LUKE 11:13.—“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” THE reality, and necessity, of the operation of the Holy Spirit upon the human …
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SIN IN THE HEART THE SOURCE OF ERROR IN THE HEAD
ROMANS 1:28.—“As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind.” IN the opening of the most logical and systematic treatise in the New Testament, the Epistle to the Romans, the apostle Paul enters upon a …
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ALL MANKIND GUILTY; OR, EVERY MAN KNOWS MORE THAN HE PRACTICES
ROMANS 1:24.—“When they knew God, they glorified him not as God.” THE idea of God is the most important and comprehensive of all the ideas of which the human mind is possessed. It is the foundation of religion; of all right doctrine, and all right …
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GOD’S EXHAUSTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF MAN – Continued
PSALM 139:1–6.—“O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in …
TO BE NEAR UNTO GOD 1
“IT IS GOOD FOR ME TO BE NEAR UNTO GOD” When in holy ecstacy the Psalmist sings: “I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplication,” he pours out his whole soul in his song, but the love can not be …
GOD’S EXHAUSTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF MAN
PSALM 139:1–6.—“O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in …
THE CERTAIN SUCCESS OF EVANGELISTIC LABOR
ISAIAH 55:10, 11.—“For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater; so shall my word …
EVERY CHRISTIAN A DEBTOR TO THE PAGAN
ROMANS 1:14.—“I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and the unwise.” THIS is the reason which the apostle Paul assigns for his readiness to go to Rome, or to the ends of the earth, to preach the …
THE FOLLY OF AMBITION
JEREMIAH 45:5.—“Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not.” MAN is a creature of aspirations. His constant question is: Who will show me any good? It matters not whether we try him in the highest or the lowest ranges of society, we find him …
UNCEASING PRAYER
1 THESSALONIANS 5:17.—“Pray without ceasing.” THE apostle Paul, in enjoining the duty of unceasing prayer upon all Christians, does not bind upon them a heavy burden which he himself will not move with one of his fingers. He does not regard it as a burden …