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THE KING’S BUSINESS
Repentance is not “change of mind,” but a much-forgiven sinner bathing the Lord’s feet with her tears, How dead, and empty, and barren all human exposition of these terms seems in contrast to-these clear vis- .•ions from the Living Word. Christ is never abstract, never theoretical; the wisest of human teachers is always more or less so. In my babyhood I used to wonder, with a weary sigh, why the preachers and the cate chisms did not talk ,like the Lord, and the wonder has never ceased. The Catechism definition of justification meant nothing, it was “the voice of a stranger,” but I cannot remember when I did not, in some measure, grasp Justified^ . . . we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ 2. What the Word IS: (a) It is the word of the Living God, to be received with reverence—1 Peter 1:23- 25; Heb. 12:25-29. . Ob) It is a two-edged sword.—Heb. 4: 12, 13. (c) It is “Spirit and Truth,” and must be "spiritually discerned” (1 Cor. 2:14-16; 2 Cor. 10:5, 6). “Casting down reasonings” (Gr. logismousj. There is nó stronghold of Satan like the “reasonings” of the human intellect, especially when applied to God’s Word. Cd) It is. Living, Incorruptible Seed.— Luke 8:11; 1 Peter 1:23. As such it must I T he S even R’s oe the F ull G ospel 1. Ruined by the Fall. 2. Redemption by Jesus Christ 3. Regeneration by the Holy Ghost. 4. Reformation by Regeneration. 5. Resurrection by Jesus Christ. 6. Return of Christ. 7. Reigning Triumphant with Christ in Heaven.— Outline of M. A. Matthews, D.D.
be. received by faith in a “good and honest heart,” Luke 8:15. The function of the Seed is two-fold—to Reproduce-Life . . . (1 Peter 1:23) ; to Sus tain Life . . . (Luke 4:4). “That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.” All life must be sustained by the assimilation of elements of its own nature. The Christ-life can only grow by feeding on Christ (John 6:53-58). Food must be eaten and digested, not criticized, nor played with, nor analyzed. We are sowers and feeders, not chemists nor anatomists. Just as material food remains dead matter until changed by the action of oxygen into living nourishment in the laboratory of the body, so the Word of God is only dead doctrine until quickened by the oxygen of the Holy Spirit. “The letter killeth, but the -Spirit giveth life” (2 Cor. 3:6). The only food the Spirit can quicken is the unadulterated Word. The chief office of human teachers is to water the milk and leaven the Bread of Life. That is why there are so many sickly and dwarfed Christians. The Corin thians were sickly (1 Cor. 3:1-3) ; the He brews were dwarfed (Heb. 5:12-14). “Let us keep the feast. ■with the unleavened bread” (1 Cor. 5:8). “For we are not as the many, corrupting (adulterating) the Word of God, but as of sincerity . . . speak we in Christ” (2 Cor. 2:17).—A Missionary, Durango, Mexico.
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II S ole S atisfaction of the S oul Psalm 73:25
The Authorized Version reads, "Whom have I in heaven hut thee? and, there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee”; Lu ther’s version, “I f I have hut thee, I ask no more in heaven or earth”; and Franz De- litzsch, "Whom have I in the heavens?”
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