Revelation 22:3 The Service of God. I. If we call Christ Saviour, we must also call Him King; we must not pick and choose among the elements of the Gospel, and cast aside such parts of it as may press too hardly on our own craving to have our own way. Even when, in some most comfortable words, He b... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 22:3 , REVELATION 22:5 Servitude and Royalty. I. "His servants shall serve Him." Such is the title of the glorified. In heaven itself there is no emancipation from the bonds of God. The holy nations are eternally bound in absolute obligation to the will of God and of the Lamb. It is no p... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 22:10 The Love of Goodness the Safeguard of Faith. I. Observe, our Lord says, the "time is at hand," and "I come quickly," although in the preceding prophecy the course of trials to which the Church would be exposed is described as running through a long succession of ages. Undoubtedly t... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 22:11 The End of our Probation. The very pole on which all Christian morality turns is just this: we must be judged "according to our works," the "things done in the body," by which we must understand comprehensively all the realities of conduct, not things done only in contrast with wo... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 22:13 Christ the Alpha and Omega. I. Christ is the Alpha and Omega in relation to Christianity and providence. Christianity is at this day the great upholder of Theism in the world. It has unspeakably distanced Judaism, whose testimony against idolatry it has taken up, and also Mahometan... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 22:14 The Last Beatitude of the Ascended Christ. I. If we are clean, it is because we have been made so. The first beatitude that Jesus Christ spoke from the mountain was, "Blessed are the poor in spirit"; the last beatitude that He speaks from heaven is, "Blessed are they that wash the... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 22:16 Two important lessons may be learned from this subject: I. All Christians should seek to be sons of the morning. As lamps do not talk, but shine, so should religion shine forth in beneficent and useful lives. II. We should be striving to make others share in the blessed privilege... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 22:16 I. Man is so constituted by his Maker as to have the power, when any course of action is proposed to him, to determine and decide whether he will accept the advice and act on it or not. He may say, "I will" or "I will not," when the Spirit and the bride say, "Come." At the same tim... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 22:17 The Will. I. We must believe in the absolute sovereignty of God. We see it in nature. With whom took He counsel in creation? It was at His sovereign will the Himalayas raised their heads; it was at His sovereign will the depths of the ocean were dug deep. We see it in providence. H... [ Continue Reading ]