John 6:69 And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God. I. THE CHRIST OF PROPHECY. 1. Christ was the Desire of all nations, the Saviour for which all nations yearned. 2. His coming was in accordance with the plan of God from the first. Hence then were preparations not only among the Jews but in general history for His coming. 3. But the Christ who was blindly felt after by sage and seer was the Christ of an assured prophecy in Judaea. Abraham had seen His day. Even earlier to Adam and Noah the promise had gone forth. You know the tenor of Isaiah, Daniel and the minor prophets. II. THE CHRIST OF HISTORY corresponds in every particular to the Christ of prophecy. Eight different writers record His life, but they all agree in saying that Christ was what many more before He came said He was to be. III. THE CHRIST OF EXPERIENCE. 1. Christ's promise was that He would manifest Himself to and live in His people. The Apostles point out this as the central Christian privilege. It therefore becomes our duty, that as there is an indwelling Christ in every true believer, to bring out in ourselves the Christ should be our end and aim. 2. The Christ of prophecy was needed as the initiation of the Divine plan for our salvation. But the benefits of the Christ of prophecy to us are simply that they confirm our faith and raise in us a more exalted idea of His excellence. 3. The Christ of history, too, has passed away, but the Christ of experience is based upon and modelled after and by the Christ of history. (A. B. Livermore.) Parallel Verses KJV: And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.WEB: We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." |
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