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His victory was complete
DATE: 01/20/2012 01:00:31 / MOOD: in love
His victory was complete
His enemies fall before Him, and every conquest hastens the hour, when but one enemy shall remain, who shall see in his own solitary grandeur, as the last left on the field, and in the fallen carcases all around him, his certain, immediate doom. Nay, he is already a captive foe. In tasting death, Christ conquered death for every believer. " He spoiled principalities and powers He disarmed them, despoiled them Tory Burch Outlet of all their power, and when the last morning dawns, it will be seen that. He entered the territories of the gravestormed the very citadel of death, and returned with the monarch of that pale empire chained to His chariotwheels. As He issued from the portals of the sepulchre, He bore aloft a Rev. banner, on which was inscribed, "I am the Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle !" "I am the King of Glory!" "I am He that was dead and is alive again!" " I am the Resurrection and the Life I" His resurrection was the pledge of His victory, and the victory of His people over the king of terrors. The holy dead, by the might of their great Forerunner, shall rise, never more to die. " Oh! Death, where is thy sting? Oh! Grave, where is thy victory ?" is the anticipated shout of the Lord's people, wThen they shall see their bodies ransomed from the power of the grave, and the deserted tomb become a monument, that Death has lost the victory for ever. And as they shout, they shall rise to new worlds, over whose gates it shall be inscribed: Thereshall be no more deatii.Blessed, unspeakably blessed shall all those be, who enter those regions of Life and Light, and over whom "the second death" shall have no Burberry Outlet power.THE Bible tenches that our " Father's House " will be totally unlike the present abode of mortals. It will have no sun, no moon, no night, no curse. " Flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God." In attempting to give us some idea of what heaven is, by telling us what it is not, it specifies Tory Burch Outlet the exclusion of just those things which belong to man's Tory Burch Outlet present painful experience, or arc great characteristical features of the material planet he inhabits. There is nothing on earth from which he can form an adequate conception of the spiritual glories of that world. It will be as unlike the present, as the " spiritual body," which shall be raised from the grave, will be unlike the "natural," committed to it.
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The spring comes
DATE: 01/20/2012 00:57:21 / MOOD: in love
The spring comes It is not necessary to go to the Tory Burch Outlet deserts of Arabia or to the holy places of Palestine to find evidences that God walks with man in the forest shade as well as in the hallowed sanctuary. Through all the winter months our trees are bare skeletonsmonuments of desolation and deathover which the winds moan in melancholy dirges day and night., and all is changed. You go out at noonday, when the sun is shining, and take your stand beneath the broadspreading branches of an ancient elm or the thicker foliage of the silvery maple. Look up and you Tory Burch Outlet will see a Burberry Outlet wilderness of life and beauty, dazzling and infinite, with bright sunbeams burning in the midst of the lustrous leaves, and evershifting shadows giving splendor and mystery to the flickering and tremulous light. Do not be afraid to believe that God brings forth that new creation of life and beauty with every returning springthat the living trees may speak to you of his goodness as clearly as he spoke by Tory Burch Outlet the living voice to Moses from the burning bush of Sinai.We have only to receive the lessons of God's word and providence with teachable and loving hearts, and we shall gain light and instruction from the trees, the flowers and the grass, as truly as the first pair heard the voice of the Lord God among the trees of the garden in the cool of the day. The Psalmist calls upon the trees to praise the Lord. The prophet declares that the trees shall clap their hands for joy in that day when the word of the Lord has accomplished its work of instruction and salvation among men. And surely we need not be afraid of giving too much life and meaning to the expression of God's power and goodness in clothing the trees with the foliage of spring, the flowers of summer and the fruits of autumn.When Israel marched out of Egypt they made their first encampment under the shelter of green boughs at Succoth. And for more than fifteen hundred years the Hebrew nation, by Divine command, turned out of their houses once a year and dwelt a whole week in tabernacles of green boughs, to commemorate the night when their ancestors, under the leadership of Moses, made their first encampment under the palm branches of Succoth. The fugitives had just begun the long march of forty years. Their memories still lingered around the little cottages and humble homes left vacant in the land of bondage.
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