Hints and Helps
called “the evil one” for he is the oldest• (1 John 3:8), the greatest (Eph. 6:12), the father of (John 8 :44) sinners. So all the sins in the world are of his furtherance, both actual and original. Again, he hath a great stroke in temptation, in that he is the artificer, the designer, the improver of them; therefore he is called “The Tempter” (Matt. 4:3J.-^-T. Manton, Edited. Sermon Outline John 17:26. Our Lord praying with His disciples at the last. This verse the Climax of Plis prayer. The final word is love and union with the Lord. What a subject! I. The Food of Love. 1. Knowledge. 2. Knowledge given by Christ, 3. Knowledge gradually increasing. 4. Knowledge distinguishing us from the . world. 5 Knowledge of the Name: Righteous Father, holiness, good ness, mercy, love. II. The Love Itself. 1. It is not love towards us but in us. 2. It is not love from the wells of the creature. 3. It is a recognition of the Father’s love to the Son. It is a reflection of the Father’s love upon Jesus. It is a beaming forth of love all around. 4. It has the most blessed results: Expulsive, Repulsive, Impulsive. Renders supremely happy, brave, patient, devoted. III. The Companion of Love. Love and I. Jesus sure to be where there is love, faith, the Spirit, God. Christ ever near. Believer ever safe. Believer should render good enter tainment.— C. H. Spurgeon.
New Things
By grace we get: 1. A new nature (2 Peter 1:3) ; 2. A new name (Rev. 3:12); 3. A new inheritance (Rom. 8:17) ; 4. A new relationship (Rom. 8:15, 16); 5. A new hope (1 Peter 1:3). The Wonderful Law Open thou mine eyes that may behold wondrous things out of thy law. —Ps. 119:18. How did the Psalmist study his Bible? 1. He comes to'it, believing it to be his infallible guide: “Thy Law.” 2. He believes that there is more in it than he has yet seen. It meets our faculty of wonder. It contains that which stirs our deepest and highest sense of the marvelous. 3. He comes to it with a prayer that God would help him to see its “wondrous things.” He asked no new revelation. He wished to see the precious treasures he had. The Two Adams 1. Adam had no human father. Christ had no human father. Both are called son of God. Adam was of God by creation. Christ was Son of God by eternal genera tion (Gen. 2:7; John 1:1, 2, 14). 2. Adam was the destined heir of the world, Christ is the destined heir of all things (Gen. 1:26; Heb. 1:2). 3. Adam was put uhder law, Christ be came under the law (Gen. 2:17; Gal. 4:4). 4. Adam was the representative head of his seed (Rom. 5:12, 14), Christ is the rep resentative Head of His seed (Rom. 5:19). 5. Adam transmitted death to his seed. Christ imparts life to His seed (1 Cor. 15:22). The Evil One The word "evil,” in the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6:13), is rendered “evil” or “wicked” “one” in Matthew 13:19; 1 John 2:13; 5:18; Ephesians 6:16. The devil is so called because his great business is to draw and drive others to sin. The devil may fitly be
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