DISCOURSE: 2334 CHRIST’S PERSEVERING DILIGENCE Hebrews 12:1. _Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus th... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2335 CHRIST’S PATIENCE UNDER SUFFERINGS Hebrews 12:3. _Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds_. THINGS are good or evil in this life chiefly by comparison: the happiest of men is unhappy in comparison of Adam in... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2336 AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVE Hebrews 12:4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: fo... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2337 THE NECESSITY OF HOLINESS Hebrews 12:14. _Follow.…holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord_. THE Gospel, while it brings us into a state of reconciliation with God, enjoins us to maintain peace with man. This is rendered difficult, not only by the evil dispositions that are... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2338 THE DANGER OF DESPISING OR DISHONOURING THE GOSPEL Hebrews 12:15. _Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morse... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2339 THE TRANSCENDENT EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Hebrews 12:18. Ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard int... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2340 ABEL’S SACRIFICE AND CHRIST’S COMPARED Hebrews 12:22; Hebrews 12:24. _Ye are come ……to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel_. AS the Christian dispensation differs widely from that of Moses as to the manner in which it was promulgated, so does it mo... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2340 ABEL’S SACRIFICE AND CHRIST’S COMPARED Hebrews 12:22; Hebrews 12:24. _Ye are come ……to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel_. AS the Christian dispensation differs widely from that of Moses as to the manner in which it was promulgated, so does it mo... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2341 GOD TO BE SERVED WITH REVERENTIAL FEAR Hebrews 12:28. _Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire_. THE Christian world are little aware how much we are... [ Continue Reading ]