)God knows allGold Dust. I Planted in the fertile soil of your heart, it will reproduce the nature of Christ in you. Not only are they the words of eternal life, but they bring life to those who will obey them. A The last sentence of verse 12 demonstrates the power of God's Word. THESE IS ALSO A WORD OF OURS TO GOD. in those three thousand souls, when, pricked in their hearts, they went to the apostles? How much more guarded and serious should our deportment be, seeing that we are ever watched by Him whose eyes are like a flame of fire!(C. Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. We should be induced to employ the most zealous efforts for the circulation of the Divine Word by means of printed copies, and the support of Christian ministrations, both at home and abroad.3. General Epistles To gain an understanding of the scriptures is to gain truth. "(Baxendale's Anecdotes. Thus it is that the Word of God, as it at last reaches the spirit and soul of the man, is the net result of a thousand separate sayings, no one of which by itself is the absolute arbiter of the being. When I returned to her kiosk all her immoral publications had disappeared. Was it not mighty in David, making him cry, "Peccavi"? Who made us? (Preacher's Promptuary of Anecdote. "Mother," asked a child, "since nothing is ever lost, where do all thoughts go?" Where reason stops short, the Word of God appeals to the supernatural faculty of faith; and when conscience grows blunt, the Word makes conscience, like itself, sharper than any two-edged sword. The images are borrowed from a court of justice, where the guilty is brought before his judge, convicted, and executed:(F. Rendall, M. (2)With the other it condemns and destroys adversaries.II. The Epistle from which the texts come carries us beyond this vaguer and more general Divine utterance to another of which the very "differentia" is the personality. It reveals to man the innermost meaning of his own nature and of the supernatural planted within him. That we come to it for power when fighting the battles of truth.4. Livingstone.The Bechuanas are excellent patients. It leads you into the lower Christian life (John 3:30); it discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart, the hidden self-complacency, the hidden ambition and self-will; it enters into the very joints and marrow, the energies and sentiments, the motives and springs of our actions, the true character of our rejoicing and mourning, our elevations and depressions; and then you say with the apostle: I have no confidence in the flesh, in my old nature, in me, body, soul, and spirit, as I am of Adam. That we use it to the most obstinate, to arouse their consciences and convict them of sin.7. I lost sight of her for three weeks. He did not take the nature of one race, or of one people, or of one colour, or of one clime; but He took upon Him the seed of Abraham: He took upon Him our nature and became the Son of man, so that none can claim Him exclusively, and say, "He did not die for you"; nor can any one say, "He died for me alone." I wish to be found in Him. Pentateuch because less great — greater because individual. "Every Scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction," etc. Do we know that, in possessing, reading, and knowing the Scripture, we are under a mighty, solemn, and decisive influence, and that this Word judges us now, and will judge us at the last day? in Zaccheus, when it made him to forsake his oppression and to restore fourfold? II. Writing to the Thessalonians Paul said. There is a Word of God in Providence. Difficult because the Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. I believe in a personal God. Jones, D. D.)The Divine WordA. St. Paul in Ephesians 6. speaks of "the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God." And yet all these are external, as such, to the very "spirit of the man that is in him." It is piercing. When I returned to her kiosk all her immoral publications had disappeared. There is a word of God in nature, and there is a word of God in providence; there is a word of God in science, and there is a word of God in history; there is a word of God in the Church, and there is a word of God in the Bible. And when once gained is perhaps some of the most painful. she cried, on seeing me, "I am delivered; this book has saved me from dishonour. The Word of God enters the conscience to convert or to smite.2. Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. This active vigour and efficacy is illustrated by a similitude. So judging ourselves, we shall not be judged. I. 2. Thank you for registering. )Watched by GodC. Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. Last week we established that the Bible is the word of God, and as such, we should give the more earnest heed to the things that we have heard, for in the Bible, the eternal God the Creator is speaking to His creation. Do we know that, in possessing, reading, and knowing the Scripture, we are under a mighty, solemn, and decisive influence, and that this Word judges us now, and will judge us at the last day? 3. WITH GOD WE PRE-EMINENTLY " HAVE TO NO." A new store of knowledge is brought to the understanding; a flood of light is poured in which arrays every object in a new colour; an influence works upon the affections by which they are refined and changed, made to delight in new purposes and pursuits, to flow in a new channel, and raised from earth to heaven. He is the Saviour of all men, and especially of them that belong " to the household of faith." The "As a man talketh with his friend," was God's own account of His communication with the hero-saint of Israel — then it was the privilege of the one or two, now it is the very birthright and citizenship of the promiscuous world of the redeemed. We seem yet to lack one thing. That human system which was once vigorous may grow old, and lose all vitality; but the Word of God is always fresh, and new, and full of force. 5. A remarkable instance of its quick and mighty operation is recorded in the conversion of Paul.5. The men happened to know this, and it often quickened them in their various duties to know that the master's eye from the little attic window might possibly at that very moment be resting upon them. 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