‘And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all    the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a    wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;    The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven    were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;    And the waters returned from off the…

          ‘Only let your conversation be as it becometh the          gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you,          or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,          that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind          striving together for the faith of the gospel; 28.          And in nothing terrified by your          adversaries.’–PHIL. i. 27, 28.We read in the…

          ‘As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord,          so walk in Him, rooted and builded up in          Him.’–COL. ii. 6, 7 (R.V.).It is characteristic of Paul that he should here use three figuresincongruous with each other to express the same idea, the figures ofwalking, being rooted, and built up. They, however, have in common thatthey all suggest…

          ‘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…

          ‘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…

          ‘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…

    ‘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…

    ‘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, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush    was not consumed.’ EXODUS iii. 1It was a very sharp descent from Pharaoh’s palace to the wilderness,and forty years of a shepherd’s life were a strange contrast to thebrilliant future that once seemed likely for Moses. But God tests Hisweapons before He uses them, and great…

    ‘And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out    of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, 2. Speak    unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any    man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall    bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and    of the flock. 3. If his offering…