Classic Sermon Outlines (continued)
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SERMON THIRTY-FOUR
THE FRAILTY AND HOPE
OF MAN
All flesh is as-grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the Word of the Lord endureth forever.
—T]I PETER 1:24, 25
IN THE PLACE from which Peter quotes the text (Isaiah 40:6—8) it is a voice of one crying in the wilderness, who, that he might prepare the way of the Lord in the desert, is ordered to proclaim these words. I need not tell you that John the Baptist was that voice. It is his modest testimony con-
A. Man Is Weak and Low.
1. He is as lowly as the grass. Mankind is indeed as numerous as the grass of the field, which multiplies, replenishes, and covers the earth; but like grass is of the earth, earthy, mean, and of small account. Alas! The kingloms of men which make so grez noise, so great a figure in this world, are | grass compared with the holy and blessed inhabit_