Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-13

Golden Text: For God so loved
the world that He gave His only
begotten Son that whatsoever be-
ieVetn In Him should not perish but
have everlasting life. john 3:16.
a missionary is ''one sent" He
is sent with a message; he is sent
in the name of another; he is sent
to distant point; he is sent with
powers from the sender; he is sent
to accomplish something; he is sent
to DC the will of the sender.
In every sense Of the word Jesus
was a missionary. He was one sent
by Goo the rather to make Him
known, to speak His words, to do
His will, to make others believe
Him, and trust Him, and follow Him
in His way, Jesus was commission
ed by this Father and empowered by
Him for the accomplishment or His
purpose. God anointed Him with
the Holp Spirit and with power; He
gave not the Holy Spirit to Him by
measure, but unmeasured; He filled
Him tC OVERLOOKING.
No one was as conscious of this
fact as was Jesus Himself. Forty
two times in the gospel of John, He
said He was sent. 1t is in every chap
ter from the 3rd on except the 18th
and 21st-the crucifiXion and the as
cension chapters. He wanted them to
believe He had been sent, and to
believe on Him who had sent Him.
He had not come to do His own
will, but the will of Him who sent
Him. He spoke the words of Him
who sent Him; He sought the glory
OF Him who sent Him; He worked
the works of Him who sent Him; He
taught the doctrine of Him who sent
Him, and when He left He went His
way back to Him who sent Him.
Read through the gospel of John
again now and underScore the forty
two passage in which Jesus speaks
Of being sent" by God; you will be
gripped fresh with the tremendous
force and power which that God-con-
seriousness gave to His earthly min
istry.
But Jesus was not one who was
sent against His own will. He did
not have to be forced to go where
God W, ted Him to go. Jonah was
a foreign missionary. but an unwill
ing one. In fact, he started in the
W OPPOSITE direction from the one
to which he was sent, and he had
to be arrested by a great fish and
turned around. Then he pouted after
he had accomplished successfully
tue mission upon Nl..ch he had been
sent.
Jesus was a willing missionary.
Not only do we read that God sent
His son into the world but we also
read that first God gave His Son.
j. volunteered to come and do
what was necessary to make possibI
eternal &c for those who were I'M
der the power of eternal death. 1t
was tre1. enuOus task Wn:ch no one
else could accomplish, and He will
ingly offered Himself to do it even
tough it meant a tremendous cost
to Him If. Phil. 2:5-S gives an idea
OF the decision He made. Then after
He had willingly offered Himself,
God sent Him. And this is Gods
plan. You remember the question and
Isaiah's answer. Whom shall 1 send?
and who will go for mc?" Here am
I I'-the voluntary offering of self
send me-" God does not use con-
scripts usually; He wants volunteers.
And Jesus was a volunteer
A man to be a missionary of the
first order must have the heart of
a missionary: he must be able to see
the other mans viewpoint, and to
suffer with hinl-that is the real
meaning of sympathy. Without this
it is impossible to get in touch with
and really help the ones to whom
he is sent. Missionary failures very
often find their explanation here.
Jesus had prominently the mis-
sionary heart. When He looked out
on the multitude He was moved with
compassion because they tainted and
were as sheep without a shepherd.
A study of the Greek words here is
most Illuminating. Moved with
compassion" is 'splanchnizomai."
Now in the splanchnis area of the
body-the great abdominal area
there is space enough in the blood
vessels to contain all the blood Of
the body. Certain nerves keep these
blood vessels contracted so that the
blood will have to be pumped into
the brain and lungs and muscles.
Under certain conditions these
nerves give way, lose their control.
the vessels open out and the heart
pumps the blood there. Not going
to the brain or lungs or skin, the
person faints, then turns cold and
clammy; and if the condition is not
quickly relieved the person will die.
Sometimes some sudden emotion has
made you feel faint, a certain gone"
feeling, like you were about to die,
you couldn't stand it, like the bot
tom had dropped out. Well. that is
what has happened-your splanch-
mis- blood vessels have dilated and
your heart las pumped blood there
that ought to be going somewhere
else.
Now, that was just what happen
ed to Jesus. When He saw the null
titudes and saw that they were lac
Grated (for so is the Greek term for
fainted, torn by the evil one, as
sheep are torn by wolves when they
have no shepherd to protect them,
He "splanchnizomai''-H splanch-