Rays from the sun of righteousness
Richard Newton
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 19, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...in history; and truths in geography; and truths in religion; or, as we have just said, these latter truths may be called " truth as it is in Jesus." And this is what Jesus means when he says, "I am The Truth." What this teaches us is that truth in Jesus is the best of all truth. It is better for us to know what the Bible teaches about him than to know every thing else in the world besides. This is our subject to-day. The truth in Jesus is the best of all truth. And the reasons for this we shall see, as soon as we begin to consider what this truth does for us. I wish to show that there are three things which the truth in Jesus does for us. These are things that no other truth in the world can do; and thus we know that this is the best truth. It may help us to remember these three things, if we bear in mind that each of them begins with the letter S. Jesus says, "lam the truth." Now, in the first place, the truth in Jesus is the best of all truth, because it Sanctifies OB Makes Us GOOD. To sanctify, means to make good, or holy. And the pattern, or model of goodness, set before us in the Bible, is the example of Jesus. He is the best, the most perfect of all beings. In the language of the hymn we sometimes sing, we may well ask,--"Oh, who's like Jesus'?" And if it were possible for us to go with this question to the angels of heaven, as well as the inhabitants of all the other worlds that God has made, we should come back to our own world without finding a better answer to the question we had taken with us than the words of the same hymn, which tell us,--"There's none like Jesus." There is. none like him in heaven; none like him in the earth; and none like him in any other world. He is " the chief among te...