Was He scourged? It was that “through His stripes we might be healed.” Was He condemned, though innocent? It was that we might be acquitted though guilty. Did He wear a crown of thorns? It was that we might wear the crown of glory. Was He stripped of His clothing? It was that we might be clothed in everlasting righteousness. Was He mocked and reviled? It was that we might be honored and blessed. Was He reckoned a malefactor, and numbered among transgressors? It was that we might be reckoned innocent, and justified from all sin. Was He declared unable to save Himself? It was that He might be able to save others to the uttermost. Did He die at last, and that the most painful and disgraceful of deaths? It was that we might live for evermore, and be exalted to the highest glory.
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Re: Word for Today, Wed, 26 Jun 2002: From Mourning to Rejoicing

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#1 · June 27, 2002, 10:43 am

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NUR UL ALAM MINISTRY.P.O.BOX.15.MAJERI676121.KERALA.INDIA

Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father. ... Jesus saith unto him,
Have I been so long time with you, and yet has thou not known me, Philip? He
that hath seen me hath seen the Father. John 14, 8. 9.

Many painters have depicted God as a person, generally as an aged man. Maybe
they thought of Daniel's description of the ancient of days (ch. 7, v.9) in
spite of the particular viewpoint of that passage. God has no physical form,
nobody: He is spirit. Moses said that the Israelites "heard the voice ...
but saw no similitude" (Deuteronomy 4, 15). Then again, God told Moses:
"There shall no man see me, and live" (Exodus 33, 20). He is the invisible
God "whom no man hath seen nor can see" (1 Timothy 6, 16). Yet if He had not
revealed Himself, we could not know Him: "the only begotten Son, which is in
the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him" (John 1, 18).

Christ is the image of the invisible God. An image is a faithful
representation of a person or an object, whereas a similarity only
reproduces certain characteristics. An image is created to be seen. It
presents something which, for some reason, itself remains invisible. Since
God is invisible to the whole of creation, it is the Son of His love who
reveals Him. The Son, who is ever in the bosom of the Father, who is God and
became Man without ceasing to be God, makes God known in all His ways and
character, indeed in His very being.

Only-begotten, He revealed
Thyself unto Thy praise.
The father, until then concealed,
Was seen in all His ways.

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