Cutting. But the time shall never come when it can be said of Jesus, His hand is shortened that it cannot save. Follow for a moment THE SUGGESTIONS OF TRUE CONTEXT; remember those who exercised a blessed, loving, wise " rule " over you, who " spake to you the Word of God," pastors, parents, friends; those who first interpreted to you your soul's yearning and restlessness, and pointed you to Christ for rest; the true and trusty ones who warned you against your dangers, and helped you in your temptations, and solaced you in your griefs; who seemed to read your life, and could speak the very words you needed. He gave Himself to it in the beginning; undertook it when man fell; made ready for His advent during four thousand years; came in the fulness of time. And because they speak the Word of God we have no choice but to listen. Disappointment cannot quench your hopefulness, for He is the unchanging Hope. II. Disappointment cannot quench your hopefulness, for He is the unchanging Hope. God's decrees may be taught so as to make men feel that they are oppressive; but the thought that the decrees of God run through time and eternity, and that He is true to them, so far from being repulsive, is exceedingly attractive. And is He the same in His devotedness to the work of redemption? And one proof of it is that the graces which He shed on the first age of the Church were of exactly the same quality as those which we now enjoy. Our text speaks of One who is even now unchanging. This gives undying value to all the offers, invitations, and promises of the gospel.(T. Again the thought of the immutable One bears up out of the confusion of changing things. The text is a declaration of the immutability of Jesus Christ, and so takes for granted His divinity. "He hath an unchangeable priesthood." Indeed, there could be no providence without change; no providing and no rule would be possible if no new circumstances arose. Martin. The yesterday of my text may either be applied to the generations that have passed, and then the "to-day" is our little life; or it may be applied to my own yesterday, and then the to-day is this narrow present. These things constitute being and character, and these in Him are without change.(A. Paul speaks of worlds and epochs, of which we now know nothing, that are all to be gathered together, and seen fulfilled in Christ. Difficulties will not daunt you, for He is the unchanging Helper. It was there. Some such change may be suggested in 1 Corinthians 15:24, 28. Jesus Christ, in all that constitutes His personality and in all that pertains to His character, is the same, and cannot change. Sorrow cannot long dim your eyes, for He is the unchanging Comforter. Indeed, there could be no providence without change; no providing and no rule would be possible if no new circumstances arose. And to-day many of you are found among those who wait for His appearing, and who love His appearing — and as the vision seems to tarry, and as the time appears to be delayed, often do you hear Him say, "I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also." This glory — the fulness of grace and truth — is "the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever." Jesus Christ, in all that constitutes His personality and in all that pertains to His character, is the same, and cannot change. It can be construed as providing the grounds or reason for the preceding statement in v. 7. Yesterday it was testified, "The love of Christ constraineth us "-it carries us out of the course of the world. LET ME SPEAK TO YOU PERSONALLY OF THE UNCHANGING SAVIOUR. What beautiful glimpses we have of the companionship of yesterday, almost tempting us to wish that we had lived then instead of to-day. LET ME SPEAK TO YOU PERSONALLY OF THE UNCHANGING SAVIOUR. The next evident claim of Christ upon us is that we should be steadfast in the faith. A DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE TRUTH OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BEFORE US, ESPECIALLY OF SUCH WHO WERE CONSTANT IN SUFFERINGS; ABOVE ALL, OF THOSE WHO WERE CONSTANT UNTO DEATH, AS THE HOLY MARTYRS IN FORMER AND LATTER AGES, IS AN EFFECTUAL MEANS TO STIR US UP UNTO THE SAME EXERCISE OF FAITH WHEN WE ARE CALLED UNTO IT. W. Cutting. You would be sorry to see him now. Think what he must have been in His mother's home for thirty years. Then to-day let us boldly confess Him. We make progress only in change — we put off the old and put on the new — we learn and unlearn — we fall and rise again; and as nature and providence are never the same on two successive days, so our souls are never in exactly the same moral state on one day as they were on the day before. It is a reality we experience every hour, every minute. What then, are the respects in which God is to be supposed to be immutable?1. 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