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| His daily life marks Him as Gods
Son. And yet it is not until we have
| taken His truth into u hearts, and
proven the richness and practicable
! ity of His theories in our own lives
that we can yield to Him the adora-
ton that is due Him. The applica-
ton by a normal nan to his own
life in true fashion of the truths Of
Jesus Christ will prove them to be
mighty unto upliftment and enliEht-
eminent and practical principles that
shall make for good when practically
used in life. The truth of Christ will
be found so full Of divine inspiration
and revelation, and the life of the
man who revealed it will then be
found to be so godly that the human
heart will hail the great revealer Son
of God. Jesus Christ cannot be un-
derstood save by those who have en-
tered into that manner of spiritual
life that shall open their eyes unto
the divine wonders of His life. NO
man can enter into the fullness or
the truths revealed in the messages
of the Master save as he stands ready
to be born again and move ahead in
the spiritual life. The disciples did
not glory in the divine Sonship OF
Jesus. until they had had their eyes
opened in part to the spiritual mys-
teries which underlay the objective
miracles that Jesus wrought. we
know how slow they were to see the
depth and the application of His
principles as He preached to them
the truth. And yet with them as
with US the secret of their faith in
the Master lay in the fact that there
was no discord between the truth
that He preached and the life that He
lived. They waited. the long-prom-
ised Messiah from God who should
deliver Israel; they gave Jesus a
hearing as a self-styled and heaven
proclaimed Christ; they heard the
music of heavenly truth in all He
said, and above all they marked the
fact that He not only talked divinely
we'll, but lived even as God would
live. And so they followed Him.
But they were not able to have con-
idence in Him that should enable
them to bear witness OF His d1Vlne
power until they had tried for them
| selves the sort of life He lived n
applied for themselves to their own
lives the eternal principles that He
propounded and found them practi-
cal.
Men say to me, "I do not believe
| Jesus was the Son Of Cod" Il can
not accept Him as the incarnation OF
the Father" And my first question
is whether or no they are fully COM
petent to Judge. Are they in posses
sion of such spiritual experience as
will enable them to pass good ludg-
ment upon the case in hand? Many
a man who has no experience in the
| Christ life will without a blush re-
iect all the truths so dear to Chris
tian hearts. If I as a minister pre-
sumed to pass expert Judgment upon
astronomical truth, having v
even seen or marked the courslngs OF
the stars or gained experimental
knowledge of the wonders OF the
heaven above US, you would boot me
from this church. Yet many a mai
with no Christian experience at all
will pass final and irrevocable judy
ment upon Jesus Christ without 80
much as a shred Of personal testl-
mony that could be worthy OF notice.
Jesus is the Son of God. And the
only way you can come to know that
is through the spiritual, personal ex-
perience Of the fact. Jesus IS the
Savior of u souls from sin and the
only means to a convincing knoWl-
edge of this truth is through the en-
a of the saving truth OF Jesus
Christ into your life. Jesus revealing
the truth, you testing, trying, proving
it's reliability and reasonableness ID
your own personal. life.