The Prophecies of Our Lord and His Apostles; A Series of Discourses Delivered in the Cathederal Church, Berlin (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Coming of % Son of Ulan. "Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in His kingdom." ?Matt. xvi. 28. Beloved In Christ Jesus, ?In the first of the meditations, whose series we follow, I called to you, in the words of the Apostle Paul, " The Lord comes I" In the second, supported by a word of the Saviour, we glanced at the characteristics of His kingdom as a whole, and found it was a kingdom of conflict here on earth. To-day the outstretched finger of the Lord Jesus Christ points us again to the Coming OF THE SON OF Man; and he brings before our eye two points, in that he once says to us, He COMES IN His KINGDOM, and then adds, He COMES QUICKLY. Lord, Thou didst come, Thou comest still, and Thou wilt yet come. Oh, help us by Thy Holy Spirit, that we may love Thine appearing; that, as He who has come, Thou mayest ever be our salvation and life, that we may daily experience Thy coming, and may joyfully await Thy advent in glory. Amen. Our meditation has once more the same foundation?thought. The Lord comes. We meditate onthe coming of the Lord; but this time we have not to show in general that He comes, and that in all ages of the Church, until the last of the days, this hope and supporting expectation of His coming must continue; but we have to receive instructions from Him concerning the way and manner in which the Son of man comes, namely, in wfiat character He comes, and wlien He comes. As to the character in which He comes, our text is only one of many which speak of it; for it is known to us all that He will not come a second time in humility and poverty, will not appear again to bear the burden of our sins and misery, but as King and Lord; that He will not come again, afterwards to de...