Revealed and Communicated by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 10, 1907

Revealed and Communicated

By Editor

Editorial

To educate the intellect of our children and fail to provide for their moral and religious training is but sharpening weapons of the enemy with which he will ultimately pierce our own souls. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”

Revealed and Communicated

God is the God of truth, and as he was revealed to the world in Jesus, Jesus himself must be the truth; not simply speaking the truth, but being himself the truth. “I am . . . the truth.” God is the living God, and as Jesus Christ is the revelation to the world of this living God, he must himself be life. As the truth, he is God revealed to us; as the life, he is God communicated to us. “I am . . . the truth”—the God of truth revealed; “I am . . . the life”—the God of life communicated. The nearest definition we have in the Scriptures as to the substance of God, is in John 4:24, where Christ himself says, “God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” In 1 John 4:16 we have the definition of God as to character: “God is love.” And as Jesus is God revealed, he must be love revealed; as he is God communicated, he must be the very love of God communicated to us.

Jesus the Truth

THE fact that Jesus is the truth, is shown under various figures. In the Revelation John says, “These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.” Jesus is the true witness. Standing before Pilate on the day of his trial, he was asked, “Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.” Jesus was the true witness, because his whole life bore witness to the truth. Jesus is the light. He was “the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” He said of himself, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” Jesus is the true bread. “Then said Jesus unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.” Christ was the true bread because he gave to the world that which was in itself life. He was the true vine, the real vine, because he had his root in the Father, and was thus a bearer of the very life of God to those who were joined to him as branches. Jesus Christ is the true witness, the true light, the true bread, and the true vine; and he is all of this because he is the truth.