Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For March 31        The Child in the Midst               And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them--Mat 18:2               Jesus' Love for Children              I want to speak on Jesus and the child to show you out of the Bible story how precious childhood was to Jesus Christ. And I want to do it just that we may feel that when the Church which is His body tends the children it is certain to have the blessing of the Master.              First, then, we may find how Jesus valued them by the loving way in which He had observed them. With a quick eye and with a loving heart He had been watching them when they never dreamed ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For March 30        The Transfiguration               And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light--Mat 17:1-2               Scenes on Mountains              How often the Bible brings us into mountain scenery. It was on a mountain that Abraham prepared to offer Isaac and that men received the law of Moses, and from a mountainside the law of Christ. The bitterest conflict between Elijah and the prophets of Baal was on Mount Carmel. John was on a great mountain when he saw the new Jerusalem descend; and on a mountain occurred the transfig...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For March 29        The Master Builder               I will build my church--Mat 16:18               Jesus Used the Term Church Only Twice              Only on two occasions did our Lord use the word Church, here and in the eighteenth chapter, where He says, "Tell it to the church." In the rest of the New Testament the word occurs with frequency, sometimes of the universal church, and sometimes of the local church. But to the lips of our Lord Himself it rises only twice. It has been argued that He never used it, and that it really is due to the evangelist, writing at a later date, when the word had passed into the common speech. But that our Lord actually used it seems to me entirely likely, and that for two consid...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For March 26        Son of Man               Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?--Mat 16:13               The Name by Which Jesus Most Frequently Called Himself              There are two names which our Lord was wont to use when He spoke about His person or His work. The one was the Son of God, and the other was the Son of Man. It was not often that He used the former title, if we may judge by the Synoptic Gospels, and when He used it, it was always in some moment of unusual importance and solemnity. But it is different with the latter, "the Son of Man." This was constantly upon the lips of Christ. It seems to have been His most familiar word when He referred to His person or His work. And so deeply engraven...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For March 25        The Cross and the World -- Part II               I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel--Mat 15:24               I, if I be lifted up...will draw all men unto me--Joh 12:32               The Answer for a Universal Need              In the next place, the death of Christ interprets and answers a universal longing. It meets with perfect satisfaction the deepest need of all the world.              One of the great gains of this age of ours is that it has drawn the world together so. There is now an intermingling of the nations that but a few decades ago w...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For March 24        The Cross and the World -- Part I               I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel--Mat 15:24               I, if I be lifted up...will draw all men unto me--Joh 12:32               Christ Came to and for Israel              We have but to read the record of the Gospels, to find confirmation of the former of these texts. The whole activity of Christ on earth shows Him as sent to the lost sheep of Israel. Within the boundaries of Israel He was born, and within the boundaries of Israel He died. With the one exception of the journey here recorded, He never in His maturity left the Jewish land. His twelve discipl...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For March 22        Beginning to Sink               Beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me--Mat 14:30               The Pathos of a Wasted Life              There are two sights in human life which fill the heart with profound sorrow. The first is that of a person who has sunk. When we see a face made loathsome by iniquity and think that once it was innocent and childlike; when we hear of somebody who bore an honoured name, but is now in the depths of degradation, that is one of life's most piteous spectacles. It arrests even the worldly-minded who cherish no ideals for humanity; how much more must it sadden one who has anything of the vision of Christ Jesus. Men who are sunken--women who are sunken--ar...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For March 19          Feeding the Five Thousand               And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude--Mat 14:19               The Only Miracle Recorded in All Four Gospels              This is the only miracle recorded in each of the four Gospels, and we must take that as a token of the profound impression which it made. To us, the raising of Lazarus is more astounding than this mountain feast; but had we lived in Galilee, and heard the common talk, we should have perhaps found that this miracle was graven deepest on men's heart...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For March 17        The Pearl of Great Price               The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it--Mat 13:45-46               The Pearl in Ancient Times              Although the pearl is still held in high esteem, it does not now occupy the place which once belonged to it. In the old world, at any rate in the East, it was the most precious of all precious stones. The diamond was not unknown to the ancients, but it was too rare for effective illustration. Its introduction here would have had little meaning for the disciples to whom this parable was spoken. The measure of value which we gi...