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Christ “ is over all, God blessed forever,” and the author o f the epistle to the Hebrews says, “When he bringeth in the first begot ten (that o f course is the Lord Jesus, as the context clearly shows) into the world, he saith, And let all the angels o f God worship Him,.’’ The Bible then, in the clearest, most definite and most decisive terms teaches the true Deity o f Christ, and therefore I believe Him to be God in human form." III. I believe that Jesus Christ is Divine, God manifest in human form, because of the Divine power He possesses today. It is not necessary to go back to the miracles o f Christ when upon earth to prove that He has Divine power. He exer cises that power today and anyone can test it. 1. He has power to forgive sins. He claimed this power when here on earth and the scribes accused Him o f blasphemy for making the claim, and if He had not been Divine they would have been right in accus ing Him o f blasphemy, but He silenced them by demonstrating the claim (Mark 2 :5-12). He has the same power today. Thousands can testify that ^they came to Christ burdened with an awful sense o f guilt and that Christ has actually given their guilty consciences peace, absolute peace. 2. H e has power today to set Satan’s Victims free. He sets the one chained by drink free from the power o f drink; the one chained by opium or other drugs, free from the power o f drugs. He sets the slave o f lust free from the power o f lust. You may say that Keeley sets the one chained by drink or the power o f drugs free, but the cases are not at all iparallel. Keeley uses' drugs, Christ merely spoke a word. Thousands and thousands have been set free from the power o f drink and transformed into noble men and women o f God by the simple word o f Jesus Christ. Christ sets free not merely from drunkenness and other vices, but from sin. He makes the impure man
and woman pure. He makes the selfish man unselfish. He makes the devilish man and woman Christlike. I believe Jesus Christ is, Divine because o f the Divine power I -see Him exercising in the lives o f many men and women. I know Jesus is Divine’ because o f the Divine work that He and He alone has wrought in my own life. IV. I believe that Jesus Christ is Divine, God manifest in Human form, because of the character of those who accept Him as divine. Those who accept Jesus Christ as the Son o f God are those who live nearest God. in most intimate communion with God, and who know 'God best. Those who know God best and live nearest to God have no doubt whatever that Jesus Christ is His Son. The cry, “I do not believe Jesus to be the Son o f God” never comes from those who are living nearest God and know God best. It comes most often from those who are liv ing farthest from God and know God least. Those who once believed Jesus Christ to be the Son o f God as they drift away from God into worldliness, selfishness and sin, often find themselves questioning the Deity o f Christ. On the other hand, those who once questioned the Deity o f Christ when they ,come nearer to God, when they turn their backs upon sin and selfishness and give themselves up more wholly to find and do His will find their doubts about the Deity o f Christ rapidly vanishing. V. I believe Jesus .Christ to be Divine because of the results of accepting His Deity. The religion that accepts God the Father but rejects Jesus Christ as His Son has no such deep and lasting moral power as the religion that accepts Jesus Christ as Divine. Unitarianism has always proved to be impo tent. Unitarianism does not save the fallen. Wherever you find a rescue mission that is doing a real and permanent work in lifting up the fallen, you will always find it manned and womaned by persons who believe in Christ as the Son o f God. Uni tarianism can do philanthropic work, it can build hospitals and operate soup kitch-
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