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His Eternal Pre-existence, February 9
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the
glory which I had with thee before the world was.
John 17:5
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Christ was one with the Father before the foundation of the world
was laid. This is the light shining in a dark place, making it resplendent
with divine, original glory.
Christ is the pre-existent, self-existent Son of God.... In speaking of
His pre-existence, Christ carries the mind back through dateless ages.
He assures us that there never was a time when He was not in close
fellowship with the eternal God....
His divine life could not be reckoned by human computation. The
existence of Christ before His incarnation is not measured by figures.
Christ was God essentially, and in the highest sense. He was with
God from all eternity, God over all, blessed forevermore. The Lord
Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, existed from eternity, a distinct
person, yet one with the Father. He was the surpassing glory of heaven.
He was the commander of the heavenly intelligences, and the adoring
homage of the angels was received by Him as His right.
He was equal with God, infinite and omnipotent.
But He humbled Himself, and took mortality upon Him. As a
member of the human family, He was mortal; but as a God, He was
the fountain of life to the world. He could, in His divine person, ever
have withstood the advances of death, and refused to come under its
dominion; but He voluntarily laid down His life, that in so doing He
might give life and bring immortality to light. He bore the sins of the
world, and endured the penalty, which rolled like a mountain upon His
divine soul. He yielded up His life a sacrifice, that man should not
eternally die. He died, not through being compelled to die, but by His
own free will.
And this wonderful mystery, the incarnation of Christ and the atone-
ment that He made, must be declared to every son and daughter of
Adam.
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