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Teacher Sent From God
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Anyone who seeks to transform humanity must understand hu-
manity. Only through sympathy, faith, and love can people be
reached and uplifted. Here Christ stands revealed as the Master
Teacher. He alone has perfect understanding of the human soul.
Christ alone had experience in all the sorrows and temptations
that befall human beings. Never was another so fiercely beset by
temptation. Never another bore so heavy a burden of the world’s
sin and pain. Never was there another whose sympathies were so
broad or so tender. A sharer in all the experiences of humanity, He
could feel not only for, but with, every burdened and tempted and
struggling one.
What He taught, He lived. “I have given you an example,”
He said to His disciples, “that you should do as I have done to
you.” “I have kept My Father’s commandments.”
John 13:15
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15:10
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Thus, in His life Christ’s words had perfect illustration and support.
And more than this; what He taught, He was. His words were
the expression not only of His own life experience but of His own
character.
Christ was a faithful reprover. Never lived another who so hated
evil, never another whose denunciation of it was so fearless. His
very presence was a rebuke to all things untrue and base. In the
light of His purity, people saw themselves unclean, their life’s aims
mean and false. Yet He drew them. He who had created them
understood their value. In every human being, however fallen, He
saw a child of God, one who might be restored to the privilege of
divine relationship.
In every human being He discerned infinite possibilities. He saw
people as they might be, transfigured by His grace. Looking upon
them with hope, He inspired hope. Meeting them with confidence,
He inspired trust. In His presence despised and fallen souls longed
to prove themselves worthy of His regard. New impulses were
awakened in many a heart that seemed dead to all things holy. To
many a despairing one there opened the possibility of a new life.
A Life of Love
Christ bound them to His heart by ties of love and devotion, and
by the same ties He bound them to one another. With Him love