Sermons & Devotionals by Daniel Steele
Daniel Steele
ST. PAUL'S NEW PHRASES, -- WITHOUT SIN, WITHOUT STUMBLING, WITHOUT SPOT, WITHOUT OFFENCE.
The wonderful change wrought in believers by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is very noticeable, especially to the student of the Greek Testament. Strong words not found in the Old Testament, nor in the four Gospels, are either invented by the apostles or borrowed from classical Greek, to convey a... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S NEW WORDS FOR SUPERABOUNDING GRACE.
We will next examine the newly coined words to express the victory over sin and the superabounding grace accessible to believers since the coming of the Paraclete on the day of Pentecost. Col. 2:15, "Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it"... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S PERFECT FAITH.
We continue our proof that St. Paul enjoyed and professed entire sanctification. This grace is implied in that perfect faith which never lapses into doubt. Such a faith gives perfect victory over the world, which is a comprehensive term for all moral evil or sin. This faith is confessed in Phil. 4: ... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S PRAYER AND GOD'S FATHERHOOD.
If there were fluctuations in the emotional experiences of St. Paul, so that he was more joyful at one time than at another, it is natural for us to expect to find traces of them in his Epistles. When he wrote to the Ephesians he must have been in a very exalted and ecstatic mood. He sees how broad ... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S PRAYER FOR THE FULLNESS OF GOD.
Nowhere in the Scripture is the wonderfully elevating effect of the spirit of inspiration more evident than in the Epistle to the Ephesians. The writer is manifestly lifted above his natural plane of thought to height above height, making this Epistle by far the most difficult of all the writings of... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S USE OF TERMS IMPLYING HIS ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION.
St. Paul uses many figurative expressions which manifestly imply entire sanctification. One of these is found in Rom. 6:2, R. V., "We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein." We note, in the first place, that the Pauline use of sin in the singular number designates rather a state than... Read More
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ST. PAUL'S "ELECTION" IS UNTO SANCTIFICATION.
It is our purpose in the present reading to discuss the post-pentecostal nouns expressive of sanctification and holiness. They are four in number. They were not used in the four Gospels because the Agent who produces holiness was not yet given as the Sanctifier. He is called the Holy Spirit, not to ... Read More
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Stumbling-Blocks in the King's Highway
The largest of these lies before the very gate of this highway: -- 1. Full salvation, as an experience, is begirt with speculative difficulties. Metaphysical quiddities perplex and bewilder many believers, and they never emerge from the fog into the clear atmosphere of truth till their hearts are fi... Read More
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STUMBLING-BLOCKS REMOVED.
SETTING AN ELECTRIC LIGHT IN THE SEVENTH CHAPTER OF THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. The seventh chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans is still quoted by some persons as a proof that the hereditary propensity to sin, called by theologians original sin, must continue in the heart of the believer so long ... Read More
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Subjective Purification
THE sum and substance of this book is well expressed on page 158: We are not yet any of us fully saved, and in the largest meaning of the term not yet completely redeemed, not yet made perfectly whole; not yet in the complete or absolute sense entirely sanctified. If he means by this that the comple... Read More
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Ten Years in Canaan
A DECADE in the land which floweth with milk and honey is completed this day. Greater indeed than my spiritual birthday is this anniversary of my emancipation from the triple despotism of doubt, and fear, and sin, when, in the words of Frances Ridley Havergal, "My whole life was lifted into the suns... Read More
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Testimony
"I testify the Gospel of the grace of God." ---St. Paul. A philosopher has said, "The experience of one rational being is of interest to all who become cognizant of it." This is because we are so constituted as to be singularly affected by like causes. Let half a dozen persons, far gone with pulmona... Read More
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The Absolute Right Unknown to the Masses
THE constantly recurring assertion that perfection in love, loyalty, and heart purity cannot exist in this life, and that we must be marred by depravity till we are glorified will please every agnostic, every skeptic, and every enemy of Christ. They will all take off their hats and do obeisance to t... Read More
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The Assurance of Purity
IN one of Father Taylor's inimitable Bethel sermons, finding himself drifting into abstruse metaphysics, he raised his strong hand, and, in a stentorian tone called out: "Hard down the helm! I've lost my reckoning! we're in the region of the icebergs." This is the peril of the cause of Christian pur... Read More
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The Evidences of Perfect Love
In addition to the direct witness of the Spirit to the completeness of his work, (1 Cor. 2:12) we have the following corroborative evidences which may be appropriately styled the fruits of the Sanctifier: -- 1. EASY VICTORY OVER SIN. -- In the justified state there is victory, but after intense and ... Read More
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The Executive of the Godhead
FOR several years our mind has been labouring to invent some concise expression for the sum of all the offices of the Third Person of the Trinity, in the transformation, sanctification, and habitation of souls who fully believe in Christ Jesus. At last Dr. Hodge, [President of the Presbyterian Theol... Read More
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The Fruits of Perfect Love
I. The Joy of the Abiding Comforter. The Gospel is glad tidings of great joy. It was an outgush of song in a sad world -- a burst of sunshine after ages of darkness. Paganism today is not jubilant, but gloomy and despondent. When, in a Christian land, any class of people discard Christ, their songs ... Read More
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The Full Assurance of Faith
I. Salvation from Doubt. "I know not what it is to doubt; My heart is ever gay."-- Faber. The most surprising fact which came to the knowledge of Jesus was the weakness of his disciples' faith. Descended from heaven, written all over with proofs of his divinity, and bearing the great seal of God in ... Read More
Daniel Steele
The Full Assurance of Faith
The preacher of the evening has been greatly edified during this faith convention, by the Methodistic earnestness of a Quaker preaching Wesleyan doctrines with jubilant hallelujahs. The audience may be surprised this evening to hear a Methodist, in a very quiet style, enforce upon your hearts a prom... Read More
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The Great Fallacy of the Book
THE fallacy that underlies this entire book is the invention of new definitions to suit a predetermined conclusion. These definitions, of which the author specially boasts, thrust into English terms having other meanings, are really a source of deception to the reader, who very naturally, as he adva... 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.