Zechariah 9:12 Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double to you; There are three classes of prisoners in the moral universe without hope, and there are three classes of prisoners with hope. 1. The angels which kept not their first estate. 2. Men and women who have lived amid Gospel privileges. 3. The men and women in this city who are just as certain to be damned as they live and walk on the face of the earth today.There are prisoners with hope. 1. The men and women of earth who have taken up "their cross to follow Christ. Prisoners of hope, now hemmed in by the environments of earth, but soon to be God's freemen in heaven. 2. The man who says, "God knows my heart, I wish I were a better man." There is hope at the Cross for the weakest man in the world. Then do not be a prisoner without hope, be a prisoner with hope. (Sara. P. Jones.) Parallel Verses KJV: Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; |
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