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To be near unto God - pagina 241
humanandmagnificent revelareconciles us again unto man. There is the picture gallery of history, of the heroes in common life and of the heroes of faith, as the Apostle declares: (Hel. 13) "we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses," wherefore we should laj^ aside ev ...
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Image of God. But the Spirit Love for man must be like God. There must be no differencecreated after the purifiesthislove.the love for between these two, or else the love for man will detract from the love for God in the heart. Thus it becomes more and more a process o ...
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of nature. In man, who is created after his Image, he becomes more transparent. He is fully seen in Christ, who is the express Image of his Person,the Image of the Invisible God (Col. 1:15). Image and not picture. What has been sculptured conveys more reality, than what has been picured in ...
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alongside of him see God, but he shall see God in Christ. In the imregenerate. sin has made the image of God unrecognizable. In Christ God gives his image in all its fullness and perfect clearness. This was possible in our human nature, because the Son was the Image of the Father from all eternit ...
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seated as he is at the right hand of God, he exercises over lands and nations, generations, famihes and individuals. The course of the world's history and the final destiny of every individual life decides for him or against him. In loyal subjection to him, the world will rejoice in peace, turned ...
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fellowship with all the saints of God; in brief, of an inheritance that w411 provide what no ear has heard, no eye has seen, and has not entered the heart of man. But all this is yet nothing else than the glory of the palace and of those who may enter therein. But the glory of salvation is found ...
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us in the written Word. Atfer his ascension also Christ Hves in the "\Vord. With it the portrait of God's Image has gone out into the world. Its presence lives among us. Thanks to the Word we are so familiar with the person and appearance of Christ, that he walks with us by the w'ay. As he moved ...
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of God's unfathomable mercies glisten ever gloriously.moreThus there is a knowledge of God which we learn and derive from Christ. But there is a far greater knowledge of God which He himself inlparts,whichHebrings,and makesto us in the hidden parts ...
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our fathers steadily held this in insisted on the fact that God had implanted the sence of himself in man (sensus divinitatis), and that this was the seed of all religion (semen religionis). But when persecution ceased, this real spiritual background of all true knowledge of God was wantonly fors ...
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Things are only right when the workings of the emotions and of the intellect unite in proper equipoise and in pure harmony. But sin can not tolerate this.It continuallybreaks the equipoiseand banishes harmony, so thatfirst, there is a the feeling, and then there is a p ...
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