Show the Simplicity of Salvation. The terms used-— Look. Isa. 45:22 (See verse 21.) Illustration—Jno. 3:14, Numb. 21:9 Believe. 1 Pet. 2:6, Rom. 1:16. Illustration—Acts 16:2 5-31. Receive. John 1:12, 9:48. Illustration—Luke 19.1-10. Take. Rom. 6:23 (A gift to be taken) Illustration—Acts 3:6. Taste. Psa. 34:8. Illustration—Ex. 16:13. Eat. Jno. 6:51. Illustration—1 Cor. 11:26. These suggestions will make plain the way of salvation. No preparation to make. Nothing to seek for. Nothing to ask for. Nothing to wait for. It Is finished. One thing and only one thing the sin- ner needs to do. Accept what God of- fers,S-His Son. Hdld them to Isa. 53:5, Jno. 1:12, and press them to accept Him as Saviour and Lord. A time for prayer. Acts 3:1. An outlook for prayer. Dan. 6:10. A partner in prayer. Matt. 18:19. A helper at hand. Rom. 8:26. An advocate at court. Rom. 8:34. A Father on the throne John 16 :27. J. H. S.
dens your soul with desire for them. The Second Class of Inquirers. The Anxious. We have had the indifferent, now we take the anxious. There are not many who are anxious compared with those who are indifferent, yet we find that there are those whom the Spirit has stirred with desire to be at peace with God, and who are anxiously awaiting the messenger of God like the Eunuch in Acts 8. The indifferent need to he con- victed but the anxious need the Gospel, and we must know the Way of Salvation and be able to make it plain. The Finished Work of Christ. God loves men, and has manifested it in the Gift of His Son. John 3:16-17. We must show that God has done every- thing that is necessary in behalf of sin- ners. Isa. 53:5, 6. He was wounded for my transgressions, bruised for my iniquity. (Let the inquirer read it in that form.) 1 Pet. 2.24. Who His own self bore my sin in His own body on the tree.
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Of argument. John 18:1. Of attitude. Eph. 3:20. Of spirit. Phil. 4.6. Of petition. Luke 11:1. Of condition. Acts 21:14 Of exhortation. Eph. 6:18, 19. A place for prayer. Matt. 6:6.
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THE SCIENCE OF CCD
grasp of them. Of all subjects of knowl- edge none are so necessary and worthy of study and presentation as that of God. He is the One Being of whom all things and all events bear witness. All things that are made, and all that come to pass, are chiefly to make Him and His wise and sovereign Will known to His intelligent and moral universe. Theol- ogy has been justly called "The Queen of Sciences," for every page of knowl- edge is a page of theology. We shall try to set forth, by these papers, in clear and simple words and in logical order the main truths about God as He has revealed Himself to u*
^ ¡ i N our last we made some prac- «41 tical remarks on the knowl- CU edge of God, and the sources of that knowledge. We mean to speak more systematically and fully. The science of God is called theology. "Systematic Theology" is a scientific statement of the known facts about God. Some speak slightingly, and hence thoughtlessly, or ignorantly, of Theol- ogy. There can be no exact and all- around knowledge of any subject with- out a thorough study of all the known facts, from all available sources, and systematic statement and all-embracing
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