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A.B. Simpson (1843 - 1919)
Read freely text sermons and articles by the speaker A.B. Simpson in text and pdf format. Simpson is the founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance Movement that began in Canada with a desire to promote missions and global evangelism. He was used powerfully of the Lord to unify many brothers and sisters in a common purpose of fulfilling the great commission.
A.W. Tozer joined with the Missionary Alliance denomination because of the teachings of A.B. Simpson and specific his writings on holiness: "A Larger Christian Life." He wrote many hymns and added a great emphasis on the person of Jesus Christ in church-life.
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Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world
Literally, Jesus is saying, "I am with you all the days." He comes to us each day with a new blessing. Every morning, day by day, He walks with us with a love that never tires and a blessing that never grows old. And He is with us "all the days;" it i ... read more
Look from the place where thou art
Let us think for a moment of the blessedness of faith. Our own littleness and nothingness sometimes becomes bondage. We are so small in our own eyes we dare not claim God's mighty promises. We say: "If I could be sure I was in God's will I could trust ... read more
Look from the top
Yes, our perplexities would become plain if we kept on a spiritual elevation. Often when the traveler quite loses his way he can discern it again from some hilltop where all the winding paths on which he has come appear behind him, and the whole homeward ... read more
Looking unto Jesus
There must be a constant looking unto Jesus, or, as the German Bible states it, an offlooking upon Jesus-that is, looking off from the evil, refusing to see it, not letting the mind dwell upon it for a second. We should have mental eyelids as well as phys ... read more
Lord, Is My Heart Tender? Part Two
Several leaders from a mission field I was visiting approached me with the urgent request to help them make peace between two co-workers. I agreed to talk with both men. The interesting thing was that neither one was willing to give in and admit any wrong ... read more
Love believeth all things
There is a beautiful expression in the book of Isaiah which reflects with accuracy the depth of the love of God. He said, They are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour (Isaiah 63:8). They lied, but He would not believe it. At lea ... read more
Make you perfect in every good work
The prayer at the close of the Letter to the Hebrews is beautiful: Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work ... read more
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried. This is the promise for the Lord's coming. It is more than purity. It is to be made white, lustrous or bright. To be purified is to have sin burned out; to be made white is to have the glory of the Lord ... read more
Men ought always to pray
Let this be a day of prayer. Let us realize that our highest ministry and power is to deal with God for men. Let us be obedient to all the Holy Spirit's voices of prayer in us. Let us consider every pressure a call to prayer. Let us cultivate the spirit ... read more
Ministers of Christ
"Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd ... read more
More than Conquerors
"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through Him that loved us."-Rom. viii : 37.
It is a great thing to be a conqueror in Christian life and conflict. It is a much greater thing to be a conqueror "in all these things" which the ap ... read more
Motives To Service
The sacrifice is our consecrated service to God and the cords which bind it to the altar are the motives, the impulses which ought to constrain us to a more earnest and entire devotion to Christ and to His work. God wants us so to yield ourselves, living ... read more
MOTIVES TO SERVICE
"Bind the sacrifice with cords even unto the horns of the altar." Psalm cxviii. 22
The sacrifice is our consecrated service to God and the cords which bind it to the altar are the motives, the impulses which ought to constrain us to a more earnest and en ... read more
My expectation is from him
when we believe for a blessing, we must take the attitude of faith and begin to act and pray as if we already had it. We must treat God as if He had given us our request. We must lean our weight upon Him for the thing that we have claimed and just take i ... read more
My grace is sufficient for thee
God allowed the crisis that closed around Jacob, on the night when he bowed at Peniel in supplication, to bring him to the place where he could take hold of God as he never would have done. From that narrow pass of peril Jacob came, enlarged in his faith ... read more
My helpers in Christ Jesus
Christ's Church is overrun with captains. It is in great need of a few more privates. A few rivers run into the sea, but a larger number run into other rivers. We cannot all be Pioneers, but we can all be helpers. No man is fitted to go in first place un ... read more
My peace I give unto you
Here lies the secret of abiding peace-God's peace. We give ourselves to God and the Holy Spirit takes possession of our hearts. It is indeed "Peace, peace." But it is at this precise point that the devil begins to interfere, and he does it through our ... read more
Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling
We know what it is to be fireproof or to be waterproof. But it is a greater thing to be sin proof. it is possible to be so filled with the Spirit of Jesus that all the shafts of the enemy glance off our heavenly armor. It is possible to so know the presen ... read more
Nevertheless, David took the castle of Zion
If you seem to have so much fighting to do, it may be because you did not have one sharp, decisive battle to begin with. It is far easier to have one great battle than to keep on skirmishing all your life. I know men who spend forty years fighting what th ... read more
NEW TESTAMENT MISSIONARY TYPES
"Count me therefore a partner" (Phil. 17).
Let me present to you a group of New Testament missionaries which stand out in bold relief in the story of early Christianity. These we will find are types of character and represent some special feature of mi ... read more
None of these things move me
The best evidence of God's presence is the devil's growl. So once wrote Charles H. Spurgeon in The Sword and the Trowel. That little sentence has helped many a tried and tired child of God to stand fast and even rejoice under the fiercest attacks of th ... read more
Not as I will but as thou wilt
There are two attitudes in which our will should be given to God. First, we should have the surrendered will. This is where we must all begin, by yielding up to God our natural will and having Him possess it. But next, He wants us to have the victorious w ... read more
Not my will, but thine
Jesus who once suffered in Gethsemane will be our strength and our victory, too. We may fear, we may also sink, but let us not be dismayed, and we shall yet praise Him and look back from a finished course and say, Not one thing hath failed of all the good ... read more
Not ourselves, but Christ Jesus
Your Christian influence, your reputation as a worker for God and your standing among your brethren may be an idol to which you must die before you can be free to live for Jesus alone. If you have ever noticed the type on a printed page, you must have see ... read more
Now are we the sons of God
We are the sons of God. We are not merely called such or even legally declared so, but we actually are sons of God by receiving the life and nature of God. And so we are the very brethren of our Lord, not only in His human nature, but still more so in His ... read more
Now it is high time to awake out of sleep
Let us wake out of sleep, let us be alert, let us be alive to the great necessities that really concern us. Let us put off the garments of the night and the indulgences of the night, the loose robes of pleasure and the flowing garments of repose. The fest ... read more
Now mine eyes seeth thee
We must recognize the true character of our self-life and its real virulence and vileness. We must consent to its destruction, and we must take it ourselves, as Abraham did Isaac, and lay it at the feet of God in willing sacrifice. This is a seemingly imp ... read more
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous
God seems to love to work by paradoxes and contradictions. In the transformations of grace, the bitter is the base of the sweet, night is the mother of day and death is the gate of life. Many people want to have power. But, how is power produced? The othe ... read more
Offices And Relations Of The Holy Ghost
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The Holy Spirit in Relation to the Godhead.
This Divine person has a special place in the Trinity, and in the Divine economy.
With respect to the Father, He is spoken of as proceeding from Him; the same term is also used of His relation to the ... read more
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering
Beloved, are you ministering to Christ? Arc you doing it with your hands? Are you doing it with your substance and with your gifts? Is He getting the best at your table? And when He does not come to fill the chair, is it free to His representative, His po ... read more
Our Full Inheritance in Christ
The following chapters contain the substance of a series of expositions of the Book of Joshua, designed to unfold the deeper spiritual teachings of this book as a revelation of Christ in His fulness, and as a type of the higher inheritance of faith and pe ... read more
OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST
"Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
"For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points temp ... read more
Our High Calling in Christ
"I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims." (1 Peter 2: 11.)
Peter has told us about Christ. Now, what has he to tell us about ourselves? His first epistle contains a number of significant titles and attributes of the believer.
1. Strangers. "Peter, ... read more
OUR KINSMAN REDEEMER; LESSONS FROM THE BOOK OF RUTH
"Thy Maker is thy Husband, and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel." Isaiah 64: 5.
The Book of Ruth is really a part of the Book of Judges. It is a sort of vignette inserted on the background of that mingled picture of the dark ages of the Old Testamen ... read more
OUR RESPONSE TO GOD'S MESSAGE
"Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip" (Heb. 2: 1).
"Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God" (He ... read more
OUR SPIRITUAL WARFARE
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds);
"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the kn ... read more
Partnership With God
The members of an English publishing firm recently sat down together to their annual dinner in Exeter Hall. There were more than two thousand partners at the table. It was a strange sight to look at that immense crowd of men and realise that they were one ... read more
PARTNERSHIP WITH GOD
"We are laborers together with God" I Cor. iii. 9.
The members of an English publishing firm recently sat down together to their annual dinner in Exeter Hall. There were more than two thousand partners at the table. It was a strange sight to look at th ... read more
PAUL'S TESTIMONY ABOUT HIS MINISTRY
"Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselve ... read more
PAUL'S TESTIMONY ABOUT HOLINESS
We have had Paul's testimony about salvation, the supernatural life of the body, victory over trial and other important experiences. In the sixth chapter of 2 Corinthians we have his testimony about holy living. There were special reasons why this should ... read more
PAUL'S TESTIMONY ABOUT SALVATION
"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be you reconciled to God." 2 Cor. 5: 20.
The apostle has given us his testimony about trial and victory, about his ministry and his own physica ... read more
PAUL'S TESTIMONY CONCERNING SUPERNATURAL LIFE FOR THE BODY
"For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." 2 Cor. 4: 11.
Unlike many false religions, Christianity does not depreciate or degrade the human body. The very ... read more
Peace be unto you
Peace be unto you. These words are a type of Jesus' first appearing to our hearts when He comes to bring us His peace and to teach us to trust Him and to love Him. But there is a second peace which He has to give. Jesus said unto them again, Peace be unt ... read more
PENTECOSTAL OUTPOURINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
"Until the Spirit be poured out from on high and the wilderness become a fruitful field and the fruitful field be counted for a forest." (Is. 32: 15.)
The prophet Isaiah is not only a witness to the Messiah but also to the Holy Ghost. It was the touch ... read more
Person And Attributes Of The Holy Ghost
"God hath not given us the Spirit of fear, but of
power, and of love, and of a sound mind."--2 Tim. 1:7.
I.
The Holy Spirit is a Person.
The Holy Ghost is a distinct individual, and not a vague influence, or a phase of Divine working.
Just ... read more
Personal Responsibility
There were few in these days of our Lord who had not either seen or heard of a Roman triumphal procession, or witnessed on a smaller scale the pageants of Herod; and they had heard all over the world of the majestic and magnificent entrance to the capital ... read more
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
"And if any man ask ought of you, say the Lord hath need of them. Tell ye the daughter of Zion; Behold, they King cometh unto thee, meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt, the foal of an ass." Matthew xxi. 3, 5.
There were few in these days of our Lor ... read more
Philippians Chapter 1 THE CHRISTIAN TEMPER AS EXEMPLIFIED AND ILLUSTRATED IN PAUL
"I have you in my heart" (Phil. 1: 7).
"To me to live is Christ and to die is gain" (Phil. 1:21).
The first chapter of Philippians gives us a portrait of the Apostle's own heart and character. It is drawn by his own hand. Yet he is free from egotism, an ... read more
Philippians Chapter 2 THE CHRISTIAN TEMPER AS EXEMPLIFIED IN CHRIST
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2: 5).
Every great creation must have an arch-type and pattern. Many a waiting year and many a patient effort is spent in perfecting the model of some marvelous invention which is to revolu ... read more
Philippians Chapter 3 THE CHRISTIAN TEMPER AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE FRIENDS OF PAUL
"For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state.
"For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
"But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
"Yet I suppo ... read more
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