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

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<strong>of</strong> contact between Him, Who is <strong>the</strong> God-Man, <strong>and</strong><br />

those who, being men, are also <strong>the</strong> children <strong>of</strong><br />

God. Tet in this strength <strong>of</strong> our faith may also lie<br />

its danger, if not its weakness. Through excess it<br />

may pass into superstition, which is <strong>the</strong> attachment<br />

<strong>of</strong> power to anything o<strong>the</strong>r than <strong>the</strong> Living God; or<br />

else, in <strong>the</strong> consciousness <strong>of</strong> our great disease,<br />

want <strong>of</strong> courage might deprive faith <strong>of</strong> its moral<br />

element in personal dealing <strong>and</strong> personal contact<br />

with Christ.<br />

Very significantly to us who, in our foolish judging<br />

<strong>and</strong> merciless condemning <strong>of</strong> one ano<strong>the</strong>r, ever reenact<br />

<strong>the</strong> Parable <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Two Debtors, <strong>the</strong> Lord did<br />

not, as Pseudo-orthodoxy would prescribe it,<br />

disappoint her faith for <strong>the</strong> weakness <strong>of</strong> its<br />

manifestation. To have disappointed her faith,<br />

which was bom <strong>of</strong> such high thoughts <strong>of</strong> Him,<br />

would have been to deny Himself—<strong>and</strong> He cannot<br />

deny Himself. But very significantly, also, while<br />

He disappointed not her fiuth, He corrected <strong>the</strong><br />

error <strong>of</strong> its direction <strong>and</strong> manifestation^

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