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

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dually <strong>and</strong> personally: that <strong>the</strong> man healed by<br />

Christ st<strong>and</strong>s in quite ano<strong>the</strong>r position, as regards<br />

<strong>the</strong> morally right, from what he did before —not<br />

only before his healing, but even before his felt<br />

sickness, so that, if he were to go back to sin, or<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r, as <strong>the</strong> original implies, ' continue to sin,'' a<br />

thing infinitely worse would come to him.<br />

It seems an idle question, why <strong>the</strong> healed man told<br />

<strong>the</strong> Jews that ft was <strong>Jesus</strong>. It was only natural that<br />

he should do so. Ba<strong>the</strong>r do we ask. How did he<br />

know that He Who had spoken to him was/entf?<br />

Was it by <strong>the</strong> surrounding <strong>of</strong> keen-eyed, watchful<br />

Rabbis, or by <strong>the</strong> contradiction <strong>of</strong> sinners ? Certain<br />

we are, that it was &r better <strong>Jesus</strong> should have<br />

silently withdrawn from <strong>the</strong> porches <strong>of</strong> Be<strong>the</strong>sda to<br />

make it known in <strong>the</strong> Temple, Who it was that had<br />

done tins miracle. Far more effectually could He<br />

so preach its lesson to those who had been in<br />

Be<strong>the</strong>sda, <strong>and</strong> to all Jewiy.<br />

And yet something fur<strong>the</strong>r was required. He must<br />

speak it out in clear, open words, what was <strong>the</strong>

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