John 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. It is quite consistent with God's wisdom to reveal Himself to the senses, as well as to the soul; and if the gospel were utterly deficient in this latter kind of proof, one great evidence that it is from God would be wanted — an evidence that we are fortified in expecting from the analogies of nature. God has written His glory — e.g., in the heart — at the same time, He has so constructed the visible universe, that "the heavens declare the glory of God." And when the eternal Word is manifested into the world, we naturally expect that Divine power shall be shown, as well as Divine beneficence. Miracles, therefore, are exactly what we should expect; and I acknowledge a great corroboration and verification of His claims to Sonship. Besides, they startled and aroused many to His claims who otherwise would never have attended to them. Still the great truth remains untouched, that they, appealing only to the natural man, cannot convey the spiritual certainty of truth which the spiritual man alone apprehends. However, as the natural and spiritual in us are both from God, why should God not have spoken to both, and why should not Christ appeal to natural works, subordinate always to the spiritual self-evidence of Truth itself? (F. W. Robertson, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. |
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