DISCOURSE: 1480 MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST Luke 3:4. _It is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brough... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1481 LIBERALITY TO THE POOR Luke 3:10. _And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise_. IN order to understand the true meaning of any par... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1482 PRACTICAL DUTIES ENFORCED Luke 3:10. _And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. Then came also publicans to be baptized, and sai... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1483 THE IMPRISONMENT OF JOHN Luke 3:19. _Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison_. THE inspired volume, when considered only as containing a hi... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1484 THE DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT UPON CHRIST Luke 3:21. _Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened; and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said... [ Continue Reading ]