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CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren think, they never realize that it is possible for them to be all unlike what they are now. hat we utilize is the love of ease, such as Kept phe ree elites from going up to nee Gilead. on the whole it was more comfortable to sit at home or look after their farms and their merchandise than to embark on the unromantic attempt to win back a city that had not been theirs for ever so long and that they had got on very well without.
B. The Seriousness of This Strange Contentment. ee Lsicugelilscudlespsibimausheantelesieevialsni isisin SlekinssitenGlansuaenpeooioennineneaiaaaanaaaaeeaaceen _seek to obtain all these great gifts of God? There they lie at our doors and they are ours for the taking.
1. Is it not like despising our birthright?
2. Is it not a criminal thing?
Ria mie en oe gives fern to us, but we hold them on this tenure, that we put forth our best efforts to get and to keep them. His giving them > does not set aside our taking.
1, They are God's gifts.
2. They are to be taken by the Christian.
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Unpossessed Possessions or found became dint the vision before him of a possible better than his present best, in any region, is in that region condemned to grow no more. If ee ise
PRIDE OVERCOMING
WANT
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
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WITH soldier-like quickness of temper and pride, he flashes all at once into a blaze. Leper as he is, and having come there to beg a cure, he cannot stand this with patience; and in his wrath he lets us see curiously and naturally enough all his expectations, and what he thinks his reasonable hela of ee Ee ee eee
I. THE UTTER INDIFFERENCE OF THE GOSPEL TO ALL DISTINCTIONS AMONG MEN.