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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 10, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 6.

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CHRIST THE SON OF GOD.

It is Christ’s being the Son of God that gives divine authority to all his teachings, and which makes it our duty to receive his word as the word of the living God. “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son.” When Jesus was on the mount of transfiguration there came a voice to him from the excellent glory, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.” “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him?”
The divine sonship of Jesus is that which makes it the bounden duty of every individual and of all nations to receive him as their Lord and Saviour, and which makes the rejection of him a just ground of condemnation. “He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
It is Christ’s being the Son of God that is the only ground of the Christian’s hope of a blessed immortality. The enjoyment of that inestimable blessing depends entirely upon the power and faithfulness of him who says, “I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” “Because I live, ye shall live also.”
This, then, is the great fundamental truth of our religion, upon which rests our eternal all. For if Jesus is not the Son of God, we have no Saviour, our faith is vain; we are yet in our sins; and they also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. How precious, therefore, should be to our hearts the great and glorious truth that the Saviour that God has given us is “the Son of God” as well as the Son of man! That he “is over all, God blessed forever”! Let us realize more and more fully the infinite and vital importance of this great and fundamental truth of our religion; let it be the rock upon which we rest our faith and hope for eternity; let it be the great animating and governing principle of our lives, and let our earnest prayers be that the Father may reveal this truth to us more and more clearly, so that, like Peter of old, we may be able to say to Jesus in the fullness of a true and living faith, “Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.”
—Rev. Wm. Robertson, in United Presbyterian.