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Titus 2 :7-8—Showing thyself a pattern in sound speech. 1 John 3 :18—The word and deed should accord. Matt. 15:7-8—We must honor HIM with the lips and life as well. 4. The effect of conversation. Psa. 50:23—May honor God and bring personal blessing. 2 Pet. 2 :7—May vex and trouble the children of God. Matt. 12:36-37—May bring irtto judg ment. James 1 :26—Shows condition of the inner life:: James 3:5-8—May be ^/injurious to others. Job 6 :25—May be a great force for good. Eccl. 10:12—May cause much damage. Psa. 12:1-4—Will be judged by pod. Psa. 34:12-13—May bring personal temporal blessing. Prov. 10:19—Few words show wisdom. Psa. 51:15—May show forth His praises. Prov. 12:22—Evil conversation incurs the displeasure of God. Conclusion. Psa. 141 :l-5—Should be the constant prayer of every- believer in our Lord Jesus Christ. —R. S. Beal. ■b—-------- ^-------------------------------- H B I B L E B R I E F S *---------------------------------------- 4 W i t h God—NOTHING impossible (Lk. 1:37). ANYTHING easy (Gen. 18:14). EVERYTHING possible (Job 42:2). ■— o — “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is LIBERTY” (2 Cor. 3:17). “This has no reference to ‘liberty’ to pray or preach in a meeting, because of the ab sence of human rule, as it is too often made to teach,” says John Ritchie. The liberty here is liberty to DRAW NEAR to God, with no veil between—-a contrast to the time of the old covenant. — o — Three double titles of Christ: Apostle and High Priest (Heb. 3:1); Author and Finisher (Heb. 12:2); Shepherd and Bishop (1 Pet. 2:25).; Heb. 3 :1 is the only place where Christ, is called “Apostle,” yet the thought is frequent, for the word means “one sent." Jesus testified often that the Father sent Him. In the Old Testameht, He is seen as “Messenger of the Covenant” (Mai. 3:1). Impossibilities: Redemption without blood (Heb. 9 :22) ; salvation without be lief in Christ (Jn. 14:6) ; heaven without the new birth (Jn. 3:3-5). . — o— Douglas Wood calls attention to Psa. 96:10—“Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord reigneth from the TREE.” This is the Latin version of the Old Tes tament (The Vulgate). Jerome, who wrote the Vulgate, accused the Jews of leaving out the last three words when they translated the Hebrew into the Greek (Septuagint). They are not in the Sep- tuagint. Evidently Jerome had a copy of the Hebrew that had these words in.
tainty of deliverance, and the proving again of the faithfulness of God.
Reproach of Christ A C U R I O U S discovery has ' been made in Rome. It is a rude caricature scratched on the ruined wall of the Praetorian barracks, representing a man worshipping another hanging on a cross, the crucified figure be ing drawn with the head of an ass and the words roughly writ ten beneath : “Alexamenos wor ships God”—or “See what a God Alexamenos worships.” Revolt ing arid hideous as is this cari cature it is deeply interesting as a specimen of the ribald jests to which a Christian soldier was exposed in those days. It is also a proof that the early church be lieved in the deity of Christ, for only God is to be worshipped.
The first whole Bible printed in English was by Miles Coverdale in 1535. The first complete translation of the whole Bible into English was by John Wycliffe, 1380. — o — “Take no thought for your life.” We do not get at the Saviour’s meaning in this English word “thought.” When this translation was made, the word thought meant “anxiety, restless, carking care” ; it meant that penetration of fear which upsets the balance of life and turns the whole soul into moods of dejection and wearing anxiety. The word thought meant this in the time when the English Bible was translated—hence one of the histor ians says, ‘Queen Catherine died of thought.” Hence Cleopatra said to Eno- barbus, “What shall we do, Enobarbus?” And the answer was, “Think, and die.” In other words, ‘Fear, fret, pine away, succumb to depression, anxiety, and all the influences that can Vex and tear the balance of the heart.” It is against such thought that Jesus Christ warns His dis ciples. "h---------------------- ---------------------- The blood of Christ—(1 )Redeems from the bondage of sin (Eph. 1:7). (2) Re leases. from the guilt of sin (Acts 10:43). (3) Reconciles from the effects of sin (Rom. 5:10). — o— The telescope of faith (Heb. 11:13). The testimony of faith (Heb. 11:14). The trial of faith (Heb. 11:17). “In a moment” (1 Cor. 15:52). “At- omos,” an atom—a point of time, so brief that it cannot be cut or divided more. Such will be the rapidity of our passage from the world, if living—or from the grave, if sleeping, to meet our Lord in the air, at His coming. Note that God’s foreknowledge is. not for us but for Him (Rom. 8 :29, 30). We cannot have foreknowledge but we can have forethought. — o — We keep hearing and reading of “the immortality of the soul,” yet the word?]; “immortal” and “immortality” are not used in Scripture to describe the exis tence of th e s oul . “Immortality” (“athanasia,” 1 Cor. 15:53, 54), and “in corruptibility” ( “aphtharsia,” Rom. 2:7; 2 Cor. 15:42-50) are -used in connection with the bodies which the saints will have in resurrection-—the former in regard to the living; the latter, in regard to the sleeping sairits. Apart from this alto gether, the soul of man—whether saved or unsaved—possesses everlasting exis tence, as the following Scriptures conclu sively prove—Gen. 2$^ Matt. 10:28; Lk. 16:23. —o— Three kinds of giving: Thanksgiving (Heb. 13:15; Eph. 5:20). Substance-giv ing (2 Cor. 9:7; Heb. 13:16). Self-giv- ing (2 Cor. 8:5; Rom. 6:13). One rendering of Psa. 46:10 is: “Let go, and know that I am God.” How fre quently we miss the deeper experimental knowledge of God, because we will hold on to things that grieve Him. — o — Jas. 1:2 may be read: “Reckon it no thing but joy, my brethren, whenever you find yourselves hedged in by various trials.” The glory of this hedged life is the cer
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