...men of known and expansive benevolence, who are blessed with property, and are friends to Him, who was rich, yet, for our sakes. became poor, that we. through His poverty, might be rich, and request them, from love to Him and to their fellow-man, to take Into serious consideration the...

...necessary for man's salvation : 3 the grace of the Father, His first love and the gift of His Son ; the " grace of our Lord Jesus Christ," Who, " though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor " 4 ; the grace of the Holy Spirit, through Whose overshadowing the Saviour...

...Christ ; that is, give yourself to the kind of self-sacrificing soul-saving life He lived. You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who though He was rich yet for our sake He became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich. ' Let us do the same thing. ' I...

...Paul's argument was illogical ; so perhaps — we say it with all reverence — was the conduct of Him Who " though He was rich yet for our sakes became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich." There are cases in which sympathy (feeling with) is higher than logic. After the...

...limited, and his energies to be bound. Having drank into the spirit of Him, " who, though he was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich," he disdains the narrow confines of any party, and seeks to live, and move, and have his being, amid...

...God's people up to the standard of duty as declared in His Word, arid, above all, as revealed in Him who though He was rich yet for our sakes became poor that we through His poverty might be rich. Your committee recommends that Synod appoint the last Sunday in November to be observed in all the...

...to acknowledge that we are not our own, since we are bought with a price? And if our Lord Jesus, who was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich, have any of us, his children, so much of his Spirit that we are willing, for his sake and for the sake...

...believe." This attitude of Christianity towards the needy ever exalts the Lord of Christianity, who for our sakes became poor that we through His poverty might be rich. For though He knew He was equal with God, He emptied Himself to save men. When one attempts to comprehend...

...strengthens the spirit of beneficence in the giver's heart, allying him more closely to the One who was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich. The act of the widow who cast two mites — all that she had — into the treasury, is placed on record...

...the spirit of love to God and to man, which is the spirit of genuine piety. It is the spirit of him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich. Here let us pause a moment, before proceeding to the main discussion. If this is...