And when the great crisis of his life came the spring time of his conversion, a light exceeding the brightness of the noonday sun shone upon him; and in this warm genial atmosphere of grace, the germ of spiritual life unfolded itself within, and burst its wrappings. He may change, but there is no life in him, and therefore he cannot advance. )Forgetting the things that are behindThings pastProfessor Hollard.I.VICTORIES.II.ERRORS.III.SINS.IV.JOYS.V.GRIEFS. "Forget the things which are behind." )The racer as runnerProfessor Eadie.The picture is that of a racer in his agony of struggle and hope. In whatever respect we feel that we are offenders against the law of Divine perfection revealed in Christ let us be more active. "Very well," said the general, "just let them remain where they are; the enemy's going to advance, and will spare you the trouble."(W. Of what avail, to such a mariner, is even distinct view of some distant point long since swept by, when his vessel is approaching some perilous pass, or passing through some vast and foaming estuary into the deep sea. We live on food, the blood circulates through the frame; and all these motions return on themselves; but there is another motion in man, there is an onward movement he is a being of religious instincts; and to foster and fan their flames is the end of all religious services and exercises. It sometimes needs a severe gust of wind to shake off the scales that still linger around the bud. The people we have left. They are therefore in danger of perishing. E. Jenkins, LL. Even when the glory is given to God there is apt to be a ring of self-satisfaction, "I am not as other men." )Practice necessary to perfectionC. HOW THE GREAT PRIZE IS TO BE WON. D.)Spiritual barbarismJ M. Whiton, Ph. Laws. Macmillan, LL. But brooding is no more to be encouraged than boasting. (1) Since the day when man first lighted a fire to boil his pot, and hollowed out his first canoe, up to the day when the latest development of these contrivances appears in the steamship which can sail three thousand miles a week, the world has never rested in its advance. Is he a warrior, wrestler, etc.? THERE ARE TWO WAYS IN WHICH WE MAY MAKE RELIGION ONE THING.1. He died to his former self and all its experiences, and lived a new life in Jesus. The labourer leaves his work undone when the spade is not in his hand, and he sits beneath the hedge to rest. But Paul left even those good things behind in order to take up Jesus Christ. 3. The everlasting kingdom.II. That the best of men do not talk of their attainments. He not only never repented these sacrifices, he forgot them. In the trees of warm climates the buds have no winter leaves or protective scales, being simply formed of the ordinary leaves rolled up; consequently they expand in growth without losing anything. )The memory of past sorrows not to obliterate the appreciation of present merciesM. Remembering always tends to become a substitute for doing. THERE ARE TWO WAYS IN WHICH WE MAY MAKE RELIGION ONE THING.1. Others believe they have perfection in the flesh, and others yet attain complacency by the notion that they have overcome all their sins by believing they have done so, as if believing a battle won could win it.4. He also said that he know the secret of being short. And so the beautiful blossoms of grace must be left behind. 1. (2) Said the popes to those who saw a purer Church and truth attainable, "No more beyond, except the fire for those who would disturb our established order." He talks about everything, aims to excel in many things; but I have learned that if I ever make a breach, I must play my guns continually on one point. Victories achieved; temptations resisted elated Samson to his hurt. W. Alexander, D. D.We are like one sailing down rapid stream, intensely anxious as to the issue of our voyage, and fearful of the dangers which await us, and yet turning our backs on both, and trying to derive encouragement from gazing at that portion of our course already past, and every moment growing less and less visible. The Israelites fondly recollected the fleshpots of Egypt, and there are Christians who dispute with themselves whether in the sensitive jealousy of their first love they did not make too many sacrifices for their Master. )The onward movement of the soulPaxton Hood.Man is the creature of the same senses; he beholds the same sun, the same streams, and flying clouds; youth succeeds to infancy, and the festival of nature is followed by decay. Hubbard. This will multiply instances of His faithfulness. This advice goes dead against much "experimental" Christianity; but it is wise for all that. It is so with man; he is the subject of a succession of events, that which hath been is now and shall be. The mind must contemplate it, the heart be fixed upon it, until the power of it shall overmaster all other objects and passions.2. When the law of development will not work, the law of decay and dissolution is the only one that will. Yet he teaches me that I must practise if I would be perfect; must exercise myself unto godliness if I would be skilful; must, in fact, make myself familiar with the Word of God, with holy living, and saintly dying. )Pressing forwardA. Lot's wife looked back and perished. While certain things are before every Christian and every Church, PARTICULAR THINGS ARE BEFORE PARTICULAR CHRISTIANS AND CHURCHES. The increase of itself.4. The whole man gathering himself up to a point oneness of being, body, soul, spirit the will, judgment, energy in unity. Life cannot break itself from the past. Inactivity renders useless the summer leaves; and growth supersedes the winter leaves.I. Each is to help the others.3. Philippians 3:12-16 "Omit some of your pursuits," replied Confucius, "and you will get on better. If our winter leaves the experiences that contribute to form our character, and which are appropriate to the various stages of our growth be allowed to remain unchanged and unforgotten, and to choke up our spiritual life so as to arrest its advancement, they will be changed into thorns. E. Jenkins, LL. Absolute assurance of forgiveness.3. is it in the evolution of the man from the child? Forget read more Scripture: What a petty world such a man must live in; under what a low sky he must walk; in what, a muggy atmosphere he must breathe. What achievements has the world made and forgotten in achieving better. And when the great crisis of his life came the spring time of his conversion, a light exceeding the brightness of the noonday sun shone upon him; and in this warm genial atmosphere of grace, the germ of spiritual life unfolded itself within, and burst its wrappings. The mark is reached by the runner's effort, the prize is the reward given for victory. TO MAKE LIFE, AS IT OUGHT TO BE, ONE, THE GREAT REQUISITE IS TO HAVE ONE FIXED AIM. There is no growth before a hypocrite any more than there is in an artificial flower. They emerge from the sea which has swallowed up so much else. These winter leaves must fall off, when the vernal season of grace has come, and we who were dead in trespasses and sins are made alive unto God.2. The apostle is not leaving, he is forgetting the things behind; he is not merely looking, he is reaching forth unto the things before; not only does he run, he presses toward the mark; nor was he occupied, weakened, or delayed by a variety of pursuits "This one thing I do. What wilt Thou have me do?" "Very well," said the general, "just let them remain where they are; the enemy's going to advance, and will spare you the trouble."(W. We are to strive to attain unto him. Infinite as are the varieties of life, so manifold are the paths to saintly character; and he who has not found out how directly or indirectly to make everything converge towards his soul's sanctification, has as yet missed the meaning of this life.(F. (3)Ill and dull company. Forgetfulness of what is behind is an essential element in the progress of every believer. D. Hoge, D. D.)Christian progress impelled by a single purposeJ. All the influences that have made our actual characters what they now are came out of the past, just as the seed sown in earlier seasons, with their sunshine and rain, make the subsequent harvest. "I count," as if he had taken stock, made a careful estimate, and had come to a conclusion. King, LL. He has a purpose that scholar of Erfurt. But not the means of growth and formative processes of the Christian character only, must be left behind and forgotten; the very ends, the growths themselves, must also be superseded. These winter leaves that cherished and nourished our growth in grace must drop off from time to time, with each new attainment that we "may rise on stepping stones of our dead selves to nobler things."3. Victories achieved; temptations resisted elated Samson to his hurt. The stars were in his heart. If history is philosophy teaching by example, the erasure of the remembrance of the events of our own history would strip both philosophy and religion of the power to teach at all.(M. The very dream of hope to do something better has been their rum.2. The fellowship of the Spirit in all its perfection.5. It becomes your special habit, which is all right, but it also tends to become your limit, which is wrong. And yet he was vastly superior to any of us. is it in the increase of the quantity of material productions? And no wonder that Paul was the very chief of the apostles, so that the earth shook at his tread, as when a giant goes on pilgrimage; not because he had read Grecian lore in Cilician schools, and mastered the Hebrew law at Gamaliel's feet, but because, with his heart all afire within him, and his eye, as the eagle's on the sun, fixed on one sublime purpose in that one thing he gloried to that one thing he tended.(C. Job spoke up for his innocence till the Lord revealed Himself. You see him! There is a circular movement in which all motions turn on themselves, and return to the point from whence they first set out, and then there is an onward movement, as when the whole system is borne upward into infinite space. They lose the power of forgetting the things that are behind, because they are not reaching forth unto those things which are before. He finds the pen too slow, hence his types and cylinders scatter libraries. Everything in earth's geology, and everything on earth's surface, point towards a future. Such is only the case when a kind of sickness has come over human speculation. The stars were in his heart. But, what do we do when that blank slate becomes crowded with mistake after mistake? )The enemy will advance if the Christian does notW. With Pilate's question on his lip and in his heart, he foregoes his brilliant prospects parts without a sigh with academical distinctions takes monastic vows in an Augustine convent; until at last Pilate's question answered on Pilate's stairs then comes the thrice repeated gospel whisper, "The just shall live by faith," and the glad evangel scatters the darkening and shreds off the paralysis, and he rises into moral freedom, a new man in the Lord! Maclaren, D. D.What a noble thing any life becomes that has driven through it the strength of a uniting single purpose, like a strong shaft of iron bolting together the two tottering walls, of some old building!(A. AS REGARDED HIS OWN IMPROVEMENT. He may not have known much trouble, but he has to undergo the discipline of suffering. read more, Sometimes the Church goes through Conflict. King, LL. A conversation with an unbeliever, the perusal of a book, the pressure of a besetting sin, disturbs their assurance, and they go over the old ground. Absolute assurance of forgiveness.3. Forget past circumstances, whether sorrows or joys. We may go on working the sum for years, and though each succeeding figure brings us nearer to it, we can never actually reach it.(H. Progress what do you mean by that? Then in working there has not been much demand made on patience.3. His idea was an ark! Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1985. Pauls desire is that all the fruit he believes he has born for Christ will prove to have been genuine. They emerge from the sea which has swallowed up so much else. D.)This one thing I doConcentrationJ. Smiles, LL. What achievements has the world made and forgotten in achieving better. (Paxton Hood. Then there is to be a distinct recognition of moral perfection as our conscious aim, and our efforts are allowably stimulated by the hope of the fair reward it ensures. "(Paxton Hood. Like the bud scales, they afforded protection and nourishment. He would recover the estate which belonged to his fathers. As the season advances, the sap gradually ceases to flow to the summer leaves, which therefore ultimately fade and fall from the tree; and the last movements of it, at the end of autumn, are directed towards the buds, in order to prepare them for taking at the proper time the place of the generation of leaves that has just perished. D. Hoge, D. D.)The hindering force of past habitA. D.A Frenchman hit off in a single phrase the characteristic quality of the inhabitants of a particular district, in which a friend of his proposed to settle and buy land. read more, Scripture: A. Alexander, D. 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