_HUMILITY_ ‘I say … to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think.’ Romans 12:3 Humility is the pre-eminent Christian virtue. Pagan teachers required their followers to be brave, just, and true, but over all as a sort of guard Christianity sets humility... [ Continue Reading ]
_UNITY_ ‘For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.’ Romans 12:4 It is one of the nobler impulses of mankind to reverence that which has been reverenced by those who are esteem... [ Continue Reading ]
_‘MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER’_ ‘So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.’ Romans 12:5 There are some moral and spiritual truths which it seems to be almost impossible to impress upon the practical life of the world, although they meet with a sort of universal a... [ Continue Reading ]
_ENTHUSIASM_ ‘Fervent in spirit.’ Romans 12:11 Without the intense fire of God burning in enthusiastic hearts, the moral, the spiritual world, yes, the whole world of man, would sink into a universe of death! I. THINK WHAT ENTHUSIASM HAS DONE EVEN IN SPHERES NOT IMMEDIATELY RELIGIOUS.—The _ ent... [ Continue Reading ]
_A MUCH-NEEDED PRECEPT_ ‘Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly.’ Romans 12:16 (R.V.) I. HERE, IN THE TEXT, IS ONE OF THOSE PRECEPTS WHICH, RIGHTLY UNDERSTOOD, IS ONE OF THE MOST PRACTICAL WE CAN SET OURSELVES TO MASTER (in the formation of Christian character).... [ Continue Reading ]
_RESENTMENT_ ‘If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.’ Romans 12:18 Not with all Christians, you observe, but with all men. They were to act as leaven in the world, and to bring their Christian influence to bear upon it, until the whole be leavened. I. CHRISTIANS... [ Continue Reading ]