan

Church Ideals 2: The Church Governed-George Campbell Morgan Church Ideals 2: The Church Governed He is the Head of the Body, the Church: Who is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence. Colossians 1:18 It will at once be conceded that there are very many matters […]

Church Ideals 1: The Church Instituted-George Campbell Morgan

Church Ideals 1: The Church Instituted – George Campbell Morgan Church Ideals 1: The Church Instituted The Church of God. Acts 20:28 In the course of his charge to the elders of the Ephesian Church, Paul made use of this particular phrase; and I propose to spend four Sunday mornings in considering certain matters which […]

Christian Citizenship 4: Co-Operation In The Building-George Campbell Morgan

Christian Citizenship 4: Co-Operation In The Building-George Campbell Morgan Christian Citizenship 4: Co-Operation In The Building Let us therefore go forth unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach. Hebrews 13:13 This is the final injunction of the letter to the Hebrews, and the final application of our study during these four Sunday evenings. In […]

Christian Citizenship 3: The Building Of The City-George Campbell Morgan

Christian Citizenship 3: The Building Of The City – George Campbell Morgan Christian Citizenship 3: The Building Of The City The city which hath the foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God. Hebrews 11:10 This is now the third Sunday evening that we have turned to the subject of Christian citizenship. Speaking on the first […]

Christian Citizenship 2: The Search For The City-George Campbell Morgan

Christian Citizenship 2: The Search For The City – George Campbell Morgan Christian Citizenship 2: The Search For The City For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come. Hebrews 13:14 On Sunday evening last we took the first part of this verse, “We have not […]

Christian Citizenship 1: No Abiding City-George Campbell Morgan

Christian Citizenship 1: No Abiding City – George Campbell Morgan Christian Citizenship 1: No Abiding City For we have not here an abiding city. Hebrews 13:14 It is reported that the great German Chancellor, Bismarck, declared on one occasion that great cities are great sores upon the body politic. I do not suppose any of […]

Christ’s Vision of Jerusalem-George Campbell Morgan

Christ’s Vision of Jerusalem – George Campbell Morgan Christ’s Vision of Jerusalem And it came to pass, when the days were well nigh come that He should be received up, He stedfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem. Luke 9:51 Every contemplation of the last month, and weeks, and days in the life of […]

Christ’s Next of Kin-George Campbell Morgan

Christ’s Next of Kin-George Campbell Morgan Christ’s Next of Kin Whosoever shall do the will of My Father which is in heaven, he is My brother, and sister, and mother. Matthew 12:50 In order to have an accurate appreciation of the meaning and value of these wonderful words of Jesus we must carefully consider the […]

Christ’s Knowledge of Men-George Campbell Morgan

Christ’s Knowledge of Men-George Campbell Morgan Christ’s Knowledge of Men Now when He was in Jerusalem at the passover, during the feast, many believed on His name, beholding His signs which He did. But Jesus did not trust Himself unto them, for that He knew all men, and because He needed not that anyone should […]

Christ’s Call to Courage-George Campbell Morgan

Christ’s Call to Courage – George Campbell Morgan Christ’s Call to Courage   Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven. Matthew 9:2       Daughter, be of good cheer; thy faith hath made thee whole. Matthew 9:22       Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. Matthew 14:27       Be of good cheer; I have overcome […]

Christ Jesus, The Lord-George Campbell Morgan

Christ Jesus, The Lord – George Campbell Morgan How Can a Pure Heart be Obt Christ Jesus, The Lord  For we preach… Christ Jesus as Lord…. 2 Corinthians 4:5 There is no human interest with which Christianity does not deal. It comes in love with light and life to the whole circumference of things. It […]

Christ In You, The Hope Of Glory-George Campbell Morgan

Christ In You, The Hope Of Glory – George Campbell Morgan Christ In You, The Hope Of Glory … to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory…Colossians 1:27 The text is part of […]

Christ and Sinner-Identified and Separate-George Campbell Morgan

Christ and Sinner – Identified and Separate-George Campbell Morgan Christ and Sinner-Identified and Separate … He was reckoned with transgressors:… Luke 22:37 … separated from sinners…. Hebrews 7:26 These two statements concerning Christ are not contradictory; they are complementary. To understand them correctly is to see that one is the necessary outcome of the other in […]

Center and Circumference-George Campbell Morgan

Center and Circumference – George Campbell Morgan Center and Circumference Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Face unto Me, and be ye set free, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. […]

But!-George Campbell Morgan

But ! – George Campbell Morgan But! I will follow Thee, Lord; but… Luke 9:51-62 When the events took place which are recorded in the paragraph from which the text is taken, the face of Jesus was set toward Jerusalem, and the days were days of crisis and testing in the matter of all human […]

Burdens: False and True-George Campbell Morgan

Burdens: False and True – George Campbell Morgan Burdens: False and True All things have been delivered unto Me of My Father; and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal Him. Come unto Me, all ye […]

Be Strong-And Work-George Campbell Morgan

Be Strong-And Work – George Campbell Morgan Be Strong-And Work Be strong… saith the Lord… and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts. Haggai 2:4 These words were uttered about two thousand five hundred years ago, yet they come to us and to our day with a pertinence which is almost […]

Backsliding-George Campbell Morgan

Backsliding – George Campbell Morgan Backsliding If from thence ye shall seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou search after Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Deuteronomy 4:29 This book of Deuteronomy is a singularly beautiful one. It is not a history. Historically, it covers a period […]

As An Eagle…The Lord…Did Lead-George Campbell Morgan

As An Eagle…The Lord…Did Lead – George Campbell Morgan As An Eagle…The Lord…Did Lead   As an eagle that stirreth up her nest,  That fluttereth over her young,  He spread abroad his wings, he took them,  He bare them on his pinions:  The Lord alone did lead him. Deuteronomy 32:11, 12a These words are taken from […]

An Easter Meditation-George Campbell Morgan

An Easter Meditation – George Campbell Morgan An Easter Meditation  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3 These are the first direct words of this letter […]

Ambitions-George Campbell Morgan

Ambitions – George Campbell Morgan Ambitions  … desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you. Follow after love…. 1 Corinthians 12:31; and 14:1 We are all familiar with the word “Ambition.” Coming to us from the Latin, it has acquired a significance quite other than that of its first […]

Amazing Love!-George Campbell Morgan

Amazing Love ! – George Campbell Morgan Amazing Love! But God commendeth His own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 During the past week I received one letter which especially arrested my attention. It was unsigned, and I want to read it to you. It […]

Ability for Disability-George Campbell Morgan

Ability for Disability – George Campbell Morgan Ability for Disability Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored. Mark 3:5 The theme in the sermon is Christ’s ability in the presence of inability. Every miracle which Jesus wrought was a teaching, and that because the life of our Lord […]

A Profound Question-George Campbell Morgan

A Profound Question – George Campbell Morgan A Profound Question What think ye of the Christ? Matthew 22:42 This is in some ways one of the most interesting chapters in the Gospel according to Matthew. It tells the story of a day of questions, of criticism, of opposition, of unbelief. Of the questions the unifying […]