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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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Heaven, to <strong>the</strong> utter forsakenness, <strong>the</strong> felt want <strong>and</strong><br />

weakness <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> assaults <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Devil—<br />

no contrast more startling could be conceived. And<br />

yet, as we think <strong>of</strong> it, what followed upon <strong>the</strong><br />

Baptism, <strong>and</strong> that it so followed, was necessary, as<br />

regarded <strong>the</strong> Person <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, His Work, <strong>and</strong> that<br />

which was to result from it.<br />

Psychologically, <strong>and</strong> as regarded <strong>the</strong> Work <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Jesus</strong>, even reverent negative Critics^ have<br />

perceived its higher need. That at His consecration<br />

to <strong>the</strong> Kingship <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kingdom, <strong>Jesus</strong> should have<br />

become clearly conscious <strong>of</strong> all that it implied in a<br />

world <strong>of</strong> sin; that <strong>the</strong> Divine method by which that<br />

Kingdom should be esti^ blished, should have been<br />

clearly brought out, <strong>and</strong> its reality tested; <strong>and</strong> that<br />

<strong>the</strong> King, as Representative <strong>and</strong> Founder <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Kingdom, should have encountered <strong>and</strong> defeated<br />

<strong>the</strong> representative, founder, <strong>and</strong> holder <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

opposite power, * <strong>the</strong> prince <strong>of</strong> this world *—<br />

^<strong>the</strong>se are thoughts which must arise in everyone<br />

who believes in any Mission <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Christ. Yet this<br />

only as, after <strong>the</strong> events, we have learned to know

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