Classic Sermon Outlines
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren
1. It is shown by deeds.
2. It is shown by words.
CONCLUSION
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SERMON THIRTY-THREE
FOR THE SAKE
OF THE NAME
THE REVISED Version gives the true force of these words by omitting the "His" and reading merely "for the sake of the name." The word rendered "for the sake of' does not merely mean—though it does mean that—"on account of" or "by reason of," but "on behalf of," as if, in some wonderful sense that mighty and exalted name was furthered, advantaged, or benefited by even man's poor services.
I. THE PREEMINENCE IMPLIED IN "THE NAME."
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren
B. The Demands of "the name."
nature. It seems impossible that a man saturated as this apostle was with Old Testament teaching and familiar as he was as to the sanctity of "the _name of the Lord,' should have used such language as this of my text unless he had felt, as he has told us himself, that "the Word was God."
Ze It implies the common acknowledgement of the deity of Christ by the Apostolic Church. The very incidental character of the allusion gives it the more force as a witness to the common placeness which the thought of the deity of Jesus Christ had assumed to the consciousness of the Christian Church.
II. THE POWER OF THE NAME TO SWAY THE LIFE
A. There Is Guidance.