Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 17        The Moral Conditions of Belief               ...a good conscience; which some having put away (thrust from them--R. V.) concerning faith have made shipwreck--1Ti 1:19               Tampering with Conscience              We must try to understand what the apostle means when he speaks of putting away a good conscience. He means what in the idiom of today we describe as tampering with conscience. The good conscience of our text does not just signify an approving conscience. It signifies a conscience that is working well, just as we might speak of a good clock. And as a man can tamper with his clock, so can he subtly tamper with his conscience until at last it ceases to be good. Let conscience wo...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 16        The Ambition of Quietness               We beseech you...that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business--1Th 4:1-11               Dangers of Great News of the Past and the Future              The church at Thessalonica to which Paul wrote the letter was in an unsettled and distracted state. The Gospel had come to it in such reality that it was tempted to be untrue to duty. We have all known how a city is excited when tidings are brought to it of some great victory. The streets are thronged; the schoolboys get a holiday; men find it hard to persist in the day's duty. It was with somewhat of the same intensity of impress, with its consequent unsettlement and stir, that the news of the r...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 15        Folk Who Are a Comfort to Us               These...have been a comfort unto me--Col 4:11               Others Can Be Our Paregoric              The word comfort in our text is a very interesting word. This is the only place where it occurs in the books of the New Testament. It is quite another word the Lord uses when He speaks of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter. When He says, "I will not leave you comfortless," that, too, is an entirely different word. The term which is used here, and here alone in the whole range of the New Testament, is our English word paregoric. Now paregoric, in Greek just as in English, is one of accepted terms of medicine. Paregoric is a doctor's word. And one likes to t...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 14        To the Half-Hearted               Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord--Col 3:23               A Command to Slaves              I want you to note how our text is introduced; it has a very suggestive and illuminative context. "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh," that is verse twenty-two; and then, "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord," that is verse twenty-three. Now the servants of whom Paul speaks in verse twenty-two are not domestic servants in our sense. They were slaves, bought for a little money; the property and the chattels of their master. Yet even to slaves who got no wages and who had no rights, clear and imperious comes the c...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 13        In the Name               And whatever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him--Col 3:17               Men of Old Put Great Faith in Names              To the original readers of this letter this text would have a deep significance, and it would have that because to them there was so much that was mysterious in a name. With us there is little meaning in a name. It is a handy badge of recognition. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But with the eastern it was very different. It was no chance that called a rose a rose. There was a deep, a mystical connection between the name and the ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 12        The Thankful Spirit               Be ye thankful--Col 3:15               In the Midst of Adversity              The people to whom this was addressed were mostly people in very humble circumstances. Many of them would have been slaves. Their lot at the best was not a pleasant lot. Their privileges were as few as their enjoyments. And always in a heathen city to be a Christian aggravated everything. Yet the singular thing is that when the apostle wrote them, in such letters as this to the Colossians, he never seems to have offered them his sympathy. When death enters any of our homes, the mourners receive many kind letters. I have often wondered what fashion of a letter the apostle would have ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Today's Devotional November 11        The Perfecting Power of Love               Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness--Col 3:14               Paul, an Apostle of Love              We are accustomed to think of Paul as a dogmatic writer, never so happy as when immersed in argument, but we must not forget with what affecting tenderness he has written of the grace of love. Great intellectual strength like that of Paul is often intolerant of tender feeling. Moving along the lines of demonstration, it disdains the heart as a true source of knowledge; but from that temptation Paul is entirely free for while he is the very prince of reasoners, he insists with ever increasing emphasis on the power and ...