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The Hope of the Gospel
Table of Contents
SALVATION FROM SIN
THE REMISSION OF SINS
JESUS IN THE WORLD
JESUS AND HIS FELLOW TOWNSMEN
THE HEIRS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
SORROW THE PLEDGE OF JOY
GOD'S FAMILY
THE REWARD OF OBEDIENCE
THE YOKE OF JESUS
THE SALT AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
THE RIGHT HAND AND THE LEFT
THE HOPE OF THE UNIVERSE
George MacDonald
e-artnow, 2020
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For indeed in this region there is no great or small. 'Be content with your wages,' said the Baptist to the soldiers. To many people now, the word would be, 'Rule your temper;' or, 'Be courteous to all;' or, 'Let each hold the other better than himself;' or, 'Be just to your neighbour that you may love him.' To make straight in the desert a highway for our God, we must bestir ourselves in the very spot of the desert on which we stand; we must cast far from us our evil thing that blocks the way of his chariot-wheels. If we do not, never will those wheels roll through our streets; never will our desert blossom with his roses.
The message of John to his countrymen, was then, and is yet, the one message to the world:—'Send away your sins, for the kingdom of heaven is near.' Some of us—I cannot say all, for I do not know—who have already repented, who have long ago begun to send away our sins, need fresh repentance every day—how many times a day, God only knows. We are so ready to get upon some path that seems to run parallel with the narrow way, and then take no note of its divergence! What is there for us when we discover that we are out of the way, but to bethink ourselves and turn? By those 'who need no repentance,' the Lord may have meant such as had repented perfectly, had sent away all their sins, and were now with him in his Father's house; also such as have never sinned, and such as no longer turn aside for any temptation.
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