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

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people in <strong>the</strong>ir misery, <strong>and</strong> in <strong>the</strong>ir narrow notions<br />

<strong>of</strong> God <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> conditions <strong>of</strong> His blessing. And<br />

now Israel's <strong>Messiah</strong> hsid at last come. What<br />

would we expect Him to have done ? Surely not to<br />

preach controversial or reformatory doctrines; but<br />

to do, if it were in Him, <strong>and</strong> in doing to speak. And<br />

so in this also <strong>the</strong> Grospel-narrative proves itself<br />

true, by telling that He did, what alone would be<br />

true in a <strong>Messiah</strong>, <strong>the</strong> Son <strong>of</strong> Gk)d. It is, indeed,<br />

impossible to think <strong>of</strong> Incarnate Deity—<strong>and</strong> this,<br />

be it remembered, is <strong>the</strong> fundamental postulate <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Grospels—as brought into contact with misery,<br />

disease, <strong>and</strong> death without <strong>the</strong>ir being removed.<br />

That power went forth from Him always,<br />

everywhere, <strong>and</strong> to all, is absolutely necessary, if<br />

He was <strong>the</strong> Son <strong>of</strong> Grod, <strong>the</strong> Saviour <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world.<br />

And so <strong>the</strong> miracles, as we mistakingly term <strong>the</strong><br />

result <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> contact <strong>of</strong> Grod with man, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Immanuel (God with us), are not only <strong>the</strong> golden<br />

ladder which leads up to ths Miracle^ Gk)d<br />

manifest in <strong>the</strong> flesh, but <strong>the</strong> steps by which He<br />

descends from His height to our lowliness.

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