Then your eyes will be opened to understand His law. Then
you will see in the Scriptures a sure promise of hope and glory and
redemption for yourself and all the world. Then you will see in the
blessed sacrament of the Lord's body and blood, a sure sign and
warrant, handed down from land to land, and age to age, from year to
year, and from father to son, that these promises shall come true;
that hope shall become fact; that not one of the Lord's words shall
fail, or pass away, till all be fulfilled.
III--THE KINGDOM OF GOD
THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to
preach good tidings to the meek; He has sent me to bind up the
broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening
of the prison to them that are bound.--ISAIAH lxi. 1.
My friends, I do entreat those of you who wish to get any real good
from this sermon, to listen to me carefully all through it. Not that
I have to complain of you in general for not attending to me. I
thank God, and thank you, that you do listen to what is said in this
pulpit. But there are many people who have a bad trick of minding
the preacher carefully enough for a minute or two, and then letting
their wits wander, and think about something else; and then if any
word in the sermon strikes them, waking up suddenly, and thinking
again for a little, and then letting their thoughts run wild again;
and so on.
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