Be not afraid : $b Stories from the New TestamentShaw, Catharine
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Be not afraid : $b Stories from the New Testament
Shaw, Catharine
Bible stories, English -- New Testament -- Juvenile literature
The angel came down and rolled away the stone, and then told the
frightened women that Jesus was not there, but was risen, "as He said."
All through the whole of the Bible it is "As He said." As God has
said—so it will surely be.
Jesus told the disciples that He would ascend to His Father; and He led
them out to Bethany and went up to Heaven in their sight.
He told them that the Father would send the Holy Spirit down, and that
they were to wait for Him.
They did wait, and at the appointed time the Holy Spirit came, and is
with us still, though we cannot see Him; He is our Comforter and Guide.
All these things are very solemn realities.
We have been dwelling on some of the Prophecies that have been
fulfilled. There are numbers more yet to be fulfilled hereafter.
PROPHECIES WHICH ARE NOT YET FULFILLED.
2 Peter i. 19.—Matt. xxiv. 14.
The central one of all is, Jesus Christ is coming again to take His
people to be for ever with Him. He says: "Behold, I come quickly, and
My reward is with Me."
In the fiftieth Psalm we have a wonderful Prophecy and the promise:
"The mighty God . . . hath spoken . . . Our God shall come, and shall
not keep silence. Gather my saints together unto Me, those that have
made a covenant with Me by Sacrifice."
And the last Prophecies in the Bible tell us about Heaven and the
future life.
We read in Revelation xxi. 1-4 these words—
"I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away.
"And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying—
"Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them,
and they shall be His people.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be
no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain: for the former things are passed away."
XI. Sowing and Reaping
Our Lord Jesus Christ was sitting on Jacob's Well, waiting for the
return of the disciples, who had gone to the nearest village to buy
food.
It was mid-day, and the Syrian sun had been beating down on the wearied
Lord of all the earth.
At the bottom of the steps, travellers tell us, leading down to
"Jacob's Well," there is a small excavation or shelter between some
overhanging stones, and here the dear Lord may have found a little
shade while He waited.
A woman had come down these steps to draw water, and the Lord had
spoken of the Living Water which He would give her if she asked
Him; and then, after they had been talking a little while, she had
left Jesus sitting there, and had hurried into the town to tell her
neighbours that she had found the Messiah—the Christ.
While she was gone, the disciples returned and quickly offered food to
their Lord.
But His reply astonished them. He said: "I have food to eat that you
do not know of. My food is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to
finish His work!"
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