Sermons & Devotionals by John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby
Matthew 26
The Lord had finished His discourses. He prepares (chap. 26) to suffer, and to make His last and touching adieus to His disciples, at the table of His last passover on earth, at which He instituted, the simple and precious memorial which recalls His sufferings and His love with such profound interes... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Matthew 27
After this (chap. 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, having cast the reward of his iniquity at the feet of the chief priests and elders. Satan was forced to bea... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Matthew 3
We now begin His actual history. John the Baptist comes to prepare the way of Jehovah before Him, according to the prophecy of Isaiah; proclaiming that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, and calling on the people to repent. It is by these three things that John's ministry to Israel is characterised ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Matthew 4
Having thus in grace taken up His position as man on earth, He commences His earthly career, being led of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The righteous and holy man, the Son of God, enjoying the privileges proper to such a one, He must undergo the trial of those devices th... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Matthew 5-7
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside. The strong man was bound, so that Jesus could spoil his goods, and proclaim the kingdom with proofs of that ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Matthew 8
Then, in chapter 8, the Lord begins in the midst of Israel His patient life of testimony, which closed with His rejection by the people whom God had so long preserved for Him, and for their own blessing. He had proclaimed the kingdom, displayed His power throughout the land, and declared His charact... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Matthew 9
In the following chapter (9), while acting in the character and according to the power of Jehovah (as we read in Psalms 103), "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases"; it is the actual grace in itself towards and for them, in which He came, which is presented. It gives the ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Miscellaneous Notes on the Epistles
We may remark that in Romans 8:2, 3, we have the two parts of the Christian treated of. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus in verse 2, and sin in the flesh in verse 3; by the first which is a holy thing in power, I am free from the law of sin and death; it is the liberty of the new man pe... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Moses Veiled
MOSES VEILED, AND THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST 2 CORINTHIANS 3 ; 4 : 6 The apostle has been led to speak of himself (as he says, afterwards, chapter 12, " I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me," etc.) by reason of special circumstances at the time at Corinth. He had be... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Mr Darby's footnote to 1 Cor. 8:1 in the New Translation on ginosko
Two Greek words are used for 'to know' in the New Testament - ginosko and oida. The former signifies objective knowledge, what a man has learned or acquired. The English expression 'being acquainted with' perhaps conveys the meaning. Oida conveys the thought of what is inward, the inward consciousne... Read More
John Nelson Darby
New Creation
{From 'Food for the Flock' vol. 6, 1879, pages 154-171, W. B. Horner, 27 Paternoster Square, London. This article is attributed to JND in the index, yet after the article it has †††, a designation the magazine uses in the index for authors who remain anonymous, there is therefore a little doubt as t... Read More
John Nelson Darby
No More Conscience of Sins
"NO MORE CONSCIENCE OF SINS" HEBREWS 10 THE object of redemption is to bring us nigh to God, as it is written, " Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God." But what is our state before God when thus brought nigh ? The right understanding of this is m... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Not Law but Promise Galatians 3
The way in which the law is placed in contrast with promise and faith in Galatians 3 is very striking. It is not merely that man is a sinner and that there is a judgment (a truth so solemnly revealed in Scripture), nor is it the operation of the law, experimentally known as spiritually bringing deat... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Note on the Chronological Dates
{Taken from the notes in the New Translation of the Scriptures by J. N. D. See chart Chronlgy.*} The dates follow generally accepted chronology, and are based sometimes upon detailed information given by various passages of Scripture, and sometimes upon verses such as Ex. 12:40, 41; Judges 11:26; 1 ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Notes - Spiritual Songs, Morrish edition, 1882
The following notes, amongst other details and incidents of interest, give the grounds upon which the dates have been assigned. The earlier dates are only approximately given. The later Hymns, with the exception of "The Hope of Day," were all written during Mr. Darby's residence in Pau, in the years... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Notes of a Lecture Numbers 15
This chapter comes in in a very peculiar manner. The children of Israel had despised the pleasant land they had quarrelled with the manna, the food given to them by God (chap. 11); they had slighted the promises of God concerning the good land, though an earnest was brought to them by the spies (cha... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Notes of a Lecture on Colossians 2:1-10
The leading truth of this chapter is, that we are not alive in this world. "If ye be dead with Christ . . . why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?" The Lord having died, death is written on everything, because we have died with Him, and take our whole place with Christ ris... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Notes of a lecture on Revelation 3:7-13
(Words in Season Vol. 6, 1892, page 264.) I read the address of the Lord to the church of Philadelphia. This truth stands very simply on the Scripture. No exhibition of ruin, no exhibition of weakness in those who love the Lord, is in any wise incompatible with the fulness of Christ being made perfe... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Notes of a Private Conversation
Q. Should it be, "Since ye then are risen with Christ"? A. Yes. Q. It does not mean any doubt, does it? A. No; just as I should say to you, if you are a Scotchman, I hope you will honour your country. Peter is afraid to walk on the water when he saw the storm, but had it been smooth he could not hav... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Notes of a Reading on Colossians 1 (1879)
The word "Lord" is often used by people in a vague way; but here (v. 3) we find those names of God and of Christ which represent relations. If we say "Father," we speak as children; if we say "Lord," we speak as servants of the Lord Jesus. The title Lord applies to Christ as Man in the glory. "What ... Read More
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John Nelson Darby (1800 - 1882)
was an Anglo-Irish Bible teacher, one of the influential figures among the original Plymouth Brethren and the founder of the Exclusive Brethren. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism ("the Rapture" in the English vernacular). Pre-tribulation rapture theology was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, and further popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.He produced a translation of the Bible based on the Hebrew and Greek texts called The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. Darby traveled widely in Europe and Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, and established many Brethren assemblies. He gave 11 significant lectures in Geneva in 1840 on the hope of the church (L'attente actuelle de l'église). These established his reputation as a leading interpreter of biblical prophecy.
John Nelson Darby was an Anglo-Irish evangelist, and an influential figure among the original Plymouth Brethren. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism. He produced a translation of the Bible based on the Hebrew and Greek texts called The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby.
John Nelson Darby graduated Trinity College, Dublin, in 1819 and was called to the Irish bar about 1825; but soon gave up law practice, took orders, and served a curacy in Wicklow until, in 1827, doubts as to the Scriptural authority for church establishments led him to leave the institutional church altogether and meet with a company of like-minded persons in Dublin.
Darby traveled widely in Europe and Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, and established many Brethren assemblies. These established his reputation as a leading interpreter of biblical prophecy. He was also a Bible Commentator. He declined however to contribute to the compilation of the Revised Version of the King James Bible.