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CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren
C. The Christian's Life Should Be Shaped in Accordance with These Certainties.
1. The relation of the transient and the permanent in the Christian's life. The dropping away of the transient things is no argument for neglecting or despising them; for our handling of them makes our characters and our characters abide. But it is an excellent argument to use the transient as that it shall help us toward that which does not pass.
2. The importance of preparing for the future. Suppose you knew that you were to go somewhere and you never did a single thing toward getting ready or preparing yourself. Would you be a wise man? But that is what a great many are doing.
CONCLUSION
wrench you violently from all that you have been and cared for; but it will usher you into the perfect form of all that you have been and done upon earth.