And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. I John 5:11-12
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HEAR THE GOD-MAN AT THE CROSS
The God-Man was at the cross accomplishing the salvation of His people. Hear the man Christ Jesus cry, “I thirst.” Hear the man cry, “My God, My God why hast thou forsake me?” It is the man Christ Jesus, the Substitute for sinful men, who said, “Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, 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.”
Then my friend, hear God cry, “It is finished!”. Hear the voice of sovereign God say, “Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” Then, when salvation was accomplished, hear God the Son cry, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.”
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BEHOLD! WHAT MANNER OF LOVE!
John wrote in I John 3:1, “BEHOLD!” Take notice, with wonder and astonishment, what matchless, amazing and wonderful love, the Father has given freely and graciously to us. “THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED SONS OF GOD.” This is the privilege and blessing that exceeds all others. Because our Lord loved us and gave Himself for us, children of wrath are now children of love, rebels and traitors are now sons, enemies are now sons of God and joint-heirs with Christ. How can we comprehend such love and grace? This our song of rejoicing now and ever shall be. “THEREFORE THE WORLD KNOWS US NOT, BECAUSE THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT.” The reason the people of this world do not recognize and acknowledge us as the children of God is because they do not know God. “He was in the world and the world knew Him not.”
Though the world does not recognize us as sons of God, though our present condition is very short of God’s glory, though our bodies are flesh and old age and death are before us, though we are subject to many miseries, temptations, and trials, though we are aware of sin and evil which still dwell within us, “NOW” at this very moment, “WE ARE THE SONS OF GOD.” It would be foolish to estimate what we shall be by what we are now. “But we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him: for we shall see Him as He is.”
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From the first day the Lord visited me in grace and was pleased to make me acquainted with myself and to make me to know the sin of my own heart, I have been UNLEARNING what I had before been studying with so much care—how to recommend myself by human merit to the Holy God! But when the Lord in mercy brought me to Christ, He inverted this order; and I was led to see ONLY HIS WAYS and His holiness and NONE OF MY OWN!
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