Chapter 37—“Even So Send I You”
[
This article appeared in
The Review and Herald, June 25, 1895
.]
“As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you” (
John 20:21
). We
are to bear as definite a testimony to the truth as it is in Jesus, as did
Christ and His apostles. Trusting in the efficiency of the Holy Spirit,
we are to testify of the mercy, goodness, and love of a crucified and
risen Saviour, and thus be agents through whom the darkness will
be dispelled from many minds, and cause thanksgiving and praise to
ascend from many hearts to God. There is a great work to be done
by every son and daughter of God. Jesus says, “If ye love me, keep
my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give
you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever” (
John
14:15, 16
). In His prayer for His disciples, He says that He not only
prayed for those in His immediate presence, but “for them also which
shall believe on me through their word” (
John 17:20
). Again He said,
“Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto
you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the
Father: for my Father is greater than I” (
John 14:28
). Thus we see that
Christ has prayed for His people, and made them abundant promises
to ensure success to them as His colaborers. He said, “Greater works
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than these [those He did] shall he do; because I go unto my Father”
(
John 14:12
).
O what great privileges belong to those who are believers and doers
of the words of Christ! It is a knowledge of Christ as the sin bearer,
as the propitiation for our iniquities, that enables us to live a life of
holiness. This knowledge is the safeguard for the happiness of the
human family. Satan knows that without this knowledge we should
be thrown into confusion and divested of our strength. Our faith in
God would be gone, and we should be left a prey to every artifice of
the enemy. He has laid subtle plans by which to destroy man. It is
his purpose to cast his hellish shadow, like the pall of death, between
God and man, in order that he may hide Jesus from our view, so that
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