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Risen Christ executing judgment in His church. Lesson^ IX (Acts 6:1-15) shows us the Risen Christ administering the gov ernment o f His church. Lesson X (Acts 7 :l-8 :3 ) shows us the Risen Christ impart ing power and grace to His faithful ser vants, and also shows Him in the glory at the right hand o f God. Lesson X I (Heb. 1 1 : 1 - 12 : 2 ) is entirely out o f its place and may well be omitted in the review. Les son X II (Acts 8:26-40) shows us the Risen Christ winning a man o f great authority to Himself.
healing and making strong the man born lame. Lesson V I (Acts 4:1-31) shows us the Risen Christ bestowing the Holy Spirit upon His faithful servants and making them fearless in the presence o f great peril. Lesson V II (Phil. 2:1-11) shows us the Risen Christ highly exalted (because He had emptied Himself), and as the One in whose name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory o f God the Father. Les son V III (Acts 4:32-5:16) shows us the
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words, apparently at the time, a preposter ous claim. No one but God has a right to make any such claim, and if our Lord should have made this claim and the claim should have failed, then He would have , been proven to be an impostor, but as He has not only made the claim, but the claim has proven true through all the centuries, and as His words do abide while all other things are passing away, it is a clear indi cation o f His Deity. What egregious folly for philosophers and scientists in our day to put up their words against His, as so many are attempting to do. What philos opher or scientist o f the past has not been discredited and outgrown? But His words are more sure and more abiding, more stable than heaven and earth. When any one, because he has a little scholarship, attempts to put his words up in opposi tion to those o f Him whose words have stood unshaken through the centuries, instead o f awakening admiration fo r his wonderful wisdom, he only awakens pity for his ridiculous conceit. As the coming o f our Lord draws near we should be increasingly watchful to see that we are ready for His appearance in order that “ we
When the things mentioned in the pre ceding verses come to pass it is a sign that things are ripening for the consummation, just as the appearance o f the young shoots in the fig tree are a sign that summer is at hand. The “generation” then living on the earth shall not pass away until the things revealed as to God’s plans for the establish ment o f His kingdom are accomplished. The context clearly shows in this passage, as in the parallel passage in Matthew, that by “this generation” our Lord does not mean the generation living on the earth at the time He was speaking, but the generation that shall be living at the time when the signs mentioned above shall be fulfilled. The whole thought o f the passage is the swiftness o f the consummation o f things at the end, not the swiftness o f their con summation from the time that He was here and teaching. Our Lord’s utterance in verse 33, “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but'my W ord shall not pass away,” is one o f the most remarkable ones that ever fell from human lips. It was a stu pendous claim that our Lord made in these
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