Sermon Topic: Failure

The Smitten Rock

Date: October 20th, 1957  |  Scripture: Exodus 17:1-7  |  Topics: Failure, Promises, Provision, Rock, Water

And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is thisContinue Reading


He Abideth Faithful

Date: October 19th, 1958  |  Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:11-13  |  Topics: Failure, Faithfulness, Faithlessness, Security, Trial

It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.


Human Failure

Date: November 9th, 1958  |  Scripture: Exodus 2:11-22  |  Topics: Failure, Fear, Leadership, Moses, disappointment

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? And he said, Who made thee a prContinue Reading


The Way of the Wilderness

Date: January 25th, 1959  |  Scripture: Exodus 15  |  Topics: Attitude, Failure, Healing, Hope, Temptation, Trials, Wilderness

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drownedContinue Reading


The Bitter Disappointment

Date: May 10th, 1959  |  Scripture: Numbers 14  |  Topics: Failure, Faithlessness, Giants, Judgment, Moses, Promised Land, Trust, Victory

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to anoContinue Reading


They That Fall in the Wilderness

Date: May 24th, 1959  |  Scripture: Hebrews 3:7-18  |  Topics: Discipleship, Failure, Heart, Stubbornness, Wilderness

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departContinue Reading


Trusting God for the Morrow

Date: June 27th, 1965  |  Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34  |  Topics: Anxiety, Failure, Faith, Fear, Health, Security, Testing, Trust, worry

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of theContinue Reading


Bearing Much Fruit

Date: December 26th, 1965  |  Scripture: Mark 4:3-20  |  Topics: Failure, Filling of the Spirit, Joshua, Judgment, Seed, Sower, fruit

Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground, and diContinue Reading


Jesus and Human Need

Date: October 2nd, 1966  |  Scripture: Matthew 15:32  |  Topics: Encouragement, Failure, Hope, Sadness, Sickness, Sorrow, Vicotry, Weakness

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.


I Have Prayed for Thee

Date: May 25th, 1969  |  Scripture: Luke 22:31-32  |  Topics: Failure, Grace, Prayer, Temptation, Testing

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.