Unspoken Sermons, Series I., II., and III.MacDonald, George
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Unspoken Sermons, Series I., II., and III.
MacDonald, George
Sermons, English -- 19th century
You are not called upon to tell. The question for you is whether you
have the spirit of Christ yourself. The question is for you to put to
yourself, the question is for you to answer to yourself: Am I alive
with the life of Christ? Is his spirit dwelling in me? Everyone who
desires to follow the Master has the spirit of the Master, and will
receive more, that he may follow closer, nearer, in his very footsteps.
He is not called upon to prove to this or that or any man that he has
the light of Jesus; he has to let his light shine. It does not follow
that his work is to teach others, or that he is able to speak large
truths in true forms. When the strength or the joy or the pity of the
truth urges him, let him speak it out and not be afraid--content to be
condemned for it; comforted that if he mistake, the Lord himself will
condemn him, and save him 'as by fire.' The condemnation of his fellow
men will not hurt him, nor a whit the more that it be spoken in the
name of Christ. If he speak true, the Lord will say 'I sent him.' For
all truth is of him; no man can see a true thing to be true but by the
Lord, the spirit.
'How am I to know that a thing is true?'
By _doing_ what you know to be true, and calling nothing true until you
see it to be true; by shutting your mouth until the truth opens it. Are
you meant to be silent? Then woe to you if you speak.
'But if I do not take the words attributed to him by the evangelists,
for the certain, absolute, very words of the Master, how am I to know
that they represent his truth?'
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