_Two tables of stone._ THE TABLES OF STONE-WHAT DO THEY SYMBOLISE These were made before any part of the tabernacle furniture. Their history heralds forth their transcendant importance. No compend of moral truth may pretend to compare with them, for glory and grandeur of origin; for simplicity and... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord is his inheritance._ THE LORD THE CHRISTIAN’S INHERITANCE The obvious meaning of having the Lord for our inheritance is, that we have dedicated ourselves to His service, that we have surrendered ourselves altogether to Him, the energies of the body and the faculties of the mind, to do Hi... [ Continue Reading ]
_What doth the Lord thy God require of thee._ THE TRUE LIFE OF MAN The true life of man is the life of practical conformity to Divine claims. All is summed up and expressed here. I. Loving reverence. 1. Fear of not acting worthily of the object of love. 2. Fear of offending the object of love.... [ Continue Reading ]
_He chose. .. you above all people._ ELECTION AND HOLINESS I. In setting forth election, I must have you observe, first of all, its extraordinary singularity. God has chosen to Himself a people whom no man can number, out of the children of Adam. Now this is a wonder of wonders, when we come to con... [ Continue Reading ]
_What doth the Lord thy God require of thee._ THE TRUE LIFE OF MAN The true life of man is the life of practical conformity to Divine claims. All is summed up and expressed here. I. Loving reverence. 1. Fear of not acting worthily of the object of love. 2. Fear of offending the object of love.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye were strangers._ THE STRANGER’S CLAIM In both Jewish and Christian economy special kindness was to be shown to the stranger. I. The stranger’s claim does not rest upon any doctrine of abstract right, but upon the disadvantage of his position. He can hardly be said to have any right at all. He... [ Continue Reading ]
_Done for thee these great and terrible things._ THE GREAT DOINGS OF GOD I. In what the great deeds of God consist. 1. In Salvation. God, who delivered Israel from the bondage of Egypt, has wrought a great work of deliverance on behalf of the human race. Greater than any deed of vengeance is the... [ Continue Reading ]