7 Postures Of Christ

by Mervyn Wishart

Overview

Seven Postures of Christ is a series of gleanings from the four Gospels in which we are invited to marvel at the glory of our Lord Jesus displayed in various postures that He adopted during his earthly life.
There is no subject more captivating for the Christian than ‘the things concerning Himself’ (Luke 24:27). We will read of Him stooping, lying, walking, sitting, standing, touching, and bowing his head in death on the cross.
Joseph, the beloved son of Jacob, was given a coat of many colours; undoubtedly a picture for us of the many facets of the glory of our blessed Lord, the One of whom Peter speaks as ‘a living stone . . . chosen of God, and precious (1 Pet. 2:4), and ‘a chief corner stone, elect, precious’ (v. 6). He is precious to God but has now become precious to us: ‘To you therefore who believe [is] the preciousness’ (v. 7 JND).
In this book the writer endeavours to draw together devotional studies, many of which by their very nature have a practical bearing on our lives. The studies are by no means exhaustive; the riches of Christ are unsearchable, His person inscrutable, His love immeasurable.

If the reading of these lines draws the reader closer to the Lord Jesus, then its existence will be justified.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912522620
Publisher:	John Ritchie Ltd
Publication date:	07/01/2019
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.87(w) x 7.87(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Mervyn Wishart resides with his wife Margaret in Newcastle, Co. Down. He has been an elder in Shimna Gospel Hall for many years. His working life was spent in the construction industry. Since 2004 Mervyn has made annual visits to India for gospel preaching and Bible teaching. He contributes regularly to an assembly monthly magazine in India, ‘Vineyard Echoes’. His Bible teaching ministry has also taken him to Singapore, South Korea and Australia.
He recently compiled the three volumes of The Collected Writings of J. M. Davies, which were published both in the UK and India.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Preface 9

Chapter 1 Stooping Down 12

Chapter 2 Lying 20

1 Lying in the manger: His poverty 21

2 Lying in the ship: His peace 22

3 Lying on the ground: His prostration 24

4 Lying in the tomb: His place of burial 30

Chapter 3 Sitting 38

1 Sitting in the midst of the doctors: asking questions 38

2 Sitting on the well: revealing secrets 40

3 Sitting on the Mount of Beatitudes: teaching 42

4 Sitting on a donkey: entering Jerusalem 44

5 Sitting beside the treasury: observing 47

6 Sitting in the upper room: instituting the Lord's Supper 50

Chapter 4 Standing 55

1 Standing to read: at Nazareth 55

2 Standing to preach: at the Feast in Jerusalem 57

3 Standing to call Bartimaeus: outside Jericho 61

4 Standing to witness [the] good confession: before the Governor 67

5 Standing to speak peace to His disciples: in the upper room 71

6 Standing to guide the fishermen: on the shore at Tiberias 73

Chapter 5 Walking 78

1 Walking by the River Jordan: beginning His ministry 78

2 Walking by the Sea of Galilee: calling His disciples 82

3 Walking on the Sea of Galilee: demonstrating His power 85

4 Walking in the temple: affirming His deity 88

Chapter 6 Stretching Out His Hand 93

1 To heal the sick 93

Peter's wife's mother: in Peter's house 93

A leper: in Galilee 94

The deaf and dumb man: at the Sea of Galilee 96

The blind man: at Bethsaida 97

The multitude: at Capernaum 99

Malchus: in Gethsemane 100

2 To restore life 102

The widow of Main's son: outside the city 102

Jairus' daughter: in the house 103

3 To bless the children: at the coasts of Judaea 107

4 To bless the disciples: at Bethany 109

Chapter 7 Bowing His Head 113

Seven Miracles 116

The Ninth Hour 127