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CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Matthew Henry
B. The Character of Quietness.
1, What it is. Quietness is the evenness, the composure, and the rest of
1. It gives victory. No triumphant chariot is so easy, safe, and glorious as that in which a meek and ae soul rides over = the Pe oe of an injurious world. Mee lusts in our bosoms. s. What is meekness, but the soul's ee eeirent Puts itself fi NkivtondialLisab6hctvelinesseilee assole cesta agreement with God, is the beauty of meekness.
3. It is an ornament. The text speaks of it as an adorning much more excellent and valuable than ae pearls, or the most ee sibdlocancong
5. It produces conformity to the best patterns. To be meek is to be like the greatest saints. It is to be like the greatest angels. ree
Meekness and Quietness of Spirit rane the law of meekness it is above the reach of the en of those who wish ill to it. ee ag telicsioeltlnicdeidutieciiniegh viukhatkeshone: more or less, he has it by the best title and he knows how to make a right and.
1 . It prepares for any duty. It puts and keeps the soul in a frame for all religious exercises. We are fishers of men, but we seldom fish in troubled waters. Prayer is another duty for which meekness prepares us, as well as for the proper observance of the Lord's day and the Lord's Supper.
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Matthew Henry
fllexander Maclaren
SERMON OUTLINES
Selected and Edited by SHELDON B. QUINCER, D. D. fllexander Maclaren
FOREWORD
Alexander Maclaren was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and educated in England where he spent most of his long life. He served two churches, namely, Portland Chapel, Southampton, for ten years and Union Chapel, Manchester, for over a period of forty-five years.
Pre-eminently a preacher, Dr. Maclaren well deserves to be known as "the Prince of Bible Expositors." In recognition of his pulpit attainments the University of Edinburgh bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. His sermons are considered models in structure and content.
In addition to his Expositions of Holy Scripture (published in eleven volumes by the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.), for which he is best known, more than twenty other volumes of his sermons have been published, which are now out of print and difficult to obtain. In the compilation of this volume, the editor has limited his selection of sermons from these lesser known and more or less hard to secure works.
The reader will recognize as he reads this volume that an effort has been made to include a wide variety of sermons both as to subjects and texts. The subject matter includes doctrinal, devotional, evangelistic, and biographical material. As to texts, only a few times has more than one text been taken from one book of the Scriptures. An effort has been made to select texts from as many sections of the Bible as possible. There are texts from thirty-one books—thirteen from the Old Testament and eighteen from the New Testament.
The purpose in preparing this volume for publication is not that the sermons may be preached verbatim, but to aid the young preacher or the layman who is untrained in the science of sermonizing and sometimes called upon to bring a Bible message, in the better preparation of his sermons or messages; thereby making him a more effective messenger of the ; Foreword
Word of Truth. With this end in view the sermons have been outlined in more detail than usually found in the original volumes. They have also been abridged. That which has been considered the best of the content of the sermons has been retained to make the outlines intelligible and suggestive. It should also be stated that on the first page of each sermon outline the volume from which it was taken is indicated.
It is the earnest prayer of the editor that Maclaren's Sermon Outlines will be used to the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and to the blessing of all who read and use them.
Sheldon B. Quincer Grand Rapids, Michigan March, 1954 'ie eae
SERMON ONE
JOSEPH'S FAITH
Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel saying God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from thence.
—GENESIS 50:25
THIS is the one act of Joseph's life which the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews selects as the sign that he, too, lived by faith. "By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and axe commandment es He bones' HEUTE it bie It was at one may va does vary, within very wide its; "mains the same. The things believed have been growing from the beginning—the attitude of mind and will by which they have been grasped has been the same from the beginning and will be thes same to the end. The con-; Joseph's Faith
1. Creed varies.
2. Essence of faith never changes.
B. The Patriarchal Creed and Faith.
A. Detachment from Worldly Surroundings.
Joseph's dying words open a window into his soul and betray how little he had felt that he belonged to the order of things in the midst of which he had been content to live. We may be sure that, living, the hope of the inheritance must have burned in his heart as a hidden light and made him an alien everywhere but on its blessed soil.