Alexander Maclaren
1826–1910
Manchester Baptist preacher whose Expositions of Holy Scripture are models of drawing structure out of a text.
In his own words
If they were evoked by our worthiness we might well tremble, but when we know, according to the grand words familiar to many of us, that it is His nature and property to be merciful, and that He is far gladder in giving than we can be in receiving, then we may be sure that His mercy endureth for ever, and that it is the very necessity of His being--and He cannot turn His back upon Himself--to love, to pity, to succour, and to bless. III. And so, lastly, the revelation of God in Christ is good news for us all. 'The Gospel of the glory of the blessed God. ' How that word 'Gospel' has got tarnished and enfeebled by constant use and unreflective use, so that it slips glibly off my tongue and falls without producing any effect upon your hearts! It needs to be freshened up by considering what really it means. It means this: here are we like men shut up in a beleaguered city, hopeless, helpless, with no power to break out or to raise the siege; provisions failing, death certain. Some of you older men and women remember how that was the case in that awful siege of Paris, in the Franco-German War, and what expedients were adopted in order to get some communication from without. And here to us, prisoned, comes, as it did to them, a despatch borne under a dove's wing, and the message is this:--God is love; and that you may know that He is, He has sent you His Son who died on the Cross, the sacrifice for a world's sin. Believe it, and trust it, and all your transgressions will pass away. My brother, is not that good news?
Quoted verbatim from the library, as an answer would quote it.
What we hold of him
1,507 sermons
including The City and the Tent (Hebrews 11:9,10); The Brotherhood of Christ (Hebrews 2:11-13); Gethsemane (Hebrews 5:7)
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