Sermons & Devotionals by John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby
Parable of the Sower
PARABLE OF THE SOWER MATTHEW 13 We have here three reasons why the seed of God's testimony concerning Christ is unproductive, described in the character and circumstances ; first, of those who hear by the wayside the hard rock, and the beaten path in which Satan ever watches to catch away that which... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Parables of Luke 15
PARABLES OF LUKE 15 It is a wonderfully blessed thing to have One (the thoughts, and words, and ways of One down here, in His actings among men) who could so well manifest God, as the Lord Jesus. We may look at the sin of man, at our sins, as a question to be judged of in the light of righteousness ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Part with Christ
Three things, beloved friends, especially come out in this chapter: 1st, the full and complete finishing, of the work which the Father had given the Lord Jesus to do; and 2nd, while that gives the full consciousness of the place we are in with God, there is the jealous care, and the holiness and wat... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Passages in which each name [of Jesus] occurs - Part 1
JESUS CHRIST. Romans 1:1. Paul, bondsman of Jesus Christ (a) called apostle, &c. 6. Among whom are ye also (the) called of Jesus Christ. 8. First I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. 2:16. In (the) day when God shall judge the secrets of ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Passages in which each name [of Jesus] occurs - Part 2
5:21. Submitting yourselves to one another in (the) fear of Christ. 82. This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ and as to the assembly. 6:6. But as bondsmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul. Philippians 1:10 .... That ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excelle... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Peace John 20:19
"Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you." It is a great thing to say with authority, "peace," and a great thing for the... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Peace, Grace, and Glory Romans 5:1-11
The statements in this chapter are founded on the last verse of the previous one. God is calling back our hearts to have confidence in Himself, confidence which man had lost in the garden of Eden. Eve trusted Satan, and thought that God had kept back the thing which would make her happy. No matter h... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Philippians 2
We get here how the Lord humbled Himself, and associated us with Himself according to the counsels of God. The Deity of the Lord Jesus is the basis of everything for our souls. Without it God could not be known to us. Who could leave His place but a Divine Person? I say that because I desire this ev... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Philippians 2
Chapters 2 and 3, present the two sides of Christian life. The graciousness that makes me thoughtful of others, and the energy that enables me to run on through the world without caring for it. In one Christ is presented as coming down and you are to come down like Him, in the other Christ is gone u... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Philippians 3
This epistle gives us two practical characteristics of Christian life in which we find the true practical power of the life - the principle on which it passes through the world according to the mind of God. The Epistle is not doctrinal but, in it, we get the Christian path - Christian experience in ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Philippians 3 Notes of addresses
Dublin, July, 1868. (Words in Season, Vol. 3, 1889, page 80.) Here we get the glorified Man gone up. He fills the eye of the apostle. Therein is the true power and energy of work. When faith is working no circumstances ever dim the heart. It is no sacrifice giving up things which you esteem as dross... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Pilgrim Portions - Part 1
STEM Publishing: J. N. Darby: Pilgrim Portions Pilgrim Portions J. N. Darby. Contents 1 — Sin 2 — Grace 3 — The word of God 4 — The Holy Spirit 5 — The Perfections of Christ 6 — Faith 7 — Peace 8 — Guidance 9 — Humility 10 — Trial 11 — Communion 12 — Conflict 13 — Devotedness 14 — Unbelieving fears.... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Pilgrim Portions - Part 2
Twenty-First Week It is a terrible thing . . . when God's presence, in the place of being the home of our hearts, is terror and distress. I have no doubt that you will find hundreds of Christians who, instead of feeling away from home when they have got out of God's presence, are at ease. We are cal... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Pilgrim Portions - Part 3
Thirty-Eighth Week I feel . . . more than ever that all is vanity, but what is for ever. We all know it, but how foolish all else will seem when we meet the blessed Lord. I know I am a poor workman, but I know the hour will come when the only thing worth remembering — save eternal grace and Him who ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Power for Conflict
This chapter begins the testimony about the work of power which the book of Joshua presents to us. The books of the Old Testament bring before our souls certain features or characters of the dealings of God with us. In Genesis we have all the great fundamental principles brought out, such as the fir... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Priesthood Exodus 28, 29
The apostle says, Moses made all things according to the patterns shewed to him in the mount; and again, these "things were patterns of the heavenly things." The doctrines themselves are in the New Testament; the details of things connected with them are in the types. Priesthood supposes accomplishe... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Principles of Faithful Bible Translation
(Extract from the Introduction to J N Darby's German translation of the New Testament, known as the Elberfeld version, dated 1855 - translated from the German by A. Hardy Estam of Dorchester MA, now with the Lord. Supplied by R Gorgas.) The Holy Spirit Himself draws our attention to the need of an u... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Promise of Life Titus 1
It is at the beginning of this chapter that the Spirit of God marks with an especial character that on which I desire to speak - the eternal thought of God towards us which we find in verses 2, 3. Evil had come in, the Spirit takes notice of it, and the effect in a most remarkable way is to throw us... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Psalm 51, 2 Cor. 3 and 4
There are two truths which the more we understand with God the more power we shall have. First, what our flesh is: it is utter ruin and evil; and second, the astounding place we are brought into through grace and the redemption [sic, redemptive] work of Christ, and then gazing upon Him we find the t... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Purged with Blood Hebrews 9
"And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." In the latter part of this text we find an exclusive and distinct proposition - that without shedding of blood there is no remission. In the flaming sword placed in the garden of Eden, after man'... 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.