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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 21, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 8.

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Words of Jesus

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"Words of Jesus."—From the Hallett Publishing Company, Los Angeles, Cal., comes a little booklet, neatly bound, and printed with flexible cloth covers, entitled "The Words of Jesus as Recorded in the New Testament," chronologically arranged, with dates and places inserted. Now we do not know what particular value this is. We have read in the New Testament, the words of Christ in their proper setting and logical connection, and I do not know why we should regard these words left us by the evangelists as more important than the words which they themselves have left us, words inspired by the Spirit of Christ, "Which things we teach," said an apostle, "not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."
The same spirit which would discriminate in the words of the Book would discriminate between the commands of the Book and the promises of the Book, would discriminate between the miracle of the impotent man at the Pool of Bethesda and the impotent man at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; between the raising of Jairus's daughter and the raising of Tabitha; and that, forsooth, because one was wrought by the Spirit of God through Jesus of Nazareth, and the other by the same Spirit through the apostle or the chosen servant of Jesus Christ. It was Christ who said, "If I by the Spirit of God cast out demons;" it was the Spirit of God upon Him that fitted Him for His work, and it was He who said of His Spirit-filled disciples: "And greater works than these shall ye do because I go to My Father." Now we do not want the reader to misunderstand this. We believe in the Deity and the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, but we believe just as truly that the Scriptures are "God-breathed," and are profitable. The very example of our Lord Himself shows that He made no discrimination. Why should we? It was "the Spirit of Christ which was in them [the prophets, that]" "testified."