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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

He is the King of kings, the radiance of His glory, the Lord of the spaceless, fabulous, infinite universe, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, unspeakable holy, dwelling in light, unapproachable, changeless ... and yet He condescended to be enclosed in lowly human flesh, to be born a despised Judean, in a filthy stable, in the womb of a simple Israeli woman and without fanfare or pomp.
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James Stewart used to say, “Be yourself, but also, forget yourself!” Self-forgetfulness is of vital importance. We cannot make much of ourselves and much of the Lord Jesus Christ simultaneously. If people leave worship saying, “What an amazing preacher!” we have failed. Instead we must long for them to say, “What a great God, and what a privilege it is to meet Him in His Word, as we have just done.”
Alistair Begg

    • CII. The Purposed Incompleteness of Christ’s Teaching.

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    JOHN xvi. 12, 13. “I have yet many things
    to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when
    He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all
    truth.”

    THESE words of our Lord have a double significance.
    They teach us a great truth about Christian doctrine;
    they teach us one or more serious duties in the Christian
    life.
    I. These words show us that our Lord’s own teaching
    during His earthly sojourn did not embrace all necessary
    Christian doctrine. A man who should think himself a
    good Christian for keeping only to the words of Christ,
    would deceive himself. The text states clearly that over
    and above Christ’s actual teaching there were truths to be
    taught in His name and authority which, as coming from
    Him although through others, Christians were to receive
    and believe.
    II. Our Lord’s teaching was completed by that of the
    Holy Spirit. Our Lord gave the germs which the apostles,
    as mouthpieces of the Holy Spirit, expanded into doc-
    trines. When the Spirit of truth had come, He guided
    men into all truth, and especially as to the Divine Person
    of Jesus Christ.
    III. The reason why our Lord’s teaching was incom-
    plete, incomplete according to His own will and announce-
    ment. The same motive which led Him to teach men at
    all, led Him to impose these limits, restraints, and delays
    upon His process of teaching. He taught men gradually,
    because He loved men too well to blind them by a
    sudden blaze of truth. He knew what was in man, and
    did not expect them to be able to receive a full revelation
    all at once. Like the sun He rose gradually amid the
    mists of imperfect apprehensions as to who and what He
    was, and not until He was high in the heavens did He
    permit the full truth to break upon the intelligence of the
    world.
    The practical lessons are—
    1. That the true principle of religious and secular
    education is that there should be gradual teaching.
    2. Up to our last day God is teaching each of us through
    the events of life. He has many things to say to us which
    we cannot bear as yet; but He knows when life’s deepest
    lessons will be most needed by us. We have only to
    listen for His voice, and to obey it.
    Henry Parry Liddon, D.C.L.

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