Identifier: biblereadingsfor01batt (find matches)
Title: Bible readings for the home circle : comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Bible Seventh-Day Adventists
Publisher: Battle Creek, MI Chicago, IL : Review and Herald Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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n, what did he say of that generation ? He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be withyou ? how long shall I suffer you ? bring him unto me. Mark 9 : 19. 5„ What did the Saviour say to Thomas when he met him, because hedid not believe the testimony of his brethren that had seenChrist alive after his crucifixion ? » Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands ; and reach hither thy hand, andthrust it into my side ; and be not faithless, but believing.1 John 20 : 27.Note.—If men are justified by faith, and are to live by faith, it follows that tobe unbelieving is not to be justified, and consequently not to live in the sensebrought to view in the Scriptures. The Lord rebuked Thomas for his unbe-lief, because he would not accept the testimony of so many credible witnessesas the other ten disciples. How much more reprehensible is that unbeliefwhich holds out against the present cloud of witnesses of the gooduess andpower of God to save sinners ! (46l J
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(/*>2) They Could not Enter in Because of Unbelief. UUSLULV. 463 6. In view of the great cloud of witnesses to faith presented by the apostle in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, what does Paul exhort all to do ? Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and letus run with patience the race that is set before us. Heb. 12 : I.Note.—The every weight here introduced includes those traits of characterand habits of life that would clog ones path, and be a hinderance in runningsuccessfully the Christian race. These are to be laid aside. But there is oneother thing that is here considered more than a weight : it is a sin, and onethat so easily besets all. It is the sin of unbelief. To be unbelieving is tobe sinful. 7. Why were the most of the children of Israel prohibited from en- tering the promised land ? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to t

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