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April 7 Why Are We Not Told Plainly? “He charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.” Mark 9:9 Say nothing until the Son of man is risen in you – until the life of the risen Christ so dominates […] Morning, April 7 Scripture: “O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?”(Psalm 4:2) An instructive writer has made a mournful list of the honours which the blinded people of Israel awarded to their long expected King. 1. They gave him a procession of honour, in which Roman […] Without Fear of Man And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee. (Deuteronomy 28:10) Then we can have no reason to be afraid of them. This would show a mean spirit and be a token of unbelief […] Evening, April 7 Scripture: “Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.”(Psalm 51:14) In this SOLEMN CONFESSION , it is pleasing to observe that David plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter, nor speak of it as an imprudence […] April 7 Bearing the Sting “He opened not his mouth” (Isa. 53:7). How much grace it requires to bear a misunderstanding rightly, and to receive an unkind judgment in holy sweetness! Nothing tests the Christian character more than to have some evil thing said about him. This is the file that soon […] |
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