Thomas Watson preaches on the significance of godly sorrow and repentance, emphasizing that those who sow in tears will reap in joy. He describes how a godly heart grieves over its shortcomings and sins, weeping out of a sense of God's love and the awareness of falling short of God's standards. Watson highlights the preciousness of repenting tears, comparing them to myrrh that brings comfort and refreshing to the spirit, and encourages believers to be 'weepers' who drown their sins in tears as a form of true repentance.

Thomas Watson expounds on 'The Lord's Prayer,' particularly the petition 'Deliver us from evil,' emphasizing the need for divine protection from the evils of the world, our own hearts, and the devil. He illustrates how the world is defiling, ensnaring, deadening, and vexing, urging believers to seek deliverance from its temptations and troubles. Watson also highlights the importance of recognizing the heart as a source of sin and the necessity of prayer for strength against Satan's schemes. He concludes by reminding the congregation of the eternal consequences of sin and the need for God's grace to overcome it.

Thomas Watson preaches about the importance of being wise as serpents and harmless as doves, emphasizing the need for Christians to unite prudence and holiness in their lives. He highlights the Apostles' commission, the foretold dangers they faced, and the instructions given by Christ. Watson explains that Christians must be both wise and innocent, showing examples from biblical figures like Moses, Daniel, and Paul who embodied this balance of wisdom and innocence. He urges believers to be prudent in their actions, yet maintain their integrity, avoiding sin while navigating through challenges and dangers.

Thomas Watson preaches on the necessity of provoking ourselves to worship God, emphasizing the natural inclination towards sin and the need for violent effort to lift our hearts towards heaven. He challenges believers to examine their spiritual diligence, self-denial, love for God, and pursuit of holiness. Watson highlights the example of Christ's violent sacrifice for our salvation, urging believers to follow His example in fervent faith and dedication.

Thomas Watson preaches on the importance and benefits of drawing near to God, emphasizing that it is good for believers to seek closeness with Him. He delves into the nature of our distance from God due to sin and the necessity of repentance to draw near. Watson explains how drawing near to God is made possible through Jesus Christ as our mediator, and he highlights the various ways believers can draw near to God through prayer, His Word, and the sacraments. The sermon concludes with exhortations to draw near to God out of love, honor, safety, peace, and for the riches of His blessings, warning of the consequences of drawing back from God or drawing near hypocritically.

Thomas Watson preaches on the importance of diligently working out one's salvation with fear and trembling, emphasizing the seriousness and necessity of this task for all Christians. He highlights the act of working out salvation, the difficulty, rareness, and possibility of this work, urging believers to shake off spiritual sloth and unite all their powers for this purpose. Watson provides reasons enforcing the need for holy sweat and industry in salvation work, addressing the challenges, dangers, and misconceptions that hinder believers from fully committing to this vital task.

Thomas Watson preaches on the duty of self-denial, emphasizing the need for Christians to deny their own righteousness and trust only in Christ's righteousness for salvation. He warns against self-confidence, high thoughts of oneself, sinful fashions, indulging in excessive appetites, seeking ease, and aiming for fame or self-applause. Watson also stresses the importance of taking up one's cross daily, being willing to endure suffering for Christ, and not giving in to worldly pleasures that lead to eternal ruin.

Thomas Watson preaches about the holy violence a Christian must put forth in the pursuit after glory, emphasizing the need to mortify the flesh by withdrawing fuel that may ignite lust and fighting against fleshly desires with spiritual weapons like faith and prayer. He highlights the importance of searching the Scriptures diligently, using it as a spiritual armory and a soul-enriching treasury to fight against sin and Satan. Watson also warns about the dangers of being entangled in the world's pleasures, the deceitfulness and polluting nature of the world, and the need for self-examination to ensure one's faith and affections are aligned with God's will.

Thomas Watson preaches about the significance of the Lord's Supper, emphasizing the deep meaning behind Jesus' sacrifice of His body and blood for the forgiveness of sins. He delves into the bitter, lingering, painful, shameful, and cursed aspects of Christ's death on the cross, highlighting the immense love displayed by God the Father and Jesus Christ in giving Himself for humanity. Watson urges believers to surrender to God with self-examination, seriousness, intelligence, longing, penitence, sincerity, humility, heavenly-mindedness, zeal, and universal subjection to Christ, reflecting the gratitude for Christ's sacrifice through courage, fruitfulness, zeal, and heavenly living.

Thomas Watson preaches about the transformative power of God's love and mercy in the lives of believers, highlighting how afflictions, when sanctified, draw them closer to God, teach them valuable lessons, and make them more upright. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining love for God, being thankful in all circumstances, and using prayer as a powerful tool to connect with God and receive His blessings. Watson also discusses how God's mercies humble, melt, and make the heart fruitful and thankful, while His power subdues and breaks the stronghold of sin in believers' lives.

Thomas Watson preaches on the Doctrine of Repentance, emphasizing the essential nature of repentance as a grace of God's Spirit that humbles and reforms sinners. He highlights the six special ingredients of repentance, the importance of true loathing of sin, the dangers of counterfeit repentance, the consequences of persisting in sin, and the necessity of developing a holy antipathy against sin. Watson also discusses the power of tears in repentance, the dwelling places of Satan, the comparison of sin to affliction, the loss of shame in sinners, and the destructive nature of sloth as the cancer of the soul.

Thomas Watson preaches about the mischief of sin, highlighting God's mercy in saving Christians from persisting in sin and the consequences of unrepentant sinners storing up wrath for themselves. He emphasizes the destructive nature of sin, its link to punishment, and the need to avoid pride, covetousness, and immorality. Watson also discusses the cleansing power of Christ's blood, the importance of repentance, and the eternal consequences of sin. He urges believers to use the Word of God, prayer, and mortification to overcome sin and emphasizes the need to fear the consequences of sin and avoid secret sins that lead to destruction.

Thomas Watson preaches about how the worst things, such as afflictions, temptations, desertions, and sins, can be overruled by God for the good of His people. He explains how afflictions work for good by teaching valuable lessons, refining character, and drawing believers closer to God. Similarly, temptations are turned into opportunities for prayer, self-examination, and reliance on Christ's strength. Desertions lead to a deeper appreciation of God's presence and a longing for heaven. Even the sense of sinfulness in the godly serves to humble, purify, and drive believers to seek God more fervently.

Thomas Watson preaches about the importance of meditating on various spiritual topics, such as the law of the Lord, the duty of prayer, the nature of meditation, the subjects of meditation, and the consequences of not meditating. He emphasizes the need for Christians to reflect on their spiritual state, the certainty of death, the reality of heaven, the eternity of both punishment and life, and the significance of personal experiences as a way to deepen one's faith and gratitude towards God.

Thomas Watson preaches about finding consolation in affliction by acknowledging God's kindness and faithfulness towards His people. Despite the challenges and heavy afflictions faced by the righteous, God deals well with them by being their God, making them grow wiser and promoting holiness through affliction, providing promises and preventing sin. Afflictions are seen as acts of love from a caring Father, moderating His correction, preventing sin, and leading His children to heaven where eternal glory awaits.

Thomas Watson preaches about the incomparable reward of having God Himself as the ultimate prize for His people. He emphasizes that nothing on earth or in heaven can compare to God as the saints' reward, and explains how God bestows Himself upon His people through Jesus Christ's sacrifice. The exceeding greatness of this reward lies in God being a satisfying, suitable, pleasant, transcendent, infinite, honorable, and everlasting reward, bringing eternal joy and contentment to those who have Him as their portion.

Thomas Watson preaches about the attributes of God, focusing on His omnipresence, immutability, eternity, and wisdom. He highlights God's infinite presence in all places at once, His unchanging nature and eternal existence, and His perfect wisdom displayed in creation and redemption. Watson emphasizes the comfort and assurance found in God's unchangeable decrees and the intricate workings of His wisdom in the salvation of sinners.

Thomas Watson preaches about the importance of keeping our hearts diligently, as they are the source of life and the seat of our thoughts, desires, and actions. He emphasizes the duty, manner, and reason for keeping our hearts with all diligence, using various analogies like keeping a temple, treasure, garden, garrison, and prisoner. Watson provides practical advice on how to keep our hearts by setting up fences, using means like the Word of God, watching over our passions, and seeking God's help. He warns about the consequences of not keeping our hearts, as the devil will try to deceive and control them, leading to spiritual devastation and loss of peace.

The preacher delves into the concept of 'better' in the Bible, emphasizing the superiority, advantage, and excellence found in Christ and His sacrifice compared to the Old Testament system. The term 'kreitton/kreisson' signifies something more useful, profitable, and advantageous, highlighting the greater value and significance of Christ's offering. Through various Bible verses, the sermon explores how choosing what is 'better' aligns with God's will, whether in marriage, suffering for righteousness, or in faith like Abel's sacrifice.

Thomas Watson preaches about the death of the righteous, emphasizing that for believers, to live is Christ and to die is gain. He explains that at death, believers are freed from sin, troubles, care, fear, labor, suffering, temptation, and sorrow, entering into a state of eternal glory where they see, love, and are loved by God. The sermon highlights the privileges believers receive at death, including being united with Christ in the grave, entering into heavenly glory, enjoying the society of angels and saints, experiencing perfection in holiness, dignity, honor, harmony, rest, and eternity in God's presence.

Thomas Watson preaches about Jesus as the good Shepherd, emphasizing His intimate knowledge of His sheep and the unique characteristics of His flock. He describes the sheep as innocent, meek, clean, useful, contented, and timorous, contrasting them with the wicked who are like goats. Watson highlights how Christ, as the Shepherd, is appointed, knows, marks, seeks, leads, governs, relieves, feeds, watches, has compassion, and prays for His sheep, showing His unmatched love and care. He explains how Christ excels other shepherds in glory, cleansing, teaching, praying, comforting, dying, blessing, guiding, governing, and securing His sheep, ultimately leading them to eternal life in paradise.

Thomas Watson preaches on the comforting aspects of God's rod and staff as highlighted in Psalms 23:4. He explains that God's rod can be seen as a destroying rod upon His enemies, a pastoral rod guiding His sheep, and a disciplining rod for His children. Watson emphasizes that God's rod, even in affliction, provides comfort through instruction, a token of God's love, a means to bring us to glory, and as a way to make us better. He challenges the congregation to not be dejected in affliction but to seek comfort and growth in God's discipline.

Thomas Watson preaches about the importance, nature, counterfeits, necessity, signs, pursuit, inducements, and attainment of sanctification. He emphasizes that sanctification is the will of God, essential for evidencing justification, a requirement for the new covenant, necessary for entering heaven, and the only thing that makes us differ from the wicked. Watson urges Christians to pursue sanctification above all else, as it is the evidence of God's love, fits us for heaven, and is the main thing a Christian should seek after. He provides practical steps to attain sanctification, such as being in the Word, having faith in Christ's blood, seeking the Holy Spirit, associating with sanctified people, and praying for sanctification.

Thomas Watson preaches about the Christian joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, which is a delightful passion arising from the feeling of God's love and favor, supporting the soul in troubles and guarding against future fears. He explains how this joy is wrought through the promises of God and the work of the Holy Spirit, and highlights five seasons when God usually gives divine joys to His people. Watson also contrasts worldly joys with spiritual joys, emphasizing that spiritual joys are inward, sweeter, purer, satisfying, stronger, unwearied, abiding, and self-existent, encouraging believers to seek after them through consistent spiritual living.

Thomas Watson preaches about the significance of mourning as a pathway to solid joy in the Christian life. He emphasizes that holy mourning leads to the sweetest joy, comparing it to the process of sugar melting to reveal its sweetness. Watson highlights the importance of gospel-mourning as a precursor to experiencing true comfort and the everlasting consolation that God provides to His mourners.