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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 5, 1907

By Revelation

OUR knowledge of God comes through revelation, and this revelation is made through the Son. “All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him.” There is only one way to seek after God, and that is through his Son. There is only one way to obtain heavenly truth, and that is through the Son. Those who claim to be seekers after truth, but who discard the revelation made through the Son, will never attain to the knowledge of the truth. They refuse the only channel through which the truth can be imparted to them. It does not flatter the pride of conceit to acknowledge our entire dependence upon a source of wisdom outside of ourselves, but it is a sign of true greatness of character. John the Baptist, of whom Jesus said, “Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater,” declared, “A man can receive nothing except it have been given him from heaven.” The apostle Paul, although educated at the feet of Gamaliel, wrote of “the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward; how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery,” and for the believers he prayed “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.” In receiving this knowledge we may employ all the strength of our intellect, putting every power to its utmost stretch, and we shall be constantly surprised at the variety and the fulness of the revelation. “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!”