T here is an interesting question in Lamentations 1:12: “Is it noth ing to you, all ye that pass by? Be hold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.” Jeremiah was a magnetic mighty prophet. He warned of com ing exile, pleading for hearts to be set right with God. History shows that he was opposed by friends, other prophets, neighbors, and relatives. There is here a close analogy to the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Saviour was stretched upon the cross bear ing such agony as never before had tormented human soul or body. Is it nothing to you that God has a sin less Son? He is the central super lative fact of the ages. He is co existent, coetemal, coequal, coessen tial with God. He is the exegesis of God. He is the gift so priceless that it is impossible completely and ex haustively to explain Him with mere words. “God hath highly exalted Him and hath given a name above every name.” In Him are hid all the treas ures of wisdom and knowledge. Though many seek to place deity down to the level of humanity, array ing themselves against His Saviour- hood and Lordship, the word of truth remains steadfast and assured. Lit erature reveals that Christ is the eternal, supreme, superlative fact of the ages. Art attests His deity. Paintings, sculptures, music with all their various forms, declare Him to be the supreme, supernatural. Sav iour. Civilization itself, seeing His Gospel made bright the path of men, releasing human energies, empower ing human lives to the betterment of life, gives the verdict that Christ is the central, supreme, superlative fact of the ages. The redeemed of yester
day and today know Christ as the marvelous* miraculous, atoning One. Finally, God attests His deity, de claring, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.” Let the sweetest tone which ever trembled on the harps of heav en be discord. Let the enchanting seraph hymn whose anthem is eter nity be dumb. Is such a One nothing to you? Is it nothing to you that never once in all His life did Jesus confess a mistake, or withdraw a word, or apologize for an act of His conduct? Is it nothing to you that Christ’s humiliation and incarnation are the events which wrought your eternal salvation? In Christ was the union of deity and humanity. He, who made all things in creation, was made flesh for our salvation. Jesus, who made man, was made in the likeness of man. Jesus, who created angels, was made lower than the angels. He, who made the law, was -made under the law. He, who was clothed in honor and majesty, was wrapped in swad dling clothes. He, who was called “ancient of days,” became the infant of days. He, whom the heavens of heavens cannot contain, was bom in a camel’s stall. Is it nothing to you? He was God’s will, God’s thought, God’s purpose for immortality. Is the suffering of Christ nothing to you? Jesus endured the contra diction of sinners, the reproaches and rejection of man, the misunder standing of His brethren. He was betrayed by His familiar friends, He endured the rebuke of His disciples along with their hatred without a cause. He suffered, being called a glutton, a wine-bibber, a bastard, a blasphemer, a liar, a devil. He suf fered when denied by Peter and in carcerated in a common jail. Christ 9
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