Sermons & Devotionals by Pearls from Philpot

"So I find this law at work—When I want to do good, evil is right there with me." Rom. 7:21 Are you not often a mystery to yourself? Warm one moment—cold the next! Abasing yourself one hour— exalting yourself the following! Loving the world, full of it, steeped up to your head in it today—crying, gr... Read More

Touched by love—and stung with hatred! Possessing a little wisdom—and a great deal of folly! Earthly minded—and yet having the affections in heaven! Pressing forward—and lagging behind! Full of sloth—and yet taking the kingdom with violence! And thus the Spirit, by a process which we may feel but ca... Read More

What are all the gilded toys of time compared with the solemn, weighty realities of eternity! But, alas! what wretches are we when left to . . . sin, self, and Satan! How unable to withstand the faintest breath of temptation! How bent upon backsliding! Who can fathom the depths of the human heart? O... Read More

"To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna to eat." Rev. 2:17 What is this hidden manna? Is it not God's Word applied with power to the heart? What does the prophet Jeremiah say? "Your Words were found, and I did eat them; and Your Word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart.... Read More

"To God's elect, strangers in the world." 1 Peter 1:1 Strangers! What makes the children of God so strange? The grace of God which calls them out of this wretched world. Every man who carries the grace of God in his bosom is necessarily, as regards the world, a stranger in heart, as well as in profe... Read More

"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them. Matthew 15:16 What lessons we need day by day to teach us anything aright, and how it is for the most part, "line upon line, line upon line—here a little, and there a little." O . . . what slow learners! what dull, forgetful scholars! what ignoramuses! what... Read More

"He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9 What? Will He forgive us all sins? Every sin that we have committed? Do we not sin with every breath that we draw? Is not every lustful desire sin? And is not every proud thought sin? And is not ... Read More

We often know the theory of the gospel, before we know the experience of the gospel. We often receive the doctrines of grace into our judgment, before we receive the grace of the doctrines into our soul. We therefore need to be . . . brought down, humbled, tried, stripped of every prop; that the gos... Read More

How often we seem not to have any real religion, or enjoy any solid comfort! How often are our minds covered with deep darkness! How often does the Lord hide Himself, so that we cannot behold Him, nor get near to Him! What a painful path is this to walk in, but how profitable! When we are reduced to... Read More

From the cradle to the coffin, affliction and sorrow are the appointed lot of man. He comes into the world with a wailing cry, and he often leaves it with an agonizing groan! Rightly is this earth called "a valley of tears," for it is wet with them in infancy, youth, manhood, and old age. In every l... Read More

"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her." Hosea 2:14 When you are in the wilderness, you have . . . no friend, no creature help, no worldly comfort— these have all abandoned you. God has led you into the wilderness to bereave you of th... Read More

"I will run the way of Your commandments, when You shall enlarge my heart." Psalm 119:32 The Word of God is full of precepts—but we are totally unable to perform them in our own strength. We cannot, without divine assistance, perform the precept . . . with a single eye to the glory of God, from heav... Read More

"You are not your own." 1 Corinthians 6:19 Remember that you must belong to someone. If God is not your master—the devil will be. If grace does not rule—sin will reign. If Christ is not your all in all—the world will be. We must have a master of one kind or another. Which is better . . . a bounteous... Read More

"Why are you cast down, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God." Psalm 42:11 Do you forget, O soul, that the way to heaven is a very strait and narrow path—too narrow for you to carry your sins in it with you? God sees it good tha... Read More

"Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her. He did this to present her to Himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish! Instead, she will be holy and without fault." Ephesians 5:25, 27 What are we ourselves as viewed by our own eyes? Full of spots, wrinkles, ... Read More

"The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head, there is no soundness in it—but only wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores. They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither soothed with ointment." Isaiah 1:5-6 Every thought, word, and action ... Read More

"Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." John 1:17 The way to learn truth is to be much in prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ. Beg of Him to teach you Himself—for He is the best teacher. The words which He speaks, they "are spirit and life." What He writes upon our hearts is written in characters which ... Read More

"Do not love the world or anything in the world." 1 John 2:15 This is a very wide sentence. It stretches forth a hand of vast grasp. It places us, as it were, upon a high mountain, and it says to us, "Look around you—there is not one of these things which you must love." It takes us, again, to the s... Read More

"You were bought with a price!" 1 Cor. 6:20 How deep, how dreadful, of what alarming magnitude, of how black a dye, of how ingrained a stamp— must sin be, to need such an atonement, no less than the blood of the Son of God, to put it away! What a slave to sin and Satan, what a captive to the power o... Read More

"Your eyes will see the King in His beauty!" Isaiah 33:17 Where in heaven or on earth can there be found such a lovely Object as the Son of God? If you have never seen any beauty in Jesus . . . you have never seen Jesus, He has never revealed Himself to you, you never had a glimpse of His lovely fac... Read More