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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
The overmastering majesty of personal power
For the love of Christ constraineth us. 2 Cor. 5:14. Paul says he is overruled, overmastered, held as in a vice, by the love of Christ. Very few of us know what it means to be held in a grip by the love of God; we are held by the constraint of our experience only. [...]
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The recognized ban of relationship
We are made as the filth of the world. 1 Cor. 4:9-13. These words are not an exaggeration. The reason they are not true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot the exact truth in using them, but that we have too many discreet affinities to allow ourselves [...]
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The constraint of the call
Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 1 Cor. 9:16. Beware of stopping your ears to the call of God. everyone who is saved is called to testify to the fact; but that is not the call to preach, it is merely an illustration in preaching. Paul is referring to the pangs [...]
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The call of God
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel. 1 Cor. 1: 17. Paul states here that the call of God is to preach the gospel; but remember what Paul means by “the gospel” viz., the reality of Redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. We are apt to make sanctification the end-all [...]
