Cited in sermons
A.W. Pink
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Behold the Lamb of God
John 1:29 records John the Baptist's climactic announcement — 'Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world' — and this meditation, preached before the Lord's Table, draws out three aspects of that declaration: Christ's arrival as the fulfillment of centuries of typological promise, His identification as the Lamb provided by God Himself, and His mission to remove sin in its totality. The sermon traces the Lamb motif from Genesis 3 through the Passover, Isaiah 53, and into the book of Revelation, demonstrating that definite atonement is God's sovereign provision rather than any human design. Hearers are called to stop and genuinely behold Christ crucified — not merely affirm justification by faith alone as a doctrine, but find in it daily comfort, worship, and the ground of true gospel holiness.
The Coronation of the High Priest
Zechariah 6 closes the vision sequence of the book with an eighth chariot vision and a symbolic coronation of Joshua the high priest — both pointing beyond their immediate historical setting to the person and work of Jesus Christ. The chariot vision declares God's comprehensive sovereignty over the enemies of His people, while the crowning of Joshua as priest-king anticipates the one Branch who would unite the offices of priest and king in His own person, build the true temple, and bear all glory. Against dispensationalist hopes for a rebuilt physical temple, this exposition argues that Christ has fulfilled and therefore abolished the need for any such structure, since He is Himself the meeting place of God and sinners. The congregation is called to rest in Christ's present kingly-priestly intercession and to come in faith to the Branch who will never cast out those who come to Him.
Jesus Was Born to Reign
Christ's appearance before Pontius Pilate in John 18:33–38 forces a confrontation with the nature of his kingdom and his identity as king. The sermon examines three particulars from this exchange — the issue Pilate raises, the clarification Jesus gives, and the response Jesus offers — showing that the incarnation is inseparable from the crown: Christ was born not merely as a helpless infant but as the eternal king whose kingdom originates not from man but from God, and whose conquest advances not by military power but by truth. The passage calls every hearer to reckon with the sovereign reign of Christ and to believe the gospel, knowing that what one does with Jesus determines one's eternal destiny.
A Word to the Wives
Colossians 3:18 commands wives to submit to their own husbands as is fitting in the Lord — a command that cuts against the grain of contemporary culture and even the instincts of redeemed sinners. This sermon establishes that submission is not demeaning but reflects the eternal pattern of the Son's willing submission to the Father within the equal-in-essence Trinity, and that gospel redemption does not abolish role distinctions in the family but enables their proper functioning. The domestic application works through the lawful target, the universal scope, and the Christological motivation of the command, pressing wives to understand that submitting to their own husbands is primarily a religious duty rendered unto the Lord. The sermon closes by grounding the entire exhortation in the gospel: a wife's standing before God rests not on threads of her own submissive obedience but on the imputed righteousness of Christ, whose active and passive obedience constitute the only robe in which sinners stand justified.
The Superiority of Christ Over the Angels
Hebrews 1:8–14 presents four lines of Old Testament evidence that the Son is categorically superior to the angels: His unique filial relationship to the Father, the angels' worship of Him, His unqualified deity as the creator and immutable eternal God, and His present sovereign reign at the Father's right hand. The study works through citations from Psalms 45, 102, and 110, demonstrating from Israel's own scriptures that Christ holds the offices of creator, sovereign administrator, and eternal king — offices no angel can claim. The doctrine of the Trinity is defended against both Jehovah's Witnesses and any who collapse the distinction of persons, and believers are called to anchor their confidence in Christ's present reign rather than fear the powers arrayed against the church.
The Superiority of Christ Over the Prophets
Hebrews 1:1–3 opens with a compressed Christological argument: God who spoke through the prophets of the old covenant has now spoken definitively and finally through His Son, and this Son is superior to every prophet in seven demonstrable ways. The sermon works through those seven evidences of Christ's supremacy — heir of all things, Creator, brightness of God's glory, express image of the Father's person, sovereign administrator, Savior, and exalted King — grounding each in the text and in supporting Scripture. Along the way it treats the unity of Scripture across the covenants, the cessation of new revelation, and the nature of the 'last days' as the present messianic era. The practical summons is to rest salvation entirely on Christ's finished work and to adore Him in His threefold office of prophet, priest, and king.
A Cross-Centered Mother's Day
John 19:26–27 records the third of Christ's seven sayings from the cross — his provision for his mother Mary by entrusting her to the apostle John. This saying is examined under three headings: as a moral example of honoring one's mother rooted in the fifth commandment, as an illustration of Christ's active obedience rendered on behalf of his people who fail that commandment, and as a display of sovereign control by the one who lays down his own life according to the Father's decree. The sermon rejects the Roman Catholic doctrine of Mary as co-mediatrix and calls every hearer — regardless of age — to concrete, costly care for their parents, grounded first in faith in the crucified and risen Christ whose perfect obedience alone avails before God.