Sermons & Devotionals by Pearls from Philpot

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:3 None are really poor in spirit, but those whom the hand of God has stripped—whom He has brought down—and made to abhor themselves in dust and ashes—and to see and feel themselves destitute of everything good, holy, he... Read More

"We are all infected and impure with sin. When we proudly display our righteous deeds, we find they are but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall. And our sins, like the wind, sweep us away." Isaiah 64:6 We once thought that we could gain heaven by our own righteousness. We strictly at... Read More

"To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ." Jude 1 What a mercy it is for God's people that before they have a 'vital union' with Christ—before they are grafted into Him experimentally—they have an 'eternal, immanent union' with Him before all worl... Read More

Pride, self-conceit, and self-exaltation, are both the chief temptations, and the main besetting sins, of those who occupy any public position in the church. Therefore, where these sins are not mortified by the Spirit, and subdued by His grace; instead of being, as they should be, the humblest of me... Read More

"The things on earth will be shaken, so that only eternal things will be left." Hebrews 12:27 Man is always seeking happiness in some shape or other, in the things of this world. He does not see or feel that outside of God, happiness is impossible; and that to seek it in 'the creature' is to add sin... Read More

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now has come the salvation." Rev. 12:10 The sweetest song that heaven ever proclaimed, the most blessed note that ever melted the soul, is "salvation." To be saved from . . . death and hell; the worm which dies not; the fire which is not quenched; the sulphu... Read More

And they were shouting with a mighty shout, "Salvation comes from our God on the throne and from the Lamb!" Revelation 7:10 The sweetest song that heaven ever proclaimed, the most blessed note that ever melted the soul, is salvation. Saved FROM . . . death and hell; the worm which never dies; the fi... Read More

"For My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink." John 6:55 This food is specially for the elect . . . blood shed for their sins, and for their sins only; righteousness brought in for them, and for them only; love bestowed upon them, and upon them only; promises revealed for their comfort, and... Read More

"Should you then seek great things for yourself? Seek them not." Jeremiah 45:5 Ministers often seek . . . great gifts, great eloquence, great congregations, great popularity. They are wrong in seeking these so-called great things. Let them rather seek real things, gracious things, things that will m... Read More

"I drew them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love." Hosea 11:4 When God draws His people near unto Himself, it is not done in a mechanical way. They are drawn, not with cords of iron, but with the cords of kindness; not as if God laid an iron arm upon His people to drag them to Himself—wh... Read More

"Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them." Jeremiah 50:38 Have we not all in our various ways, set up some beloved idol . . . something which engaged our affections, something which occupied our thoughts, something to which we devoted all the energies ... Read More

"And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything," Ephesians 1:22 How vast—how numerous—how complicated are the various events and circumstances which attend the Christian here below, as he travels onward to his heavenly home! But if all things are put under Jes... Read More

"O Israel, you have destroyed yourself! But in Me is your help." Hosea 13:9 Is not this a true charge? Does not your conscience agree with it, as a well founded accusation? Have you not willingly with your eyes open, run into some sin, which, but for God's mercy and upholding hand, would have proved... Read More

"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." 2 Cor. 4:6 Until, then, this supernatural light of God enters into the soul, a man has no saving knowledge of Jehovah. He may . .... Read More

"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved." Jer. 17:14 Here is this sin! Save me from it! Here is this snare! Break it to pieces! Here is this lust! Lord, subdue it! Here is this temptation! Deliver me out of it! Here is my proud heart! Lord, humble it! Here is my unbeli... Read More

"The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations." 2 Peter 2:9 Few will sincerely and spiritually go to the Lord, and cry from their hearts to be delivered from the power of a temptation—until it presses so weightily upon their conscience, and lies so heavy a burden upon their soul, that ... Read More

"I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live." Galatians 2:20 The crucifixion of self is indispensable to following Christ. What is so dear to a man as himself? Yet this beloved self is to be crucified. Whether it be . . . proud self, or ambitious self, or selfish self, or covetous self, ... Read More

We do not learn that we are sinners merely by reading it in the Bible. It must be wrought— I might say, burnt into us. Nor will anyone sincerely and spiritually cry for mercy—until sin is spiritually felt and known . . . in its misery, in its dominion, in its guilt, in its entanglements, in its wile... Read More

"I abhor the pride of Jacob." Amos 6:8 O cursed pride, that is ever lifting up its head in our hearts! Pride would even pull down God that it might sit upon His throne. Pride would trample under foot the holiest things to exalt itself! Pride is that monstrous creature within us, of such ravenous and... Read More

"For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our infirmities." Hebrews 4:15 The child of God, spiritually taught and convinced, is deeply sensible of his infirmities. Yes, that he is encompassed with infirmities—that he is nothing else but infirmities. And therefore the great H... Read More