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for which it was written. Try this method in your personal work with the unsaved. You can trust the H oly Spirit, the author of the book, to carry conviction to.th ose who read.) PRACTICAL POINTS (1) The presence of the Prince of Peace gives assurance of perpetual peace. ( 2) He bestowed the Holy Spirit by breathing upon them. (3) Unbelief is a sin to be reproved, rebuked and repented of. (4) The scars of Jesus seal the tes timony ,of His sacrifice for sin. (5) The visible resurrection of Christ is visualized by His personal pres ence. (6) The doubting disciple is distin guished as the proclaimer of the essen tial Deity of Christ. (7) The Written Word is given that we might have life through the Living Word. (8) Paint the pictures and put into words the message from the wounds of Jésus. v. 2. Jehoiada instructed Joash. It is a great mercy to young people to be under good direction and to have those about them that will instruct them to do that which is COMMENTS PROM right in the sight MANY SOURCES of the Lord.— Keith L. Brooks Henry. The seeds of first instruc tion are dropped into the deepest fur rows.— Tupper. v. 3. But. Man may do exceedingly well but he always stops short of en tireness.—-Palmer. High places n o t taken away. The popular fondness for the private and disorderly ri.tes perform ed in the groves and recesses of hills was so inveterate that even the most powerful monarcbs had been unable to accomplish their suppression. No won der that in the early reign of a young king, and after the gross irregularities that had been allowed during the mal administration of Athaliah, the diffi culty of putting an end to it was greatly increased.— J. P. & B. v. 4. In any man’s heart. Give till it hurts, then keep bn giving till it stops hurting.— Davis. The fact that one has but little of this world’s goods is no
reason why he should be excluded from the privilege of doing what lies in his power for God’s work. God does not look at the arhount but at the love in the heart that is back of the gift (2 Cor. 8:12).— Torrey. v. 5. Repair the breaches of the house. A church out of repair means Christians out of repair.—-Ford. David was the founder, Solomon the builder and Joasfl the repairer. Some are call ed to build and some to repair.— S. & W. It is shameful to go from well ap pointed homes to a shabby, neglected church.— Haldeman. v. 6. The priests had not repaired. Possibly the people had so little con fidence in the priests’ management that they were backward to pay the money into their hands. If they were disgust ed without cause, it was the people’s shame, if with cause, it was all the more theirs.—Henry. v. 7. King called for Jehoiada. In allowing the temple to fall into decay, every day watching its dilapidation, they had a daily object lesson which by mental reaction produced its moral ef fect. As the people grew indifferent to the breaches in the temple they be came indifferent to the breaches in their spiritual character. A high state of spiritual attainment may be reached by an assembly of Christians in a cellar where they are forced to worship, but no body of Christians can rise to spirit ual heights in a church building which, through their own delinquency, lack of liberality and devotion, has fallen into decay or shabbiness.—Haldeman. An unspiritual environment is a spiritual paralysis. Breaches in a church build ing call for repairs in those who permit them. Why repair not? Some people spend their days in deliberating and end them without coming to any resolve. Estrange. N o t h i n g of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.— Barrow. Receive no more money. For what they had al ready received he does not call them to account but henceforth takes the whole matter into his own hands. If their honesty is not formally impugned, at least their torpor is obvious, as is the fact that they .had wholly failed to in spire the zeal of the people.— Farrar. v. 9. Jehoiada took a chest. This is the first mite box mentioned in the Bible.— Garry. The object of this chest was to make a separation between the money to be raised for the building
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