The true disciple's POSITION and calling. "Glorify your Father which is in heaven."(W. That is all you and I have to do — tend the light, and do not like cowards cover it up. The true disciple's POSITION and calling. Illustrate by heathen customs: Malagasy sprinkling the people; Chinese paper-money sent to the dead. That is all you and I have to do — tend the light, and do not like cowards cover it up. The best style in writing is that which gives the thought with such transparency that the reader sees nothing else; and that is the noblest Christian character which shows the most of Christ. This light discloses God, the way to heaven, etc. (Christian Age. W. The city is lit by lamps, and yet it is the gas that lightens it. Your good works may be seen, and ought to be seen, but to God's glory, and not your own. Moberley, D. C. L.What are the limits of lawful showing of our deeds, so that we may not break the law which bids us be secret?1. 3. 4. )Hidden light diesD. REMOVE A DIFFICULTY which may have arises from an apparent inconsistency between our text and the words of our Lord in a subsequent part of His discourse. Men are affected by what they see.(W. A reproducer of this light.3. Not only the honour but the progress of religion depend upon your examples. The city is lit by lamps, and yet it is the gas that lightens it. This is to be done by the position we take up.2. The moral qualities enjoined in Christianity are in the highest degree natural — not artificial or secondary. Rees.I. "God is the eternal fountain of all honour and glory, therefore, strictly speaking, cannot be dishonoured; He cannot but be glorified, because to be Himself is to be-infinitely glorious. God alone can light you; teachers may polish.2. In the same way the evil deeds of open and avowed unbelievers are taken no notice of by the world, for there is no light behind them. IV. But so soon as a man becomes connected with Christ and His Church, the light that is within him will be sure to make manifest his inconsistencies to all around.God, not self, the end of Christian exampleW. That they may glorify your Father which is in heaven. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians provoke men to a curious observation and examination of them, and also of the grounds and principles from which they proceed.III. OUR BEST Matthew 5:14-16 INTRODUCTION One of the scariest things for most of us to do in our Christian life is to witness. CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE. The passage read to the end will remove the difficulty suggested. THE FACT THAT THERE IS A LIGHT POSSESSED BY CHRISTIANS WHICH PECULIARLY BELONGS TO THEM. The light abides pure, though the air be corrupted in which it shines. Consider the PLACING.1. It consecrates a man entirely to the service of light.giving. The world, though corrupt, is very sensible of what Christian practice ought to be. A work which needs sustaining.5. A great central storehouse of coal-gas is accumulated, and with that all the lamps are connected by a hidden system of pipes, so that each is supplied with the necessary quantity; and, as the result, we can thread our way through the intricate places of the city as easily, if not as safely, by night as by day. Even Song of Solomon, i.e., like the city on the hill, the candle on the candlestick, not ‘so that they may see,’ as the common version might be understood. The Christian must show that he is earnest about religion. And there are many who put such devices on the window, through which the light of their characters shines, that no beholder is ever moved to think of God. That they may glorify your Father which is in heaven.(D. )Christ shines into the world through the lives of His peopleW. Be real, let all be really addressed to God.3. It is possible for good men to smother and shroud their light. Spurgeon. Be real, let all be really addressed to God.3. It is possible for good men to smother and shroud their light. Taylor. … Slocombe. Their song, like that of the cuckoo, is a constant repetition of their own name, and the listener is wearied with its iteration. It was Michael Angelo who, according to the beautiful illustration of a Boston preacher, placed his candle so in his pasteboard cap that his own shadow might not fall upon his work. Rees. A. Light is self-evident and consistent.3. Maclaren, D. D.)A good example a rebuke of evilA. Curling, M. The moral qualities enjoined in Christianity are in the highest degree natural — not artificial or secondary. )Hidden light diesD. His calling is from the elevated position he occupies, to shed light upon the whole world.II. Hence it appears that we ought frequently to contemplate the examples of good men, out of which there are so many and so great advantages to be drawn. A personal work to every man who is the subject of it.4. All the glass in the optical instruments, whether they are intended for scientific purposes, or for ordinary use, should be free from dross.(S. The silver reflectors are burnished to the brightest purity, and every funnel and glass are absolutely without a spot. He must shine: —1. TO let our light shine is, undoubtedly, to make a Christian profession. But so soon as you put a light behind it you thereby reveal its filthiness to every beholder. Taylor. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians provoke men to a curious observation and examination of them, and also of the grounds and principles from which they proceed.III. Let Christ be all and in all. A reproducer of this light.3. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians will be a sure means of recommending them to the favour and esteem, love and friendship, of unbelievers; and consequently a sure means of gaining opportunities of conversing familiarly with them, insinuating truth into them, and making them willing and easy to receive it. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians will naturally attract the eyes of unbelievers. By that discovery, to which we have been so long accustomed that we have ceased to reckon it wonderful. Goode, M. A.of the world. Modestly but yet bravely carry out your Christianity, and men will see it. We should learn in them to see our own faults, and to mend them. A lamp must be fed with oil, or it will not keep alight. Maclaren, D. D. A sunbeam has no power to shine if it be severed from the sun than a man has to give light in this dark world if he be parted from Jesus Christ. Every man has a light peculiar to himself.2. Knowledge.3. The prohibition is of religious acts from a wrong motive, "that they may be seen of men." In my previous church, I had an older congregation. of 5:16, Jesus says that our good works are to be done so that men will glorify your Father in heaven. 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. In looking at a painted window, we think more of the artist and his picture than of the light. Maclaren, D. D.)Missionaries the lightF. That there is light in us at all makes it all the more important that we should keep ourselves pure. You may have a window all covered with dust, and spun over with the cobwebs of spiders, that have not been disturbed for years, and the passer-by, in the darkness, will take no note of its impurity. �J�Z�$��n��5KCJ���/ z���.I��í�;���g������G��oq$���l. By so doing will engage them in some serious reflections upon the Christian religion. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians provoke men to a curious observation and examination of them, and also of the grounds and principles from which they proceed.III. Taylor. Let it not be so with us. 2. W. Notice how unlimited the sphere of the natural light is. It is upon this state of facts that Christ ordained that men should carry their moral faculties up to the highest degree of excellence.IV. Curling, M. A.I. The word light implies a saving knowledge of the truth.2. CHRISTIAN CONSISTENCY. The impressions which a Church makes on the moral consciousness of the community in which it byes is a fair test of its life and power.(H. W. The light that is in him will wax dim and incur great risk of going out, because it is shut up, and not set to burn on the lamp-stand,where the fresh air may reach and feed the flame.(D. Slocombe.1. THEIR CHARACTER. The Christian's place and functions.III. It is with borrowed rays that the Christian at any time illuminates others.II. Hence it appears that we ought frequently to contemplate the examples of good men, out of which there are so many and so great advantages to be drawn. The Church's responsibility. The genuine Christian's character — "light.". M. Taylor.Do you ever pause to think out how it is that our streets are nightly lighted up? Light is derived, and therefore humble.2. All earnest Christian conviction will demand expression; and all deep experience of the purifying power of Christ upon character will show itself in conduct.III. H�|Uˮ�6��+���ĵ��=ˢܹ@W�.��+�{+��I�}`�å$:���"�%Q������j�����>k�5)��7j�_��>g `ވ"�����?m�(�E���� S�Y��E��#)Ev��d���/#��.-�Td)�D$>�DžG��4��Ec�_`5[� �:�­6[[\�����)���vv��{�$��G�q�;�S@΍��T����m�'D�W��y`Ze�Q�I�����G@YeQ�RV�.���2 9�6��0Ɍ�^D�gn����L�����S=/�����͌����[�laM:N�+'�8�Ǥ�R����Z�ׄ���VM��[ ���G��'�h(� �[?D� %%EOF Curling, M. Maclaren, D. D.)The purity of example the primary care of the ChristianA. Please turn with me to Matthew 5. Show me the worker," the sun answers us with a rebuke of intolerable light.(Dr. This obligation of giving light is still further enforced by the thought that THAT WAS CHRIST'S VERY PURPOSE IN ALL THAT HE HAS DONE WITH US AND FOR US. )Th,e light to reveal the work, not the workerDr. 1. Slocombe. )Th,e light to reveal the work, not the workerDr. Men oppose light and yet light is pleasant to them.III. Then the light is a joyous and happy sort of thing.(W. Maclaren, D. D.ou. A. �Bz4�2)2����U! The nature and property of light is to radiate.

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