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

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hidden inward meaning <strong>of</strong> this miracle. As so<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten, it was <strong>the</strong> bitter hatred <strong>of</strong> His persecutors<br />

which gave Him <strong>the</strong> opportunity. <strong>The</strong> first<br />

forthbursting <strong>of</strong> His Messianic Mission <strong>and</strong><br />

Character had come in that Temple, when He<br />

realised it as His Fa<strong>the</strong>r's House, <strong>and</strong> His <strong>Life</strong> as<br />

about His Fa<strong>the</strong>r's business. Again had <strong>the</strong>se<br />

thoughts about His Fa<strong>the</strong>r kindled within Him in<br />

that Temple, when, on <strong>the</strong> first occasion <strong>of</strong> His<br />

Messianic appearance <strong>the</strong>re, He had sought to<br />

purge it, that it might be a House <strong>of</strong> Prayer. And<br />

now, once more in that House, it was <strong>the</strong> same<br />

consciousness about God as His Fa<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>and</strong> His<br />

<strong>Life</strong> as <strong>the</strong> business <strong>of</strong> His Fa<strong>the</strong>r, which furnished<br />

<strong>the</strong> answer to <strong>the</strong> angry invectives about His<br />

breach <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sabbath-Law. <strong>The</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>r's Sabbath<br />

was His; <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>r worked hi<strong>the</strong>rto <strong>and</strong> He<br />

worked; <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>r's work <strong>and</strong> tw. 17 His were <strong>the</strong><br />

same; He was <strong>the</strong> Son <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>r.* And in this<br />

He also taught, what <strong>the</strong> Jews had never<br />

understood, <strong>the</strong> true meaning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sabbath-Law,<br />

by emphasising that which was <strong>the</strong> fundamental<br />

thought <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sabbath—* Wherefore <strong>the</strong> Lord

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