Sermons & Devotionals by John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby
The Unsought Love of God
{Pamphlet} Is there anything that marks the insensibility of souls more than the carelessness they evince about their state before God; or anything that shows how far they are from God, than the utter indifference they manifest to the things of heaven and Christ? Adam gave up all that God was to him... Read More
John Nelson Darby
The Well of Water John 4
In John 3 we had the quickening power of the Spirit, the contrast of the old and the new creation. Here we have another thing, the dwelling of the Spirit in the believer. "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life." A man must be born again -... Read More
John Nelson Darby
The Wheat and the Tares
THE WHEAT AND THE TARES MATTHEW 13 There is something wonderfully gracious in the way the Lord waits upon His people to instruct them : it is calculated to draw out the affections and the minds of believers in love and gratitude. But how often have they cause for shame, that the occupations of their... Read More
John Nelson Darby
The Will of God, the Work of Christ, and the Witness of the Holy Ghost Hebrews 10
The basis of the argument of the apostle in this chapter lies more in the contrast than in the comparison between the law and the good things to come. The law, he says, had only a shadow, not the very image of things. For example, under the law the priests ministered in infirmity; now Christ ministe... Read More
John Nelson Darby
The Woman of Samaria
THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA JOHN 4: 1-26 THERE are three chapters in this Gospel of John which speak of the effects and operations of the Spirit of God. The first is one with which we are all doubtless familiar ; namely, chapter 3, which brings before us the power and efficacy of the Holy Ghost in His quic... Read More
John Nelson Darby
The Word became flesh." John 1:1-34.
Helps in Things concerning Himself 1 (1891) p. 265 - 276. What characterises the Gospel of John, is the bringing forward, at the beginning, of the personal glory of the Lord Jesus; and then, at the end, the gift of the Spirit, the Comforter, whom He promised to send when gone. In this part there are... Read More
John Nelson Darby
The Word made Flesh John 1:1-13
There is one remark that furnishes a most important key to the Gospel of John, which is illustrated very simply and manifestly in this first chapter. The object of the Holy Ghost is to assert the personal glory of Jesus; and hence it is that there is not perhaps a single chapter in the New Testament... Read More
John Nelson Darby
The Worthiness of the Lamb
Revelation 5. "And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the living-ones and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power, and rich... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Thou shalt surely rejoice." Deut. 16:1 - 15
These three great feasts of which we read here were the feasts of gathering "in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in." All the males were to go up there; all the people were to be gathered up round the Lord. There was the Passover, the Feast of Pentecost, and the Feast ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Thoughts on 1 Samuel
The first Book of Samuel commences with the promise of the king. 1 Samuel 2:10. The people had walked badly, and God presents Christ when all else failed down here. That which man was not able to accomplish, God perfectly accomplished in Christ, but always going far beyond. In Adam, rule; in Noah, t... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Thoughts on 2 Samuel
As the first book gave us Israel tired of their original relationship with God, and the trial of the king of their choice, ending in the destruction of himself and his house, the second contains the establishment of David as the king, according to God, though failing far more in ease and exaltation ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Thoughts on 2 Timothy for the Closing Days
It is worthy of remark that the moment you get out of the epistles to the churches, you get catholic epistles and others which treat the church as in the "last days." In John, there were "many antichrists." In Peter, "Judgment must begin at the house of God." In 1 Timothy, "In the latter times some ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Thoughts on Hebrews
It is quite evident how the mysterious character of Messiah is brought out in the beginning of Hebrews, with details therefrom afterwards. It connects at the end of its subject no doubt with the Jews, but only at its end as a complementary part bringing in the millennium. But it is not the Church, b... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Time and Space
From: THE BIBLE TREASURY Date: June 1896 TIME AND SPACE I do not think we have any knowledge of time as time in itself. We messure from one event to another, but cannot without facts with intervals. Space is not exactly the same, because we dicern it by a sense which sees an interval at one time. Al... Read More
John Nelson Darby
To Live - Christ
This Epistle to the Philippians leads into a very peculiar apprehension of the Christian path. Its object is not doctrine, but Christian experience, and it is well for our souls to look it in the face and see how far our spirit and thought and mind answer to it day by day. In this epistle salvation ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Treasure in Earthen Vessels 2 Corinthians 4
It is a great thing to remember - what Christians too easily forget - that we are called to the enjoyment of heavenly things, and we live by the revelation of them. God has not introduced grace and His Son and Spirit to make us get along easily in this world - it was not needed - but to bring us to ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
True Nazariteship
{Christian Friend 1888, pages 281-4.} At the table, where the Lord in the institution of the supper was speaking to the disciples of His humiliation even unto death, they were disputing amongst themselves as to which of them should be accounted the greatest. They did not understand that the principl... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Two Brief Articles
{The following are extracted from 'Words of Faith' 1883. G Morrish. I presume the initials at the end of the first one refer to those responsible for the notes.} Brief notes of a reading with J. N. D. on "The unity of the Spirit." J. N. Darby. Ephesians 2:18 is not yet the one body, but both Jew and... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Two Warnings and an Example
TWO WARNINGS AND AN EXAMPLE Being the Substance of a Lecture on Matthew 26 WE have here an example in the case of Jesus, and two warnings in Peter and in Judas. In Peter we may learn the weakness, and in Judas the dreadful wickedness, of the flesh. We get in Jesus what we should aim after. In Judas ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Unedited Notes of a Lecture Luke 12
I wish to speak a little tonight on the Lord's Second Coming, to look at some of the Scriptures that bring it before us, not as prophecy, but the hope of Christ's coming for His saints as He has promised. I wish to take it up in a practical way, as it bears on us as Christians, in the walk of Christ... 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.