DISCORSO: 2334 LA PERSEVERA DILIGENZA DI CRISTO Ebrei 12:1 . _Perciò, vedendo che anche noi siamo circondati da un così grande nugolo di testimoni, deponiamo ogni peso e il peccato che così facilmente ci assale, e corriamo con pazienza la corsa che ci è posta davanti, guardando a Gesù il autore e... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2335 CHRIST’S PATIENCE UNDER SUFFERINGS Ebrei 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 P... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2336 AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVE Ebrei 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... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2337 THE NECESSITY OF HOLINESS Ebrei 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... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCORSO: 2338 IL PERICOLO DI DISPRENDERE O DISONORARE IL VANGELO Ebrei 12:15 . _Guardando diligentemente che nessuno venga meno alla grazia di Dio; per timore che una radice di amarezza che germoglia ti turbino, e così molti siano contaminati; perché non ci sia un fornicatore o un profano come Es... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2339 THE TRANSCENDENT EXCELLENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION Ebrei 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 intre... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2340 ABEL’S SACRIFICE AND CHRIST’S COMPARED Ebrei 12:22; Ebrei 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 most e... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2340 ABEL’S SACRIFICE AND CHRIST’S COMPARED Ebrei 12:22; Ebrei 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 most e... [ Continua a leggere ]
DISCOURSE: 2341 GOD TO BE SERVED WITH REVERENTIAL FEAR Ebrei 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... [ Continua a leggere ]