The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-03-16

Copyright, 1906, by Joseph b. Bowles)
Golden Text And Jesus went about al
Galilee teaching i'm their synagogues and
preaching the Gospel of Che Kingdom, ana
nediing all manner OF sickness Matt.
4.23.
Certainly no mistake can be made b.
making all the lessons of the quarter
center around the person and work or
Christ. Indeed the lessons for the en-
tire year OF 1906 are taken up solely
with the life of our Lord as reveaie /
in the first three gospel accounts
Christ as Saviour, Teacher, and Work
er-as Saviour, in His relation to Sill
ners, He is TO be sought; as Teacher,
in relation TO disciples, He is TO be
obeyed and followed; as Worker, in
His relation to the needy, He is the eX-
ample of all to be followed in benef
cence and philanthropy.
Jesus as a Saviour.
Jesus is the only man known in his
tory who was born with specific refer
ence TO the sin OF the human race. He
was not a moralist, not a reformer, not
philanthropist, at least not primarily
So He came TO be mans Saviour.
Jesus did not come into the world 81
teach men how TO live, nor how e.
die; He came to show them how 10
| get rid of their sins. His name was
the insignia of His office-"Jesus, for
He shall save the people from their
sins" The world has no other such
| Saviour: Neither is their salvation
! in any other; for there is none other
name given under heaven among meh
| whereby We must be saved"
A Human Saviour
Our lessons teach us the perfec.
equipment of Christ for such work.
| He was a perfect man. He had a per-
feet human nature with all its sinles3
infrmities. He was born of a woman.
! He grew as other boys grow; He was
subject TO hunger, thirst, WEAKNESS,
pain; He slept, cried, suffered, died
He was subjected to temptations jus .
as we are, yet without yielding To
them. If He was to be the Saviour OF
tie human race. then lit behooved RiIn
70 be made in all things like unto His
brethren" There is not a note in the
great organ of our humanity which.
when touched, does not produce SYM
pathetic response in the mighty range
and scope Of our Lords being, saving
the Earring discord of sin.
Jesus Was Divine.
Not merely in the sense that we
are all divine. He possessed a deity
20 which no mere human being could
Law claim. We become" sons Of
God Gohn 1:12). Jesus never "be.
came" such; He always was" the
eternal and only-begotten Son of the
Father. AS a child He was born;
but as a Son He was given" Elsa.
500 His miraculous birth; His
power to perform works which none
other man did, save in delegated
power; His power over sickness, dis
ease. demons, Satan, and death; His
presrience, omniscience, omnipo-
tence His power over man to save,
over demons to cast them out, over
nature TO control it-these are incon-
trovertible evidences of the deity of
the Christ And such a redeemer is
Gods appointed SaviSur of the world.
No man can come TO the Father gain
an entrance into Heaven, spend an
eternity Of bliss with God, the angels,
and The spirits of just men made per
feet unless it be through Him Who
was God manifest in the flesh"
Christ as q Teacher.
lie was the greatest teacher the
world has ever known. He was the
teacher come from God" He alone
perfectly revealed the Father His
teaching was with absolute author
ity, and not as the Scribes." What
ever may be said with reference TO tn
Voluntary limitations of Christ in 9th
er respects, it cannot, it must not be
said that He was limited in His teach
ing. God gave not the Spirit by
measure unto Him" in this respect
His comments were not governed by
| popular opinions, but by direct revela
ton from the Father. Christ made no
mistakes in His teaching. The disci-
pies of Jesus Christ will therefore finl
in His word and teachings the ulti-
! mate authority i'm matters of faith AMI
practice. When Jesus has spoken the
last word on any question of faith or
practice there is nothing more to be
said on that subject. His words are
the court of final appeal. They form
our standard both here and hereafter
the word that | have spoken, tie
same shall judge him in the last day. :"
1t is because Jesus was God, divine.
deity. that His words have this final
and ultimate authority We must not
make the mistake many are making
to-day-that of seeing in Jesus the
greatest of all merely human teachers.
was that, and all of that; but RE
was more: He was divine wisdom in
carnate We must value the teaching
because of the Christ Who taught. not
value the Christ because of the teach
ing.
Jesus as a Worker.
Jesus Christ not only preached the
Gospel; He lived it, He worked II.
Words of love and deeds of love went
hand in hand together. He preached
| the Word He healed the. sick He