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T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S (2) How is the power of God mani fested today? (Rom. 1:16.) (3) How are Christians kept? (1 Pet. 1:5.) (4) What spirit did the four men have which all believers should have? (1 Pet. 3:8.) (5) How is faith best manifested? (Jas. 2:17.) (6) What is the basis of forgiveness of sins? (Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14.) (7) Can Christ read the thoughts of men? (John 2:24, 25. ) ' (8) In what can we all glory? (Gal. 6:14.) The first three Gospels give an ac count of our Lord’s first Sabbath in Capernaum. It is a sample of the manner in which He spent His active ministry. The day be- DEVOTIONAL gan in the synagogue COMMENT when He healed the P. W. Farr demoniac. After the service Jesus went home with Peter when He healed Peter’s wife’s mother of a dangerous fever. “ When the even was come they brought unto Him many that were possessed with devils and He cast out the spirits with His word and healed all that were sick.” The Master was touched with the feeling of their infirmities. Their cries pierced His heart. Their misery filled His soul with pity. Sympathy is a fellow-feeling with others a sensible sharing of their sorrow. Matthew ex plains the healing by quoting the prophet Isaiah, “ Surely he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows.” He took up and bore as a burden our infirmities and diseases which prey upon our vital forces. Pathology treats of a thousand diseases that our mortal flesh is heir to. In His various miracles of healing, the Saviour covered the whole ground, not by dealing with as many specific Cases but by treating representative diseases
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took up his bed and walked.” . There are Higher Critics and Lower Critics. These men were the ecclesiasts, the professors, the “ Scribes and Phari sees which sat in Moses’ seat.” (Matt. 23:9.) They are filled with envy be cause Jesus, at that time, was a popular teacher and was drawing the multi tudes (John 12:19) “ The Pharisees therefore said among: themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.” When the Jews took up stones to stone Him, and He asked for the reason they answered, “ Because thou makest thyself God” (John 10:30-33), and if the' apostates in our colleges and churches are right in their contention that Jesus was not virgin-horn, then the Pharisees were right, for He did make Himself God. He claimed to be God, and He proved that He was by reading the hearts of the four men, by reading the hearts of the- fault-finders and by healing the paralyzed man. The paralysis of faith was never more evident than now. There is no excuse for unbelief in our land, for the proof that Jesus Christ is able to forgive sins is found in the lives of tens of thou sands of people who show by their lives that He has forgiven their sins. The man who was healed glorified God for his double healing— sin and sickness. There are other critics within the church who, while they, believe that God has power to forgive sin, deny His power to heal the sick, and they are less ex cusable than the others for they be lieve God’s Word, yet deny His power. There are many false teachers and heal ers, but God changeth not, neither does His Word. Let us be, as were the peo ple herd, glorifying God for healing the sin-sick and the physically sick, and walk in the middle of the road. QUESTIONS. (1) Who is the power of God? (1 Cor. 1:24.)
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