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The Ministry of Healing
The disciples did not yet understand Christ’s words concerning
His relation to God. Much of His teaching was still dark to them.
Christ desired them to have a clearer, more distinct knowledge of
God.
“These things have I spoken unto you in parables,” He said; “but
the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in parables,
but I shall show you plainly of the Father.”
John 16:25
, margin.
When, on the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was poured out
on the disciples, they understood more fully the truths that Christ had
spoken in parables. Much of the teaching that had been a mystery
to them was made clear. But not even then did the disciples receive
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.
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Christ took with Him to the heavenly courts His glorified hu-
manity. 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 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
. 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?
The Scriptures clearly indicate the relation between God and
Christ, and they bring to view as clearly the personality and individ-
uality 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; ... 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