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(2) Live the Perfect Life of Obedience and examples. (3) Make the Perfect Atonement in the Blood of God! (Acts 20:28). (4) Become the First Fruits from Among the Dead. (5) Become the Mediator between God
and Man (1 Tim. 2:5; Heb. 6:20; 9:11-25; Rev. 1:13). (6) Come.the All-Conquering King (Rev. 19:11-20:3). (7) And Seat the Saved Kings and Priests Over All (Eph. 1 :15-23).—51.
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with a feather, or catching a fly?— Spurgeon. “Tracts everywhere!” said a youth, with a sneer, as a young Christian handed him a leaflet one Lord’s Day afternoon. • “No,” said the lad quietly, “there will be none in hell,” and passed on. God fastened that single sentence as a nail in a sure place and he could not get rid of it. “None in hell!” seemed to echo in his ears every time he saw a tract, and ultimately he was converted. Reader, there will be “None in hell!” neither Gospel invitations, nor Gospel en treaties. How eagerly the lost multitudes, in the hopeless region of despair would welcome the first invitation of mercy; but their day is past, their time of grace is o’er. Of these there is “None in hell!” How are you treating them on earth? These golden op portunities, solemn warnings—these loving invitations of God, as John 3 :16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlast ing life.” Accept them, speedily; for, O, remember there will be “NONE IN HELL” (Prov. 1:24-28').—Selected. What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would find themselves ready for what comes next. —George Macdonald.
A/JENTAL conclusions and spiritual ex- A periences are quite two different things. Reason may gather piles of knowl edge concerning the historic Jesus, but rea son alone will give me nothing about the risen Christ. I want to know the Jesus of history, but I want to have communion with the Christ of faith. Such knowledge of the Lord comes to us through the act and atti tude of faith. Faith is more than a mental decision; it is a surrender of the will. It is more than a verdict; it is the execution of the verdict. It is of momentous importance to remem ber that the very core of faith is motion—a movement of the will toward the holy Lord. The act of faith is the yielding of the per sonal life to the God who is revealed to us in Jesus Christ our Lord. And the life of faith is the constant repetition of that act of surrender until the repeated acts become an attitude and every choice and will in life is stamped with the pleasure and fear of God.— Dr. John H. Jewett. “Fervent prayer,” says an old divine, “like a cannon planted at the gates of heaven, makes them fly open.” The common fault with the most of us is our readiness to yield to distractions. Our thoughts go rov ing hither and thither, and we make little progress toward our desired end. Like quicksilver, our mind will not hold together, but rolls off this way and that. How great an evil this is! It injures us, and what is worse, it insults our God. What should we think of a petitioner, if, while having an audience with a prince, he should be playing
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