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THE KEY TO THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE “And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” 1 John 2:2 The key to the missionary message is the propitiation of Christ Jesus. Take any phase of Christ’s work—the healing phase, the saving and sanctifying phase; there is nothing limitless about those. “The Lamb of God..

THE KEY TO THE MISSIONARY “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.” Matthew 28:18-19 The basis of missionary appeals is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the heathen. We are apt to look upon Our Lord as One Who assists us in our enterprises for God. Our Lord puts Himself as the absolute sovereign supreme Lord..

INDIVIDUAL DISCOURAGEMENT AND PERSONAL ENLARGEMENT “Moses went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens.” Exodus 2:11 Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. After the first strike for God and for the right, God allowed Moses t..

GETTING INOT GOD’S STRIDE “Enoch walked with God.” Genesis 5:24 The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights (cf. John ..

AFTER GOD’S SILENCE—WHAT? “When He had heard therefore that he was sick, He abode two days in the same place where he was.” John 11:6 Has God trusted you with a silence—a silence that is big with meaning? God’s silences are His answers. Think of those days of absolute silence in the home at Bethany! Is there anything analogous to those days in your life? Ca..

WHEREBY SHALL I KNOW? “I thank Thee, O Father…because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” Matthew 11:25 In spiritual relationship we do not grow step by step; we are either there or we are not. God does not cleanse us more and more from sin, but when we are in the light, walking in the light, we are cleansed from all ..

PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER “Yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.” Romans 6:19 I cannot save and sanctify myself; I cannot atone for sin; I cannot redeem the world; I cannot make right what is wrong, pure what is impure, holy what is unholy. That is all the sovereign work of God. Have I faith in what Jesus Christ has done? He has made a perfect Atonement,..

THE EXCLUSIVENESS OF CHRIST “Come unto Me.” Matthew 11:28 Is it not humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things we will not come to Jesus Christ about. If you want to know how real you are, test yourself by these words—“Come unto Me.” In every degree in which you are not real, you will dispute rather than come, you will quibble rather t..

RECONCILIATION “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21 Sin is a fundamental relationship; it is not wrongdoing, it is wrong being, deliberate and emphatic independence of God. The Christian religion bases everything on the positive, radical nature of sin. Other religions deal with s..

THE BENT OF REGENERATION “When it pleased God…to reveal His Son in me.” Galatians 1:15-16 If Jesus Christ is to regenerate me, what is the problem He is up against? I have a heredity I had no say in; I am not holy, nor likely to be; and if all Jesus Christ can do is to tell me I must be holy, His teaching plants despair. But if Jesus Christ is a Regenerator, One Who can ..