THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS added, “ Shall I disdain to suffer at this stake, seeing my Redeemer did not re fuse to suffer the most vile death upon the Cross for me?” Having repeated Psalms 106, 107, and 108 he was hound to the stake and shortly his Spirit was with the Lord. The Golden Text Illustrations. Ignatius, an apostolic Father and Martyr of the first century said, “ Come fire, come cross, and crowds of wild beasts; come tearing, breaking, and crunching of my bones; come the muti lation of my members, and shattering of my whole body, and see the dreadful torments of the Devil, so I may but- attain to Jesus Christ. I would rather die for Christ than rule the world.” “ What a mighty engine that is,” was remarked as one of the large new loco motives rushed past. “ Yes, when it is on the rails,” was the stationmaster’s reply. “What a mighty life,” says the world. “ Yes when it is in the will of God.” A colored preacher once said, “ There are two parts to the Gospel. The first part is the believing it, and the second part the behaving it.” What if your armor is broken? What if your sword is bent? Fight if only in token That courage is not yet spent. Fight though the foe surround you! Fight through the dust and the din! Fight and let none confound you! Fight, fight till you win! v. 7. When they had set them in the midst. How weak man shows him self when he sets himself against God. All they could do was to shut the dis ciples up, but COMMENTS FROM they could not MANX SOURCES imprison t h e Keith L. Brooks one saved soul to another.—-Meyer. By what name have ye done this? Jesus had made the promise for just such emergencies as this, and the promise was living spirit or the speech of-
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here fulfilled (Mt. ,10:19, 20; Lk. 12: 11, 12; Acts 13:8, 9). Left to himself Peter was a famous blunderer but filled with the Spirit, he was unanswerable. — Torrey. We have here the first ful fillment of the many predictions by our Lord that His own were to suffer per secution (Mt. 10:16, 17; Mk. 13:9, Jno. 20:20).— Anno. Bible. v. 8. Peter filled with the Holy Ghost. The last time Peter was in court his courage oozed out at the prick of a maid’s sharp tongue (Jn. 18:25). —McNeill. He may well have quailed before them, but Peter multiplied by the Holy Ghost is a thousand Peters.— Sel. To be filled with the Holy Ghost signifies being so surrendered to Him, giving Him such full right of way, that He may completely pervade our being, using us according to His own will. The Spirit is in the believer as an abiding fact, sealing him unto the day of re demption (Eph. 4:30) but the believer can resist Him, (Acts 7:51) vex Him/ (Is. 63:10) quench Him, (1 Thess. 5:19). The Spirit will work in us as believers according to the surrender we make of ourselves (Eph. 3:20).—Hal- deman. The infilling of the Spirit com pels an outflowing in testimony.— Pier son. v. 9. If we be examined of the good deed. It is no new thing for good men to suffer ill for doing well.— Henry. v. 10. Jesus whom ye crucified. Peter the accused has become the ac cuser and the council that presumed to sit as judges has become the culprit at the bar.— Torrey. v. 11. This is the stone. Peter with his mind now enlightened to ap ply the Scriptures, uses the words of the psalmist (1:18, 22) as spoken prophetically of Christ. Christ had al ready applied these words to Himself (Mt. 21:42) and to the way in which He was being rejected of the Jews.— Camb. Bible. v. 12. Neither is there salvation in
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