Classic Sermon Outlines (continued)
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Matthew Henry to us and hears from us. All that passes between God and man must pass through that Daysman.
4, Be frequent and serious in pious ejaculations. It is not the length or language of prayer that God looks at, but the sincerity of the heart in it; and that shall be accepted, though the prayer be short and the groanings such as cannot be uttered.
5. Look upon every day as the last day. Although we cannot say that we ought to live as if we were sure this day would be our last, yet it is certain we ought to live as those who do not know but it may be so. If we thought more of death we would converse more with God.
CONCLUSION
If we continue waiting on God every day and all the day long, we shall grow more experienced and consequently more expert in communion with God. "Turn thou to thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually" (Hosea 12:6).
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SERMON FIVE
A THANKSGIVING
SERMON
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.
—PSALM 65:11
LET the feast of Thanksgiving be kept to the honor of that God who is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last; both the spring and center of all our glories. For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him must the vow of thanksgiving be performed for His mercies to the land of our nativity. And how can we sum up our acknowledgements of God's favors to our nation in more proper moods than those of the text?
I. COMMON PROVIDENCE CROWNS EVERY YEAR WITH GOD'S GOODNESS.
A. The Regular Succession of the Seasons.
Summer and winter crown the year; God made both, and both for the service of men. God's covenant with Noah and his sons (Genesis 8:22) by which the seasons of the year were resettled after the interruption of the deluge is the crown and glory of every year; and the constant and regular succession of summer and winter, seed time and harvest, in performance of that promise, is an encouragement to our faith in the covenant of grace, which is established as firmly as those ordinances of heaven.