To be near unto God - pagina 135

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HE THAT HATH SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER. There are sayings of Jesus that make one tremble and stand back unless he believes on him. One of these is: He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me (Matth. 10:37). Imagine a man who would dare to say anything like this in a public meeting. Every hearer would take him to be insane. If a man were to come into your home and in your presence address your child like this, would you not take sure measures to prevent him from doing But Jesus spake like this. And you so again? teach your child that this saying is true because you worship Jesus. Such is the case with Jesus' answer to Philip: He that hath seen me hath seen the Father (John This rouses the same repellant feeling. 14:9). We would make a man, who spoke like this, harmless by securing him a lodging in an institution for the insane unless we honored and worshipped God in him. There is no choice in this matter. In any nation in whose public conscience there glows a spark of religion, public opinion would demand the arrest of a man of such blasphemous pretensions. But to this striking saying of Jesus on the contrary our own heart echoes consent because we worship him. The Sanhedrin and the It all depends on this. excited Jews in the courts of Justice at Jerusalem acted consistently from their viewpoint, when they took Jesus for a blasphemer and cast him out.

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