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共 226 题- DEUTERONOMY, JOSHUA, JUDGES, RUTH, AND FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL
- SECOND SAMUEL, FIRST KINGS, AND SECOND KINGS _CHAPTERS I to VII_
- CONTENTS
- THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
- THE BOOK OF JOSHUA
- THE BOOK OF JUDGES
- THE BOOK OF RUTH
- GENTLE HEROINE, A GENTILE CONVERT (Ruth i. 16-22)
- THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL
- THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
- GOD'S FAITHFULNESS
- I. God as coming under obligations to us.
- 1. Obligations from His act of creation.
- 2. Obligations from His past self.
- 3. Obligations from His own word.
- 4. Obligations from His new Covenant and highest word in Jesus Christ.
- II. God as recognising and discharging these obligations.
- III. God as claiming our trust.
- THE LESSON OF MEMORY
- THE EATING OF THE PEACE-OFFERING
- I. Communion with God based on atonement.
- II. Feeding on Christ.
- III. The restoration to the offerer of all which he lays on God's altar.
- PROPHETS AND THE PROPHET
- A CHOICE OF MASTERS
- I. The service of God or the service of our enemies.
- II. A service which is honour or a service which is degradation.
- IV. A service which feeds the spirit or a service which starves it.
- V. A service which is life or a service which is death.
- THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW
- GOD'S TRUE TREASURE IN MAN
- I. God has special ownership in some people.
- THE EAGLE AND ITS BROOD
- I. Here is a great thought about God.
- II. Here we have an illuminating thought of the meaning of life.
- THEIR ROCK AND OUR ROCK
- I. God is a Rock to them that trust Him.
- III. Every man's own nature tells him that God is his true Rock.
- IV. Yet many of us will not take God for our Rock.
- GOD AND HIS SAINTS
- III. The docile obedience of those that are thus guarded.
- ISRAEL THE BELOVED
- I. Who are the 'beloved of the Lord'?
- II. What are their blessed privileges?
- 1. They have a sure dwelling-place.
- 2. They have a sure shelter.
- 3. They have a Father who bears them on His shoulders.
- SHOD FOR THE ROAD
- A DEATH IN THE DESERT
- III. Again, notice here the lesson of the solitude and mystery of death.
- THE BOOK OF JOSHUA
- THE NEW LEADERS COMMISSION
- THE CHARGE TO THE SOLDIER OF THE LORD
- I. We have here the duty of courageous strength.
- THE UNTRODDEN PATH AND THE GUIDING ARK
- I. Note the untrodden path.
- II. Note, again, the guiding ark.
- III. And so the last thought that is here is the watchful following.
- STONES CRYING OUT
- THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOST
- I. I see in it a transient revelation of an eternal truth.
- II. I see here the Leader of all the warfare against the world's evil.
- III. Here is the Ally in all our warfare with ourselves.
- IV. Lastly, I see here the Power which it is madness to resist.
- THE SIEGE OF JERICHO
- I. Consider that strange protracted trial of faith.
- RAHAB
- I. Faith in its constant essence and its varying objects.
- II. Faith in its origin in fear.
- III. Faith in its relation to the previous life.
- The 'woman that was a sinner.'
- IV. Faith in its practical effects.
- V. Faith as the means of deliverance and safety.
- ACHAN'S SIN, ISRAEL'S DEFEAT
- THE SUN STAYED
- Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon.'-JOSHUA x. 12
- I. Life inexorably slides away from us.
- By the suffering,--
- II. Therefore our chief care should be to finish our work in our day.
- III. If so, the passing day will have results that never pass.
- IV. Thus the passing away of what must pass may become a joy.
- UNWON BUT CLAIMED
- I. The clear recognition of present imperfection.
- II. The confident reckoning on complete possession.
- III. The vigorous effort animated by both the preceding.
- CALEB--A GREEN OLD AGE
- I. I see then here, first, a life all built upon God's promise.
- II. Further, I see here a life that bears to be looked back at.
- THE CITIES OF REFUGE
- THE END OF THE WAR
- THE NATIONAL OATH AT SHECHEM
- THE BOOK OF JUDGES
- A SUMMARY OF ISRAEL'S FAITHLESSNESS AND GOD'S PATIENCE
- ISRAEL'S OBSTINACY AND GOD'S PATIENCE
- RECREANT REUBEN
- I. The fight.
- IV. The question in the hour of victory. 'Why?'
- GIDEON'S ALTAR
- GIDEON'S FLEECE
- I. Gideon's request.
- II. God's answer.
- III. The meaning of the sign.
- A BATTLE WITHOUT A SWORD
- STRENGTH PROFANED AND LOST
- THE BOOK OF RUTH
- A GENTLE HEROINE, A GENTILE CONVERT
- THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL
- THE CHILD PROPHET
- FAITHLESSNESS AND DEFEAT
- REPENTANCE AND VICTORY
- THE OLD JUDGE AND THE YOUNG KING
- THE KING AFTER MAN'S HEART
- SAMUEL'S CHALLENGE AND CHARGE
- OLD TRUTH FOR A NEW EPOCH
- SAUL REJECTED
- THE SHEPHERD-KING
- THE VICTORY OF UNARMED FAITH
- A SOUL'S TRAGEDY
- JONATHAN, THE PATTERN OF FRIENDSHIP
- LOVE FOR HATE, THE TRUE QUID PRO QUO
- LOVE AND REMORSE
- Look then
- I. At the bright dawn.
- II. The gathering clouds.
- III. The long eclipse.
- IV. The stormy sunset.
- WHAT DOEST THOU HERE?
- THE SECRET OF COURAGE
- Now the first thing I notice is
- I. The grand assurance which this man gripped fast at such a time.
- AT THE FRONT OR THE BASE
- I. God's battle requires two forms of service.
- II. Service may be different in kind and one in essence.
- III. All work done from the same motive will receive the same reward.
- THE END OF SELF-WILL
- EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
- SECOND SAMUEL AND THE BOOKS OF KINGS TO SECOND KINGS VII
- CONTENTS
- THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL
- THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS
- THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS
- THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL
- THE BRIGHT DAWN OF A REIGN
- ONE FOLD AND ONE SHEPHERD
- DEATH AND LIFE FROM THE ARK
- THE ARK OF THE HOUSE OF OBED-EDOM
- III. Lastly, note the twofold operation of God's gospel.
- THE PROMISED KING AND TEMPLE-BUILDER
- DAVID'S GRATITUDE
- DAVID AND JONATHAN'S SON
- THOU ART THE MAN
- DAVID AND NATHAN
- I. First, then, the penitence.
- GOD'S BANISHED ONES
- I. Note, then, who are God's banished ones.
- II. Notice God's yearning over His banished ones.
- III. Note the formidable obstacles to the restoration of the banished.
- PARDONED SIN PUNISHED
- A LOYAL VOW
- I. So then, first, our King's will ought to be our will.
- ITTAI OF GATH
- THE WAIL OF A BROKEN HEART
- BARZILLAI
- I. Life will gradually rob you of your interest in all earthly things.
- Here is a lesson for--
- II. Life will certainly rob you of the power to change.
- III. Life will certainly deepen your early impressions.
- IV. Life will bring you nearer and nearer to the grave.
- DAVID'S HYMN OF VICTORY
- THE DYING KING'S LAST VISION AND PSALM
- A LIBATION TO JEHOVAH
- I. David's longing.
- II. The three heroes' devotion.
- III. David's reception of the water.
- THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS
- DAVID APPOINTING SOLOMON
- A YOUNG MAN'S WISE CHOICE OP WISDOM
- THE GREAT GAIN OF GODLINESS
- GREAT PREPARATIONS FOR A GREAT WORK
- BUILDING IN SILENCE
- The Temple was built in silence. It 'rose like an exhalation.'
- II. How God's house is built of prepared stones.
- THE KING 'BLESSING' HIS PEOPLE
- I. Note the thankful retrospect of the nation's past (verse 56).
- I. A principle in reference to God's gifts.
- PROMISES AND THREATENINGS
- A ROYAL SEEKER AFTER WISDOM
- THE FALL OF SOLOMON
- THE NEW GARMENT BENT
- HOW TO SPLIT A KINGDOM
- POLITICAL RELIGION
- THE RECORD OF TWO KINGS
- A PROPHET'S STRANGE PROVIDERS
- ELIJAH STANDING BEFORE THE LORD
- OBADIAH
- I. The blessedness of youthful religion.
- II. The foes of youthful religion.
- III. The too probable alternative to youthful religion.
- THE TRIAL BY FIRE
- ELIJAH'S WEAKNESS, AND ITS CUBE
- PUTTING ON THE ARMOUR
- II. Note the boastful temper which is sure to be beaten.
- III. Note the confidence which is not boasting.
- ROYAL MURDERERS
- AHAB AND ELIJAH
- UNPOSSESSED POSSESSIONS
- I. What is ours and not ours.
- AHAB AND MICAIAH
- IV. So, lastly, I notice the end of this foolish attitude.
- THE CHARIOT OF FIRE
- THE TRANSLATION OF ELIJAH AND THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST
- ELIJAH'S TRANSLATION AND ELISHA'S DEATHBED
- I We have in the first case the chariot and horsemen seen.
- GENTLENESS SUCCEEDING STRENGTH
- WHEN THE OIL FLOWS
- I. The vessel of desire.
- III. Lastly, one more vessel that we have to bring is obedience.
- A MIRACLE NEEDING EFFORT
- NAAMAN'S WRATH
- I. First, then, God's cure puts us all on one level.
- III. And now, lastly, God's cure wants nothing from you but to take it.
- NAAMAN'S IMPERFECT FAITH
- SIGHT AND BLINDNESS
- SILENT CHRISTIANS
- II. Let me say a word next about the sin of this silence.
- III. Now, still further, let me point you to the retribution on silence.