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    A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies
    A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies
    A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies
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    A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies - James Hudson Taylor

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Ribband of Blue, by J. Hudson Taylor

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      Title: A Ribband of Blue

      And Other Bible Studies

      Author: J. Hudson Taylor

      Release Date: November 10, 2007 [EBook #23438]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A RIBBAND OF BLUE ***

      A Ribband of Blue

      AND

      OTHER BIBLE STUDIES

      By

      J. HUDSON TAYLOR.

      (A companion volume to Union and Communion,

      and to Separation and Service.)

      London

      CHINA INLAND MISSION, Newington Green, N.

      Morgan & Scott, 12, Paternoster Buildings, E.C.

      Contents

      A Ribband Of Blue

      Blessed Prosperity

      Blessed Adversity

      Coming To The King

      A Full Reward

      Under The Shepherd's Care

      Self-Denial

      All-Sufficiency

      A Ribband Of Blue.

      We would draw the attention of beloved friends to the instructive passage with which the fifteenth chapter of Numbers closes; and may GOD, through our meditation on His precious Word, make it yet more precious and practical to each one of us, for CHRIST our REDEEMER'S sake!

      The whole chapter is full of important teaching. It commences with instruction concerning the burnt-offering, the sacrifice in performing a vow, and the free-will offering. It was not to be supposed that any one might present his sacrifice to GOD according to his own thought and plan. If it were to be acceptable--a sweet savour unto the LORD--it must be an offering in every respect such as GOD had appointed. We cannot become acceptable to GOD in ways of our own devising; from beginning to end it must be, Not my will, but Thine, be done.

      Then, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first verse, the LORD claims a first-fruits. The people of GOD were not to eat their fill, consume all that they cared to consume, and then give to GOD somewhat of the remainder; but before they touched the bread of the land, a heave-offering was to be offered to the LORD; and when the requirement of GOD had been fully met, then, and not till then, were they at liberty to satisfy their own hunger and supply their own wants. How often we see the reverse of this in daily life! Not only are necessaries first supplied from the income, but every fancied luxury is procured without stint, before the question of the consecration of substance to GOD is really entertained.

      Next follow the directions concerning errors from heedlessness and ignorance. The people were not to imagine that sin was not sinful if it were unconsciously committed. Man's knowledge and consciousness do not make wrong right or right wrong. The will of GOD was revealed and ought to have been known: not to know that will was in itself sinful; and not to do that will, whether consciously or unconsciously, was sin--sin that could only be put away by atoning sacrifice.

      GOD dealt in much mercy and grace with those who committed sins of ignorance; though, when the sin became known and recognised, confession and sacrifice were immediately needful. But, thank GOD! the sacrifice was ordained, and the sin could be put away.

      It was not so with the presumptuous sin. No sacrifice was appointed for a man, whether born in the land or a stranger, who reproached the LORD by presumptuous sin. Of that man it was said, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

      This distinction is very important to make. We are not to think that our holiest service is free from sin, or can be accepted save through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. We are not to suppose that sins of omission, any more than sins of commission, are looked lightly upon by GOD: sins of forgetfulness and heedlessness or ignorance are more than frailties--are real sins, needing atoning sacrifice. GOD deals very gently and graciously with us in these matters; when transgression or iniquity is brought home to the conscience, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Even when walking in the light, as He is in the light, we are not beyond the need of atonement. Though our fellowship with GOD be unbroken by any conscious transgression, it continues unbroken only because the blood of JESUS CHRIST HIS SON is cleansing us from all sin.

      The man, however, who would presume on GOD's forgiveness, and despise GOD's holiness and His claim upon His people, by doing deliberately the thing that he knows to be contrary to GOD's will, that man will find spiritual dearth and spiritual death inevitably follow. His communion with GOD is brought to an end, and it is hard to say how far Satan may not be permitted to carry such a backslider in heart and life. It is awfully possible not merely to grieve and to resist, but even to quench the SPIRIT of GOD.

      We have a solemn example of presumptuous sin in the case of the man found gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. He was not--he could not be ignorant of GOD'S ordinance concerning the Sabbath. The gathering of sticks was not to meet a necessity; his case was not parallel with that of the poor man who perhaps had received his wages late on Saturday night, and has had no opportunity of purchasing food in time to prepare it for the day of rest. To the Israelite, the double supply of manna was given on the morning of the day before the Sabbath; and as the

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