Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

354 THE EvEJtJ.Mnrsr. CovF.SAST. (February
all these things.'' Thm1 he bring!! to light the fact that hi~
covenant people are to he anxious fm- nothing but to know and
do the will of their heavenly Father.
The very corner stone of the Chri11tian religion is-in the
language of modern chnreh people-the giving of one's heart
to God, which means simply the dedication of one's life to the
service of God : and this, all will admit, is the central thought
of the teachings of .Tesns, and the all-emhraeing and all-expres­
Kive covenant of Sinai. Again, the entire te:whings of our
Lord wet·e repentance, conversion; that is, changn nf mind and
of purpose from doing one's own will to cloing the will of the
Father; and thi!! was simply a repetition of the thought that,
prior to the giving of the covenant, God sent hy Moses to lst·ael:
••If ye will obey my voil~e incleed, and keep my covenant."
Thus ,Jesus was ruanif~~tly the me!!'leogc~r to whieh Moses referred
(Deut. xvm. 18, 19 ): "And I will rai11e them up a
Prophet from among theit· IH·ethren, like nnt•l th~e, ancl will
put my words in his month: and he 11hall speak unto them all
that I shall command him. And it will come to pa