Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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God are hving words. When God spokein the beginning, Let there be light, lo, the light sprangout of the darkness. There was power in the word spokento bring forth. Let the earth bring forth grass, was theword of the Lord: and the earth was carpeted with its firstrich greensward. So through all the work of creation, thecreative power was in the word spoken. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and allthe host of them by the breath of His mouth. He spake,and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. Ps.33:6, 9. Even so, when this word speaks instruction to man, thereis creative power in the word, if received, to work mightilyin the soul that is dead in trespasses and sins. Man mustbe born again, be re-created. That we know; for Christsays, Verily, verily, I say unto thee. Except a man be bornagain (from above, margin), he cannot see the kingdomof God. John 3:3. And the word of God — the Bible from heaven — re-ceived by faith, is the agency by which this new birth from
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HEALING THE CENTURIONSSERVANT Spealv the word only, and my servantshall be healed, Matt. 8:8. The Book That Speaks to Our Day 17 above is wrought. This is the declaration of our text:^Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorrupt-ible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.1 Peter 1:23. The Word That Works Within Not only does the word of God give the new birth, makingthe believer a new man,— the past forgiven and a new heartwithin,— but the word that re-creates abides in the believingheart that studies it and clings to it, to work in the life withactual power that is not of the man himself. To the Thes-salonians, who had turned to God from idols to serve theliving and true God, the apostle wrote: For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, be-cause, when ye received the word of God which ye heard ofus, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth,the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you thatbelieve. 1 Thess. 2:13. T

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