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He filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. Psalm 1 4 7 : 1 4
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( f ) A High Priest who is .to appear the second time.—Heb. 9:28. —E. A. H. His Second Com ing There are many things that will take place when our Lord returns in manifest splendor to the world with His people. 1. He will rule the nations with a rod o f iron, and cause them to bow to His Lordly scepter (Rev. 2:27). 2. He will scatter all the workers of unrighteousness, and make all keep to the principles o f right and truth (Isa. 2:12- 21 ). 3. He will exercise His power over the animal world, and cause nature to cease from being “red in tooth and claw” (Rom. 8 : 2 1 , 2 2 ). 4. He will lift the curse from inani mate creation, so that instead of the thorn shall come up the myrtle tree, and the desert shall blossom and bud like the rose (Isaiah,35:1, 2; 55:13). 5. War shall be made to cease, and men then instead of converting implements of agriculture into armaments (Joel 3:10), shall beat the instruments o f war into im plements o f husbandry (Micah 4:3). 6 . The oppressed and the needy and the down-trodden shall find deliverance, emancipation and blessing of every kind when God’s King is exercising His au thority (Psalm 72). 7. And nations will give to Christ glad homage and service, and their representa tives will go to worship Jehovah -in Jeru salem (Micah 4:2;Zech . 14:16).—F. E. M. —o— When to Pray 1. Early in the morning—Psa. 5:3. 2. Three times a day-—Dan. 6:10; Psa. 55:16-17; Acts 10:9, 30. 3. All night—Lk. 6:12; Jn. 6:15;;M k . 6 :46-48. 4. At meals—Mt. 14:19; Acts 27:35; 1 Tim. 4 :45. 5. In the day o f trouble—Psa. 50:15; 81:7; 60:11. 6 . In the day o f battle—1 Chron. 5 :20. 7. Always—1 Thess. 5:17; Lk. 18:1. “ No time to pray— ’Mid each day’s dangers, what retreat More needful than the Mercy Se^t?! Who need not pray? “ No time to pray— Must care or business’ urgent call So press us as to take it all, Each passing day? “What thought more drear Than that our God His face should hide And say, through all life’s swelling tide— No time to hear!”
S e a r c h - l ig h t s FROM THE WORD By Dr. G. Campbell Morgan (PermissionFlemingH. Revell Co.)
Christ’s Will
Christ left— His Purse to Judas; John 12:4-6. His body to Joseph of Arimathea; Mk. 15 :43; Luke 23:51-53. His Mother to John, son o f Zebedee; John 19:26-27. His Spirit back to His Father; Luke 23 :46. His Clothes to the Soldiers; Matt. 27: 35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34; John ' 19:23-24. His Peace to His Disciples; John 14: 27. His Supper to His Followers; Luke 22:19. Himself an example as a Servant; John 13:15. His Gospel for the W orld; Matt. 28:19. His Presence Alway, to the end of the W orld; Matt. 28:20. — o — We See Jesus (1) Jesus . . . crowned with glory and honor.—Heb. 2 :9. (2) Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith.—Heb. 12:2. (3) Jesus made a surety.—-Heb. 7 :22. (4) Jesus made a High Priest forever. ■-Heb. 6:20. (a) A High Priest holy, harmless, un defiled.—Heb. 7 :26. (b) A merciful High Priest.—Heb. 2:17. (c ) A great High Priest.—Heb. 4:14. (d ) A High Priest set on the right hand of the majesty in the heavens. . . . —Pleb. 8 : 1 . (e) A High Priest able to save to the uttermost.—Heb. 7 :25.
“ Thus it becometh us to fulfil all right eousness.” Matt. 3 :15. “Thus.” How? What is the real sig nificance o f this first recorded word of our Lord as He approached His public ministry? The answer is to be found in a consideration o f the reason for the pro test of John, to which it was a reply. John’s baptism was to repentance and re mission of sins. As he looked at Jesus, he knew that He had nothing o f which to repent; no sins to be remitted. Why then should He submit to this baptism? The answer to that inquiry our Lord gave. The reason for His baptism was that through all which it symbolized He would fulfil righteousness, arid only through such action could He do this. In baptism He confessed, as His own, sins which He had not committed, and repented o f them be fore God. He was numbered with trans gressors and bore the sins o f many. It was at once the prophecy and interpre tation o f His coming passion-baptism. — o— “Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.” Matt. 25:13. This is our Lord’s word to His own as to their attitude toward the fact o f His Second Coming. That He is coming again He most plainly declared, and all the New Testament writers affirmed the truth. Nothing is more explicit in His refer ences to that glorious end, than the decla ration that the day and hour are not re vealed. The hiding of that time is part of the Divine counsel. To seek to discover it is to attempt to be wiser than our Lord, in His infinite wisdom, intends that we should be. Our attitude is to be that of those who watch. To know the day or the hour would be to make watching largely unnecessary; and this would rob us of that alertness which is o f the very essence of true discipleship both in life and service. Concerning the times and seasons we need have no care. They are within the Father’s authority, and there can be no failure with Him. Knowing beforehand both the strangeness o f the period o f our waiting, and the certainty o f His coming, it is ours to have our lamps burning, our loins girt about, and to be so occupied about His business that when He comes we shall be neither sur prised nor ashamed. That is patient wait ing for Christ, and it is far removed from the fussy impatience that seeks to know what He has chosen to hide, and in such seeking spends time and strength which should be devoted to service.
The First Psalm, Revised Blessed is the church member who walketh not in the way o f the worldling, nor standeth on the g olf courts on Sunday, nor sitteth in the seat o f a card player. But his delight is in the wor ship o f the church and to the services he goeth morning and night. H e shall be like a worker in the vineyard o f the Lord; who bringeth his friends unto Christ; his influence also is fo r good, and whatsoever he doeth is open and above board. The indifferent church mem bers are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
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