I
was reading the newspaper not long ago when I noticed an interesting ad. It was
an ad from a nearby hospital, telling the days that certain specialists would be
visiting. The "visiting specialist" system makes a lot of sense for the little
hospitals around these parts. Doctors who are skilled at treating certain
diseases can come in one day a week, or one day a month, and help the people who
need their specific skills. There are some drawbacks, though. For one thing, you
have to be there when the doctor's available. Also, you have to have a correct
diagnosis beforehand; obviously, if you don't know you're sick, all the medical
skills in the world won't help you. We happen to have a visiting specialist with
us here in church this morning. He's the same Doctor who once passed through the
little town of Capernaum on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. On that day, a
terribly sick man named Levi took advantage of His visit and was completely
cured of his disease. The disease was sin, and the doctor was Jesus Christ, also
known as The Great Physician - Paul Naumann
In
his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I
cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think,
yet another example of the ironical humor which informs so many of His purposes.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
You
never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgment hall one word that would let you
imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us.
When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up
like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of
death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on
His commitment. - Charles Spurgeon
You
must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a
madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him
and kill him for a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.
But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. - C. S. Lewis
If
Jesus were God and nothing else, his immortality means nothing to us; if he were
a man and no more, His death is no more important than yours or mine. But if he
were really both God and man, then when the man Jesus died, God died too, and
when the God Jesus rose from the dead, then man rose too, because they were one
and the same person. - Dorothy Sayers
The
only true Witness is the Lord Jesus Christ. Through all those early individual
witnesses, through Israel, and through the Church, all is gathered up into one
glorious witness, the Lord Jesus. All who went before Him, pointed on to Him;
all those who followed (if there was any true testimony to God's glory in their
experiences) took their character from Him; the glory of God is to be found in
the face of Jesus Christ. - - T. Austin Sparks
In
many respects I find an un-resurrected Jesus easier to accept. Easter makes him
dangerous. Because of Easter I have to listen to his extravagant claims and can
no longer pick and choose from his sayings. Moreover, Easter means he must be
loose out there somewhere. - Philip Yancey
Jesus
was the representative of the Lord who forgives sins and heals all infirmities;
the disciples acknowledged him as "Lord" and transferred to him the position
ascribed to the "Lord" in the Old Testament. Whereas Jesus placed the penitent
heart and the saving will of God higher than the pride of the godly and the
letter of the Torah, so Paul preached faith in Christ as the only way to
salvation and rejected striving after righteousness through the works of the
Law. Above all, Jesus knew himself to be the Messiah and he acted in messianic
authority; hence the risen and glorified Jesus was acknowledged as the king of
the last days. It is still faith, not sight, that is demanded from men. -
Otto Betz
I
was reading the newspaper not long ago when I noticed an interesting ad. It was
an ad from a nearby hospital, telling the days that certain specialists would be
visiting. The "visiting specialist" system makes a lot of sense for the little
hospitals around these parts. Doctors who are skilled at treating certain
diseases can come in one day a week, or one day a month, and help the people who
need their specific skills. There are some drawbacks, though. For one thing, you
have to be there when the doctor's available. Also, you have to have a correct
diagnosis beforehand; obviously, if you don't know you're sick, all the medical
skills in the world won't help you. We happen to have a visiting specialist with
us here in church this morning. He's the same Doctor who once passed through the
little town of Capernaum on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. On that day, a
terribly sick man named Levi took advantage of His visit and was completely
cured of his disease. The disease was sin, and the doctor was Jesus Christ, also
known as The Great Physician - Paul Naumann
In
his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I
cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think,
yet another example of the ironical humor which informs so many of His purposes.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
You
never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgment hall one word that would let you
imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us.
When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up
like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of
death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on
His commitment. - Charles Spurgeon
You
must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a
madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him
and kill him for a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.
But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. - C. S. Lewis
If
Jesus were God and nothing else, his immortality means nothing to us; if he were
a man and no more, His death is no more important than yours or mine. But if he
were really both God and man, then when the man Jesus died, God died too, and
when the God Jesus rose from the dead, then man rose too, because they were one
and the same person. - Dorothy Sayers
The
only true Witness is the Lord Jesus Christ. Through all those early individual
witnesses, through Israel, and through the Church, all is gathered up into one
glorious witness, the Lord Jesus. All who went before Him, pointed on to Him;
all those who followed (if there was any true testimony to God's glory in their
experiences) took their character from Him; the glory of God is to be found in
the face of Jesus Christ. - - T. Austin Sparks
In
many respects I find an un-resurrected Jesus easier to accept. Easter makes him
dangerous. Because of Easter I have to listen to his extravagant claims and can
no longer pick and choose from his sayings. Moreover, Easter means he must be
loose out there somewhere. - Philip Yancey
Jesus
was the representative of the Lord who forgives sins and heals all infirmities;
the disciples acknowledged him as "Lord" and transferred to him the position
ascribed to the "Lord" in the Old Testament. Whereas Jesus placed the penitent
heart and the saving will of God higher than the pride of the godly and the
letter of the Torah, so Paul preached faith in Christ as the only way to
salvation and rejected striving after righteousness through the works of the
Law. Above all, Jesus knew himself to be the Messiah and he acted in messianic
authority; hence the risen and glorified Jesus was acknowledged as the king of
the last days. It is still faith, not sight, that is demanded from men. -
Otto Betz