Resource Manager Posted July 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 26 July 2015 "The ideal for which man was designed is shown in David’s comment on the Genesis record in Psalm 8: God is "mindful" of man and visits him in communicating with him, and so the man is fitted for dominion: "You have put all things under his feet." (Psalm 8:6) That ideal Adam failed to attain. To fulfil it he must develop faith and obedience, for only a living faith could keep open a two-way channel of communion between God and men. How closely these qualities are related is shown particularly in chapters 3 and 4 of the Letter to the Hebrews, where there is an interplay of the two terms and their opposites, unbelief and disobedience.[1] True obedience is only possible where there is faith in the One who commands, and therefore where faith fails disobedience will follow." - L.G. SargentThe Purpose in Creation (1969) [1] This interplay between apistia and apeitheia is apparent in the Revised Version and the R.S.V., but is lost in the King James Version and the N.E.B. See also Romans 11:30,32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 27 July 2015 "Through the great wisdom of God it is possible for us, in the pages of His Word, to come to the "knowledge of the truth" and to become sons and daughters of God through obedience and faith. The true worship of the "one God" still exists in those who walk before Him "in spirit and in truth." - Fred PearceThe Lord thy God (1993) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 28 July 2015 "Can we recognise Christ our Lord amidst the images and other distractions that try to crowd him out of our affections? We are reminded that: "God ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds ... the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person" (Hebrews 1:13)." - Allan HarrisonHow Do We See Jesus? (1998) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 29 July 2015 "A faithful friend is the medicine of life; those who heal the wounds which unkindness or misfortune has made in our lives and ministers to us. Compact between kindred souls has its daily message for us. No true-hearted brethren and sisters can link themselves together without sharing each other’s joy and increasing each other’s sheaves. What a friend we have in Jesus. He says, "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your lap. For with the same measure that you measure it shall be measured to you again." (Luke 6:38)." - Claud LambThe Medicine of Life (1991) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 30 July 2015"The Lord Jesus Christ was no monk living in a monastery or ascetic living in a cave. In contrast to his Essene contemporaries at Qumaran, he was constantly surrounded by human need which he addressed by helping, healing, teaching, raising up, saving and self-sacrificing. As Isaiah prophesied, "Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows" (Isaiah 53:4)."- Karam RamMy Kingdom is not of this World (2000) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 31 July 2015 "The reading of the Bible and the appreciation of it will re-act productively one upon the other. Read the word and you will appreciate it; appreciate it and you will desire it, and seek the comfort that is to be found in reading it. And thus, as in every vital process, there will be a dual action which will preserve life." - Robert RobertsSunday Morning (1874) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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