06-11-2008, 08:47 PM
An Evening Text for June 11
"You are witnesses to these things." (Luke 24:48, Bible in Living English)
The Apostles as persons who bore witness to the events in the first century were not merely to tell about the Redeemer's virgin birth, nor merely about His holy, devoted life, nor merely of our Lord's resurrection, nor merely of His ascension, but in addition to all these facts they were to tell that He was the properly qualified Redeemer, that He met all the conditions of the Law, and that now He ever lives to bring satisfaction to those who come to the Father through Him.
How faithfully the Apostles carried out their mission! How truly, as the Apostle Paul declared, they did not neglect to declare the whole counsel! "Modern wisdom" might intimate that to own a Master and Teacher who had been executed as a felon would be to their discredit, and thoroughly hinder them from progress in gathering followers to their Leader. But these faithful servants of Jah consulted not with flesh and blood as to what they should preach - they told the story simply in all of its details, not neglecting even those of Peter and Judas, and the disputing as to which should be greatest, etc.
The truth in the simplicity in which God intended it to be delivered has evidently come down to us in the Bible account.
--From Songs in the Night (Modern Edition)
"You are witnesses to these things." (Luke 24:48, Bible in Living English)
The Apostles as persons who bore witness to the events in the first century were not merely to tell about the Redeemer's virgin birth, nor merely about His holy, devoted life, nor merely of our Lord's resurrection, nor merely of His ascension, but in addition to all these facts they were to tell that He was the properly qualified Redeemer, that He met all the conditions of the Law, and that now He ever lives to bring satisfaction to those who come to the Father through Him.
How faithfully the Apostles carried out their mission! How truly, as the Apostle Paul declared, they did not neglect to declare the whole counsel! "Modern wisdom" might intimate that to own a Master and Teacher who had been executed as a felon would be to their discredit, and thoroughly hinder them from progress in gathering followers to their Leader. But these faithful servants of Jah consulted not with flesh and blood as to what they should preach - they told the story simply in all of its details, not neglecting even those of Peter and Judas, and the disputing as to which should be greatest, etc.
The truth in the simplicity in which God intended it to be delivered has evidently come down to us in the Bible account.
--From Songs in the Night (Modern Edition)