pg HOMILETICAL HELPS m I SuggestiveBibleReadings 1 DEGREES OF FAITH No faith—Mark 4:40. UNPREPAREDNESS—A SIGN OF THE TIMES
The servant slumbers, though the Master is knocking at the door of His own house.— Luke 12:35-38; Rev. 3:20. . “ My Lord delayeth His coming.” ^ Matt. 24:48. The scoffer mocks. “ Where is the promise of His coming?”— 2 Pet. 3:3, 4. The sluggard dreams. “ Yet a little more sleep.”— Prov. 6:9-11. The false prophet cries: “ Peace and safety.”— 1 Thess. 5:2, 3. The false interpreter assures us: “ The vision is yet for many days.”— Ezek. 12:28. CHRIST SAYS: “ SURELY I COME QUICKLY.” H. H. DIXON. FACT, FAITH, FEELING God has given us eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. He is, as it were, a great reservoir of life, out of whom each one of us may take by faith all the life that we need. “ In Him was life.” (John 1 :4 ); “ the Word of Life” (1 John l : i ) ; “ that eternal life which was with the Father” (1 John 1 :2). We do not have to create this life, nor earn it, nor buy it. We can only receive it as a gift, just as we have received our human life. "And our receiving is by faith. 1. THE FACT— “ And this is the record, that God hath given to us eter nal life, and this life is in His Son.” (1 John 5:11.) 2. THE FAITH—-“ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:14, 15).
Little faith—Matt. 16:8. Weak faith— Rom. 4:19. Strong faith—Rom. 4:20. Great faith-j§Matt. 8:10. Full of faith-—Acts 6:5.
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INCREASING FAITH By looking unto its Author—Heb. 12 : 2 . By praying for it— Luke 17:5. By using what we have— Rom. 1:17. By studying the Word—Rom. 10:17. F. S, SHEPARD. “ THAT I MAY KNOW HIM.”— Phil. 3:10 Knowing Jesus as: 1. The One Who was with the Fa ther before the foundation of the world.— Jno. 17:5, 24; Eph. 1:4. 2. The promised One.— Gen. 3:15; Is. 7:14; 9:6. 3. A Child in the manger.— Lk. 2:12. •(1) Poor. Became poor for our sake. 2 Cor. 8:9. (2) Meek. Game in humilia tion. Acts 8:33. (3) Lowly. Found in fashion as a man. Phil. 2:8. 4. The Tempted One. Matt. 4:1; Heb. 2:18; 4:15. 5. The Man of sorrows. Is. 53:3, 4; Lk. 22:44; Matt. 26:38. 6. The One, dead, buried and risen. 1 Cor. 15:3, 4. 7. Our intercessor at the right hand of God. Rom. 8:34; Heb. 7:25. 8. The One Who is coming again. Jno. 14:3; Rev. 3:11; 22:1.2. O. E. OSTERBERG.
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