2 KINGS 2
"When Christ ascended up on high, He relinquished nothing of His activity for us, but only cast it into a new form, which in some sense is yet higher than that which it took on earth. His work for the world is in one aspect completed on the Cross, but in another it will never be completed until all the blessings which that Cross has lodged in the midst of humanity, have reached their widest possible diffusion and their highest possible development. Long ages ago He cried, ‘It is finished,’ but we may be far yet from the time when He shall say, ‘It is done’; and for all the slow years between His own word gives us the law of His activity, ‘My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.’" --The Translation of Elijah and the Ascension of Christ, 2 Kings 2:11
". . . the angels of the Divine Presence are with us as truly, in life, when unseen as if seen. -- Elijah's Translation and Elisha's Deathbed, 2 Kings 2:12
"Not the greatest are indispensable. God lays aside one tool, but only to take up another. He has inexhaustible stores. The work goes on, though the workers change, and there is little time for mere mourning, and none for idle sorrow." --Gentleness Succeeding Strength, 2 Kings 2:13-22
"There is nothing on which some people pride themselves more than upon being practical-which generally means prosaic, and often means blind to God’s greatest deeds." --Gentleness Succeeding Strength, 2 Kings 2:13-22
2 KINGS 4
". . . while God is always giving, our capacity to receive determines the degree of our individual possession of Him. Or, to put it in the plainest words-we have as much of God as we can take in; and the principal factor in settling how much we can take is-how much we wish." --When the Oil Flows, 2 Kings 4:6
"God can give more than we can ask or think, but He cannot at the moment give more than we expect or desire." --When the Oil Flows, 2 Kings 4:6
". . . the day will come, not here, but in the upper chamber, when parted ones shall clasp each other again; and many a mourner shall hear Jesus say from the throne what He once said from the Cross, ‘Woman, behold thy son; son, behold thy mother.’" --A Miracle Needing Effort, 2 Kings 4 25-37
2 KINGS 5
"Naaman wished to be treated like a great man that happened to be a leper; Elisha treated him like a leper that happened to be a great man." --Naaman's Wrath, 2 Kings 5:10, 11
". . . a great many of us would be quite willing to go to heaven, but we do not like to go in a common caravan. We want to have a compartment to ourselves, and to travel in a manner becoming our position." --Naaman's Wrath, 2 Kings 5:10, 11
"The vivid realisation of God in our daily lives is the true shield against the enticements of the world." --Naaman's Imperfect Faith, 2 Kings 5:15-27
"One lie needs another to cover it, and every sin is likely to beget a successor." --Naaman's Imperfect Faith, 2 Kings 5:15-27
2 KINGS 6
"Any man who calmly reflects on the possibilities and certainties of his life will find abundant reason for a sinking heart. So much that is dreadful and sad may come, and so much must come, that the boldest may well shrink, and the most resourceful cry ‘Alas! how shall we do?’ It is not courage, but blindness, which enables godless men to front life so unconcernedly." --Sight and Blindness, 2 Kings 6:8-18
"The truest vision is the vision of faith. It is certain, direct, and conclusive. The world says, ‘Seeing is believing’; the gospel says, ‘Believing is seeing.’" --Sight and Blindness, 2 Kings 6:8-18
"There is a mist over every eye that beholds only the things of time, which prevents it from seeing these as they are, and from recognising a prophet when he is before them. If we would rightly estimate the objects of sense, we must discern, shining through them, the far loftier and greater things of eternity. That flaming background is needed to supply a scale by which to measure the others. The flat plain of Lombardy is most beautiful when its flatness is seen girdled by the giant Alps, where lies the purity of the snow which feeds the rivers that fertilise the levels below." --Sight and Blindness, 2 Kings 6:8-18
2 KINGS 7
"How foolish men’s demonstrations of impossibility look beside God’s deliverances! We have not gone through all the chambers of His storehouse, and ‘His ways are far above, out of our sight.’ Let us hold fast by the faith that His arm is strong to do whatever His lips are gracious to engage, nor let our inability to see where the river gets through the mountains ever make us doubt that it will reach the sunlit ocean." --Impossible,--Only I Saw It, 2 Kings 7:1-16
"We are, every one of us, responsible for all the eyes which we could have opened and which are still dark, and for every soul that gropes in ignorance, if we possess something that would enlighten its darkness." --Silent Christians, 2 Kings 7:9
2 KINGS 8
"God foresees it all. God puts men into circumstances where they will fall, God presents to them things which they will make temptations. God takes the consequences of their wrongdoing and works them into His great scheme. That is undeniable on one side, and on the other it is as undeniable that God’s foreseeing leaves men free. God’s putting men into circumstances where they fall is not His tempting them. God’s non-prevention of sin is not permission to sin. God’s overruling the consequences of sin is not His condoning of sin as part of the scheme of His providence." --The Story of Hazael, 2 Kings 8:9-15
"Life reveals us to ourselves. We learn to know ourselves by our actions, better than by mental self-inspection." --The Story of Hazael, 2 Kings 8:9-15
2 KINGS 10
"Nothing but walking in the law of the Lord ‘with all the heart’ will secure our walking safely." --Impure Zeal, 2 Kings 10:18-31
2 KINGS 12
"No man who regards his own reputation will consent to handle public money without some one to stand over him and see what he does with it." --Methodical Liberality, 2 Kings 12:4-15
"One would be wise always to suspect people who appeal for help ‘for the Lord’s work’ and are too ‘spiritual’ to have such worldly things as committees or auditors of their books." --Methodical Liberality, 2 Kings 12:4-15
2 KINGS 13
". . . Elisha thought that to stick to his life’s work till the last breath was out of him, and to devote the last breath to stimulating successors who might catch up the torch that dropped from his failing hands, was no unworthy end of a prophet’s life." --The Spirit of Power, 2 Kings 13:16
"God’s Church has ample resources to overcome the evil of the world. The fire is tremendous, but the Christian Church has possession of the floods that can extinguish the fire." --The Spirit of Power, 2 Kings 13:16
"All God’s promises and prophecies are conditional. There is no such thing as an unconditional promise of victory or of defeat; there is always an ‘if.’ There is always man’s freedom as a factor." --The Spirit of Power, 2 Kings 13:16
"Make room for God in your lives by your desires and you will get Him in the fullness of His power." --The Spirit of Power, 2 Kings 13:16
"The reason why many of us professing Christians have so little of the strength of God in our lives is because we have made so little use of the strength that we have." --The Spirit of Power, 2 Kings 13:16
2 KINGS 17
"Now, as ever, walking with God means walking in the opposite direction from the crowd, and that requires some firm nerve." --A Kingdom's Epitaph, 2 Kings 17:6-18
" . . . ‘as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,’ whatever his cloak may be; and the thing which we count most precious and long most for is our god, whatever our professions of orthodox religion." --A Kingdom's Epitaph, 2 Kings 17:6-18
"The darker the background of sin, the brighter the beams of His light show against it. Man’s sin is made the occasion for a more glorious display of God’s character and heart. It is on the storm-cloud that the sun paints the rainbow." --A Kingdom's Epitaph, 2 Kings 17:6-18
2 KINGS 18
"The whole secret of a joyful, strong, noble Christian life lies here-that on the foundation of faith we should rear tenacious adherence to Him in spite of all obstacles." --Hezekiah, A Pattern of Devout Life, 2 Kings 18:5, 6
"However close we may be to God, it is always possible to press closer. However full may be the union, it may always be made fuller; and the cleaving spirit will always be longing for a closer contact and a more blessed sense of being in touch with God." --Hezekiah, A Pattern of Devout Life, 2 Kings 18:5, 6
2 KINGS 22
"Unvalued things easily slip out of sight, and if the preservation of Scripture depended on the estimation which some of us have of it, it would have been lost long ago." --The Rediscovered Law and Its Effects, 2 Kings 22:8-20
"There is too much unwillingness, in many modern conceptions of Christ’s gospel, to recognise the place which the apprehension of personal evil consequences from sin has in the initial stages of the process by which we are ‘translated from the kingdom of darkness into that of God’s dear Son.’" --The Rediscovered Law and Its Effects, 2 Kings 22:8-20
2 KINGS 25
"The fall of Jerusalem is not merely a tragic story from the past. It is a revelation, for the present, of the everlasting truth, that the professing people of God deserve and receive the sorest chastisement, if they turn again to folly." --The End, 2 Kings 25:1-12
"As long as His gaze can discern the possibility of repentance, He will not strike; and when that is hopeless, He will not delay." --The End, 2 Kings 25:1-12
"God’s reluctance to punish is no reason for doubting that He will." --The End, 2 Kings 25:12
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