PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Great Texts of the Bible — Volume 6
James Hastings · 192,063 words · 198 reading sections
Section 181
2. It is because Christ is this sermon, not because He preached it, that the prophet could preach it, and that we can preach it now. The Cross of Christ looks before and after. One arm stretches backward and gives this prophet the right to preach a sermon he has no power himself to fulfil ; the other stretches forward …
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Whilst the preceding chapter, then, brings in Christ as pro- claimincj the great work of deliverance for which He is anointed of God, the following chapter presents Him as treading the winepress alone, which is a symbol of the future judgment by the glorified Saviour. Between these two prophecies of the 463 464 T…
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466 THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE to see some old guild in curious and ancient form. Let us look at them at work. And it is a testimony to the antiquity of this wonderful guild, with its strange power coming down from the distant past, that we must begin with Abraham. A guilty city is lying beneath the ban of God ; but…
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^ R. W. Moss, The Discipline of the Soul, p. 161. - A. F. W. Ingram, Banners of the Christian Faith, p. 83. 468 THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE moral beings, associated with that one, and interested in his welfare ? ^ IT There were two working men some years ago who were disputing in their workshop. One, who was a lit…
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Who but has seen Once in his life, when youth and health ran high, The fair, clear face of truth Grow dark to his eye ? Who but has known Cold mists of doubt and icy questionings Creep round him like a nightmare, blotting out The sight of better things ? A hopeless hour, When all the voices of the soul are dumb, Wh…
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The den they enter grows a shiine; The gloomy sash an oriel burns; Their cup of water warms like wine; Their speech is filled from heavenly urns. About their brow to me appears An aureole, traced in tend'rest light — The rainbow hue of smiles through tears, In dying eyes, by them made bright. Of souls that shiver…
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In answer to the first question, with regard to the struggle of the individual for existence, if you have read Professor Drummond's Ascent of Man you will have apprehended something which is a great relief to the nightmare which settles down upon the mind if one looks upon nature as a mere scene of bloodshed. I know th…
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The offices and the honour have passed over to us, and we shall fall beneath our obligations unless we let the light shine con- stantly before men, and let our voice " rise like a fountain night and day " before God — even as He did who, when every man went to his own house, went alone to the Mount of Olives, and in th…
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IV. THE ESTABLISHING OF THE CHURCH. "Till He establish Jerusalem." Jerusalem, the city of God, of necessity represents the people of God, first of all as an organised whole, and then in the separate individuals that constitute the whole. The chapter accordingly sets before us, as one of the objects towards which God…
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482 THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE to the post of duty again. You cannot fight the atmosphere ; no, but you can rise above it. Then thro' the mid complaint of my confession, Then thro' the pang and passion of my prayer, Leaps with a start the shock of his possession, Thrills me and touches, and the Lord is there. Sca…
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That man will find sin obstinate, inveterate, indwelling, slow to confess itself beaten, is precisely in accordance with the implication of Scripture, which proceeds to repeat and urge the assurance that the grace of God will secure for man victory in the end. Establishment so firm that we need neither yield to temptat…
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1. An afflicted God. — There is no ground for the objection that suffering is impossible to God, because of the perfection of His nature. To be unsympathetic is no proof of perfection in any being. The most perfect father is by no means he who is most heedless of the feelings, and unaffected by the sufferings, of his c…
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There are two great afflictions in which our Saviour may be said to have been afflicted. (1) There is, in the first place, the affliction of sin. It is a wonderful and overwhelming truth that God in the person of Christ chose to learn by a personal experience the power of evil. This, surely, is the meaning of the temp…
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IT Believing in Jesus, we can travel on, through one wild parish after another, upon English soil, and see, as I have done, the labourer who tills the land worse housed than the horse he drives, worse clothed than the sheep he shears, worse nourished than the hog he feeds — and yet not despair; for the Prince of suffer…
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ISAIAH 497 Exodus this mysterious messenger appears to keep close company with His chosen flock as they march onward to their rest under His guidance. It was the " messenger of God " who went before Israel in the Eed Sea, and spoke to Moses face to face. This was the visible Presence which commanded Moses to bring up …
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Our Lord Jesus Christ has become to the world in which we live the angel of the Presence, the Presence that saves. In Him God has laid bare His own heart and shown us the Divine that indwells. Never again can we think of God except in terms of Jesus. This is really the most tremendous thing that has ever happened in th…
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(2) The angel of God's face saves also from that feeling of reckless indifference, dumb carelessness, which sometimes tempts us to let our lives go blundering and stumbling along on the lower levels. It brings a new conscience into our thoughts, desires, and efforts, awakens a noble dissatisfaction with our half- heart…
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IF In his book called The Kingdom of Heaven, which is a detailed statement of the writer's own personal faith, Peter Eosegger tells us of a Styrian farmer who was known to his neighbours by the nickname of "The Pair." He was always engaged in converse with some unseen friend. If he came to a part of the road where ther…
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Public-domain historical edition (1910); OCR text from Internet Archive. OCR may contain scanning/transcription errors. Verify quotations against page images when precision matters.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.