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Christ Is the Way, September 20
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast
thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
John 14:8, 9
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We cannot by searching find out God. But He has revealed Himself in
the character of Christ, who is the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the
express image of His person. If we desire a knowledge of God, we must be
Christlike....
He who does not seek each day to be more like Christ, cannot know the
character of God. Living a pure life through faith in Christ as a personal
Saviour brings the believer into a clearer, higher conception of God. No man
whose character is not noble and Christlike can set forth God in a correct
light. He may preach Christ, but he does not show his hearers that Christ is
an abiding guest in his heart....
Those who are partakers of Christ’s love through a reception of the truth
will give evidence of this by making earnest, self-sacrificing efforts to give
the message of God’s love to those who are in error. Thus they become
laborers together with Christ. Love for God and for one another unites the
soul to Christ by the golden links of love. The soul is bound up with Him in
sanctified, elevated union.
True sanctification unites believers to Christ and to one another in the
bonds of tender sympathy. This union causes to flow continually into the
heart rich currents of Christlike love, which flows forth again in love for one
another.
The qualities which it is essential for all to possess are those which
marked the completeness of Christ’s character—His love, His patience, His
unselfishness, and His goodness....
It is the greatest and most fatal deception to suppose that a man can have
faith unto life eternal, without possessing Christlike love for his brethren. He
who loves God and his neighbor is filled with light and love. God is in him
and all around him. Christians love those around them as precious souls for
whom Christ has died. There is no such thing as a loveless Christian, for
“God is love.”—
Manuscript 133, September 20, 1899
, “The Importance of
the Law of God.”
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