He converts men by the convincing evidence of truth. Conclusion:1. He heard my prayer. No other being possesses the characteristics which are possessed by our Lord Jesus, and which are necessary to constitute a sufficient mode of access to the Father. (2) He intercedes with God. In no other nature could He convey a complete conception of His character to the mind.II. I was surprised to find that he was not only a Christian, but a Christian with a very clear knowledge of Jesus, and of the way in which he saves the souls of His people. And then to have a proper idea of our responsibility, and our being constantly under His eye — and yet it is our primary duty to delight in this, and to do it.II. No! ITS END. Tidings came that his son had been wounded and was not expected to live. And the same Holy Spirit who reproves of sin also goes on to display the perfect righteous. He reached out and took her tiny little hand, clasping it firmly in his own. To be the object of the love of God.3. "I do." The Deist rejects revelation and a mediator altogether, because he looks abroad on the face of the world, and he thinks that nothing more is necessary to come to God but some prayer and some expression of penitence. A marble monument erected by Queen Victoria shows, in a very touching way, what her feelings were about the matter of which we are now speaking, at the time of death. To help in scattering a little light, he was in the habit of translating striking passages of Scripture on little scraps of paper, and having his servant distribute them at his door every morning. He felt the pulse of the wounded man, and said with surprise: "Why, Colonel, you look better." Had it not been mighty, it would never have awakened that hostility; had it not been right-hearted, it would never have dared it; had it not been immortal, it would never have survived it; but having awakened, dared, and survived it, in the person of Christ, and in His truth we see it, as if it came direct from heaven, bearing this testimony before all unequivocally and unshakingly, "I am the Truth."VII. The words of the Bible are life. He had lost the knowledge of God and was spiritually dark; the favour of God and was guilty; the image of God and was corrupt; the life of God and was dead in trespasses and sins; and that men could only secure the prerogatives of sonship by intervention from without. I am the Bread of Life, I am the Light of the World, I am the Gate/door, I am the Good Shepherd, I am the Resurrection and the life, I am the True Vine. (4) But more, Christ is the way to escape from the power of sin. Thus hostility has put the seal to the declaration. (2) The text is true concerning the wrath of God on account of sin. And heathens themselves have understood this well. As His people's Righteousness. And that which helps to make us like Jesus is the very best thing in the world for us. If He is as a sign post, He is one with living arms; for He receives us to Himself, from His Cross He draws us up to Himself, He lifts us upon His shoulders; in short, He is Himself the way, the new living way, which, like a full flowing river, bears along our little hark, and brings it to the ocean of a blissful eternity. THAT THIS SUBJECT IS EXCEEDINGLY FORGOTTEN AND NEGLECTED BY MEN.1. From the Fall until now the human mind has been in matters of religion avaricious of error. And this is the way we are to try to be like Jesus. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. Anything like that was never uttered in heaven. He sent His blessed Spirit into my heart, to show me that my soul was dead; and that I never could be happy, and never go to heaven unless my soul was made alive. I know of nothing which men are so reluctant to honour. It has saved my soul.'"(R. He lay awake, after going to bed one night, in fear and dread. Heaven is full of life; for the angels live there. LIFE IN CHRIST. "I'm afraid you'll find fault with me," she said. Truth had died out of the earth, when Christ came to re-make "truth," to be "Truth." A. As the Founder of a faith very different from all others which ever appeared upon this earth, Its precepts are the strictest — its doctrines are the loftiest — its consolations are the strongest. "I have, Willie. She trembled when she heard the step of the teacher. He is nature's "truth." "Did you believe me?" One object of His incarnation was to remove those awful shades of ignorance which had overshadowed the nations of the earth; and to inculcate all those principles of spiritual truth which were necessary for man to know and believe. God everything, and everything God. The model of goodness is the example of Jesus. you would find nothing in all those studies that would be the least help to you in answering that question. Christ is the Way —(1) To the Father. Their appeal is to inward feelings, sentiments, and intuitions. For if everything took its rise, as we have seen, in the mind of Christ, then the true science of every subject must revert to Christ. The first words that caught my eye were: 'Thou shalt not steal.' As soon as the meeting was over, I hurried away to a distant part of the city, where no one knew me. A paved street or a turnpike road, is a plain way. Look, for instance, at a babe that is just born, and a chicken that is just hatched. 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