Classic Sermon Outlines (continued)
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren
2. The cultured have the same need. The highest cultivation of this highly cultivated self-conscious century, has not removed men from the same necessity that the rudest savage has, to have some kind of manifestation of the Divine nature other than the dim and vague ones which are possible apart from the revelation of God in Christ.
3. The whole world has this need.
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3. It is sufficient for the will.
II. THE REVELATION OF GOD IN CHRIST IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE DIVINE AND MUTUAL INDWELLING OF THE FATHER AND THE SON (Verse 10). indicates the sup
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The'True Vision of the Father
2: "The Father in Me" indicates the influx into that perfectly filial manhood of the whole fulness of God in unbroken, continuous, gentle, _deep flow. | in all ages confessed Him to be, "the everlasting Son of the Father" obi
III. THE REVELATION OF GOD IN CHRIST AND HIS UNION WITH GOD IS THE BASIS OF THE INVITATION TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST (Verse 11).
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CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren seen is far ahead of the certitude and the directness that attach to our mere bodily sight.
C. Faith Based on Lower Grounds than the Highest Is Faith and Is Acceptable to God.
"Or else believe Me for the very works sake." anainplicagiiikochartcaiaiena ifs SO, we are iets taught that if aman has not come to that point of spiritual susceptibility in which the image of Jesus Christ lays hold upon his heart and obliges him to trust Him, and to love Him, there are yet the miracles to look at; and the faith that grasps them, and by help of that ladder climbs to Him, though it be second best, is yet real.
CONCLUSION
To each of us Christ addresses His merciful invitations, "Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me." May we all answer, "We be_ lieve that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!" —