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From Heaven With Love
to do. They felt sufficient in themselves, and realized no need of a
higher wisdom. But the Son of God was surrendered to the Father’s
will and dependent on His power. Christ made no plans for Himself.
Day by day the Father unfolded His plans. So should we depend
upon God that our lives may be the simple outworking of His will.
The words of Christ teach that we should regard ourselves as
inseparably bound to our Father in heaven. Whatever our position,
we are dependent upon God. He has appointed us our work and has
endowed us with means for that work. So long as we surrender the
will to God and trust in His strength and wisdom, we shall be guided
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in safe paths, to fulfill our appointed part in His plan. But the one
who depends upon his own wisdom and power is separating himself
from God and fulfilling the purpose of the enemy of God and man.
The Sadducees held that there would be no resurrection of the
body, but Jesus told them that one of the greatest works of His Father
is raising the dead and that He Himself had power to do the same
work. “As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them;
even so the Son quickeneth whom He will.” “The hour is coming,
and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God:
and they that hear shall live.” Christ declared that the power which
gives life to the dead was among them, and they were to behold
its manifestation. This same resurrection power gives life to the
soul and sets men “free from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2
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Through faith the soul is kept from sin. He who opens his heart to
Christ becomes a partaker of that mighty power which shall bring
forth his body from the grave.
The humble Nazarene rose above humanity, threw off the guise
of sin and shame, and stood revealed, the Son of God, One with the
Creator of the universe. His hearers were spellbound. No man ever
spoke words like His, or bore himself with such kingly majesty. His
utterances were clear and plain, fully declaring His mission. “The
Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the
Son... . The Father ... hath given Him authority to execute judgment
also, because He is the Son of man.”
The priests and rulers set themselves up as judges to condemn
Christ’s work, but He declared Himself to be their judge and judge
of all the earth. Through Him has come every blessing from God
to the fallen race. As soon as there was sin, there was a Saviour.