DISCOURSE: 2017 THE CHRISTIAN’S ASSURED PROSPECT OF GLORY 2 Corinthians 5:1. _We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our ho... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2018 THE CHRISTIAN WALKING BY FAITH 2 Corinthians 5:7. _We walk by faith, not by sight_. IF we behold any wonderful effects, we naturally inquire after the cause that has produced them. Now in the preceding context we behold as extraordinary a phenomenon as can be conceived: a sinner, li... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2019 THE IMPROVEMENT TO BE MADE OF THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE JUDGMENT 2 Corinthians 5:10. _We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that erery one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2020 THE CONSTRAINING POWER OF CHRIST’S LOVE 2 Corinthians 5:14. _The love of Christ conslraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died fo... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2021 THE CHRISTIAN A NEW CREATURE 2 Corinthians 5:17. _If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new_. A FAITHFUL discharge of our duty to God has in every age rather provoked the displeasure, than conciliated the favour, of... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2022 THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION 2 Corinthians 5:19. _God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2023 THE WAY OF RECONCILIATION WITH GOD 2 Corinthians 5:21. _For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him_. A MORE important question cannot be asked than this, “How shall man be just with God?” In the words before us, that... [ Continue Reading ]