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he may cause us to forget the ministry of love and mercy, cut us off
from further knowledge of God’s great love and power to usward, and
intercept every ray of light from heaven.
Christ alone was able to represent the Deity. He who had been in
the presence of the Father from the beginning, He who was the express
image of the invisible God, was alone sufficient to accomplish this
work. No verbal description could reveal God to the world. Through
a life of purity, a life of perfect trust and submission to the will of
God, a life of humiliation such as even the highest seraph in heaven
would have shrunk from, God Himself must be revealed to humanity.
In order to do this, our Saviour clothed His divinity with humanity. He
employed the human faculties, for only by adopting these could He be
comprehended by humanity. Only humanity could reach humanity. He
lived out the character of God through the human body which God had
prepared for Him. He blessed the world by living out in human flesh
the life of God, thus showing that He had the power to unite humanity
to divinity.
Our Mission for Christ
Christ said: “No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither
knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever
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the Son will reveal him” (
Matthew 11:27
). O how dimly the exalted
work of the Son of God is comprehended! He held the salvation of
the world in His hands. The commission given to the apostles is also
given to His followers in this age. “Repentance and remission of
sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem” (
Luke 24:47
). Our Saviour has “all power in heaven and
in earth” (
Matthew 28:18
), and this power is promised unto us. “Ye
shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and
ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and
in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (
Acts 1:8
).
Even though a church may be composed of poor and uneducated
and unknown persons, yet if they are believing, praying members,
their influence will be felt for time and for eternity. If they go forth in
simple faith, relying upon the promises of the Word of God, they may
accomplish great good. If they let their light shine, Christ is glorified
in them, and the interests of His kingdom are advanced. If they have