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IS JESUS DIVINE?

Christian whome' death is recorded.

We are told that at the end of This trial, when the 'crowd rushed apon hing, he had a vision of the

Huntah B'oods.

Our Second point is that this doctrine meets the deepest human

millions. :

A DOCTRINE FOUNDED ON EXPERIENCE. Glory of God and Jesus standing needs, and has broughs happiness to

DEAN'S SERMON IN ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

Preaching at St. John's Cathe- |

Department, by Dior Endrai on Sunday morning the Dean,

EZOKLIENOT THE GOTERNOU,

of

On the Very Rev. A. Swann," said :---

Tot of OROWN LAND at Mong Ko Tui, in the Colony f

The Witness of Obrist'a Ilio,

But He did more than teach-

As disciples continued in close

He lived as He taught.

on the right hand of God,

This does not necessarily imply more than a thought of Christ na Heavenly Mobainh, but the words. that follow go. definitely further "Lord Jesus receive my Spirit,"

All Jews knew the words of the 31 Psalm which Jeena quoted as He died on the Cross.

Does it matter who Jesus is 1- to mo? Yes, it does-immensely.

Thero is matters how one thinks of life, no question that it

values we exalt. what background we imagine, what

This is only another way of any; ing it matters what sort of a God. Father."we believe in..

Jesus gave it a new meaning by prefacing it by the word

But here is the first Christian to commending his Spirit, to

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been dealing with various attacks No one was so perfectly loving. on the Christian position. We con- He cared for all-good, bad, grate clude with the gasnuit on ourful, ungrateful, attraefive, unat Theology.

"Is Jesus divine na Catholic and

ed?"

Orthodox teaching has maintain

In shall not attempt to go deeply into the subject. I am not qualified to deal adequately with it, and the average man only wants some simple statement which he grasp,

san

tractive.

His love poured out unceasingly, there was no limit to the amount of His well-giving

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He was sorely grieved when men sinned, and He spared Himself no pains to recall and to reinstate the sinner.

This is a definito equation of Jesus with the God of the Spirits of all flesh,

Here is a statement not of dogina, bart one which wells up from the experience of a particularly good and clear-sighted man.

It is devotional, not dogmatic, therefore, its value le mil the greater as showing what Jesus had come to thean for one of His most faithful followers.

St. Paul,

Almost certainly St. Stephen was responsible for Saul's conver.

Recognised standards placed cer- tain folk beyond the pale of socie I shall try to show simply:- t: but there was no palo for (1) The doctrine grew from ex Jesus, therefore no one was too sinsion. The Jesus to whom, in Saul's

perience, it was not preful to be sought by im. conceived or imposed, but He went into the mud to bring his spirit, began to be for Saut an presence, St. Stephen commended formulated to account for facts them back-Zacchaeus, Matthew, Retual experience, a power.

Mary Magdalene, and others.

of experiencd. (2) The Doctrine meets the deepest human needs, and has brought happiness to millions,

Modern Views.

The amazing correspondence be tween His life and teaching gare Him power which no ordinary man possessed.

He who had previously been a living power which pursued Saul name well hated now become a till his defences broke down outside Men recognised

Damascus, and he consecrated, his genuinenesse to Jesus as to God, which was absolutely trustworthy.

They learnt to believe that what He said was true, that what He did was essentially right.

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Faith in Him was seen to have

wonderful results, bodies and souls were bealed, sins were forgiven, life was renewed.

Many to-day think that it is a hindrance to religion, not a help, to believe that Jesus is divine. Take Jesus seriously," they say, "as a high example, a great ten ARTICULAM CONDITIONS cher-surely no more is needed. Put the Sale by Paulis Auction, to Why go further? Why define our be held on TUESDAY, the 7TH DAY business is to follow, not to ex of APRIL, 1931, 3 ... at the

He was constantly holy, pures plain!" Offices of the Puble Works.

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No genuine conviction about who

Jesus war can come to any man till he has begun to experience what it means to fallow Him, and what He does for those who do so.-

"Never

man spoke

16 this

It was this overwhelming experi- after expressed itself in Saul's life ence of the risen Christ that there- and writings

Epistles associating our Lord with We find him in his earliest God as the source of grace and

peace.

Hero it in that the Christian, belief about Jesus censed to be doctrine and becomes a Gospel.

We make a mistake if we think

of this doctrinn merely as assertion about Jems. It is more. It is an

artian about Ged,

“If Jesus is divine then. Godi must be like Him. It may seem unimportant to believe that Jesus is the unique Son of God. But it ¦ can't be unimportant to believo that the Eternal God, the Ruler of the universo has the mind, and heart and will of Jesus"

fout men are vague about God. We all believe in a sort of a A member of Parliament once said,

vague no that, but at least we don't something."

may not be as

We

know God as well as we know Josus nowadays.

This makes the doctrine, of portant for the present day. Christ's divinity all the more im

Someone recently has written "The

taak of the Christian teachlor to-day, is almost the exact opposite of that of his. of Christendom. predeocesor of the first centuries.

Then the task

Now we have to bring men, who in God to o belief in Isus Christ: was, to lead men who believed

in greater or lesser degree accept Jesus Christ as their Master, to

working belief in God."

sion which led to his realisation

It was the experience of Convern

of reconciliation to God through fellowship with Christ,

There can be no question that 8t

It matters therefore what place we give to Jesus, because it He is not divine, we have no · Rɛsuranco,

By Iis teaching He was painting Paul. did actually equate Jesus of the character of God. We are

God.

He spoke with authority, nad nothing in His life did anything but endorse that authority.

The Messianic Hopo,

The divinity of Christ was " Now, before proceeding it is experience before it became a doc-necessary to realise something of trine. It only became a doctrino | the dewi expectation of a Messiah. because men were driven to think out their experience.

Let us, therefore, recall what men's experience of Jesus-was.

Christ's Teaching.

We will begin with the opening of His ministry "Jesus come preaching the Gospel of the King

dom of God.”

The burden of His teaching waa the Reign of God. In calling men to accept this He had a new picture of God to paint,

At onco He began to make God real for those to whom He had been vaguo before, loveable instead of awe-inspiring.

God became real to the hearts of men, a Heavenly Father,

The God He depicted was Holy,

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All through the history of the Hebrews there runs a golden thread of hope of a coming Deliverer.

They were conscious of being in a special sense God's people, charg ed with a Mission.

from it but simply because Jesus with the Eternal God not because of any preconceived theory-far

meant this to Him.

Thus he kaya: "In

Father are one and He that hath back in the region of speculation, imaginings, opinions.

But if, as He said, He and the

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dwelleth all the fuiness of the God head bodily."

He speaks of Christ as existing before the Incarnation "in the form of God."

Christ is the image of the in- visible God." "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Him self." By experience, St. Paul was driven to think out what Jesus mennt and this is his answer.

Archbishop Temple has written 11. Cor. closes the grace of our *The familiar words with which Lord, etc., especially when we pay attention to the order of the phrases, cannot be accounted for by any theory which does not attri- bute to Jesus Christ the dignity of The Measianic hope was always God Himself.. of One to be sent from God, but the convinced, that St. Paul fully be I am entirely thought of His function varied: atlieved in the Deity of our Lord, the highest it was of a deliverer from sin, at the lowest a means of triumphing over their national enemies.

The best, realised that this Mission was not being fully die charged, it was handicapped by temporal and spiritual restraints.

They longed for God Himself 10 step into the arena,

But all down the centuries this expectation of a special act of God continues.

This is a Gospel, a good news. It Jeans is.God-and: God for un men is. Jesus-then anything He stood for is of Eternal value, nothing contrary to His mind is of lasting value,

If Jesus is God. love is the ultimate power. God must be work by the same methods and with the ing for the same ends.us Jesus and same powers.

If. Jesus is God, then the Divine attitude. to. men is that of Jesus- to sinners, bereaved, rich or, poor, sorrowful or happy.

If Jesus is God the ultimate reality behind the universe is like Jesus in His life, among men and The Epistle to the Hobrawn. -

in His death at men's hands. The writer of the Epistle to the If Jesus is God, the study of His Hebrews holds a similar position. life is an occupation of the greatest uses language which can mean value, since from it we enn know nothing else but that for Him | God;

This is one of history's mostly from the opening words of whether or not we profess. the Jesis in God. To take one example Does it, therefore, matter to us remarkable phenomena the persist-

the Epistle.. ence of this hope through many centuries before Christ:

"God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets * An Ordinary Man

hath at the end-of these When Jesus' came

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Wa must answer "Yes, matters supremely." rentse those for whom this doctrine is real-i.e... experienced find that it meets their deepest needs

Around the experience of the sufficiency of Jesus, which this doc: trine represente, has grown up all the devotion which is characteristic of the orthodox Christian Church. The Holy Communion is the supreme ceremonial and devotional expression of this experience,

Our. Hymns are built upon it "Jesu, lever of my soul, let me

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Celestial Being who might properly which appears again and again 241, Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the Son of God; but He was not the 16TH DAT 01 APRIL, 1931,

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