Studies in the Sermon on the Mount. Oswald Chambers

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      STUDIES IN THE

      SERMON

      ON THE

      MOUNT

      _____

      CHAMBERS

      STUDIES IN THE

      SERMON ON THE MOUNT

      By

      OSWALD CHAMBERS

      Author of "Bible Psychology" "The Cure

      of t Souls/' etc. Principal of London

      Bible Training College.

      "We may all be disciples; why should we not be scholars of the one

      Teacher? Come, let Him lure thee—give up all other teachers and

      hear this Teacher sent from God."

       J. PARKER

      God's Revivalist Press

      Cincinnati, Ohio.

      COPYRIGHTED, 1915,

      BY GOD'S REVIVALIST OFFICE.

      FOREWORD.

      In his Sixth Study our author says, "Jesus warns His disciples to test preachers and teachers by their fruit. There are two ways of testing by fruit—one by the fruit in the life of the preacher, and the other is by the fruit in the life of the doctrine." It is a genuine joy to be able to apply these touchstones of character and teaching to the life and words of Oswald

      Chambers.

      It was the writer's rare privilege to be in the same home with him and to sit under his ministry for a number of months; to see him daily and to find in him a patient counselor, an exemplary as well as trustworthy teacher, and a Christlike friend. The following words are none too vividly descriptive of this modern prophet teacher:

      "Who never sold the truth to -serve the hour,

      Nor paltered with eternal God for power,

      Who let the turbid stream of rumor flow

      Thro' either babbling world high or low;

      Whose life is work, whose language rife

      With rugged maxims hewn from life,

      Who never spoke against a foe"

      And as to the second test proposed, "the fruit. . . of the doctrine"—will there be found in all the Church of Christ of today one whose words are more weighty with spiritual values? "But," says some

      simple soul, "I don't understand him." The more is the pity. Leave then the evening newspaper, the book of religious wonder-tales, the high-flown writings "watered" with adjectives, but empty of thought or power, and read these pages again and again until the truth " soaks" through to your innermost conscious- ness. There is about us a flood of profession, but a failure in possession; a torrent of criticism for those who "follow not us," but a trickling rivulet of sound advice to ourselves. To heed the words of our Lord's Sermon on the Mount as interpreted by Oswald Chambers will transform holiness people into holy people, and faithless verbosity into Christian humility. Unto which glorious result, God speed the day!

       —J. F. K.

      CONTENTS.

      Study Number One

      N. B. (1) Introductory note on the Gospel according to St. Matthew and St. Luke respectively.

      (2) The student is advised to get a copy of Dr. Gore's "The Sermon on the Mount."

      ST. MATTHEW: COLLECTION OF DISCOURSES.

      1. Address to the Twelve.

      Matthew 5: 1-16, 39-42, 44-48; 7:1-6; 12:

      15-17.

      2. Address on Prayer.

      Matthew 6: 9-15 ; 7: 7-11.

      3. Answer to a Theological Question.

      Matthew 7: 13, 14 ; 8: 11, 12.

      4. Address on Worldly-mindedness.

      Matthew 6: 19-34.

      5. Address in the Synagogue of Capernaum.

      Matthew 5: 17-39, 43; 6: 1-8, 16-18.

      ST. LUKE : CHRONOLOGICAL DIVISIONS.

      1. Address to the Twelve.

      Luke 6: 20 : 20-28, 41-49; 11 : 32.

      2. Address on Prayer.

      Luke 11:1-13.

      3. Answer to a Theological Question.

      Luke 13: 23-30.

      4. Address on "Worldly-mindedness.

      Luke 12: 13-34.

      5. Address in the Synagogue of Capernaum.

      Luke 4: 31-37; (Mark 1: 21-28).