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To be near unto God - pagina 282
better self, and dream that they train themselves This results in a good deal in virtuous living. of social respectability and praise-worthy self-control. But it bears no fruit for eternal life, insomuch as they claim the honor of it for themselves,and withdraw themselves from God, with wh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 283
Verse 5 of this same Psalm comains the record. "I said I will confess mj^ trangressions unto theAnd so: I acknowledged my sin unto And thou forgavest the iniquity of my When thus the soul holds on, and before GodLord." thee. sin"...on bended knee mourns ...
To be near unto God - pagina 284
under sentence of death, our soul comes into direct contact, and immediate touch with the holy God, It brings us living and striking knowledge of him, with whom we have to do. The sin was terrible. ButGod used it for this end: that through it we should come to a better understanding of his holine ...
To be near unto God - pagina 287
evil, are recorded side by side. the teaching of Scripture. For we must all appear, "says the apostle," before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad (2 Cor. 5:10). And every accountant knows w ...
To be near unto God - pagina 286
to think of anything save God. That day is the day of judgment. In the representation of this day of judgment art has done much harm. As art it could not do otherwise than work with the representation. For this it borrowed its material and image from an earthly court of justice, with the millions ...
To be near unto God - pagina 285
And what do wefind even with the noblest of them, of a being busy with God? And of those who live only for business, and after that for pleasure, it must be confessed with shame, that there are no dealings with God at all. Add to this the people who are outspokenly wicked and godless in so ...
To be near unto God - pagina 290
wherever they may look, there will be nothing behind which to hide from the sight of the majesty of God. It then becomes the heat of a sun which does not cherish, but sears. The Scripture calls it hell, and so it is, but only by what God through his sacred presence makes it. If God could be done ...
To be near unto God - pagina 288
Savior. And liberated from the curse, he enters into eternal blessedness. But this opening of the book of the conscience will be terrible for those who died without Christ.Conversion will then be too late. There can be no more hiding in Christ. No more part can be obtained in the atonement ...
To be near unto God - pagina 292
answer in reply: "Behold, here I am, Lord," and then bravely enter the valley of the shadow of death and go through it, knowing that the Lord awaits our coming, and that by his hand he leads us through this darkness to the light. Let it be said at once that such ideal dying The woes and sorrows o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 291
we are passive. Life then only begins. But when God has privileged us to reach the yeara of maturity, and the end has come, the servants and handmaidens of the Lord should not bebirthdragged out bj^ death against their will, but of themselves they should face it with a will. And by ...
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