Sermons & Devotionals by T. Austin-Sparks
T. Austin-Sparks
The Peculiar Conditions of an End-Time
Reading: Luke 2:25-38; I Cor. 10:11; Heb. 8:13, 9:26. We are being led at this time to take note of the fact that we are at an end-time, and that God does a peculiar work at such a time. Things become very strange and very difficult at an end-time; everything seems to be thrown into a state of distu... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks
The Peculiar Conditions of an End-Time
Reading: Luke 2:25-38; 1 Cor. 10:11; Heb. 8:13, 9:26. We are being led at this time to take note of the fact that we are at an end-time, and that God does a peculiar work at such a time. Things become very strange and very difficult at an end-time; everything seems to be thrown into a state of distu... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks
The People of God and Their Inheritance
Reading: Joshua 1. "It came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? And he said, Nay; but as pri... Read More
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The People That Do Exploits
"But the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits." - Dan. 11:32. That word "but" marks the climax. It is preceded by visions of the rise and fall of great world powers. Up to this point we see men and their individual influence, armies and their conquests, kings and empires in ... Read More
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The Persistent Energies of God Toward His End
Let us turn to the Book of the prophecies of Ezekiel. To begin with, I am just going to give you a very broad outline of this book; however, let me say here that it is not my thought to study the whole of this book. I am just going to take out some of the great features. There is a large middle sect... Read More
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The Person, and the Work, of the Holy Spirit
At the end of our introductory section, we asked the question: What is the ground of the Holy Spirit's work? For this should give us the answer to our previous question: Why, at a certain point in the early history of Christianity, was His work arrested? We must therefore now ask the further questio... Read More
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The Personal Greatness of the Son of Man
"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to shew unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass; and He sent and signified it by His angel unto His servant John" (Rev. 1:1). At the beginning of the Book of the Revelation, we find, on the one hand, a situation of spiritual ... Read More
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The Pierced Ear of the Servant
Reading: Ex. 21:5-6; Deut. 15:12-18. Here we have the ear of the servant, and right on the surface there lies the connection between love, the ear, and abiding service. Love here is connected with the bored ear, and becomes the basis of this continuous service which is something that is voluntarily ... Read More
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The Place and Work of the Holy Spirit
There is one line running right through this letter to the Galatians which seems to reveal perhaps the main factor in spiritual growth: the place and work of the Holy Spirit. We should do well if we were to follow that line through at this time. There are some thirteen references to the Holy Spirit ... Read More
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The Place of God in His House
Reading: Isaiah 6:1-7. “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fl... Read More
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The Positive Nature of the Holy Spirit
I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! (Luke 12:49,50). Being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the ... Read More
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The Power and Challenge of the Kingdom of God
But I tell you of a truth (I tell you very definitely, emphatically, positively). There are some of them that stand here, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God" (Luke 9:27). "The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to t... Read More
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The Power and Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ
Reading: II Peter 1:16-19 "Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of C... Read More
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The Power of His Resurrection - Closing Scenes
Reading: 2 Kings 13:14-25. In these verses we read of the closing scenes in the life of Elisha. There are three things which stand out. 1. The arrow of the Lord's deliverance. 2. The smiting of the ground with the arrows. 3. The body of the dead soldier reviving by contact with Elisha's body. These ... Read More
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The Prayer Beside the Altar
That part of the gospel by John which we have now reached has come to be known under two titles: "The High Priestly Prayer" and "The Holy of Holies." We might well combine them and speak of John 17 as "The High Priest in the Holy of Holies." This chapter stands with the most sacred, beautiful, heart... Read More
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The Prayer of Our High Priest: Father, I Want My Whole Family to be There With Me
Read: John seventeen. There is another prayer in the New Testament which the Lord Jesus gave to His disciples. That prayer is usually called the Lord's prayer. You remember that prayer, that it begins: "Our Father Which art in Heaven." But that prayer was not the Lord's prayer. That prayer never cou... Read More
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The Presence of the Lord is Power! The Presence of the Lord is Life! The Presence of the Lord is Holiness!
We turn to the Letter to the Hebrews, chapter four, verse one through three, "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the Gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit th... Read More
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The Presence of the Lord: "The Lord is With Us"
Reading: Exodus 25:8; John 1:14: "And let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." We are going to continue this morning with this gr... Read More
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The Principle of Resurrection
"... and salt without prescribing how much" (Ezra 7:22). "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men" (Matthew 5:13). "Salt is good: but if the salt have lost i... Read More
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The Principle of Travail
The seed plot of this series of meditations is found in a little fragment at the end of the letter to the Galatians: “And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God”(Galatians 6:16). We will put alongside of that some other passages. “Yet it pleased... Read More
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T. Austin Sparks (1888 – 1971)
He was ordained as a Baptist pastor at the age of 24, and from 1912 to 1926 led three congregations in Greater London. During these years, he was also closely related to Jessie Penn-Lewis and her publication and speaking ministry, the "Overcomer Testimony."Among the many books that he wrote, at least three are regarded as Christian classics: The School of Christ, The Centrality and Supremacy of the Lord Jesus Christ and We Beheld His Glory. The primary theme of Sparks' books is the exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ. He mentored Watchman Nee for many years and was very influential in his understanding of the Church Life.
Recommends these books by T. Austin Sparks:
Daily Open Windows: Excerpts from the Messages of T. Austin-Sparks
Discipleship in the School of Christ by T. Austin Sparks
More of Christ: From "The Stewardship of the Mystery" by T. Austin Sparks
"Mr Sparks", as he was affectionately known, was born in London, England in 1888. He came to know Christ as a teenager and later became a Baptist pastor. However, his "ecclesiastical" career took a decidedly different direction when a physical crisis brought him to a place of brokenness.
At the same time God also delivered him from his previous prejudice against anything that was related to the "deeper life". As a result, he joined Jessie Penn-Lewis in the ministry of the spiritual growth of believers; a ministry to which he devoted his life and which also cost him his reputation and his career in the denominational circles of England.
He was based in southeast London at Honor Oak Christian Fellowship which is where Watchman Nee met and fellowshipped with him during a visit to England in 1933. Nee's refusal to disavow Austin-Sparks later became the grounds for him being disfellowshipped by the Taylor Brethren. It has been said that Watchman Nee considered Austin-Sparks as his spiritual mentor, and their fellowship appears to have been rich and fruitful.