Expositions of
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII
作者：Maclaren, Alexander, 1826-1910
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共 281 题- EZEKIEL, DANIEL, AND THE MINOR PROPHETS
- EZEKIEL, DANIEL, AND THE MINOR PROPHETS
- CONTENTS
- THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL
- THE BOOK OF DANIEL
- HOSEA
- AMOS
- JONAH
- MICAH
- HABAKKUK
- THE IDEAL DEVOUT LIFE (Habakkuk iii. 19)
- ZEPHANIAH
- ZION'S JOY AND GOD'S (Zephaniah iii. 14, 17)
- HAGGAI
- ZECHARIAH
- MALACHI
- THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL
- CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY
- A COMMON MISTAKE AND LAME EXCUSE
- THE HOLY NATION
- THE DRY BONES AND THE SPIRIT OF LIFE
- THE RIVER OF LIFE
- I. I notice, first, the source from which the river comes.
- II. Note the rapid increase of the stream.
- III. Lastly, note the effects of the stream.
- THE BOOK OF DANIEL
- YOUTHFUL CONFESSORS
- THE IMAGE AND THE STONE
- I. The Image.
- II. So we have now to think of the stone cut out without hands.
- HARMLESS FIRES
- MENE, TEKEL, PERES
- A TRIBUTE FROM ENEMIES
- II. Notice the keen critics that all good men have to face.
- III. Notice, again, the unblemished record.
- IV. Lastly, note obedient disobedience.
- FAITH STOPPING THE MOUTHS OF LIONS
- A NEW YEARS MESSAGE
- I. The journey.
- II. Note, again, the resting-place.
- III. That leads me to the last thought, the home.
- HOSEA
- THE VALLEY OF ACHOR
- I. First, then, man's discovery of his sickness.
- II. Man's mad way of seeking healing.
- III. God's way of giving true healing.
- DESTRUCTION AND HELP
- We may note here
- I. The loving discovery of ruin.
- II. The loving appeal to conscience as to the cause.
- III. The loving forbearance which still offers restoration.
- ISRAEL RETURNING
- I. The summons to repentance.
- II. God's welcoming answer.
- THE DEW AND THE PLANTS
- AMOS
- A PAIR OF FRIENDS
- SMITTEN IN VAIN
- THE SINS OF SOCIETY
- THE CARCASS AND THE EAGLES
- RIPE FOR GATHERING
- JONAH
- GUILTY SILENCE AND ITS REWARD
- In confirmation and enforcement of our text we may consider:--
- I. The illusory vanity of the objects pursued.
- II. The hard service which lying vanities require.
- III. The self-inflicted loss.
- THREEFOLD REPENTANCE
- MICAH
- IS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD STRAITENED?
- CHRIST THE BREAKER
- AS GOD, SO WORSHIPPER
- I. A man's god is what rules his practical life.
- II. The worshipper will resemble his god in character.
- III. The worshipper will resemble his god in fate.
- I. The function of each Christian in his place.
- Now let me turn for a moment to a second point, and that is
- II. The function of English Christians in the world.
- III. The failure to fulfil the function.
- GOD'S REQUIREMENTS AND GOD'S GIFT
- II. Our failure.
- III. Lastly, my text leads us to think of God's gift.
- HABAKKUK
- THE IDEAL DEVOUT LIFE
- I. First, such communion with God brings God to a man for his strength.
- ZEPHANIAH
- ZION'S JOY AND GOD'S
- I. God's joy over Zion.
- II. Zion's joy in God.
- HAGGAI
- VAIN TOIL
- I. It is a life of fruitless toil.
- II. A godless life is one of unsatisfied hunger and thirst.
- III. The godless life is one of futile defences.
- IV. A godless life is one of fleeting riches.
- BRAVE ENCOURAGEMENTS
- ZECHARIAH
- DYING MEN AND THE UNDYING WORD
- I. The mortal hearers and speakers of the abiding Word.
- THE CITY WITHOUT WALLS
- The first is this:--
- I. 'I will be a wall of fire round about her.'
- III. 'Jerusalem shall be without walls.'
- A VISION OF JUDGEMENT AND CLEANSING
- THE RIGHT OF ENTRY
- THE SOURCE OF POWER
- THE FOUNDER AND FINISHER OF THE TEMPLE
- THE PRIEST OF THE WORLD AND KING OF MEN
- I. The true hope of the world is a priest.
- MALACHI
- A DIALOGUE WITH GOD
- I. God's Indictment.
- II. Man's plea of 'Not Guilty.'
- BLEMISHED OFFERINGS
- I. We note the startling and strange contrast which the text suggests.
- A DIALOGUE WITH GOD
- I. God's merciful threatenings.
- II. Man's rejection of God's merciful threatenings.
- THE LAST WORD OF PROPHECY
- THE UNCHANGING LORD
- I. The unchangeable God.
- II. The unchanging God as the foundation of our changeful lives.
- A DIALOGUE WITH GOD
- I. God's invitation to His wandering child.
- II. Man's answer to God's invitation.
- THE LAST WORDS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
- ST. MATTHEW
- CONTENTS
- MATTHEW'S GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST
- THE NATIVITY
- THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME
- I. THE historical associations of the name.
- II. The significance of the name.
- 1. God as Saviour appears in highest manifestation in Jesus.
- 2. The Salvation brought by Jesus is in its nature the loftiest.
- 3. God's people are His people.
- III. The usage of the name.
- THE FIRST-FRUITS OF THE GENTILES
- THE KING IN EXILE
- THE HERALD OF THE KING
- THE BAPTISM IN FIRE
- I. The Holy Spirit is fire.
- II. Christ plunges us into this divine fire.
- III. That fiery baptism quickens and cleanses.
- THE BAPTISM OF JESUS
- THE DOVE OF GOD
- I. As to the former, we have here the Coronation of the King.
- THE VICTORY OF THE KING
- I. The first assault and repulse, in the desert.
- II. The second assault and repulse, on the temple.
- III. The final assault and repulse, on the mountain.
- THE SPRINGING OF THE GREAT LIGHT
- THE EARLY WELCOME AND THE FIRST MINISTERS OF THE KING
- THE NEW SINAI
- THE FIRST BEATITUDE
- I. First, then, the fundamental characteristic of Christ's disciples.
- II. Turn, now, to the blessed issues of this characteristic.
- THE SECOND BEATITUDE
- I. The mourners who are blessed.
- THE THIRD BEATITUDE
- I. What Christian meekness is.
- II. Notice whence this Christian meekness flows.
- III. And now, lastly, note whither this meekness leads.
- THE FOURTH BEATITUDE
- I. Note, then, the hunger which is blessed.
- II. And now, secondly, the satisfying of this divine hunger of the soul.
- THE FIFTH BEATITUDE
- III. Lastly, notice the requital, 'They shall obtain mercy.'
- THE SIXTH BEATITUDE
- I. How hearts can be made pure.
- II. Note how the pure heart sees God.
- III. Lastly, notice how this sight brings blessedness.
- THE SEVENTH BEATITUDE
- I. How are Christ's peacemakers made?
- II. What is the peace which Christ's peacemakers bring?
- III. Lastly, note the issue of this peacemaking.
- THE EIGHTH BEATITUDE
- 1. The world's recompense to the peace-bringers.
- 3. The phases vary according to circumstances.
- II. God's Gift to the persecuted.
- SALT WITHOUT SAVOUR
- II. The grave possibility of the salt losing its savour.
- THE LAMP AND THE BUSHEL
- THE NEW FORM OF THE OLD LAW
- NON-RESISTANCE
- THE LAW OF LOVE
- TRUMPETS AND STREET CORNERS
- SOLITARY PRAYER
- I. What is the practice here enjoined?
- II. What is the special worth of such a habit?
- 2. The pressure of the world can only be resisted by such an exercise.
- 5. What is the special need of this precept for this age?
- THE STRUCTURE OF THE LORD'S PRAYER
- II. The loftiness and perfectness of that divine Name.
- 3. It draws our hearts and hopes to our Father's home.
- III. The Community of Brotherhood of the Worshippers.
- 3. Effect on our lives.
- I. What is meaning of Petition?
- II. On what it rests:
- III. Why put first.
- IV. To what practical life this prayer binds us.
- I. God reigns, yet we pray for the coming of His kingdom.
- II. The kingdom for the coming of which we pray is established already.
- III. We pray for the coming of a kingdom which is inward and spiritual.
- 2. Lessons for Christian men as to hasty externalising of the kingdom:
- Let us consider--
- I. Obedience is here set forth as the end of all divine revelation.
- II. As the issue in man of all religious thought and emotion.
- III. As the sum of all Christ's and our desires for men.
- IV. As the bond which unites all creation into one.
- I. Obedience to the will of God is the end of all divine revelation.
- 1. That it is not mere naked omnipotent authority.
- 2. That it is not inscrutable.
- II. Obedience is the issue of all religion.
- The knowledge of the name, and the hallowing of it must go first. Note--
- 5. How maimed and spurious is religion without practical obedience.
- III. Obedience is the sum of all Christ's desires for the world.
- 3. The results of obedience will be perfect blessedness.
- THE CRY FOR BREAD
- Now looking at this petition in itself, I note--
- I. The prayer for Bread.
- II. The union with our brethren in our prayer.
- III. The prayer for bread for to-day.
- IV. The prayer for bread suited to our needs.
- I. The consciousness of sin, of which this petition is the expression.
- II. The cry to which that consciousness gives voice.
- III. The startling addition to the cry.
- The Prayer:--
- I. Expresses our recognition of God as ordering all circumstances.
- II. Implies that our chiefest wish is holiness, our greatest dread sin.
- III. Expresses our self-distrust.
- IV. Expresses our reliance on God if temptation comes.
- 1. To ask what is impossible.
- 2. To ask what would not be for our good.
- Consider, then:--
- I. The width of this petition.
- II. The unity and source of the evil.
- III. The divine opposition to evil.
- Notice, then--
- I. The meaning of the doxology.
- II. The force of the doxology in its place here.
- FASTING
- TWO KINDS OF TREASURE
- I. The Two Treasures.
- This command and prohibition require of Christ's disciples--
- 1. A rectification of their judgment as to what is the true good of man.
- II. The foes of the earthly, which are powerless against the heavenly.
- III. The madness of fastening the heart down to earth.
- HEARTS AND TREASURES
- III. Now, lastly, let me show you the persuasive in my text.
- ANXIOUS CARE
- JUDGING, ASKING, AND GIVING
- OUR KNOCKING
- THE TWO PATHS
- I. The gates.
- III. Note the travellers.
- THE TWO HOUSES
- I. The two foundations: Rock, Sand.
- II. Let me say a word, in the next place, about the two houses.
- III. Now let me say a word, in the next place, about the storm.
- IV. And now, lastly, one word about the two endings.
- THE CHRIST OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
- THE TOUCH THAT CLEANSES
- THE FAITH WHICH CHRIST PRAISES
- I. We consider, first, the man and his faith.
- II. Now a word next as to our Lord's eulogium on his faith.
- III. So one word lastly as to the answer that faith brings.
- SWIFT HEALING AND IMMEDIATE SERVICE
- Mark:--
- I. The scene of the miracle.
- II. The time.
- III. The person.
- IV. The effect.
- THE HEALING CHRIST
- CHRIST REPRESSING RASH DISCIPLESHIP
- I. The too lightly uttered vow.
- II. Note our Lord's treatment of this too lightly uttered vow.
- CHRIST STIMULATING SLUGGISH DISCIPLESHIP
- THE PEACE-BRINGER IN THE NATURAL WORLD
- THE PEACE-BRINGER IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD
- END OF VOL. I