CHAPTER I I THE MORAL GLORY OF JESUS CHRIST A PROOF OF INSPIRATION BY REV. W M . G. MOOREHEAD, D. D ., PRESIDENT OF X EN IA THEO LOGICAL SEM INARY , X E N IA , OH IO , U . S. A. The glories of the Lord Jesus Christ are threefold. Es sential, official and moral. His essential glory is that which pertains to Him as the Son of God, the equal of the Father. His official glory is that which belongs to Him as the Media tor. It is the reward conferred on Him, the august promo tion He received when He had brought His great work to a final and triumphant conclusion. His moral glory consists of the perfections which marked His earthly life and ministry, perfections which attached to every relation He sustained, and to every circumstance in which He was found. His essen tial and official glories were commonly veiled during His earthly sojourn. His moral glory could not be hid; He could not be less than perfect in everything; it belonged to Him; it was Himself. This moral glory now illumines every page of the four Gospels, as once it did every path He trod. The thesis which we undertake to illustrate and establish is this: That the moral glory of Jesus Christ as set forth in the four Gospels cannot be the product of the unaided human intellect, that only the Spirit of God is competent to execute this matchless portrait of the Son of Man. The discussion of the theme falls into two parts: i. A brief survey of Christ’s moral glory as exhibited in the Gospels. II. The application of the argument. I. CHRIST’S MORAL GLORY T H E H UM A N ITY OF JE SU S 1. The moral glory of Jesus appears in His development as Son of Man. The nature which He assumed was our na- 42
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