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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S Jer. 20:11 with “ everlasting consola tion” in 2 Thess. 2:16. The only thing God forgets— Jer. 31: 34. Don’t try to make Him remember what He does not wish to remember. Two things safely hidden— the sins of believers (Jer. 50:20) ; the life of believers (Col. 3 ;3). . Three shepherd chapters of the Bible -—Psalm 23; Ezek. 34 and John 10. Prophetic paradoxes concerning the Jews: 1. Scattered among the na tions, yet unmixed. 2. A hissing and a by-word, yet the controlling power. 3. Plundered for centuries, yet the holders of the world’s wealth. 4. Despoiled for ages, yet not destroyed. 5.Yearn ing to possess their own land, yet kept from it. The best way to come into favor with men. See Dan. 1:9 and Prov. 16:7. 1 WAS IT FACT OR VISION? Canon Scott Holland says very forci bly; “ Every form, indeed, of the theory of a mere vision of Christ’s résurrec tion contradicts flatly all the recorded facts. Far ifrom the enthusiastic faith of'-fhe disciples sufficing to create the be lief in His reappearance after death,
their faith had so completely broken down under the blow of the Cross that nothing short of the insistent and ir resistible impact of the fact could avail to recreate it. Moreover, there was no material in their minds out of which a-suggestion of what we have described could emerge, The Old Testament has nothing that in the least corresponds to the complex idea which the Resurrec tion embodied. The records of our Lord’s life tell us frankly enough that even when our Lord reiterated the word Resurrection in their ears they never took it in. It conveyed nothing positive to them. And the agony of the Cross, when it fell upon them, obliterated, it would seem, every memory of what might have given them some vague com fort in the. crisis. It is extraordinarily convincing that they should themselves report their own total lack of under standing at the time.” ate “WITHOUT ONE PLEA” George Herbert, when dying, said, “ I am sorry I have nothing to offer to my merciful God but sin and misery; but the first is pardoned, and a few hours will put a period to the latter.” -
(Cut this out and paste or keep in your Bible) PRAY FOR REVIVAL, Church-wide — Israel-wide — world-wide.
“ For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that^believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” ' (Rom. 1:16) 1. Pray that the present year may mark a distinct advance in the prayer life of the entire Church. (Heb. 10:19-25). 2. That there may be a fresh realization of the Cross as the basis of all effectual prayer. (Eph. 2:13-18). 3. That there may be larger compliance with all the conditions of prevailing prayer. (Seven of these conditions are indicated in the following texts: Psa. 66:18; 1 John 5:14, 15; John 14:13, 14; Mark 11:22-24; Phil. 4:6; Luke 18:1-7; Eph. 6:18). 4. Pray for every pastor, and missionary, and evangelist, and teacher of the Word everywhere, and for every member of Christ’s body. (Eph. 3:14-21; 4:11-13). 5. Pray by name for every evangelical agency or movement Which you believe is truly doing God’s work, in God’s way, and for God’s glory.' Make a list of these, and pray for a fresh manifestation of Divine power in and through.each one. (Jer. 33:3; Acts 4:31).
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