Unspoken Sermons (series 1 to 3)

Unspoken Sermons (series 1 to 3)

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Title: Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.
Author: George MacDonald
Release Date: October, 2005 [EBook #9057] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on September 1, 2003]
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[Greek: Epea Aptera]
UNSPOKEN SERMONS
BY GEORGE MACDONALD
SERIES I, II, III IN ONE VOLUME
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people

CONTENTS
UNSPOKEN SERMONS SERIES ONE
THE CHILD IN THE MIDST THE CONSUMING FIRE THE HIGHER FAITH IT SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN THE NEW NAME THE HEART WITH THE TREASURE THE TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS THE ELOI THE HANDS OF THE FATHER LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR LOVE THINE ENEMY THE GOD OF THE LIVING
UNSPOKEN SERMONS SERIES TWO
THE WAY THE HARDNESS OF THE WAY THE CAUSE OF SPIRITUAL STUPIDITY THE WORD OF JESUS ON PRAYER MAN'S DIFFICULTY CONCERNING PRAYER THE LAST FARTHING ABBA, FATHER! LIFE THE FEAR OF GOD THE VOICE OF JOB SELF-DENIAL THE TRUTH IN JESUS
UNSPOKEN SERMONS SERIES THREE
THE CREATION IN CHRIST THE KNOWING OF THE SON THE MIRRORS OF THE LORD THE TRUTH FREEDOM KINGSHIP JUSTICE LIGHT THE DISPLEASURE OF JESUS RIGHTEOUSNESS THE FINAL UNMASKING THE INHERITANCE

UNSPOKEN SERMONS FIRST SERIES
_These Ears of Corn. gathered and rubbed in my hands upon broken Sabbaths, I offer first to my Wife, and then to my other Friends._

THE CHILD IN THE MIDST.
_And he came to Capernaum: and, being in the house, he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves who should be the greatest. And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me; and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me._----MARK ix. 33-37.
Of this passage in the life of our Lord, the account given by St Mark is the more complete. But it may be enriched and its lesson rendered yet more evident from the record of St Matthew.
"Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."
These passages record a lesson our Lord gave his disciples against ambition, against emulation. It is not for the sake of setting forth this lesson that I write about these words of our Lord, but for the sake of a truth, a revelation about God, in which his great argument reaches its height.
He took a little child--possibly a child of Peter; for St Mark says that the incident fell at Capernaum, and "in the house,"--a child therefore with some of the characteristics of Peter, whose very faults were those of a childish nature. We might expect the child of such a father to possess the childlike countenance and bearing essential to the conveyance of the lesson which I now desire to set forth as contained in the passage.
For it must be confessed that there are children who are not childlike. One of the saddest and not least common sights in the world is the face of a child whose mind is so brimful of worldly wisdom