Sermons & Devotionals by Daniel Steele
Daniel Steele
Seventeen Years in Canaan
I was born into this world in Windham, N. Y., October 5th, 1824; into the kingdom of God in Wilbraham, Mass., in the spring of 1842. I could never write the day of my spiritual birth, so gradually did the light dawn upon me and so lightly was the seal of my justification impressed upon my consciousn... Read More
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Sins, Infirmities, and the AtonementSins, Infirmities, and the Atonement
IN many minds the perfection of spiritual life required by the Gospel is eclipsed by confounding infirmities and sins. What God has, in His word and in the human conscience, put asunder, some people are perpetually joining together. Then they confidently assert that holiness of heart and life is a s... Read More
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SOME OF THE DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF THE WORD "FLESH."
It is quite a remarkable fact that none of the words of Christ have been perverted into proof-texts in support of sin in the heart of the believer. The only exception is the twist given by the Plymouth Brethren school of teachers to John 3:6: "That which is born of the flesh is flesh." They interpre... Read More
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Spiritual Circumcision
THERE were three remarkable transition points in the religious development of Abraham. The first was separation from his kindred and country at the Divine command. The call of Abraham is typical of that call of the Holy Spirit, which sooner or later comes to every sinner, to turn away from all known... Read More
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SPIRITUAL CIRCUMCISION.
The Old Testament and the New contain, not two different religions, but one in different stages of development. Well did Augustine say: "In the Old Testament the New lies hidden; in the New Testament the Old lies open." The essential principle of Judaism and of Christianity is the same -- supreme lo... Read More
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SPIRITUAL DARKNESS
Pastors who closely question their church-members find many of them walking in darkness, the natural environment of all unbelievers and backsliders. It is unnatural for the true believer in Christ. With a double negative in the original, he declares, John 8:12, "He that followeth me shall not [at al... Read More
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Spiritual Dynamics
The relation of the baptism or fullness of the Spirit to the efficiency of the believer, is a subject of intense interest to all Christians. Though much has been said on this question, there remains much more to be uttered, especially in view of the errors into which many good people have fallen. It... Read More
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ST. JOHN INTERPRETED AND VINDICATED
The Book of books is called the Holy Bible because it has a holy author, and aims at a holy purpose, the production of holiness in its readers. We should expect to find nothing in it in any way extenuating sin, or implying its necessary continuance in any believer. Hence we should do more than suspe... Read More
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St. John versus the Gnostics
I purpose to expound a very wonderful portion of the Word of God, The First Epistle of John. This epistle, written by John in his old age, is supposed by some to be the last utterance of inspiration. The first chapter, from the fourth verse to the twenty-eighth verse in the second chapter, is occupi... Read More
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ST. PAUL A PENDULUM BETWEEN PRAISE AND PRAYER.
In the higher states of Christian experience, there is a blending of prayer and praise. This is noticeable in St. Paul. If he begins with thanksgiving, he ends in prayer; if he begins with prayer, he ends with praise. Phil. 1:3, 4, "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every praye... Read More
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ST. PAUL ARRANGES A BOUQUET OF CHRISTIAN GRACES.
Before the day of Pentecost the apostles had experienced the new birth. Proof. First Negative. The absurdity of giving to unregenerate men the great commission to disciple all nations (Matt. 28:19, 20), with the promise of Christ's gracious presence. If Christ, the Head of the church, sent forth unc... Read More
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ST. PAUL CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.
Many people are perplexed to understand the exhortation to give up self to Christ and to have no will of their own. We are so created that we must regard our own welfare. Self-love is implanted in our natures. If it would be destroyed, there would be nothing to which God or man could appeal. Neither... Read More
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ST. PAUL INVENTS STRONGER WORDS FOR COMPLETE DELIVERANCE FROM SIN.
When the gospel came into the world as a message from God, it selected one of the many languages of men for the communication and preservation of its revelation of truth. The Greek tongue was honored by being chosen as the golden pitcher in which to convey down the ages the water of life to a thirst... Read More
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ST. PAUL MAGNIFIES THE MEANING OF PERFECTION
In prosecuting our purpose to exhibit those words invented by the apostles, especially by Paul, to convey down the ages the fullness of that grace which came on the day of Pentecost -- and came to stay, glory be to the Giver -- we now examine the new terms expressive of sanctified and perfected char... Read More
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ST. PAUL SHOWS THE CERTAINTY OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE.
We close this extended series of readings by showing the effect of the outpouring of the Spirit in quickening the spiritual perceptions and giving a certitude of God and of spiritual realities. We will limit our reading to the study of only two compound words employed by the apostles after the day o... Read More
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ST. PAUL, THE MODEL CHRISTIAN.
The confession is painfully common in many of the churches, "I make many crooked paths." But we look in vain for anything like this in the frequent allusions of St. Paul to his own personal experience. He never intimates that his Christian course was a zigzag of sinning and repenting. The seventh ch... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S CLASSIFICATION OF THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH IN TWO CLASSES.
In 1 Cor. 2:14 St. Paul describes the natural man as utterly devoid of spiritual perception. Spiritual realities "are foolishness unto him"; and "he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged or examined" (R. V.). Christ foretold this state of things when he declared that "the world," the... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S DOCTRINE OF THE ANOINTING.
Anointing in the holy Scriptures is either material, with oil, or spiritual, with the Holy Spirit. At his baptism Jesus was baptized with the Spirit, the first person in human history to receive this highest honor possible for men to receive or for heaven to bestow. For in the Old Testament, anointi... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S FIRST PRAYER THE KEYNOTE OF HIS LIFE.
Stand near the closet door ajar of this eminent saint, and you will learn the secret of that heroic courage, that inexhaustible patience, and that wonderful career of toil, peril, and self-sacrifice, which have made him the greatest human factor in the establishment of the Christian Church. "When on... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S LOVE TO HIS ENEMIES PERFECT IN KIND.
We shall use the phrases entire sanctification and evangelical or Christian perfection as synonymous. though strictly speaking, the former is an act of the Holy Spirit, and the latter, called by St. John perfect love, is a state following that act. -- Deut. 30:6. We are told by the great Teacher in ... Read More
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Daniel Steele was the first great Bible scholar and theologian of the Holiness movement. He was professor of theology at Boston University and, later, became the first president of Syracuse University, then Boston University, becoming a colleague of Borden Parker Bowne, and a writer of significant essays on the Wesleyan theology of sanctification.
His writings are well worth reading, in large part because of their emphasis on Biblical interpretation. Steele was an able defender of the teachings of Wesley and Fletcher.