A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Findlay, George G. (George Gillanders) • SECTION 3

Knowing The Unknowable.

← The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians

Wherefore remember!--Sudden and gradual Conversion--The Gentile World: Godless, hopeless, Christless--Away with the Atheists!--The double Pessimism--The Uncircumcision--Nigh in the Blood of Christ--Reunion in Guilt and in Pardon 120

The Jewish War--The two Parties in the Church--The Jewish Enmity typical--The new Christian Humanity--The Church in the first Century and the nineteenth--Hindrances to Unity: external, internal--The Ground of Reconciliation--Enemies of God--The Atonement of the Cross--Moral Communism--Personal Faith--The Fraternization of Mankind 131

The Divine Occupant--The Service of Man and of God--One Temple and many Buildings--The Variety of the apostolic Church--The primitive Catholicism--Church and Dissent--Union by Approximation--Our Lord's Prayer for Unity--The apostolic Basis--The Builder Spirit--The sure Foundation Stone 143

St Paul's Style of Composition--Christ the Mystery of God--Christ in the Old Testament--The Exploration of Christ--The Portion of the Gentiles in Israel--The Organs of the new Revelation--The unique Office and Influence of the Apostle Paul 155

Christ the Bond of Angels and Men--Our Lord and theirs--Jesus of Nazareth the Lord of the Ages--The Reality of the Angels--Their Interest in the Church--The Peculiarity of the human Problem--The Docility of the heavenly Potentates--The angelic Standpoint--The Grandeur of Christianity inspires Courage 167

Contents of St Paul's Prayer--The Father of Angels and of Men--Strength of Spirit and of the Spirit--Christ abiding in the Heart--Christ and the Christ--Christ's Claim on the Intellect--Neglect of Theology--Dimensions of God's Building--Strength to grasp the Magnitude of Christianity--The true Broad Churchman 183

Knowledge in the Growth--Paul's Study of the Love of Christ--Christ's manifested Love--God's Fulness our final Aim--The Fulness more than Love--Praise out-soaring Prayer--God's Gifts beyond our Requests--The Divine Power immanent in Men--The Inspirer of Prayer its Fulfiller--The Union of the Church and Christ in God's Praise--The eternal Glory 197

_THE EXHORTATION. ON CHURCH LIFE._

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