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We’ve heard and read them often enough to be familiar with their contents. In our churches those who intend to, make public confession of their faith are asked to reply to the following questions:

Have you any idea how often the word “faith” and its related terms “faithful, faithfully, faithfulness and believe” occur in the English Old Testament? I have in mind the King James Version, which is the one commonly used in our churches. A study of your Bible with this question in mind will prove to be most revealing, even startling. 

Genesis 49:10 is that well-known and beautiful Messianic prophecy, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.” The Revised Version translates, more correctly, I believe: “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the obedience of thepeoples be.”&nbs

No two parables in Holy Writ are more nearly alike than these to which, reference is made in our subject. Little wonder, that they are frequently identified.  Both parables, that of the pounds and that of the talents, the former recorded in Luke 19:11-28, the latter taken from Matthew 25:14-30, have in view the second advent of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

REJECTION OF ERRORS 

This subject, to me, is most intriguing. True, it does not affect us quite as directly and forcefully as it did our forefathers four centuries ago. For them the question of the mass was all-important. They had been part of it. They had been raised in that doctrine and fed its heresies from infancy on. Then, by the grace of God, they had been delivered from its errors through the wonder of the Protestant Reformation. In fact, the mass was one of the main issues in the whole Reformation.

The broadest account of it you will find in Matthew 3:13-17: “Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad Him, saying, I have need to be baptized of Thee, and comest Thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered Him.

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge.” Psalm 19:1, 2. Indeed they do! Speech about God; His infinite beauties! Knowledge about God; His divine praises and glory! How well David understood that all creation is a continuous speech, declaring to us the eternal and wonderful thoughts of God.