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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
views of the life, sufferings, and death of God’s dear Son. When the
atonement is viewed correctly, the salvation of souls will be felt to
be of infinite value. In comparison with the enterprise of everlasting
life, every other sinks into insignificance. But how have the counsels
of this loving Saviour been despised! The heart has been devoted
to the world, and selfish interests have closed the door against the
Son of God. Hollow hypocrisy and pride, selfishness and gain, envy,
malice, and passion, have so filled the hearts of many that Christ can
have no room.
He was eternally rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that
we through His poverty might be made rich. He was clothed with
light and glory, and was surrounded with hosts of heavenly angels
waiting to execute His commands. Yet He put on our nature and
came to sojourn among sinful mortals. Here is love that no language
can express. It passes knowledge. Great is the mystery of godliness.
Our souls should be enlivened, elevated, and enraptured with the
theme of the love of the Father and the Son to man. The followers
of Christ should here learn to reflect in some degree that mysterious
love preparatory to joining all the redeemed in ascribing “blessing,
and honor, and glory, and power, ... unto Him that sitteth upon the
throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.”
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