Sermons & Devotionals by Octavius Winslow
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Octavius Winslow
Consider Jesus– in Intercessory Prayer
"I pray for them." –John 17:9 There is no part of Christ's Priestly office more soothing to the sick, tried, and suffering believer, than His intercessory supplication on their behalf. To know that we are borne upon the prayerful hearts of our fellow-Christians, in times when providences are trying,... Read More
Octavius Winslow
Consider Jesus– in Loneliness
"And shall leave me alone." –John 16:32 Jesus, for the most part, lived a lonely and solitary life. It was of necessity so. There was much in His mission, more in His character, still more in His person, that would baffle the comprehension, and estrange from Him the interest and the sympathy of the ... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in Lowliness of Birth
"Is not this the carpenter's son?"--Matthew 13:55 What a remarkable fact in the history of Jesus does this question, asked with mingled surprise and contempt, betray! It presents Him in a point of light in which, perhaps, few have paused to study Him, and yet than which there is scarcely another mor... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in Obedience to Divine Law
"He became obedient unto death." –Phil. 2:8 A higher obedience of Christ is this, than that we have just considered, since it is obedience to a Divine law and to a Heavenly Parent. Those who honor and obey God will not be found willfully and persistently dishonoring and disobeying an earthly one. Th... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in Obedience to Human Law
"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." –Matt. 22:21 The obedience of Jesus, whether natural or moral--whether yielded to a divine or a human law--was, like all that He did, worthy of Himself. In no instance did He exhibit anything approaching resistance to constituted authority. Rebelli... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in Sickness
"He Himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses." –Matthew 8:17 How closely and tenderly is Jesus one with His Church! Take the subject of the present meditation as an illustration. There is not a chamber of pining sickness, nor a couch of suffering languor, at which His presence may not b... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in Soul-trouble
"Now My soul is deeply troubled." –John 12:27 In this lay our Lord's greatest suffering--His soul-sorrow. Compared with this, the lingering, excruciating tortures of the cross--the extended limbs, the quivering nerves, the bleeding wounds, the burning thirst--were, as nothing. This was physical, the... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in the Anticipation of Death
"Father, save Me from this hour." –John 12:27 There were some expressions of feeling in our Lord's life which can only be accounted for on the ground of His perfect humanity. Such, for example, as His apparent shrinking from suffering and death. And this, in its turn, can only find a solution in the... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in the Avoidance of Offence
"Lest we should offend." –Matt. 17:27 How truly was our Lord Jesus 'harmless' because He was 'undefiled.' In Him was no sin. That His Gospel should have been an offence to the scribes and Pharisees, and that His cross was an offence to the world, is no marvel. It was so then, it is so now, and it wi... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in the Elevation of Rank
"King of kings, and Lord of lords." –Revelation 19:16 The twofold nature of Jesus brought Him into the closest personal relation to, and sympathy with, the two great divisions of the race--the Commonalty and the Nobility--and thus He becomes a proper subject of instructive study to both. We have con... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in the Exercise of Influence
"Be followers of me, even as I am of Christ." –1 Cor. 11:1 INFLUENCE is the subject which these words suggest for our present meditation--the influence of Christ reflected in the influence of the Christian. "Follow me, as I follow Christ." The power of influencing others is a wonderful and responsib... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in the Exercise of Praise
"I will declare your name to my brothers; in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises." –Hebrews 2:12 These are the words of Jesus quoted by the apostle from a prophetical psalm concerning Him. We have considered Him as teaching us by His example to pray; it may promote our personal... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in the Forgiveness of Injury
"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." –Luke 23:34 If the Christian precept of FORGIVENESS be estimated by the magnitude of the injury forgiven, then these words of Jesus present to our view a forgiveness of an inconceivable and unparalleled injury. The greatest crime man ever commi... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in the Possession of Wealth
"He was RICH." –2 Cor. 8:9 Rank and wealth may exist apart from each other. In Jesus they were combined. He could not be the Divinest, and not be the Richest Being in the universe; the Creator, and not the Owner of all worlds. Moreover, He could say, "All SOULS are mine" –a wealth second only to the... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in the Power of His Resurrection
"That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection." –Phil. 3:10 Is there not some danger of lingering too exclusively at the cross, to the exclusion of the grave of Jesus? In other words, do we give the subject of Christ's RESURRECTION that place in our faith and meditation which we give to Hi... Read More
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Consider Jesus– in the Straitness of Poverty
"He became poor." –2 Cor. 8:9 The wealth of Jesus, of which we have already spoken, was essential; His poverty, of which we are now to speak, was willingly assumed. "He became poor." By an act of unparalleled beneficence, He emptied Himself of His wealth and linked Himself with a life of dependent p... Read More
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Consider Jesus– Our Paymaster
"He was oppressed." –Isa. 53:7 The Hebrew word here rendered "oppressed," signifies to exact, or, to demand payment. It is so rendered in the following passage--"The creditor shall not EXACT of his neighbor, nor of his brother, in the year of release." The word taskmaster comes from the same root; a... Read More
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Consider Jesus– the Object of Popular Favor
When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, "Who is this?" –Matthew 21:10 Jesus was now enthroned upon the highest wave of popular favor. It was, perhaps, the only moment in His earthly history in which it might be said that His popularity was in the ascendant. The sun of hum... Read More
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Consider Jesus– the Object of Popular Hate
"He was despised and rejected—a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief." Isaiah 53:3 Our Lord's was a chequered history. Lights and shadows thickly blended in the marvelous picture of His life. The lights were but few; the shadows predominated. He did not come into the world to be joyful an... Read More
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Divine Acceptance
"I will accept you with your sweet savor."--Ezek. 20:41 There is not an essential truth of the Gospel more dimly perceived or imperfectly estimated, and yet not one more clearly revealed or more unspeakably precious, than the doctrine of God's acceptance of the believing sinner. An error here is des... Read More
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