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Marrying for money is a very common way of shaking hands with the devil. If you want to be strong in trial, don’t forget to pray when you are prosperous. When God sends a man anywhere, the devil does his best to keep him from going. If every member of the Church were a cheerful giver, the devil would soon begin to pull down his flag, Whenever God finds a man who has courage to starve to death in his service, the devil is badly frightened. The man who wears blue glasses never finds the sunshine. The devil is always ready to shake hands with the man who does not pray in secret. People who are always talking about charity beginning at home never do any thing to help her start. The bad man throws mud at the good man because he has to do it to keep from looking at himself. The devil never feels that he has lost the day when he can manage to get a couple of God’s people mad at each other. The most dangerous; deception is self- deception. Love your enemy, but don’t buy his boy a drum. The man in the wrong is the one who won’t forgive.
\ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— ----------- READY BIBLE OUTLINES t •------------------------------------:— The Castaway "Lest I should be a castaway" (1 Cor. 9:27). “In the quarry, hard by the temple at Baalbek, in Syria, there is a tremendous block of stone, which, with labor that most present-day writers would call infi nite1—though there is nothing infinite in the work of man—has been hewn and squared. It is no less than 68 feet long, 14 feet broad, and 14 feet high. Yet, though so much trouble has been taken with it, it was never built into the temple. As a company of the Lord’s servants walked past it on one occasion, it seemed to lift its warning voice to them, saying, in the words of Paul, ‘Lest by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.’” While we fully recognize that salvation is all of grace (Eph. 2:8), and that eter nal life is God’s gift (Rom. 6:23), still it is possible 1. To lose the “full reward." Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward (2 Jn. . 8 ) . 2. For the crown to be taken by another. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown (Rev. 3:11). 3. For the believer to be “.ashamed” at Christ’s coming. . . . . we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his com ing (1 Jn. 2:28). 4. To miss the abundant entrance. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlast ing kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:11). 5. Not to obtain the “well done.” His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord (Matt. 25:21). 6. To have the works burnt up. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: But he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire (1 Cor. 3 :15). 7. And to be disapproved as a servant of Christ. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I my self should be a castaway (1 Cor. 9: 27). To be faithful to the Lord is the sure way not to be disapproved by Him. If We honor Him by our devotion to Him, He will honor us by praise, honor and glory at His return. — F. E. Marsh. — f
S EARCH -L IGH T S FROM THE WORD By Dr. G. Campbell Morgan (Permission Fleming H. Revell Co.)
“Jesus—the son of Adam, the son of God" (Luke 3:23 and 38)., While there are supposed to be diffi culties in reconciling the two genealogi cal tables ,of Matthew and Luke, it is patent that Mary and Joseph came of the same stock, and that both were of the house of David, and of the seed of Abra ham. As a matter of fact there are no difficulties—or should not be. In Mat thew we have the legal-birth book of Jesus as the adopted son of Joseph. In Luke we have His actual genealogy through His mother. The peculiar value of Luke’s is that in it he passes back through this house and seed to the hu man origin in Adam. The last named in his table is Adam, and through the suc cessions Jesus is the Son of Adam. But Adam is here called the son of God, and so in this way also Jesus is the Son of God. This is a matter of supreme im portance in the light it throws upon human relationship to God. Our Lord was the Son of God in a separate and lonely sense, but as the Son of Mary, a child of the human race, He was also a Son of man. That, then, is the deepest fact of all human life, and it is when the fact is realized that the appal ling tragedy of human life is also realized. By sin man is alienated from his birth right, cut off from God, degraded and lost. Jesus of Nazareth, Child of Mary, and ultimately Son of Adam and Son of God, was sinless in His human nature, and so lived in His birthright, in fellow-’ ship with God, full of grace and truth. Herein we find the element which made it possible for Him to act with God for men; as the other, that of His eternal Sonship, enabled Him to act with men for God, and as God. *--------------------------------------------- * FIGS AND THISTLES £• —------------------------------------Hi Everybody can do a good deal for the Lord who is willing to get down low enough. Some men are honest because they never had a good chance to steal any thing. Trying to find out who Cain’s wife was has led many a man straight to the devil. Instead of “putting off the old man,” some people try to dress him up and make him look nice. The fault finder does a good deal of work for the devil for nothing. One of the biggest cowards is the man who is afraid to do right.
“Now there was about this time a wise man; if it be lawful to call Him a man; for He was a doer of wonderful works, and a teacher of such men as re ceive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to Him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ. And when Pilate at the sugges tion of the principal men among us had condemned Him to the cross, those who loved Him at the first did not forsake Him; for He appeared to them again alive the third day; as the di vine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonder ful things concerning Him. And the tribe of Christians so named from Him is not extinct at this day^kfF r o m Burder’s “Jose phus," Vol. II, page 24.
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