Gospel's TrumpetFor we do not preach ourselves,
but Jesus Christ as Lord. (2 Cor. 4:5)
Gospel's Trumpet
For we do not preach ourselves,
but Jesus Christ as Lord. (2 Cor. 4:5)
Deity and Atonement
NOW
The World's
Testimony to Christ (I)
The World's
Testimony to Christ (II)
The World's Testimony to Christ (III)
The World's Testimony to Christ (IV)
Example or Substitute?
The Love of God.
A Present Saviour
HOW?
The Godhead of our Lord is vital to the Atonement. "Dr. Horton," a man once said to him, "I cannot believe that a man who died eighteen hundred years ago could put away my sin." "Nor can I," Dr. Horton replied; "but I can and do believe that the Son of God did." The Expiator must be a man, because a sacrifice must be in the nature that sinned; but He must be more than a man, or He could be a substitute for only one other. A deaf and dumb boy wrote on his slate to his teacher: "I do not see how Jesus Christ alone should be able to die for all men." The teacher was puzzled. She then went out of the room, and came back with an apron full of dead leaves; took off a diamond ring from her finger; and weighted the leaves against the diamond. The boy's face lit up. He then wrote on his slate: "I see it now: Jesus is a diamond worth more than all the leaves of a dead world." He only could gather into His breast the spear-points of all sin whose breast was infinite.
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Sun Yat-sen, Wu Ting-fang, and Admiral Chen were present at a meeting addressed by Dr. Sherwood Eddy. At the close, Admiral Chen took out a pencil to sign a decision card. Before he could do so, Wu Ting-fang leaned over and persuaded him to wait. He fixed (He arranged) to see Dr. Eddy for a decision at eleven the next morning. Before they left the building Admiral Chen was shot dead, and Dr. Eddy stood by his coffin at eleven the following morning.
The World's Testimony to Christ (I)
ROUSSEAU
I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. His spirit overawes me, and His will confounds me. Between Him and whoever else in the world there is no possible term of comparison. He is a Being by Himself. His gospel, His appearance, His empire, His march across the ages, everything is for me a prodigy, a mystery insoluble, a mystery which I can neither deny nor explain. Here I see nothing human.
NAPOLEON
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The World's Testimony to Christ (II)
I look upon the Gospels as thoroughly genuine; for there is in them a reflection of the
greatness and the benevolence of Jesus, which was as divine in kind as ever was seen upon
the earth. I bow before Him as the divine
manifestation of the highest principle of morality and fraternity.
A thousand times more alive, a thousand times more beloved since Thy death,
Thou shalt become the cornerstone of humanity, so entirely, that to tear Thy name from
this world would be to rend it to its foundations. Between
Thee and God there will no longer be any distinction: all ages will proclaim that among
the sons of men there is none born greater than Jesus.
RENAN.
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The World's Testimony to Christ (III)
JOHN STUART MILL
Through all the changes of eighteen centuries, one ideal character has filled the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions; has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the highest incentive to its practise, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may truly be said that the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all the exhortations of moralists.
LECKY
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The World's Testimony to Christ (IV)
I place Him with the great, the generous, the self-denying of this
earth, and for the man Christ I feel only admiration and respect. Let me say, once for all, that to that giant and
serene Man I gladly pay the homage of my admiration and my tears.
INGERSOLL.
Higher has human thought not yet
reached than Jesus of Nazareth.
CARLYLE.
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At the close of a
preaching service in Germantown, a stranger came to Dr. Stearns and said, "I don't
like your preaching; I do not care for the Cross. "I think, " said the
stranger, "that instead of preaching the death of Christ on the Cross, it would be
far better to preach Jesus, the teacher and example." Said Dr. Stearns: "Would
you then be willing, if I preach Christ, the Example to follow Him?" "I
would," said the stranger; " I will follow in His steps." "Then,"
said Dr. Stearns "let us take the first step." "All right," said the
stranger. "This," said Dr. Stearns, "is the first step, 'who did no sin.'
Can you take this step?" The stranger was somewhat confused. "No," said the
stranger, "I do sin; I acknowledge it." " Then," said Dr. Stearns,
"you do not need Christ for an example, you need Christ for a SAVIOUR."
A drunkard entered a mission hall in Brighton. The hymn was sung, "I am so
glad that our Father in heaven, tells of His love in the book He has given." He
silently accepted Christ; and Col. Roberts spoke with him before he left. His wife
was surprised that he came home so thoughtful and quiet. She asked him if he was ready for
supper. He only answered, "Wonderful things in the Bible I see, this is the dearest -
that Jesus loves me." At the supper table his wife asked him if he was not going to
eat anything. Again he answered, - "Wonderful things in the Bible I see, this is the
dearest - that Jesus loves me." When he told her good-night, all he said was, -
"Wonderful things in the Bible I see, this is the dearest-that Jesus loves me."
Next morning she went to his room, and found him dead.
Sir James Simpson, one of Scotland's most eminent medical men, was an unbeliever; but a patient of his, a godly woman, wrote him these words: - "What is to fill this heart to all eternity? When benevolence shall have run its course, when there shall be no sick to heal, no disease to cure; when all I have been engaged about comes to a dead stop, what is to fill this heart, and thought, and these Powers of mind? Only the God-man! If then, why not now?" These words were Sir James Simpsons heavenly vision. Shortly after, in an address to the medical students of Edinburgh, introducing himself as one of the oldest sinners and one of the youngest believers in the room he thus confessed his Lord: -- In Christ you will find a Savior, a Companion, a Counselor, a Friend, a Brother who loves you with a love greater than human heart can conceive.