Ephesians 4:20-21 But you have not so learned Christ;… The longer you live, if you keep in a healthful spiritual atmosphere, the more deeply you will feel the utter unreality, and blankness of help or comfort, of all religious teaching which is not saturated through and through with Christ, with special Christian doctrine: the more deeply will you feel the moral paralysis of all moral truth, but truth as it is in Jesus. The living, experimental Christian will turn away from all that is not such, just (though the similitude be homely) as an animal rejects the food which does not suit its nature. "I don't say," will be the living Christian's feeling, "I don't say but all that may be true; but it is not the truth for me!" And I do not mean Christ merely; but Christ as seen in the great Atonement. When one hears a great deal about the beauty of Christ's character; and about His sympathy with us; and about looking to Him as our Example; but nothing of His atoning sacrifice and His regenerating Spirit; I refuse to receive that as gospel truth, the truth as it is in Jesus! I revolt, as much as any from the stupidity of those who would count how often Christ's Name occurs in a discourse; as if that were a test how far the discourse is leavened by His Spirit. But I remember how one, chief among apostles, said to dear friends, "I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." "We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness: But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." (A. K. H. Boyd, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: But ye have not so learned Christ; |
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