The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-07-22
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ana whittier | go We know, and the way we know.
lhomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whittier
Thou goest; and how can we know the way?
! Jesus saith unto him. l am the Way the Truth and
the Lie: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me-
Ii We had known Me- We should have known My Father
aso and from henceforth know Him. and have Him.
Philip saith unto Him, Lord show us the Father and
it suficeth u.s.
Jesus saith unto him, Have been so long time with
you ana yet hast thou not known Me- Philip he that hath
seen Me hath the Father and how sayes thou then
Show us the Father?
Behevest thou not that am in the Father and the
Fatner IN Me- the Words that speak unto yo speak
OF Myself but the Father that dweeh in Me- He doeth
the works.
Believe Me that am in the Father and the Father in
Me, or else believe Me for the very works sake
Verify, verify say unto you He that beieveth on Me-
the WORKS that do shall he do aso and greater works than
these shall he do, because 90 unto NV Father
And whatsoever We shall ask in My Name, that will
do that the Father may be gloried in the Son.
IF We shall ask anything in My Name, will do it.
IF We love Me, keep My commandments.
And will pray the Father and He shall give YOU an
other Comforter that He may abide with you forever
Or ito the end of the Age" correct translation
would read.
Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot re-
ceive because seeth Him not neither knoweth Him. but
know Him. for He dweeh with you and shall be in vou
The IMPORTANCE OF VIEWING THE CHRIST FROM MANY
STANDPoINTs
Jesus, the Christ, lived the most wonderful life ever
experienced among the children of
In order to understand His life, far it possible
for the mind OF to grasp and understand it,
sary to view Him from many different standpoints.
If we had other record of His utterances than that
of the socaed Sermon the Mount should have very
inadequate idea of the Christ
On the other hand if we had other Inspired record
than the Twenyhrd Chapter of the Gospel according to
Saint Matthew should have very inadequate idea of
the Christ.
1t is impossible to judge any by looking at him
from only standpoint is impossible to judge any
by hearing him deliver only address, it is impossible
know until after you have into touch with him
in public and in private many different occasions-oc
casions calculated to draw out of that all that good
and noble, and true.
If had nothing than the simple story recorded
in the Eleventh Chapter of the Gospel according to Saint
john would conclude that the predominant if not the
only trait of the Christ tenderness and overwhelming
sympathy for those in trouble.
Jesus loved Lazarus, and Martha and Mary and when
He stood with them at the tomb of Lazarus it is written
that "Jesus wept."
JESUS THE CHRIST BOTH Son OF GOD AND Son OF MAN.
The Son of God though He was, He also the Son
Man. and to emphasize unduly the Divinity of the Christ
to lose sight of His humanity and to emphasize undu
the humanity of the Christ to lose sight of His Divinity
The proper to take is to regard the Christ being
linked to God on the hand and to the other
Referring again to the Twenty-thrd Chapter of Matt
hew if that were all that had should think that
Jesus the Christ terrible characterone of the most
terrific that stood upon this earth for
matter how gifted his pen how vivid his imagination
or how accurate his reasoning faculties how skfu in
oratory could stronger language than that of the Christ
recorded in the Twenty third Chapter of Matthew.
If we study all of the life of the Christ that written
and handed down to us, understand Him.
He was tender-more tender than mother He
kind; He was loving He compassionate; and He had
great pity for the SINFUL the sick, and the suffering
And vet He was terrible; He the most terrible Man
that trod this EARTH before His look hypocrtes with
cred before His scahing words sinners made to rem
BILE and those who would repent made to wall and
gnash their teeth and long for His DEATH and the scrbes
and Pharsees and the Sadducees not satisfied until
they had accomplished His death
JESUS LAST CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER FEAST
In order that you may understand the Scriptures that
have quoted will ask you to turn to the Gospel according
to Matthew and consider in the Twentysxh Chapter the
seventeenth verse Where wilt Thou that prepare for
Thee to eat the Passover?
The Apostles who loved Jesus so dearly little realized
the meaning the awful coming events which were casting
their shadows thckly around them