Classic Sermon Outlines
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren
A. The Necessity of Faith.
1. The benefits wrought by Christ are received only on the basis of faith.
2. Without faith Christ is nothing to us.
B. The Meaning of Faith.
1. It is trust.
(2. It is rest. .
CONCLUSION
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SERMON TWENTY-TWO
SUFFERING WITH CHRIST,
A CONDITION OF GLORY
WITH CHRIST
Joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.
—ROMANS 8:17
IN THE former part of this verse the apostle tells us that in order to be heirs of God we must become sons through and joint heirs with Christ. The one, being sons or "joint heirs with Christ," is the root of the whole 'matter; the other, "the suffering with Him," is but the various process by which from the root there come "the blade, and the ear, and the full corn in the ear." Given the sonship—if it is to be worked out into power and beauty, there must be the suffering with Christ. But unless there be sonship, there is no possibility of inheriting God; discipline and suffering will be of no use at all.
I. SONSHIP WITH CHRIST NECESSARILY INVOLVES SUFFERING WITH HIM.
A. The Believer's Fellowship in Christ's Sufferings.
The sufferings of Christ, both because of the nature which bore them, and of the aspect which they wore in regard to us are in their source, in