Hebrews 13:8

Hebrews 13:8

The Unchanging Christ.

Note:

I. The unchanging Christ in His relation to our changeful lives. The one thing of which anticipation may be sure is, that nothing continues in one stay. There is only one thing that will enable us to front the else intolerable certainty of uncertainty, and that is to fall back upon the thought of my text.

II. Think of the relation between the unchanging Christ and the dying helpers. Just as on the face of some great wooded cliff, when the leaves drop, the solemn strength of the everlasting rock gleams out pure, so, when our dear ones fall away, Jesus Christ is revealed, "the same yesterday, and today, and for ever."

III. We may apply the thought to the relation between the unchanging Christ and decaying institutions and opinions. His sameness is consistent with an infinite unfolding of new preciousness and new powers as new generations with new questions arise, and the world seeks for fresh guidance.

IV. Look at the words in their application to the relation between the unchanging Christ and the eternal love of heaven. It will be the same Christ, the Mediator, the Revealer, in heaven as on earth, whom we here dimly saw and knew to be the Sun of our souls through the clouds and mists of earth.

A. Maclaren, The Unchanging Christyp. 1.

References: Hebrews 13:8. A. Mackennal, Christ's Healing Touch,p. 276; H. W. Beecher, Sermons(1870), p. 391; J. Vaughan, Sermons,12th series, p. 45; E. Paxton Hood, Dark Sayings on a Harp,p. 157; Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. iv., No. 170; vol. xv., No. 848; Ibid., Morning by Morning,p. 97; A. Blomfield, Sermons in Town and Country,p. 1; T. J. Crawford, The Preaching of the Cross,p. 198; J. P. Gledstone, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xxvii., p. 187; J. Culross, Ibid.,vol. xxxv., p. 49; A. Rowland, Ibid.,vol. xxxvi., p. 291; Homiletic Quarterly,vol. i., p. 560. Hebrews 13:9. Homiletic Magazine,vol. viii., p. 294; J. Natt, Posthumous Sermons,p. 345.Hebrews 13:10. H. W. Beecher, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xxiii., p. 67; vol. xxvii., p. 188. Hebrews 13:11. Ibid., Plymouth Pulpit,p. 305.Hebrews 13:13. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. x., No. 577.