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- Leaves from the tree of life [sermons].
Leaves from the tree of life
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sermons
Author:
Richard Newton
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: III. ' Dcliber mg soul, © Eorn, from Iging lips.'—Ps. ax. 2. If I take out my watch to find what time it is, it will be of little use for me to look at it
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unless I am sure that it keeps good time. If it sometimes stands still for an hour or more, and then goes on again; if it sometimes loses two or three hours a day by going too slow, or gains as much more by going too fast, then I cannot depend upon it. A watch that cannot be depended upon is of very little use. It may have a beautiful gold case, it may be sparkling with jewels, but yet it will be of no service to me as a watch unless I can depend on what it tells me about the time. We do not judge of the value of a watch by the kind of case it has, but by finding out whether it keeps good time. And so one of the things by which we judge of the real value and worth of men or women, of boys or girls, is this—Are they truthful ? Do they mean what they say? Are they really what they seem to be? If they speak the truth, and act the truth, then they are like a watch that keeps good time. But one of the effects of sin on our hearts has been to take away from them the love of the truth, and to incline them to lying. This is one of the symptoms of the dreadful disease of sin. And David in our text shows us how we may get this disease cured; it is by offering the prayer, ' Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips.' Here we have a leaf from the treeof life for the cure of lying. Our subject to-day is— The lesson of truth; or, the cure of lying. I wish to speak of three reasons why we should offer this prayer, and try to be delivered from lying lips. We should do so, in the first place, because of the Disgrace which attends lying. It is always a good reason to keep from doing anything, if we know that it will really bring ...
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ISBN-13:
9780217700450
ISBN-10:
0217700454
Publication Date:
8/19/2009
Pages:
102
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