Post by Lee on Jun 12, 2014 1:19:04 GMT
(Short excerpt taken from an exhortation by RR)
1 Peter 1.—Sometimes in reproof, sometimes in comfort: thus the spirit speaks as need requires. For some time past we have been listening to James, one of the “sons of thunder” whose voice is a stern voice: the voice of correction and rebuke, as the state of things in Israel in his day required. To-day, it is the voice of Peter: the voice of comfort; the voice of the shepherd, as he executes the commission assigned to him in the parting words of the Chief Shepherd: “Feed my lambs.” It is pleasant to hear such a voice. We need comfort. We are in a world of evil, in which are many hindrances. The Father is never thought of; the Son forgotten; and the children (such few as there are) despised. This makes the situation bleak enough for the lambs; but there are other trials; false brethren, wolves in sheeps clothing, biting “winds of doctrine,” and poor weak failings in all of us that make us self chidden and condemned. We need to be comforted, and the Lord commands it for such as are broken and contrite in heart, trembling at His word.
1873 christadelphian (RR)
1 Peter 1.—Sometimes in reproof, sometimes in comfort: thus the spirit speaks as need requires. For some time past we have been listening to James, one of the “sons of thunder” whose voice is a stern voice: the voice of correction and rebuke, as the state of things in Israel in his day required. To-day, it is the voice of Peter: the voice of comfort; the voice of the shepherd, as he executes the commission assigned to him in the parting words of the Chief Shepherd: “Feed my lambs.” It is pleasant to hear such a voice. We need comfort. We are in a world of evil, in which are many hindrances. The Father is never thought of; the Son forgotten; and the children (such few as there are) despised. This makes the situation bleak enough for the lambs; but there are other trials; false brethren, wolves in sheeps clothing, biting “winds of doctrine,” and poor weak failings in all of us that make us self chidden and condemned. We need to be comforted, and the Lord commands it for such as are broken and contrite in heart, trembling at His word.
1873 christadelphian (RR)