Classic Sermon Outlines
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren their several tasks. As in some despotic eastern monarchies the sultan's mere Nee makes one slave his vizier and another his slipper eee
we have no property in ourselves, still less can we have prop-
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C. The Slave's Response to Christ's Lordship.
A. The Expression of the Purchase.
This Master has acquired men by right of purchase. That abomination of the auction block may suggest the better "merchandise of the souls of men" which Christ has made when He bought us with His own blood as
1. He bought us with His blood.
2. He gave Himself for us.
B. The Reference of the Statements.
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The Master and His Slaves
C. The Implications of the Text.
; es are purchased from previous slavery. The figure suggests that we are bouekt Gor a previous oo to some other master. Free men are not sold into slavery, but slaves pass from one master to another and sometimes are bought into freedom as well as into bondage. Our Kinsman
III. THE FUGITIVES OR RUNAWAYS WHO DENY CHRIST'S AUTHORITY.
We do not care to enquire here what special type of heretics the apostle had in view nor to apply them to modern parallels which we may fancy we can find. It is more profitable to notice how all godlessness and sin may be described as denying the Lord.