948. \u201cWhat\u201d and \u201cLike Manner\u201d<\/p>\n
1. Personality. \u201cWhat manner of man is this?\u201d (Mat_8:27). Who can describe His kind, His worth, His greatness? Ponder the holiness of His nature, the wealth of His worth, the love of His heart, the weight of His words, the beauty of His life, the value of His death, the might of His resurrection, the glory of His ascension, the promises of His Word, and the achievements of His power.<\/p>\n
2. Love. \u201cBehold what manner of love,\u201d etc. (1Jn_3:1). He loves like a Father, providingly; like a mother, tenderly; like a sister, thoughtfully; like a friend, faithfully; like a brother, helpfully; like a king, richly; like Himself, eternally.<\/p>\n
3. Holiness. \u201cWhat manner of persons ought ye to be?\u201d (2Pe_3:11). Privileges incur responsibilities. Obligations demand returns. God expects more from His children than He does from the world. He has unfolded to us His plans of the future that we might live like Him in the present. Destiny should determine our actions.<\/p>\n
4. Examples. \u201cYe know what manner of men we were among you for your sake, and ye became followers of us\u201d (1Th_1:5-6). Unless preachers are patterns they will become pests. Good samples will command attention.<\/p>\n
5. Reception. \u201cWhat manner of entering in we had unto you\u201d (1Th_1:9). It was effective, for they turned to God; it was triumphant in what \u201csounded out\u201d (1Th_1:8); it was practical in the \u201censamples\u201d seen (1Th_1:7); it was demonstrated in the graces evident (1Th_1:4); it was in that it was \u201cnot in vain\u201d (1Th_2:1); and it was unmistakable in their reception of God\u2019s Word (1Th_2:13).<\/p>\n
6. Life. The Apostle Paul could appeal to the testimony of his life as to its sincerity\u2014Act_26:4; as to the humility of the manner of his service\u2014Act_20:18; and to its manner in the many-sidedness of its reality, as evidenced in his \u201cpurpose, faith, endurance, love, and patience.\u201d<\/p>\n
7. Advent. \u201cThis same Jesus shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go\u201d (Act_1:11). Who saw Him go? Believers only\u2014Act_10:41. How did He go? In the act of blessing\u2014Luk_24:50. He will first come for His own\u20141Th_4:13-18, and then with His own\u2014Zec_14:1-4.<\/p>\n
By: DR. F. E. MARSH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
948. \u201cWhat\u201d and \u201cLike Manner\u201d 1. Personality. \u201cWhat manner of man is this?\u201d (Mat_8:27). Who can describe His kind, His worth, His greatness? Ponder the holiness of His nature, the wealth of His worth, the love of His heart, the weight of His words, the beauty of His life, the value of His death, the … Continue reading “0969. 948. \u201cWhat\u201d and \u201cLike Manner\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}