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NASB | Luke 18:8 "I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 18:8 "I tell you that He will defend and avenge them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [this kind of persistent] faith on the earth?" |
Subject: We Will Not Have This Man Rule Over Us |
Bible Note: "What a heart-breaking thought it is, that there are far more, of our fellow-men -- many of them the professed disciples of Christ -- on the way to the bottomless pit, than to the Father's house. "Why did the Jews so scornfully reject Jesus? Because He was not the sort of deliverer they wished: neither was the salvation He offered them, the kind of salvation they ardently longed for. They would not have it, or Him on any terms. 'We will not have this man reign over us,' was their settled decision. So they hurried Him to the cross. And the case is still the same. What is substantially the same old grand gospel, is now generally welcomed among us as doctrine, but Christ as actual Lord, is just as little wanted, and His salvation is just as little relished then as now. The modern church no more really welcomes the rule of Christ, than the ancient people of Israel accepted Him as their King. All this brings us back to the Word, 'The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it?' Whose heart? Mine. This is the heaviest affliction I have, and it is as distressing to speak of it, as to detail the shame of a mother. If what I have said, be true, it is well that we should all solemnly think of it. If not true, it were an unspeakable mercy to me, to have my mistake corrected. "This subject may possibly somewhat new to you. It is most familiar for long years to me, and what I have hinted at -- the deceit of the human heart -- is the heaviest affliction I have. May the Lord keep us and draw us near to Himself." --John Dickie |
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