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

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egards its form, it would be: so to present <strong>the</strong><br />

teaching <strong>of</strong> Holy Scripture, as that it can be drawn<br />

toge<strong>the</strong>r in <strong>the</strong> focus <strong>of</strong> one sentence; as regards its<br />

substance, that this be <strong>the</strong> one focus: all Scripture<br />

fulfilled by a present Christ. And this—^in <strong>the</strong><br />

Grospel which He bears to <strong>the</strong> poor, <strong>the</strong> release<br />

which He announces to <strong>the</strong> captives, <strong>the</strong> healing<br />

which He <strong>of</strong>iers to those whom sin had blinded,<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> freedom He brings to <strong>the</strong>m who were<br />

bruised; <strong>and</strong> all as <strong>the</strong> trumpet-blast <strong>of</strong> God's<br />

Jubilee into His world <strong>of</strong> misery, sin, <strong>and</strong> want! A<br />

year thus begun would be glorious indeed in <strong>the</strong><br />

blessings it gave.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re was not a word in all this <strong>of</strong> what common<br />

Jewish expectancy would have connected with,<br />

nay, chiefly accentuated in an announcement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Messianic redemption ; not a word to raise carnal<br />

hopes, or flatter Jewish pride. Truly, it was <strong>the</strong><br />

most un-Jewish discourse for a Jewish <strong>Messiah</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

those days, with which to open His Ministry. And<br />

yet such was <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se * words <strong>of</strong> grace,'<br />

that <strong>the</strong> hearers hung spell-bound upon <strong>the</strong>m. Every

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