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Him.” So he spent the night preaching to him, and the idolater, who in the beginning had refused to worship his God, was happily converted before day. 14. “Bless them that persecute you, bless and scold not.” You must remember that this chapter is all addressed not simply to Christians, but to the sanctified, beautifully setting forth their attitude and deportment before the world. The word here does not mean to indulge in profanity, but to scold, which is utterly incompatible with the gospel standard of Christian living. 15. “Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep.” Thus you see that we are to be sympathetic with our environments, ready in a moment to run to an altar and lead the way with the weeping penitent, showing him how to get down to the bottom of humiliation and contrition; then to raise the uproarious shout with the new-born soul, thus giving impetus to the rising tide of spiritual life now beginning to flow into his heart. We should seek the house of mourning, and condole their griefs by weeping with them. 16. “Thinking the same thing toward one another,” which only obtains when we all alike have the mind of Christ, carnality having been exterminated by the cleansing blood and the refining fire.” Thinking not high things, but condescending to the humble.” The safe place is down on the bottom, from which there is no falling. Lord, save us from the inflations of pride, vanity and egotism. “Be not wise along with yourselves,” i.e., do not be puffed up and exalted in your own estimation. 17. “Recompensing to no one evil for evil,” as a retaliatory spirit is peculiar only to the devil’s people and utterly out of harmony with the meek and lowly Nazarene. “Providing things honest in the sight of all men.” Without solid and radical honesty, competent to bear the white light of the judgment throne, all Christian character and heavenly hope collapse into defeat and despair. 18. “If possible, as to that which is from you, living in peace with all men.” You can be in perfect peace with every human being on the globe, even while they are thirsting for your blood and hounding you to the martyr’s fate, as you are not responsible for them, but only for your own soul. 19. “Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath,” i.e., to the wrath of another, just as you would get out of the way of a filthy sewer and let it discharge its contents into the sea, or as you would go round a putrefying carcass lying in the road, rather than gather it upon your arms and carry it away. “For it has been written: Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will repay, saith the Lord.” We are so fortunate in the fact that we are not our own avengers, as this would bring us into a thousand troubles and very likely cost us life, physical and spiritual. We should leap for joy at the very thought that God, who never forgets anything and never fails to do right relieves us of the arduous task and the responsible undertaking of self-vindication. Hence, all retaliation is not only wicked and perilous, but usurpatory of the divine administration and prerogative. 20. “But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink, for in doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head,” i.e., you can literally burn him out and conquer him by kindness till he will almost die of shame, feeling mean as a sheep-killing dog; he will gladly seek to do you every possible favor.
21. “Be not overcome of evil, but conquer evil with good.” Your enemy has nothing but an old wooden sword that would break if he were to hit you with it; while you have a Jerusalem blade of shining steel, sharp as lightning and potent as dynamite. So you have nothing to do but use your own weapon, God’s blessed word, truth, grace, love and philanthropy, and you knock your enemy into smithereens, and transform him into a friend ready to die for you. I have seen this wonderfully verified a thousand times.
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES PROLOGUE Luke
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER I. DED
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THE HOLY GHOST HIMSELF, THE POWER.
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Christian religion, did their utmos
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they satisfy the proprietor by payi
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on the floor. But they are done pra
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DOUBLE MIRACLE. 5-9. On this occasi
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that the period of oppression expir
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MIRACLES OF THE END. 19, 20. These
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from Saul, and the Keilites receive
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ody on the cross and now walks into
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Scriptures. When we undertake to he
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into hand, dashing in all direction
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scholarly theologian on the globe.
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THREE THOUSAND CONVERTED. 42. To wh
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had need.” Should all Christendom
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can turn you out of a church! The o
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esponded, “Neither can she any mo
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churches, all counseling together,
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wilderness bloom”; “Springs of
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER IV. AP
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of the other Apostles a whole gener
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former and long-standing animositie
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BARNABAS. 33-37. Here we have anoth
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APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION SPIRITUAL AN
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God has commanded us to “preach t
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in that case He gives you His Holy
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER VI. HE
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would only see that none serve as e
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to what carnal preachers call the c
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JOSEPH TYPICAL OF CHRIST. 9-16. The
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Sure enough, the land teems with pl
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y his crying, she at once conceives
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are everywhere getting sanctified a
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superfluities of Babylon that the m
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positively and unequivocally that o
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martyrdom of Stephen, which was tru
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER VIII.
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33. “In his humiliation his judgm
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Zacharias and Elizabeth, Simeon, An
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PAUL’S SANCTIFICATION. 20-25. (Ga
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your faith is, so be it unto you,
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included with it.] In this distribu
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apostles submitted to the Holy Ghos
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that the guardian angel sometimes a
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XIII.
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where I buried a college president,
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XIV. 1
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20, 21. Now the sorrowing Nazarenes
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13. Now James, the brother of our L
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of the Jewish theocracy, as at that
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XVI. T
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men are servants of the most high G
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XVII.
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marble temples to Jupiter, Minerva,
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XVIII.
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9. This Tyrannus, who received Paul
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from idolatry, blood and fornicatio
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26. And the centurion hearing and c
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XXIV.
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getting filled up. Felix and Drusil
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PAUL’S TRIAL BEFORE KING AGRIPPA.
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23. “If Christ should suffer, if
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER XXVII.
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ship madly plunged, while great sea
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whose lives were perpetuated simply
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES APOLOGUE. This
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arrows in Tartary; Thomas interpene
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6. “It could not be so; then how
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29. “Is he the God of the Jews on
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of God, but, on the contrary, you a
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16. “There it is by faith, in ord
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5. “But hope maketh not ashamed,
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