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made them ashamed of their fanciful theories. Their suppositions and
interpretations were foolishness when compared with the knowledge
of heavenly things which they now received. They were led by the
Spirit, and light shone into their once darkened understanding.
But the disciples had not yet received the complete fulfillment of
Christ’s promise. They received all the knowledge of God that they
could bear, but the complete fulfillment of the promise that Christ
would show them plainly of the Father was yet to come. Thus it is
today. Our knowledge of God is partial and imperfect. When the
conflict is ended and the Man Christ Jesus acknowledges before the
Father His faithful workers, who, in a world of sin, have borne true
witness for Him, they will understand clearly what now are mysteries
to them.
Christ took with Him to the heavenly courts His glorified humanity.
To those who receive Him, He gives power to become the sons of God,
that at last God may receive them as His, to dwell with Him throughout
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eternity. If, during this life, they are loyal to God, they will at last “see
His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads.”
Revelation 22:4
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And what is the happiness of heaven but to see God? What greater
joy could come to the sinner saved by the grace of Christ than to look
upon the face of God and know Him as Father?
Testimony of Scripture
The Scriptures clearly indicate the relation between God and Christ,
and they bring to view as clearly the personality and individuality of
each.
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken
unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by
whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory,
and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the
word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down
on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better
than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent
name than they. For unto which of the angels said He at any time,
Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee? And again, I will be
to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?”
Hebrews 1:1-5
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