Category: EXPOSITIONS

    ‘And He said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou,    and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders    of Israel; and worship ye afar off. 2. And Moses alone    shall come near the Lord; but they shall not come nigh,    neither shall the people go up with him. 3. And Moses    came and told the people all…

    ‘And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the    prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound:    and he was there in the prison. But the Lord was with    Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favour in    the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper    of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all…

          ‘But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at          length ye have revived your thought for me;          wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked          opportunity. Not that I speak in respect of want:          for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,          therein to be content. I know how to be abased,          and I know also how to…

          ‘Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to          all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at          Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2. Grace          to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord          Jesus Christ. 3. I thank my God upon all my          remembrance of you, 4. Always in every          supplication of mine on behalf of you all…

          ‘The hope of the Gospel.’–COL. i. 5.‘God never sends mouths but He sends meat to feed them,’ says the oldproverb. And yet it seems as if that were scarcely true in regard tothat strange faculty called Hope. It may well be a question whether onthe whole it has given us more pleasure than pain. How…

    ‘And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and    all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And    Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.    And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el,    unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,    between Beth-el…

    ‘And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met    him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s    host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim’    (_i.e._ Two camps).–GENESIS xxxii. 1, 2.This vision came at a crisis in Jacob’s life. He has just left thehouse of Laban, his father-in-law, where he…

          ‘Edify one another.’–1 THESS. v. 11.I do not intend to preach about that clause only, but I take it ascontaining, in the simplest form, one of the Apostle’s favouritemetaphors which runs through all his letters, and the significance ofwhich, I think, is very little grasped by ordinary readers.‘Edify one another.’ All metaphorical words tend to…

          ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,          long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23.          Meekness, temperance’–GAL. v. 22, 23.‘The fruit of the Spirit,’ says Paul, not the fruits, as we might morenaturally have expected, and as the phrase is most often quoted; allthis rich variety of graces, of conduct and character, is thought of asone.…

          ‘Laying up in store for themselves a good          foundation against the time to come, that they may          lay hold on eternal life.’–1 TIM. vi. 19.In the first flush of the sense of brotherhood, the Church of Jerusalemtried the experiment of having all things in common. It was not asuccess, it was soon abandoned, it never spread. In…