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

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experience— what Bengel designates as <strong>the</strong><br />

wisdom <strong>of</strong> his faith beautifully Rhining out in <strong>the</strong><br />

blufihess <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> soldier. When he had learned to<br />

own Israel's God, <strong>and</strong> to believe in <strong>the</strong> absolute<br />

unlimited power <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, no such difficulties<br />

would come to him, nor, assuredly, such cavils<br />

rise, as in <strong>the</strong> minds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scribes, or even <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Jewish laity. Nor is it even necessary to suppose<br />

that, in his unlimited faith in <strong>Jesus</strong>, <strong>the</strong> Centurion<br />

had distinct apprehension <strong>of</strong> His essential<br />

Divinity. In general it holds true, that, throughout<br />

<strong>the</strong> Evangelic history, belief in <strong>the</strong> Divinity <strong>of</strong> our<br />

Lord was <strong>the</strong> outcome <strong>of</strong> experience <strong>of</strong> His Person<br />

<strong>and</strong> Work, not <strong>the</strong> condition <strong>and</strong> postulate <strong>of</strong> it, as<br />

is <strong>the</strong> case since <strong>the</strong> Pentecostal descent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Holy Ghost <strong>and</strong> Hin indwelling in <strong>the</strong> Church.<br />

In view <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se facts, <strong>the</strong> question with <strong>the</strong><br />

Centurion would be: not, Cotdd <strong>Jesus</strong> heal his<br />

servant, but, Wotdd He do so ? And again, this<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r specifically: Since, so far as he knew, no<br />

application from any in Israel, be it even publican<br />

or sinner, had been doomed to disappointment,

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