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426 * ----------------- —:------- ------- ----- ,f v READY BIBLE OUTLINES if*---------------------------------------------A Five Kinds of Fools Selfish Fool. And he said, This .will I do:. I will pull down my barns; and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. Luke 12:18. Stupid Fool. . And every one that heareth these say ings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man; 'which built his house upon the sand. Matt. 7:26. Sleeping Fool. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. Matt. 25 :5. Sanctimonious Fool. And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of-; the cup and the platter; but your in ward part is full of ravening and wickedness. Luke 11:39. Sensible Fool. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 1 Cor. 3 :18. -—o—- Some Secrets The' secret of fruit-bearing is abiding. I am the vine,'ye are the branches: He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much j^lruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Jno. 15:5. The secret of abiding is ‘obedience. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. Jno. 15:10. The secret of obedience is lorle. • He that ».hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will .manifest myself to him. Jno. 14:21. The secret of Love is His love to us. In this was manifested the love of God ' . toward us, because that God sent his ),:;only begotten Son into the world,; that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved' God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 Jno. 4 :9, 10. —o— Things Broken 1 . Law. And he cast the .tables out of his hands,. and brake them beneath the mount (Exo. 32:19). 2. Heart. The sacrifices' of .God are a broken spirit: a broken and ,5- contrite • heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Psa. 51:17). 3. Pitcher. So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands (Judges 7 :19). 4. Bread. And he commanded the multi tude to sit down on the grass, and' took the five loaves, and the two fishes,; and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his
The preacher who is not a persona! worker will find his pulpit becoming an ice-pack. His Sermoris,jthough intellec tual, will be cold. It is the message hot from the heart, that is afire with the pas sion for souls,,'that burns its way home. And so the preacher’s • methods are woefully incomplete if they make no pro- yisipn for personal evangelism. —-James I. Vance, D.D. — o — Sartorial perfection is as important to the minister of the Gospel as familiarity with biblical lore, in the opinion of R. A. Sproule of Ottawa, a layman who recently addressed . the .Baptist i|febnyentipn of Ontario and Quebec. “I have seen the force of a sermon ruined by a trouser leg stuck in the top of a boot,” he declared, “A minister need not wear costly raiment, .but he should be carefully and correctly dressed. A consciousness that he is cor rectly attired would go far in helping the minister to be fearless and independent of the opinion of others.” —o— A layman visited a great city church in Ohio during a business trip. After the service he congratulated the minister on his service and sermon. “But,” said the manufacturer, “if you were my salesman I’d ’discharge you. You got my attention by your appearance, voice and manner; your prayer, reading and logical discourse aroused my interest; you warmed . my heart with a desire for what you preached; and then—and then you stopped, without asking me to do something about i t ! In business, the important thing is to get them to sign on the dotted line.” — o — ■ Dr. W. E. Barton says to m inisters^ “When you enter a sick-room enter it with a definite intention to help. Do not wear creaking boots. Do not whisper or appear to .conceal. Be cheerful, but not hilarious. Be optimistic but truthful. If you can conscientiously say, ‘You are bet ter than when I saw you last,’ say it and ■say it so calmly and so judicially, so con fidently as to give* it the full weight of your truthful judgment^ say it in such a way as to make the patient feel it. And when yofulpray, do it so earnestly, so sim ply, so faithfully, as to bring healing in the;,; answer.” —o— ' A lumberman in a mountain camp in Western North Carolina, finding day la bor irksome, told his friends that he felt called to preach. He emigrated to Vir ginia, where ‘in a few months he became the pastor of a little church of a “per suasion” which need not be named. Re turning for a brief visit to the lumber camp, he was asked by his old friends how he liked being a preacher. “Fine!” he said. “I never expect to work any more!” But a man who deserves the name of minister will find his hands full. :— o— TELL IT PLAINLY, Robert Hall says: “If I were on trial for my life, and my advocate should amuse! the jury with his tropes and figures, burying his argu ments beneath a profusion of flowers of rhetoric, I would say' to him, ‘Man, put yourself in my place, speak in view of the gallows,-) and you will tell your story plainly and earnestly.’”
disciples, and the disciples to the mul titude (Matt. 14:19). 5. Alabaster Box. And being in Bethany,®; in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman hav ing a’n alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious ; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head' . . (Mk. 14:3).—F. A. J. 1. In Creation. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of eyery creature : For by him: were all things created, that are in heaven, and that . are i n ' earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or. dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before All things, and by him all things consist (Col. 1:15, 16, 17). In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The.ysame was.jin the beginning, with' God. All things were made;by him; and without him ■was not any thing made that was made ( J n- 1:1-3’)-.: 2. In Redemption. In whom we have re demption through his blood, even the . forgiveness of sinsj And, having made peace through the blodd of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven (Col. 1:14, 20). 3. In thefiChurch. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the be ginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things, he might have the preeminence. (Col. 1:18). 4. In Our Walk. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing, in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according ’to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness:: (Col. — o — Christ, the Pre-eminent One (Col. 1:18) The late Dr. A. H. Strong, the great theologian, of Rochester, wrote just be fore he died: “Long to see the day when ordaining councils and presbyteries will refuse to lay hands on students who have no settled faith, and will tell them to.go ba,ck to Jericho till their beards • are grown.” -— O— Sarcasm aids little in winning adherents to a cause, no matter how worthy the cause may be. Those who agree with a sarcastic writer or speaker may enjoy his thrusts, but such thrusts only irri tate his opponents', and even those ywho were inclined to listen to his plea often become estranged thereby. — o — Make virtue so attractive that vice will require little attention. Commend the right much more than you condemn the wrong. A constructive message will up build. We may take so much time in de nouncing the manifold evils that we shall have little time for portraying the abound ing good. * -----,---------— ------------------------------- * POINTERS FOR PREACHERS |
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