Classic Sermon Outlines (continued)
Power and Endless Glory stowment of His fulness, there is always more bestowed than we receive, 'more than we know even while we possess it. Aw.
C. The Reminders Concerning the Divine Working. ifter it. V Fee tite sit naciok react ee a a the gift, the exuberant amplitude with | which it reaches far beyond both is meant to draw both after it.
2. Our thoughts and desires determine the amount of grace received. The grace which we receive has no limit or measure but the fulness of God, the working limit, which determines what we receive of the grace, is those very thoughts and wishes which it surpasses. We may have as much of God as we _ can hold, or as much as we wish.
III. THE GLORY WHICH SPRINGS FROM THE DIVINE WORK.
A. The Doxology.
1. It is both a prophecy and a prayer. This doxology is at once a prophecy that the working of God's power on His redeemed children will issue in setting forth the radiance of His name yet more, and a prayer that it may.
2. The highest exhibition of God's character for reverence and love is in His work on Christian souls and the effect produced. He reckons it His highest praise that He has redeemed men, and by His indwelling them, fills them with His own fulness.
B. The Offerers of the Glory.
1. The persons. The chiefest praise and brightest glory accrues to Him "in the Church in Christ Jesus." His glory is to shine in the Church, the theater of His power, the standing demonstration of the might of His redeeming love.
2. The prerequisite. His glory is to be set forth by men on condition that they are "in Christ,' living and 1 moving in Him, in that mysterious but 1 most real union. Ann '!