Sermons & Devotionals by John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby
Fellowship With the Father and With the Son 1 John 1
Notes of an address on 1 John 1.* *As far as ascertained, these particular notes have never been before published. The subject of this epistle is the communication of divine life. In the gospels we have the exhibition of it in the person and character of Jesus Christ: but in the epistles we have the... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Forgiveness and Salvation
People do not really believe that they are lost; they believe that they have sins; but that does not touch the question of being lost. Your sins make you guilty, but your state by nature is that you are lost. It is quite another thing to seeing that I have sins, the consciousness that I am lost now.... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Fragment on 2 Cor. 4, 5:1-5
Under the law you could not look even at the reflection of the glory because it came as a legal claim on man. You never get the light of God shining into a man's heart without the conscience being awakened: under the law the glory became a ministry of death and condemnation, now when I see the glory... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Fragments
(Words in Season, Vol. 4, 1890, page 249.) Exodus 32:31-33; Isaiah 43:25. - Grace makes righteousness rest on the obedience of another, and so now it is not the sinner who is blotted out, but his sins, let them be never so vile. If I say I've sinned, and perhaps He will blot me out of His book, I am... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Fruit-Bearing, or The Vine and Its Branches John 15
The British Herald, pp. 136-139, 1875. In John 14 responsibility is brought out, and in this part it is the path of the saint; our blessings in connection with the path of the saint. He puts our part in John 14:21, not "we love Him, because He first loved us," but "he that loveth Me, shall be loved ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Funeral of Augustus James Clarke, a 13 year old boy
{Notes of a message given by J. N. D. at the funeral of Augustus James Clarke, a 13 year old boy, whose parents were absent (probably in India), May 9th., 1845. Extracted from the book by J. G. Deck entitled 'Joy of Departing', pages 110-3.} 1 Thess. 2 That while sin and death had entered into this ... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Galatians 2:14 Kennington
This epistle, generally, deals with the fundamental principles of the gospel, i.e., justification by faith, and another which I will speak of. The Galatians had received Judaism, and it was that which made the apostle stand in doubt about them. But Christianity is the fullest revelation of God, firs... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Galatians 2:20 Edinburgh
I would just pick up a little point or two. And first how can we get rid of this power of self? The end of Galatians 2 will introduce what I mean. I do not take up now the question of righteousness by the law, but the question of the power of sin and self, which is sin really. Life is here made depe... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Genesis 12
(Extracted from Simple Testimony Vol. 3, 1851, page 142.) This chapter occupies a place of great importance, being the first public call by which the saints are separated from the world. Genesis brings out the great principles of God's actings with those taught of the Spirit to know His mind: the Go... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Genesis 3
It is not only the word of God which lets us know that there is sin and misery in the world. Man knows very well that iniquity and defilement are in himself, and no one is satisfied with his portion here below because he is ill at ease in his own heart. The word of God shews us much more - how Satan... Read More
John Nelson Darby
Gideon - God's Mighty Man of Valour
The history of Gideon is of much practical importance. It is the history of one of those revivals in Judges, so peculiarly applicable to the present circumstances and need of the church. Every now and again (as we learn in the previous chapters of this book, which will be seen at once to be occupied... Read More
John Nelson Darby
God For Us
GOD FOR US ROMANS 8 : 31 There is much to weary us, dear brethren, much to draw out our anxiety as to present circumstances here ; and there is much as regards the natural mind which shrinks at meeting God. The natural conscience of a man, even while he is engaged in the things of this life, often t... Read More
John Nelson Darby
God Manifested and Glorified
The more we search into the words of Jesus, the more we see how entirely it is a new thing that He is setting up, on the ground of the redemption He had accomplished. "I have glorified thee upon the earth, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do, and now O Father glorify thou me." We see... Read More
John Nelson Darby
God Speaking From Heaven
GOD SPEAKING FROM HEAVEN HEBREWS 12 : 25 The apostle, in addressing this exhortation to the Hebrews, acted upon the ground of the character is which Christ spoke, and the consequences resulting therefrom. Observe: His character is specifically brought forward as speaking " from heaven," contrasted w... Read More
John Nelson Darby
God Speaking from Heaven Hebrews 12:18-29.
The apostle here contrasts Mount Sinai and Mount Zion, and points out what the present testimony is. It is a mistake that we very often make that we are so many responsible persons going on to judgment and there must give an account of ourselves. That is true of us, but that is very far from all. Th... Read More
John Nelson Darby
God was in Christ." 2 Corinthians 5
There are two great aspects of the gospel in this chapter, first, That to which we are called, and for which we are made fit; second, The testimony God has brought out of sin in us, and Christ's work meeting it. It is good to apprehend what the calling of God is, in order to know what is needed to b... Read More
John Nelson Darby
God's Delight in Blessing His People
Words of Faith 3 (1884), p. 225-230. One cannot help seeing in such a scripture as this the profound interest the Lord takes in blessing. There is profound love in it, as well as the fact that He delights in blessing His people. His purpose is to bring us into the enjoyment of His own blessedness: H... Read More
John Nelson Darby
God's House and the Way Psalm 84
We get ourselves so accustomed to certain things by their constant use that the power of their meaning becomes destroyed. It may be a bad word or a good word, but words that would deeply affect others thus fail to move us. This we find but too true, as regards the scripture-truth itself. What an eff... Read More
John Nelson Darby
God's Resources for His People's Need
Deut. 8 gives us an outline of the resources, by means of which God supplied the need of His people while passing through the wilderness; they were resources unknown to the flesh, and such as the flesh could not picture to itself. God often puts his children in positions where every human resource f... Read More
John Nelson Darby
God's Wisdom in Christ 1 Corinthians 1
All the foolishness of man, even of the saint, is the occasion of bringing out the wisdom of God; all thoughts are turned into good by Him; not that this is any excuse for our foolishness. There are two things brought out here: first, all that is of man is broken to pieces; secondly, God comes in, a... 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.