Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
Golden Text: ''He that hath seen
Me hath seen the Father" John 1919.

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For the past three months we
have Seen studying the central and
the beginning of the closing periods
of the ministry of Jesus. 1t will
not be particularly helpful to cite
again the twelve incidents which
have formed the subjects of our
studies, but it may be helpful to get
a birds eye view of the road over
2 which we have travelled and to catch
a glimpse of the purpose which ami
mated the Man of men. The golden
text will give us a hint of this: He
: that hath seen Me hath seen the
Father" Jesus said to Philip. He
who was with God in the beginning
Z and who had been made flesh and
dwelt among us, full of grace and
truth, had come to declare the Fa-
Their. He had come to live among
: men as Man in order that in this
concrete way men might get some
= definite idea of God. Men had failed
3 to understand God-His purposes,
His plans, His personality, His per-
suaSiveness, His pleasure, His pow
er. Jesus, the Son of God, became
Man that men might know God.
: Therefore He could say to Philip on
that last night before He was cruel
fled: He that hath seen Me hath
seen the Father" Let us discover
therefore, from these events in this
portion of His earthly ministry what
He was trying to teach about God.
His Love For the Lost
Boiled down to its very essence, 1t
is the great fact that God loves. All
His ministry was one great longing
for the lost. But a s we single them
out these things stand out:
It wasn't the mass but the men
that He loved Crowds followed
Jesus from the moment He began
His public ministry And during the
creased. Toward the close of the
first year, however, He chose
twelve out of the crowd-not that
He loved these more than the 9TH
ers; but that He might reveal to
them His principles, explain to them
His parallels, discover to them His
power let them into the secret of
His compasSionI and make known to
them more fully His person, His
purposes, and His plans, in order
that when He was taken from them
they could carry on. And as He
did this to them He was declaring
unto them His Father, He was MAX
ing known God.
Of course, the first thing that He
would naturally do after choosing
them would be to set forth before
them the principles which should
kingdom. This He did in the So
called sermon on the mount, which
is really not a sermon at all, but a
collection by Matthew, under the
power of the Holy Spirit, of the
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day when He comes again, and sets
up His kingdom, these principles
will govern every subject and a
wonderful world this will be to live
in. Until then, we followers of His,
while not bound by any law and
therefore, not obliged to do it, de-
light to live by these to the best of
4eour ability We want to please Him.
and certainly He is pleased when,
by His grace, We live according to
these principles set forth.
Then to these chosen ones He ex
planned His parallels. The mass had
shown themselves incapable of re-
ceiving the spiritual truth He was
anxious to give; SO He had to speak
In parallels; but to these selected
ones He explained them. He gave
them an understanding of the condi-
ions that should exist between the
time of His departure and His re-
turn-world-wide proclamation OF
the truth but meagre returns;
concurrent growth of good and evil,
not 4 gradual growth of the good
replacing the evil; corruption of
the meal by the fermenting leaven;
the dragnet that pulls in both good
and bad fish, requiring a separa-
ton. And even superficial students
of the worlds history realize that
these things have been coming true
even until today. OF course, there
has been a wonderful growth of
Christianity and its by.products, but
along with it has been as astound-
ing growth of evil. There is no sign