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| For PULPIT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL j ^.i.iiiiiH»nmiiinHBiniiiimiiiu»iiiiiiiiHiiiiniiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiminiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiii.................................. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiimiilllg] Bible Readings THÈ .GOSPEL OF JOHN The Word —John 1 :1. I. The Word of God, as all God’s work ingsforces, is a Trinity composed of three elements : 1. The Incarnate Word. —John 1:14. (a) “In the beginning.” “God.”—John 1: 1 , 2 . (b) All things made by Him.—John 1 :3 ; Heb. 1:2. (c) Incomprehensible to world.—John 1 : 5, 10. why they could not understand His speech, John 8:43. II. The Triune Word. 1. What it is NOT: (a) Not Science, nor Philosophy.—Tim. 6:20; Col. 2:5. (h) Not Theology, which seeks to ex press God’s thoughts in words of man’s wisdonijT—1 Cor. 2:13. (c) Not a system of Morality.-----Gal, 5: 22-24. (d) Not a Ritual of Worship.—John 4: 23, 24.
(d) Manifested first as expression of God’s love for fallen world.—John 3 :16. (e) Will appear again as expression of God’s wrath against a persistently rebel lious worldiLRev. 19:13, IS. 2. The Written Word. —2 Tini. 3:15. (a) Testifies of Incarnate Word.—John 5 :39. - (b) Is inspired of God.—2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1¡¡S (c) Is profitable for instruction, etc.— 2 Tim. 3:17. (d) A light in a dark place.—2Peter 1 :19. (e) Is of no private interpretation.—2 Peter 1:20. 3. The Quickening Power —the Spirit.— John 6 :63. (a) Brings forth the Life.—John 3:5, 6; 1 Peter 1:23. (b) Reveals that which written Word states of Incarnate Word.—John 16:13, 14. The “natural man” can receive no one of the three, when presented alone. The In carnate Word was a “demon” to the human understanding, Matt. 12:24 ; the written Word alone is a dead “letter,” 2 Cor. 3.6; the Spirit of Truth “the world cannot re ceive for it beholdeth Him not,” John 14:17. The three must operate as one Omnipotent Power. “Ye do err, not knowing the Scrip tures, nor the Power of God.” That was
It is not any of the things that men would invent as means of access to God. Mankind was given the opportunity to serve God through all these natural processes,J under the conditions of the Old Creation, and failed utterly at every point. In the New Creation in Christ Jesus, God has given us something entirely beyond the sphere of human invention, beyond even hu man apprehension, except through the po tency of a new, communicated intelligence (2 Cor. 2:14-16). There is- not a single theological defini tion in the Bible. Faith is taught in the "sublime simplicity of “They sow not, neither do they reap . . . and your heavenly Father feedeth them” ; in the reproof to the dis ciples because they could not cast out the demon, and the commendation of the wo man who was' sure that the Master’s pro vision reached even to the “dogs under the table.” Grace is not “unmerited favor,’’ but a Saviour Afull of Grace” saying to the out cast whom human righteousness would Have stoned, “Neither do I condemn thee,” or to another, “If thou knewest . . . thou wouldst have asked and He would have given thee living water.”
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