_The former treatise have I made._
A TRUE COMMENCEMENT MUST HAVE RESPECT TO WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE
In any new beginning of study or work, it is important to have in mind
what has been done before in the same line. No one can learn or do to
advantage, unless he avails himself of what others have lear... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_To whom also He showed Himself alive after His Passion._
HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD
I. The fact itself, or the notion of a resurrection in general.
Admitting the power and providence of God, there can be nothing in it
repugnant to reason, or incredible.
1. To raise a dead man to life surpasses... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they
should not depart from Jerusalem._
LAST WORDS
Before ascending Christ had--
I. A misconception to remove--respecting the date and character of the
Messianic Kingdom.
II. A promise to bestow.
1. The Father made the promise.
2. Ch... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_Wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?_
BEFORE THE ASCENSION
I. The question of the apostles.
1. The great awe produced by the first appearances of the risen Christ
has worn off during the forty days. He and His are engaged in familiar
converse as in days of old.
2. The apo... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_But ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you._
THE GIFT OF POWER
At first sight this promise seems to be Christ’s response to a
universal craving. There is nothing which so awakens man’s ambition
as power. It is sweeter to him than bread to the hungry, or home to
the wanderer, o... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_And when He had spoken these words, while they beheld, He was taken
up._
TAKEN UP
How we talk about “up,” took “up” I What eager, earnest; faces
are looking up through the clouds of sorrow. The atmosphere above us
seems palpitant with the hopes and aspirations of hearts below. The
secret of this... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up._
TOO MUCH MERE SENTIMENT IN RELIGION
It may be that the same two angels who rolled away the stone, and
appeared at His open sepulchre, were present now. Or were they the
“two men,” Moses and Elijah, who had appeared at the
Transfigura... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_Then returned they unto Jerusalem._
THE RETURN TO JERUSALEM
The distance was a “Sabbath-day’s journey”; not that Moses had
limited a journey on the Sabbath; but the Rabbins derived the rule
from the prohibition to depart, on the sacred day, from the camp,
which was supposed to be two miles square... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples._
PETER’S ATTITUDE
Mark the bearing of Peter towards his fellow-believers. No priestly
attitude does he assume. Though he leads, he associates the whole
assembly with himself. He will have _them_ to choose candidates for
the apostlesh... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_Men and brethren, this Scripture must needs have been fulfilled …
concerning Judas._
THE SUBSERVIENCY OF CRIME TO THE PURPOSES OF GOD
We know not a more remarkable expression than “The wrath of man
shall praise Thee, the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain.” The
manner in which God overrules w... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that
the Lord Jesus went in and out among us._
THE FAMILIAR SIDE OF CHRIST’S LIFE
There are many ways of regarding the life of Christ: _e.g.,_ the
philosophical or ideal, as in John’s Gospel; the historical, in its
larger world rela... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_And they appointed two._
AN ELECTION SERMON
This, the earliest, stands remarkably distinguished from the episcopal
elections of after ages. Every one acquainted with history knows that
the election of a bishop was one of the fiercest questions which shook
the Church of Christ. Appointment by the... [ Continuer la lecture ]