Sermons & Devotionals by Pearls from Philpot

"When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone; but the righteous stand firm forever." Proverbs 10:25 The very storms through which the believer passes, will only strengthen him to take a firmer hold of Christ. As the same wind that blows down the shallow-rooted tree, only establishes the deep-ro... Read More

"I hate pride and arrogance!" Proverbs 8:13 Our hearts are desperately proud. If there is one sin which God hates more than another, and more sets Himself against, it is the sin of pride. Like a weed upon a dung-heap, pride grows more profusely in some soils, especially when well fertilized by . . .... Read More

"Make straight paths for your feet." Hebrews 12:13 Surrounded as we are with a crooked generation, professing and profane, whose ways we are but too apt to learn; beset on every hand by temptations . . . to turn aside into some crooked path, to feed our pride, to indulge our lusts, to gratify our co... Read More

"Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know Him!" Hosea 6:3 The expression, "press on," implies that there are many difficulties, obstacles, and hindrances in a man's way, which keep him back from "knowing the Lord." Now the work of the Spirit in his soul is to carry him on in spite of... Read More

"That no flesh should glory in His presence." 1 Corinthians 1:29 Man's religion is to build up the creature. God's religion is to throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ.... Read More

True religion must be everything or nothing with us. In religion, indifference is ruin; neglect is destruction. Of all losses, the loss of the soul is the only one that is utterly irreparable and irremediable. You may lose property, but you may recover the whole or a portion of it; you may lose heal... Read More

"Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don't do it!" Jeremiah 45:5 Ministers are often desirous of . . . a greater gift in preaching, a readier utterance, a more abundant variety, a more striking delivery than they possess. And this, not for the glory of God, but for the glory of the creature. ... Read More

I have ever found myself to be my greatest enemy. I never had a foe that troubled me so much as my own heart; nor has any one ever wrought me half the mischief or given me half the plague that I have felt and known within. And it is a daily sense of this which makes me dread myself more than anybody... Read More

"There is no fear of God before their eyes." Romans 3:18 Those who have every reason to fear as to their eternal state before God, have for the most part, no fear at all. They are secure, and free from doubt and fear. The depths of human hypocrisy, the dreadful lengths to which profession may go, th... Read More

What am I? What are you? Are we not filthy, polluted, and defiled? Do not we, more or less, daily feel altogether as an unclean thing? Is not every thought of our heart altogether vile? Does any holiness, any spirituality, any heavenly- mindedness, any purity, any resemblance to the divine image dwe... Read More

"Set your affection on things above—not on things on the earth." Colossians 3:2 Everything upon earth, as viewed by the eyes of the Majesty of heaven—is base and paltry. Earth is after all, nothing but a huge clod of dust, and as such, as insignificant in the eyes of its Maker as the small dust of t... Read More

Oh, to be kept from myself—my . . . vile, proud, lustful, hypocritical, worldly, covetous, presumptuous, obscene self. O self! Self! Your desperate wickedness, your depravity, your love of sin, your abominable pollutions, your monstrous heart wickedness, your wretched deadness, hardness, blindness, ... Read More

"Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Hebrews 4:16 What heart can conceive or tongue recount the daily, hourly triumphs of the Lord Jesus Christ's all-conquering grace? We see scarcely a millionth part ... Read More

"You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house." 1 Peter 2:5 God's people require . . . many severe afflictions, many harassing temptations, and many powerful trials to hew them into any good shape, to chisel them into any conformity to Christ's image. For they are not like th... Read More

"For it is by grace you have been saved." Ephesians 2:8 We are saved by grace . . . free grace, rich grace, sovereign grace, distinguishing grace— without one atom of works, without one grain of creature merit, without anything of the flesh. Oh! sweet grace, blessed grace! Oh! what a help—what a str... Read More

Have I one grain of holiness in myself? Not one. Can all the men in the world, by all their united exertions, raise up a grain of spiritual holiness in their hearts? Not an atom, with all their efforts. If all the preachers in the world were to unite together for the purpose of working a grain of ho... Read More

"In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." John 14:2 O that we could lift our eyes to those blessed abodes—those mansions of heavenly bliss— where no sorrow intrudes, where sin is unknown, where tears are wiped from off all fa... Read More

"Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise." 1 Cor. 3:18 The fruit and effect of divine teaching is—to cut in pieces, and root up all our fleshly . . . wisdom, strength, and righteousness. God nev... Read More

"The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation—my stronghold." Psalm 18:2 On every side are hosts of enemies ever invading our souls—trampling down every good thing in our hearts—accompanied by a flying troop... Read More

It is our dim, scanty, and imperfect knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in His eternal love—and in His grace and glory—which leaves us so often cold, lifeless, and dead in our affections towards Him. If there were more blessed revelations to our soul of the Person and work, grace and glory, beauty a... Read More