Sermons & Devotionals by John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby
Hymn: Patience of Hope
O JESUS, precious Saviour, Oh, when wilt Thou return? Our hearts, with woe familiar, To Thee our Master turn. Our woe is Thine, Lord Jesus; Our joy is in Thy love; But woe and joy all lead us To Thee in heaven above. We ponder the long story Of this world's mournful ways; We think on holy glory, Wit... Read More
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Hymn: Fulness of Joy
OH, bright and blessed hope! When shall it be That we His face, long loved, Revealed shall see? Oh! when, without a cloud, His features trace, Whose faithful love so long We've known in grace; That love itself enjoy, Which, ever true, Did in our feeble path Its work pursue? O Jesus, not unknown, Thy... Read More
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Hymn: Love Displayed
WE'LL praise Thee, glorious Lord, Who died to set us free; No earthly songs can joy afford Like heavenly melody! Love that no suffering stayed We'll praise - true Love divine; Love that for us atonement made; Love that has made us Thine. Love in Thy lonely life Of sorrow here below; Thy words of gra... Read More
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Hymn: Sons
FATHER, Thy name our souls would bless As children taught by grace, Lift up our hearts in righteousness And joy before Thy face. Sweet is the confidence Thou giv'st, Though high above our praise; Our hearts resort to where Thou liv'st In heaven's unclouded rays. There in the purpose of Thy love Our ... Read More
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Hymn: The Call
WHAT powerful, mighty Voice, so near, Calls me from earth apart - Reaches, with tones so still, so clear, From th'unseen world, my heart? 'Tis solemn, yet it draws with power And sweetness yet unknown; It speaks the language of an hour When earth's for ever gone. It soothes, yet solemnizes all; What... Read More
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Hymn: The Endless Song
OH! the joy of the salvation We possess around the throne! Countless thoughts of admiration, Mingling, leave that joy but one. Hark! Ten thousand voices crying "Lamb of God!" with one accord; Thousand thousand saints replying - Bursts at once the echoing chord. Long, with free and glad devotion, Uni... Read More
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Hymn: The Hope of Day
AND is it so, I shall be like Thy Son, Is this the grace which He for me has won? Father of glory! Thought beyond all thought, In glory to His own blest likeness brought! O Jesus, Lord, who loved me like to Thee? Fruit of Thy work! With Thee, too, there to see Thy glory, Lord, while endless ages rol... Read More
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Hymn: The Saints' Rest
REST of the saints above, Jerusalem of God! Who, in thy palaces of love, Thy golden streets have trod To me thy joy to tell? Those courts secure from ill, Where God Himself vouchsafes to dwell And every bosom fill! Who shall to me that joy Of saint-thronged courts declare - Tell of that constant, sw... Read More
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Hymn: The Tree of Life
SOON we taste the endless sweetness Of the Tree of life above; Taste its own eternal meetness For the heavenly land we love. In eternal counsels founded, Perfect now in fruit divine; When the last blest trump has sounded, Fruit of God for ever mine! Fresh and ever new are hanging Fruits of life on t... Read More
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Imitators of God
Christian conduct, as does every duty, flows from the place we are brought into; and is spoken of in scripture in different ways. Its motive and energy we find in Philippians 3 - Christ in glory as the object we are following after, and in pursuing which everything else is counted as loss and dung. ... Read More
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In Christ 2 Corinthians 12
There are some chapters in Scripture which contain so full and blessed a statement of some great truth of God that they acquire and retain a peculiar hold on the believer's mind. And though all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and has the same authority, yet this exceptional effect of peculi... Read More
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Indwelling of the Holy Ghost
There is nothing, perhaps, more striking in reading either the Gospels, or the Epistles, the sayings of the Lord Jesus Himself, or what, in some respects, are more wonderful, the statements of the apostles, than the entire familiarity that appears in them, with the highest divine things. It is never... Read More
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Is there a re-application of the blood?
(Extracted from The Bible Herald, First Series Vol. 1, 1876, page 43-5.) I feel the subject of the greatest possible importance, and therefore do not let it drop. Many dear souls do not see clearly the truth on the point, and suffer by it. They have not the liberty before God they might have, and tr... Read More
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Jehovah my Shepherd Psalm 23
The blessings into which, as the Shepherd, the Lord leads the flock are not merely temporal but spiritual. The veil is now rent from top to bottom, and we are brought to God. God is not only caring for us all the way, but the exercise of our souls should be to walk in the light with Him, and, if by ... Read More
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Jerusalem – Center of Worship and Government
Romans 11. Of the two great subjects, besides our individual salvation, of which the Scriptures treat, as already stated (namely, the church and the government of the world), the latter leads us at once to the Jewish as its centre, as the church is of the heavenly glory under Christ; under whom as t... Read More
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Jesus Christ the Righteous Psalm 17
This and Psalm 16 give us two great principles of divine life - trust and conscious righteousness. We find them running all through the Psalms, and any godly person's life as well as that of the Jew. But it is worthy of remark that it does not give the foundation fully on which we stand; according t... Read More
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Jesus Dependent Psalm 16
I need hardly say that there are many aspects under which we may consider the Lord Jesus. There was His glory with the Father before the world was as Son of God.* He is Son of man; He is High Priest of His people. He was the manifestation of truth, and everything is made manifest by the truth. There... Read More
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Jesus the Resurrection and Life
JESUS, THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE JOHN I I : 25 THIS chapter presents in the most striking manner the perfect sympathy of the Lord Jesus Christ in all the trials and vicissitudes of His people, even in the sufferings which death brings, and displays the Lord's power and love conspicuous over deat... Read More
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Jesus the Sufferer Matthew 26
I feel some difficulty in speaking of the subject before us here, not as to the doctrine itself but simply for the excellency of it; for where Christ is presented in His own perfectness all our thoughts are so inadequate. The excellency of the Lord so surpasses all our thoughts. He is sufficient to ... Read More
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Jesus the Willing Captive John 18:1-10
Two points attract and fill our hearts in this passage. First, the perfect willingness with which Christ gives Himself up, the unhesitating way in which He presents Himself to the armed band come out to seek Him, fully knowing what was to befall Him. "Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that should... 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.