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To be near unto God - pagina 271
the purifying process of the melting-pot; the separating process of the winnowing fan; the unfolding process of the power of faith; the inspiring process of our spiritual heroism; the loosening process of ties which we prized more highly than the tie which binds us to God; the equipment with the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 272
"WITH THEE THEREIS FORGIVENESS, •THAT THOU MAYEST BE FEARED."There is still another way that leads to knowledge of God. It is one that cannot be dealt with save with most delicate care. We mean the awful way that leads through the depths of sin. Aword of Jesus indicates it at ...
To be near unto God - pagina 273
is so sharp, that for the moment takes a violent effort on the part of the soul to understand that a deep way of sin can be one that leads to richer knowledge of God. And it behooves us to treat this aspect of the subject in hand the more humbly, because of those who, even in our land, in a satan ...
To be near unto God - pagina 274
also theyknow noforgiveness.Hence againthe}^have no knowledge of the tender love which springs from forgiveness received, nor of the richer knowledge of God which is born from this tenderer affection. It is foreign to them, and therefore the apostle writes regar ...
To be near unto God - pagina 275
Love for God apart from sm operates most purely with the angels. And yet. however glorious their love for God may be, it is a different and a lesser love than that of the redeemed sinner for his God and Savior. It is not for us to say, how revelation would have unfolded itself, had not Adam falle ...
To be near unto God - pagina 276
And according to the greater measui*e of their sin, they enter into a far richer measure of fellowship with the Father who is in heaven, and of the knowledge of his holy Name. A more brutal outbreak in sin is not at all the necessary background of this experience. As in the case of Luther, a deep ...
To be near unto God - pagina 277
There are two ways that here present themOne man minimizes his sin. He is offended when he is told of his guilt. He will not hear it said that he is guilty in all sorts of ways. He holds himself erect, and deems himself a selves.saint.;Thisand not toisthe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 278
"IACKNOWLEDGE MY UNTO THEE."SINAlthough it is a Divine appointment, for wliich behooves us to give thanks, it is nevertheless difficult for us, sinners, to realize that in the end even sin is compelled to become a means of leading us into deeper knowledge of God, and of makin ...
To be near unto God - pagina 279
but also among the redeemed. In Christ has come to us a knowledge of God's name and being, such as has never been known outside of him, but Bethlehem as well as Golgothatures,therefind their cause alone in the salvation of sinners. Even the knowledge of the Almighty power of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 280
of sin in their case run? How runs it now? Two classes of persons should here be kept apart. Those who broke out into sin in an offensive way, and the others who remained within the bounds of an ordinary sinful existence. Mary of Magdala and Salome do not stand in one line. Peter, who thrice deni ...
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