The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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Introduction<br />
Why This Subject Is Important<br />
Jesus our Saviour! How could anything be<br />
more important than seeing Him as He truly is?<br />
<strong>The</strong> author of Hebrews urges us to "consider"<br />
Him, the Greek word (katanoeo) meaning to<br />
"perceive clearly," intensively, to "understand<br />
fully, closely." Our spiritual weaknesses and<br />
defeats come from not obeying that command<br />
found in Hebrews 3:1.<br />
Since His name is "Immanuel,... God with us,"<br />
we must "perceive clearly" that He is both fully<br />
God and fully man. How to understand this has<br />
been a main problem for nearly two thousand years<br />
and is still so among Seventh-day Adventists<br />
today. Yet "the humanity of the Son of God is<br />
everything to us. It is the golden chain that binds<br />
our souls to Christ, and through Christ to God. This<br />
is to be our study." (ISM 244, emphasis added).<br />
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