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From Heaven With Love
No Sin in Jesus
“Which of you convicts Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you
not believe Me?” RSV. Day by day for three years Christ’s enemies
had been trying to find some stain in His character. Satan had been
seeking to overcome Him but had found nothing in Him by which
to gain an advantage. Even the devils were forced to confess, “Thou
art the Holy One of God.”
Mark 1:24
. Jesus lived the law in the sight
of heaven, in the sight of unfallen worlds, and in the sight of sinful
men. He had spoken, unchallenged, words that from any other lips
would have been blasphemy: “I do always those things that please
Him.”
The Jews did not recognize God’s voice in the message of His
Son. They thought themselves passing judgment on Christ; but they
were pronouncing sentence on themselves. “He that is of God,” said
Jesus, “heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye
are not of God.”
Many who delight to quibble, to criticize, seeking for something
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to question in the Word of God, think that this is evidence of inde-
pendence of thought and mental acuteness. But hunting for sticks
and straws betrays a narrow and earthly nature, a heart that is fast
losing its capacity to appreciate God. As a flower turns to the sun,
that the bright rays may touch it with tints of beauty, so will the soul
turn to the Sun of Righteousness, that heaven’s light may beautify
the character with the graces of Christ.
Jesus continued: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day:
and he saw it, and was glad.” Abraham offered up the most earnest
prayer that before his death he might behold the Messiah. And a
supernatural light was given him. He was given a view of the divine
sacrifice for sin. Of this sacrifice he had an illustration in his own
experience. The command came to Him, “Take now thy son, thine
only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, ... and offer him ... for a burnt
offering.”
Genesis 22:2
. Upon the altar he laid the son of promise,
then with knife upraised to obey God he heard a voice from heaven
saying, “Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything
unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast
not withheld thy son, thine only son from Me.”
Genesis 22:12
. This
terrible ordeal was imposed on Abraham that he might see the day