Category: EXPOSITIONS

    ‘And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the    Hebrew.’    GENESIS xiv. 13.This is a singular designation of Abram as ‘The Hebrew.’ Probably wehave in its use here a trace of the customary epithet which he boreamong the inhabitants of Canaan, and perhaps the presence of the namein this narrative may indicate the influence of…

    ‘Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh,    that thou mayest bring forth My people the children of    Israel, out of Egypt. 11. And Moses said unto God, Who    am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should    bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12.    And He said, Certainly I will be…

    ‘And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and    said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go    up into the mountain; 18. And see the land, what it is;    and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be    strong or weak, few or many; 19. And what the land is    that they dwell in,…

    ‘And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren,    and all that went up with him to bury his father, after    he had buried his father. And when Joseph’s brethren    saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will    peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all    the evil which we did unto him. And they sent a…

          ‘God is able to make all grace abound toward you;          that ye, always having all-sufficiency in all          things, may abound to every good work.’–2 COR.          ix. 8.In addition to all his other qualities the Apostle was an extremely goodman of business; and he had a field for the exercise of that quality inthe collection for the poor saints…

          ‘Of whom I am chief.’–1 TIM. i. 15.The less teachers of religion talk about themselves the better; and yetthere is a kind of personal reference, far removed from egotism andoffensiveness. Few such men have ever spoken more of themselves thanPaul did, and yet none have been truer to his motto: ‘We preach notourselves, but Christ…

          ‘Strengthened with all power, according to the          might of His glory, unto all patience and          longsuffering with joy.’–COL. i. 11 (R.V.).There is a wonderful rush and fervour in the prayers of Paul. No partsof his letters are so lofty, so impassioned, so full of his soul, aswhen he rises from speaking of God to men to speaking…

          ‘He shall come to be glorified in His saints; and          to be admired in all them that believe.’–2 THESS.          i. 10.The two Epistles to the Thessalonians, which are the Apostle’s earliestletters, both give very great prominence to the thought of the secondcoming of our Lord to judgment. In the immediate context we have thatcoming described, with circumstances…

    ‘Thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon.’    –EXODUS xxx. 1.Ceremonies are embodied thoughts. Religious ceremonies are moulded by,and seek to express, the worshipper’s conception of his God, and hisown relation to Him; his aspirations and his need. Of late yearsscholars have been busy studying the religions of the more backwardraces, and explaining rude and…

          ‘I also labour, striving according to His working,          which worketh in me mightily.’–COL. i. 29.I have chosen this text principally because it brings together the twosubjects which are naturally before us to-day. All ‘WesternChristendom,’ as it is called, is to-day commemorating the Pentecostalgift. My text speaks about that power that ‘worketh in us mightily.’True, the Apostle…