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To be near unto God - pagina 140
Theydid not worship him. As long as their eyes were closed against the Divine majesty of Jesus they could not do otherwise. Their sin was not that they cast out Jesus, but that they did not see God in Him. They talked a good deal about God. But when God appeared to them in Jesus they knew ...
To be near unto God - pagina 137
All interests center in God, in the living God, to see him, to behold him, and ardently toreality.When, therefore, Lord, show us the Father, he made Philip asked the right beginning, and it sprang fiom his burning thirst after the living God. rejoice in this life-giving look. : ...
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Many can not advance beyond this. Their mental grasp has no further reach. And even from such a defective conviction childUke But the thrice faith can borrow moral strength. blessed, who have been initiated into a more sympathetic and more ardent piety, can not rest content with this. They think ...
To be near unto God - pagina 139
— 26HE 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 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 142
are so clearly conscious that nothing is more common than the saying: "You see that I am right," where seeing refers to what has been said or explained, and not to anything shown to the eye of sense.From the nature of the case, therefore, to see the Father in Jesus was no primitive act of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 136
are in part controversial. In the Gospel the distinction occurs between the sermon on the Mount and Jesus' controversy with the scribes. The first period of the Reformation was better than the What rapture marks the language of later one. the Confession and the Office of Holy Communion in distinc ...
To be near unto God - pagina 138
They thoughtthat theyhad thereby brought Godcloser to the people, while in fact the miserable image had caused all knowledge of God to be lost to them. With every representation of God, Godhimself St.isJohn:gone.Hence the searching warning ...
To be near unto God - pagina 135
whenthereisno more fragranceof life percept-anywhere, the reward of this barren, dead knowledge is eternal life. All this falls away when The the saying of Jesus is taken as it reads: knowledge of God is itself eternal life. He who has it. has already, here and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 143
detached from his personal appearance. The body is not ignored that the soul may be discerned, but Jesus is taken as he was, appeared, spoke and acted. One appearance is faced, one perfect whole, one mystery. Even as among us there are times when a person becomes radiant and allows his soul to sh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 144
scious, discovers and enjoys. feeling, perceiving, becomingSpiritual seeingisaware of environments with all the latent powers of the soul. It is the internal awakening of human nature, which, created after the image of God, goes back to its original image, has clear vision of ...
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