Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For October 31        The Uplift of the Body -- Part I               He is the savior of the body--Eph 5:23               The True Charter of the Human Body              Students of the New Testament have often remarked how much mention is made of the body. Our text is only one of many passages which arrest us with this unusual emphasis. Of all the books in the world's literature, there is none which insists upon the soul so urgently; yet there is no book in the world's literature which has done so much to dignify the body. One of the errors of popular evangelism is that it thinks of nothing but the soul. That too was one of the errors of monasticism, and indeed ultimately proved its overthrow. It was false to the ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For October 30        The Evangelical Grace of Tenderheartedness               Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted--Eph 4:32               Paul's Hard Heart              The first thing to impress me as I read these words is the change which had been wrought in the apostle. There had been a day, not so far away, when you would scarce have expected such a word from Paul. When Paul first appears on the scene, he seems the incarnation of hardheartedness. He is a Pharisee, cruel and intolerant, delighting in sacrifice and not in mercy. He holds the clothes of the murderers of Stephen, intensely interested in that ghastly spectacle, and he makes havoc of the Church of Christ. Is it not remarkable that such a man sh...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For October 28        The Offense of the Cross               Then is the offense of the cross ceased--Gal 5:11               Paul Longed for the Salvation of the Jews              One thing which marks the ministry of Paul is how he lovingly yearned over the Jews. With a quenchless and intense desire, he prayed that they might be brought into the fold. Never did mother so long for the saving of her son as Paul longed for the saving of his countrymen. He was willing to suffer anything or everything, if only his people Israel might be won.              It is when we remember that deep longing that we realize what the cross meant for Paul. For the great stu...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For October 27        The Three Centers of Love               God so loved the world--Joh. 3:16               Christ also loved the church--Eph. 5:25               The Son of God, who loved me--Gal. 2:20               John's Assurance of God's Love for the World              We have first the love of God for the whole world, or, as we should put it, for all the human race. The world of John is not the world of nature, but the teeming world of sinful men and women. Now, the extraordinary thing is this, that such a statement should fall from Jewish lips. The ancient Hebrew was the true aristocra...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For October 26        Free Grace               And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee.--2Co 12:9              What the thorn was of which the apostle speaks is a question we never can answer. A hundred explanations have been given, yet certainty has never been obtained. Each age has its own interpretation, each commentator has his chosen theory, and we are still as far away from exact knowledge as ever. We may learn a little, it is true, from the language in which the apostle tells us about it. He tells us his trouble was a thorn. It was not like a cut of sword or a gash of a saber; it was something to all appearance insignificant, but how it festered! It was not in the spirit, it was in the flesh; it was a bodily and not a mental torment. Thus far Paul himself ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For October 25        The Apostolic Paradox               As unknown, and yet well known--2Co 6:9              It will at once occur to you how true this was of the apostles. There is not one of that first band of missionaries who were sent out to evangelize the world of whom we might not say in the words of our text, that they were unknown and yet well-known. There are no names in Christendom today more honored than the names of these evangelists. Wherever the Gospel of Jesus Christ is preached and wherever the Word of God is read and loved, the names of Peter and James and John and Thomas are familiar in our ears as household words --yet how little we know of any one of them! We have a few glimpses of them in their work; we hear them speaking a few words of arguments, or it...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For October 23        The Inescapable Elements of Life               Approving ourselves.., in necessities--2Co 6:4              When the apostle speaks about necessities he does not think of necessary things. That is not the sense of the original. There are things, the opposite of luxuries, without which we could not live at all. Such are food and drink, and the air of heaven to breathe, and the refreshing ministry of sleep. But "necessities," in the idiom of the Greek, does not connote such necessary things; it means experiences from which is no escape. It is in such experiences Paul wants to be approved --to show himself a gallant Christian gentleman. He is determined to reveal his faith and joy in the inescapable elements of life. And so, brooding upon the text, one comes...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For October 22        Forewarned, Forearmed               We are not ignorant of his devices--2Co 2:11              This is a chapter of autobiography. It is one of the glimpses we get into the great human heart that everywhere throbs in these epistles. Some men's doctrine is so divorced from their life and their experience that the two seem separate spheres not to be thought of at the same moment. But it is never so with a really sincere man: and it is never so with Paul. What he believed was so bound up inextricably with what he was that he can pass from doctrine to his own history, and from his history back again to doctrine, and it all seems quite natural. O why is life so separated, part from part! Why are there these great gulfs between our Sunday and our Monday, our br...