Classic Sermon Outlines (continued)
The Gospel of the Glory of the Happy God
The context seems to suggest that howsoever the Divine nature must be supposed to be blessed in its own absolute and boundless perfect-
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by considering what it really means.
1. By constant usage.
2. By thoughtless usage.
B. The True Meaning of the Gospel.
Here are we like men shut up in a beleaguered city, hopeless, helpless, with no power to break out or to raise the seige; provisions failing, death
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CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren certain. And the message is this: God is love; and that you may know that |
CONCLUSION
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Some of you have turned away long enough, some of you, perhaps, are fighting with the temptation to do so again even now. Let me press that anoe BRL eine: iat lasialcudea
Sllexander Maclaren
SERMON TWENTY-NINE
A PRISONER'S DYING
THOUGHTS
I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought
THESE familiar words of our text bring us a very sweet and wonderful a of the ee so near his end. ieee
I. THE QUIET COURAGE WHICH LOOKS DEATH IN THE FACE WITHOUT A TREMOR.
A. The Tone of the Language of the Text.
As the revised version more accurately gives it, "I am already being offered"—the process is begun, the initial steps of his sacrifice—"and the time of my departure is come." There is no sign of excitement, no tremor of emotion, no affectation of stoicism in the simple sentences.