DISCOURSE: 2070 THE TIME AND MANNER OF CHRIST’S INCARNATION Galatians 4:4. _When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem, them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons_. THE advantages which we as Christians... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2071 THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION Galatians 4:6. _Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father_. IF we were to judge by the exterior of men’s lives, we should be ready to think that Christianity had done but little hitherto for the world... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2072 MINISTERS LABOURING IN VAIN Galatians 4:11. _I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain_. MINISTERS are, in the Scriptures, compared to husbandmen. Now, no one can doubt, for a moment, what the object is of those labours which the husbandman pursues. Whether he... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2073 THE NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTIAN ZEAL Galatians 4:18. _It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing_. MEN act with energy in things that are agreeable to them. But while some are earnest in the support of religion, others are no less active in opposing it. This... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2074 A MINISTER’S CHIEF WISH FOR HIS PEOPLE Galatians 4:19. _My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you_. THE pastoral relation is described in the Scripture... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2075 SARAH AND HAGAR TYPES Galatians 4:22. _It is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free-woman. But he who was of the bond-woman was born after the flesh; but he of the free-woman was by promise. Which things are an allegory_. THERE are many thing... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2076 JUSTIFICATION FAITH MAINTAINED Galatians 4:30. _Nevertheless what saith the Scripture? Cast out the bond-woman and her sun: for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman_. THE whole of God’s blessed word is highly instructive; and the Old Testament i... [ Continue Reading ]