also in you that believe." I Thess. 1:13. Can it be that such a word is the word of men, and a partaker of their ignorance and errors? It is as f ar above them, both in thought and expression, as the heavens are higher than the earth. For eighteen hundred years it has been read and studied and prayed over and wept over, and thousands and hundreds of thousands of volumes have been con- structed out of it, and today it remains as fresh, and unexhausted and inexhaustible as ever. Unlike any book in the world, the more it is searched the more pro- found becomes its meaning, and there is literally no end of its new disclosures of truth to those who descend beneath its surface into the depths of the riches both of its wisdom and knowledge. However much any one of us may know of its most familiar passage, there is more for us to learn from that one passage than has been discovered thus f ar by all the scholars. ing in the clouds of H e a v e n" (Matt. 24; 30). II.—The Heir Rejected. 1. Pedigree of the Son of Man (Luke 3:23-38). 2. Had no possessions (Matt. 8:20). 3. " M a n of Sorrows" (Jsa. 53:3; Matt. 26:38-39), 4. Misunderstood (Matt. 16:13). 5. Hated (John 8:36-40). 6. Rejected (Matt. 26:64-65). 7. " W e see not yet all things put- un- der Him, B u t " (Heb. 2:8-9), III.—The Heir Accepted. 1. " T h i s m a n " * * 5 Expecting (Heb. 10:12-13; Ps. 110:1). 2. " A s a m a n " * * * Hath highly ex- alted Him (Phil. 2:8-11; Rom. 14:11). 3. " O n e like unto the Son of M a n " (Rev. 1:13-16; Dan. 10:5, 6, 16). 4. Son of Man coming upon white cloud (Rev, 14:14). 6. Thou has crowned Him (Ps. 8:5; Ps. 2:6). " p r a t t
in the word of Heb. 5:13. 13. I t is called the word to be preached because nothing apart from it, nothing be- yond it, nothing short of it is to be pro- claimed. " I charge thee in the sight of God and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the quick and the dead, and by His ap- pearing and kingdom, preach the word. " I I Tim. 4:1, 2. 14. I t is called the word of prophecy, because it alone shines through the glooin and reveals what lies in the future. " W e have the word of prophecy more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your h e a r t s ." I I Pet. 1:19. . No won- der the apostle writes: " F o r this cause also thank we God without ceasing because when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of man, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh " A s I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed so shall it s t a n d ." Isa. 14:24. All things were created by Him and for Him. Col. 1:16. LESSON 1. SON OF MAN, HEIR OF ALL THE EARTH. I.—The Heir Predicted. 1. Covenant to Adam (Have dominion, Gen. 1:28) unconditional. 2. Forfeited to Satan, who now holds it (Luke 4:6-7; Eph. 6:12). 3. Now in obeyance " S o He drove the man o u t " (Gen. 3:24). 4. Hope new centered in the seed of the woman (Gen. 3:15).. 5. " T h ou madest him to have domin- i o n " (Ps. 8:6). 6. "Au t h o r i ty to execute judgment alse b e c a u s e" (John 5:27; Acts 17:31). 7. " T h ey shall see the Son of Man com- righteousness." D r . X
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