DISCOURSE: 920 THE SCOPE AND TENDENCY OF THE GOSPEL Isaiah 40:1._ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 921 THE IMMUTABILITY OF THE GOSPEL Isaiah 40:6. _The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it; surely the people... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 922 THE MESSIAH’S ADVENT Isaiah 40:9. _Say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God._ THE Gospel with all its sublime mysteries is regarded by the generality with coldness and indifference; whereas the most indistinct prospects of it were sufficient to fill the patriarchs and prophets w... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 923 CHRIST’S CARE FOR HIS SHEEP Isaiah 40:11._ He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; and shall gently lead those that are with young._ THE holy Psalmist, speaking of Jehovah’s care of him, says, “The Lord is my Sheph... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 924 THE DESPONDING ENCOURAGED Isaiah 40:27. _Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fain... [ Continue Reading ]