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

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cradled in <strong>the</strong> manger; His Divinity, as when <strong>the</strong><br />

sages from <strong>the</strong> East laid <strong>the</strong>ir <strong>of</strong>ferings at His Feet.<br />

But <strong>the</strong> danger is increasing—* so that <strong>the</strong> at Hark<br />

ship was now filling.' ^ <strong>The</strong>y who watched it,<br />

might be tempted to regard <strong>the</strong> peaceful rest <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Jesus</strong>, not as indicative <strong>of</strong> Divine Majesty —as it<br />

were, sublime consciousness <strong>of</strong> absolute safety—<br />

because <strong>the</strong>y did not folly realise Who He was. In<br />

that case it would, <strong>the</strong>refore, ra<strong>the</strong>r mean absolute<br />

weakness in not being able, even at such a time, to<br />

overcome <strong>the</strong> dem<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong> our lower nature; real<br />

indifference, also, to <strong>the</strong>ir fate—not from want <strong>of</strong><br />

sympathy, but <strong>of</strong> power. In short, it might lead up<br />

to <strong>the</strong> inference that <strong>the</strong> Christ was a no-Christ, <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Kingdom <strong>of</strong> which He had spoken in Parables,<br />

not His, in <strong>the</strong> sense <strong>of</strong> being identified with His<br />

Person.<br />

In all this we perceive already, in part, <strong>the</strong> internal<br />

connection between <strong>the</strong> teaching <strong>of</strong> that day <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

miracle <strong>of</strong> that evening. Both were quite novel: <strong>the</strong><br />

teaching by Parables, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> help pi.

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