the lad’s, and stretched himself out over him. Mouth, hands and eyes joined one with another. Here is dimly figured the grace in which our Lord stooped to come near to you and me. His lips spoke words which were life-giving and filled with di vine blessing. Yet they were human lips. From the depths of His eyes, the Lord looked out in tireless love upon the weary hearts of men and women. Yet those eyes were human eyes. His hands rested in healing power upon the leper; they drew Peter from the clutches of the waves. Yet they were human hands. Christ voluntarily accepted the capacity for human suffering. Our weakness is a condition of our in herent frame. His was assumed in the self-humbling of the incarnation. Our Lord’s holy body was a temple in which the divine Glory of God ever dwelt. He gave His life a ransom for you and me. By accepting His plan of salavtion we have the assurance of sins forgiven and the promise that some day we shall live in His pres ence, as the sons of God, forever and forever. "Redemption vs. Religion" Have you ever considered the difference between redemption and religion? Too often there is much talking about religion with very little serious thinking concerning it. Fre quently we hear people erroneously say that any religion is good enough, providing its adherents are absolute ly sincere. On every hand it is simply taken for granted that a man’s choice of religion is purely something which is considered his own personal pref erence. It is declared that anything else is the height of absolute intoler ance in finding fault with a man’s convictions on religion. We must be broad-minded with indifference to ward beliefs which may conflict with what the Bible teaches. This shows the utter folly of such an individual’s thinking.
sion of the fullness of both human and divine natures. The communion, which the Lord Jesus Christ had enjoyed with the Father, was essentially one. Christ was tabernacled among men. That “tent” of glory was always filled with God. The apostles gazed intently up on that glory. It was that of the only begotten of the Father. It showed up in His every act and in every word. Jesus Christ, as the divine Creator, was able to produce food and drink miraculously for His creatures. This came about either by the normal processes of nature, dependent upon His sustaining power, or the inter vention of the same through His sov ereign will. This was dispensed at His own pleasure. It happened at such places as the troubled sea, be side the tomb of Lazarus, at the Cana wedding feast. His was abso lute mastery over everything. “The Word became flesh” we read. This was not for a season but forevermore. One of the anticipations of heaven is that we are going to see Him, bear ing the marks of Calvary, and yet possessing all of the attributes of Deity. The incarnation lays hold on both time and eternity. Here is an excellent picture of Christ in Hebrews 2:14, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself like wise took part of the same. For ver ily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took upon Him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren.” Had the Sav iour come in the blaze of heavenly glory men might well have remained afar off, stricken with trembling and bewilderment. The riches of Christs infinite person were brought to all men. Consider the Old Testament proph et Elisha. We see him yearning for the restoration to life of the boy who was dead (II Kings 4 :34). He lay upon the child, putting his mouth on Page 32
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