Phineas F. Bresee - A Prince In Israel - Media Sabda Org
Phineas F. Bresee - A Prince In Israel - Media Sabda Org
Phineas F. Bresee - A Prince In Israel - Media Sabda Org
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comprehensiveness, and completeness. Jesus said, "I am the truth." Righteousness, justice, mercy,<br />
compassion, power all blended, every part melted, into the indescribable beauty of love. As I look,<br />
I see many lineaments. As I continue to look I see one face--Jesus Christ, the embodiment of the<br />
Godhead. God is love. Jesus Christ is God incarnate, manifest for and unto the salvation of men.<br />
The <strong>In</strong>finite Verities<br />
His testimony was not just an utterance, even by Himself. It was not the utterance of a man in<br />
reference to Him. John bore witness unto the truth, but Jesus said, "I receive not testimony from<br />
man." God testified to Him, and in Him, and of Him, and through Him. So He was that faithful<br />
witness, being <strong>Prince</strong> of the kings of the earth, who loved us and gave Himself for us, and makes us<br />
kings and priests unto God, having loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood. He<br />
testified to the infinite verities--God righteous and holy, just and glorious in holiness; God infinite<br />
and eternal in love, blessed for ever. To man in sin and exile, wrecked and dying, in chains and<br />
dungeon, He testified in love and power, in dying agony and resurrection power, rending the veil in<br />
twain, bursting the prison doors, breaking the chains of sin, bringing the captive back to the bosom<br />
of God. He bore witness to the infinite verities. For this cause came He into the world.<br />
A Witness to the Truth<br />
It is enough for the servant that he be as his Lord. What is the divine plan for man? Why is he<br />
here? That he might bear witness to the truth. He seems to have little of mission or message or<br />
vocation other than this. The truth is divine personality, manifest by an incarnation, made radiant and<br />
more fully revealed by the unlimited spiritual manifestation of divine personality. To this truth man<br />
is a witness.<br />
I wish to mark some of the possible elements, the necessary elements, the practical elements,<br />
essential to his being a witness to the truth.<br />
The truth is the divine Christ. Barnabas exhorted the people at Antioch that with purpose of heart<br />
they would cleave unto the Lord only this, etc. We hear much in this day, of comparative religions.<br />
I question whether there is any such thing. There are differences and contrasts; but there is nothing<br />
to compare to the religion of Jesus Christ. Whom can you compare with Jesus Christ? Buddha?<br />
Zoroaster? Mohammed? There is no religion to be compared with the religion of Jesus Christ. There<br />
is none that can remake men cleanse the inside of the cup and platter, and clothe the outside with<br />
humility, gentleness, long suffering, and hope.<br />
Christ is the truth, and the highest human ideal is to be His witness. This is the divine purpose for<br />
us. This is the inwrought purpose created in us by the Holy Ghost.<br />
Sainthood<br />
The necessary soil, the essential conditions, the ensphering environment of this purpose, the<br />
atmosphere in which it lives, is sainthood. I use this term with aforethought. It is not much used in<br />
these days The church sheers away from it. It seems a part of that letting down, both from experience