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 …
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 FUTURE STATE A SELF-CONSCIOUS STATE – Continued
1 COR. 13:12.—“Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” IN the preceding discourse, we found in these words the principal characteristic of our future existence. The world beyond the tomb is a world of clear and …
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THE FUTURE STATE A SELF-CONSCIOUS STATE
1 COR. 13:12.—“Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” THE apostle Paul made this remark with reference to the blessedness of the Christian in eternity. Such assertions are frequent in the Scriptures. This same apostle, whose …
THE BRAZEN SERPENT
JOHN 3:14, 15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. Jesus and his salvation were the substance of all the ancient …
WATCHFULNESS AND PRAYERFULNESS
1 PETER 4:7.—“Watch unto prayer.” IN explaining this injunction of St. Peter, we shall show the importance of a watchful and prayerful spirit, by considering the innate disposition of the human heart. We shall find the argument derived from the fact that man is naturally …
SANCTIFICATION COMPLETED AT DEATH
1 CORINTHIANS 2:9.—“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” THESE words primarily refer to the higher knowledge which is in reserve for the Christian in heaven. …