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He says in Jas. 4, 13-16: "Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain, whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Jesus was stating the abiding principle that unusual opportunities involve unusual responsibilities. He emphasized the seriousness of rejecting his messengers by stating that in despising them men are really despising himself and that those who reject Jesus are rejecting his Father who sent him., vs. 13-16.
The imprisonment of John and the withdrawal of Jesus into Galilee Matt. iv. 12-17; Mark i. 14, 15; Luke iv. 14, 15. Removal from Nazareth to Capernaum Matt. iv. 13-16; Luke iv. 31. The call of Simon and Andrew, James and John Matt. iv. 18-22; Mark i. 16-20; Luke v. 1-11. First work in Capernaum Matt. viii. 14-17; Mark i. 21-34; Luke iv. 31-41.
Thus: while He graciously looks down upon the righteous, He also looks angrily at the wicked, wrinkles His brow and turns it in indignation upon them; when we know then that He looks upon us graciously and upon them with disfavor, we ought to suffer ourselves to pity and mourn for them, and pray for them. Furthermore, St. Peter says: V. 13-16.
Hence it is, that Jesus touched infants, Matt, xviii. 2-6; Mark x. 13-16; and that he healed the sick by the touch: and that those who touched him were healed: hence also it is, that inaugurations into the priesthood are at this day effected by the laying on of hands.
In doing so, when I came to Heb. xi. 13-16, I felt that this was the text. Having prayed, I was confirmed in it, and in a few minutes the Lord was pleased to open this passage to me. I preached on it with great enjoyment, both at Gideon and at Bethesda, particularly in the evening at Bethesda. This help was evidently from God.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.... And he gathered them into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." Chap. 16:13-16.
But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. St. Mark x: 13-16.
2 Sam. xiii, 13-16 and 37. Exod. vi, 20. Gen. xi. 26-29. It is by considering these survivals of mother-right in connection with similar customs to be found among existing maternal peoples that we see their true significance.
Ibid. ii. 1-40. Brucker, vol. ii. p. 110. Ibid. iii. 51. Ibid. iv. 1. Acts xiii. 8; see also Acts viii. 9-11, and xix. 13-16. Ibid. iv. 11, et seq. When denied at the latter place he forced his way in. Philostr. viii. 19. Ibid. iv. 35. Ibid. iv. 40, etc. Brucker, vol. ii. p. 120. Philostr. v. 10. Astrologers were concerned in Libo's conspiracy against Tiberius, and punished.
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