PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Great Texts of the Bible — Volume 18
James Hastings · 181,464 words · 186 reading sections
Section 181
^ Just as the modern conqueror of the air trusts to a power that surpasses human strength, so is it with the man who would rise above a purely mundane existence. "I can do all things ^ Marcus Dods, Christ and Man, 63. 474 THE RACE SET BEFORE US through Christ which strengtheneth me," says St. Paul. He finds that the…
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478 The Unchanging Christ. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day, yea and for ever. — Heb. xiii. 8. 1. The author of this Epistle wrote some thirty-five years after the crucifixion, almost at the climax of a time of change, when his fellow-Hebrews were isolated and disheartened. They had cast off the exclusi…
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2. But is not permanence opposed to progress ? Our thinking to-day is denominated by the idea of evolution, by the belief in progress. Does not even the mention of a principle of perman- ence in the Christian Church provoke a suspicion of, and an antagonism to, stagnation of thought, fixity of doctrine, and bondage to …
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^ Whatever may have been the original grounds of the faith of the great majority of Christian people, their faith has been verified in their own personal experience. They trusted in Christ for the remission of sins, and they have been liberated from the sense of guilt; for deliverance from sin, and the chains of evil h…
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486 THE UNCHANGING CHRIST unmanned. The deep reality of life abides the same: Jesua Christ the same to-day as yesterday.^ 3. Thus, amid all the changing views and varying thporiea about Christ, our Lord, the living Person still remains the same. As the supreme Revelation of God, as the supreme Revelation of man, and …
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^ When I introduce my little one to the Saviour I am intro- ducing her to a lifelong friend. Marvellous, and ever-growingly marvellous to me, is my Lord's adaptability, or should I rather say, our Lord's susceptibility, to a little child. How He can accommodate Himself to the little span of their comprehension, and wea…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.