Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren
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his master.' If we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him. No
cross, no crown;--if cross, then crown! The end of discipleship is not reached until the Master's image and the Master's lot are repeated in the scholar. Take Christ for your sacrifice, trust to His blood, listen to His teaching, walk in His footsteps, and you shall share His sovereignty and sit on His throne. 'It is enough,'--ay! more than enough, and nothing less than that is enough,--'for the disciple that he be _as_'--and _with_--'his master.' 'I shall be satisfied when I awake in Thy likeness.' THE KING'S CHARGE TO HIS AMBASSADORS 'Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. 33. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven. 34. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36. And man's foes shall be they of his own household. 37. He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or |
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