Preaching Building And Burying PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE VIII THE BUILDING OF THE BUILDER THE BUILDING OF THE BUILDER Two queries have no doubt arisen in many an alert mind while we have been walking together along the way: Why has there been no lecture on the "Building of the Sermon"? and why has the "Building of the Builder" been relegated to the closing hour? In all building operations does not the Builder come first? Does not the plan proceed from him? Does not the edifice depend on him? Is he not the first link in the chain, the fountain from which all else proceeds? Why not build the preacher, and then proceed to build the church? The preacher comes last in this course of lectures, because in the work of building he comes first. It is a paradox of Christianity that those who are first are often last. He who would find himself must lose himself, and only to him who makes himself of no reputation and lays down his life, is the promise given. It was the Master's way to set men, first of all, not face to face with themselves, but face to ] face with their task, and it was by the patient doing of their task that they were to save their souls. 371 A Many things he was wont to tell them about the importance and difficulty of the work to which he had called them, and few things apparently did he say about their own salvation. They were to seek first of all the Kingdom of God, to build a brotherhood in which the love of God should be controlling and by which the will of God should get itself done on earth, and, doing this, they would find all necessary things being added. The apostles were men, and therefore interested in their own personal advancement, but whenever they attempted to induce Jesus to speak of their own dignities and promotions, he began to talk again about their work. Even...