In the Spirit's Power - William W. Prescott

Christ the Manifestation of the
Character of God
When Christ, looking back over His life of
thirty-three years, said that He had finished the
work His Father gave Him to do, how did He sum
it all up? “All things that I have heard of My Father
I have made known unto you.” “If ye keep My
commandments, ye shall abide in My love, even as
I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide
in His love.” (John 15:15, 10) In this statement we
have not so much a command as an example, and
when Christ said that, He gave His complete
biography. When he said, “I have kept My Father’s
commandments,” He gave His whole life-history.
And what does it mean?--I have manifested the
character of My Father. What, then, does it mean to
keep the commandments?-- It means to manifest
the character of God as it appeared in Jesus Christ.
Nothing short of that is keeping the
commandments. The Pharisees prided themselves
that they were keeping the commandments, but
Christ said, “Ye know not the Scriptures.” What
they knew about the Scriptures, they had learned
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