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For God hath decreed it; it is appointed, namely, by the Lord, for men once to die, and 'we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, as it is, 2 Corinthian 5:10, 11.
Wells should accept so large a part of the Christian ethic and yet refuse to identify his Invisible King with Christ. One would have supposed it quite as easy to divest the Christ-figure of any inconvenient attributes as to eliminate omniscience and omnipotence from the God-idea. Mr. Wells constantly allows his thoughts to run into the stereotype moulds of biblical phraseology.
Now though Christ doth not differ in himself, yet there is a difference in the power of these lights; the law and Christ, the one not being able to save, the other being able. And again, there is also a difference in the nature of them; the one being a condemning light, the other a saving light. And again, neither is the Man Christ Jesus the condemning light. Query 6.
The grace of God and of his son our Lord Jesus Christ, which came upon me in a great light on that January afternoon even as it did upon Saul of Tarsus. The grace of God has everything to do with it." "Mr. Mainwaring," said I, "such talk is either blasphemous or " He did not allow me to state the alternative, but caught up the word in a great cry. "Blasphemous!
If we rest ourselves upon Him, then we can take up, for ourselves and for all that are dear to us and have gone before us, the triumphant song, 'O Death, where is thy sting? 'Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
If you were in a storm at sea, and you found that the ship could not weather it, and there was only one harbor, how anxious you would be to get into that harbor. Oh, sin-sick soul, Christ is the only medicine; oh, storm-tossed soul, Christ is the only harbor. Need I tell a cultured audience like this that there is no other name given among men by which ye can be saved?
And nothing in this world will thereafter interest and occupy you half so much as just those questions that are connected first with all that Christ is in Himself and all that He has done for you, and then with the signs and the fruits of the life of grace in your own souls. 'Remember these seven things. Rutherford.
What good can you do such creatures, Flossy?" "My dear Gracie, don't you think that Jesus Christ died to save them?" "Well!" said Gracie, hesitatingly. It was a favorite phrase with her, as it is with many people when they don't know what to say next. "And don't you think he wants them saved?
Now friend, this is fairly spoken; but by word in general we may be deceived, because a man may speak one thing with his mouth, and mean another thing in his heart; especially it is so with those that use to utter themselves doubtfully; therefore we will a little enquire what it is to lay Christ, God-man for a foundation.
Jesus Christ is the Actor, and He only is the Actor; men are His implements and instruments.
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