Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 26 March 2017 "With the coming of Christ a light came into the world: “in him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not”. When John, in his first epistle, dwells on the “new commandment” which is yet an old commandment, he shows the impact of that light upon men. The commandment to love one another is as old as Leviticus 19:18; yet it has become new because it is so fulfilled in Christ and his brethren that it gains a new reality: it “is true in him and in you” (1 John 2:8). Because Christ has come to do the will of God in this as in all else, “the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth” (1 John 2:8, R.V.). It shines for those who abide in Christ and “walk even as he walked” (1 John 2:6), thus giving an earnest of the future triumph of the light, till it shall fill all the earth as the waters cover the sea." - L.G. SargentLove not the World (1940) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 27 March 2017 “Faith is an unswerving belief that God will fulfil His promises. Hope is a confidence that the fulfilment is near. Love is the keeping of God’s commandments. This is why the apostle said: “the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law ... love is the fulfillment of the law” (Romans 13:8-10).” - P.B. HindeA New Commandment (1967) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2017 28 March 2017 "In the God-given opportunity to preach, five lessons may be discerned which will assist in the building up of our own characters and fit us to be better teachers in the Kingdom of God. They are: Patience, courage, endurance, watchfulness, and finally peace. Truly "they that sow in tears shall reap in joy." (Psalm 126:5)" - H.G. TuckerThe Preaching of the Word (1951) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 29 March 2017 "Meekness of wisdom teaches us that we tend most easily to recognise in others the faults we are most familiar with in ourselves. It constrains us to urge in defence of our brother’s weakness all the arguments we claim in defence of our own. It enforces the truth that those we do not like and those we suspect are also made in the image of God and, being in Christ, are in God’s family. It provokes the exhortation not to assault with the tongue the man for whom Christ died. In this way recovery is surely advanced. Under this humbling discipline a man at last may come to recognise with joy the faithfulness of those he once impeached. It means that instead of deadly poison there is purity, and instead of restless evil there is peace. First pure, them peaceable. So with purified tongue man may bless God—and bless man, made in God’s image." - Dennis GillettHe Healeth all Thy Diseases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 30 March 2017 "There are two kinds of sowing—actions are related to two fields of life: the flesh and the spirit. A man sows to the flesh when he serves himself, when his life is lived for self and the gratification of every desire. Flesh belongs to the present, to the temporal order, to that which passes. There is no prospect of any eternal results from flesh; as water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can flesh produce anything having the quality of permanence. Things of the flesh all pass. The spirit, as we have seen, is used in Galatians 5 of the new life in Christ, and this new life springs from the incorruptible seed, the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever (1 Peter 1:23)." - John CarterThe Letter to the Galatians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2017 31 March 2017 "... Paul’s epistles, we “consider” all that is involved in his experience. He says of himself that he was “a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but (says he) I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.” In the outset of his gospel career, though he had strong ties in influential circles, he says, “Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.” But he went to work, and cut those ties, and entered the service of Christ faithfully. In that service he takes up the idea of Christ, who says he was a chosen vessel, and, faithfully following Christ, he exhorts the brethren, saying, “Be ye followers of me.” Can we so walk as to invite brethren and sisters to follow us? We ought to do so, and in some measure surely we do. Paul is our example." - C.C. WalkerSunday Morning (1913) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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