Understanding Christ: The Whole Life and Its Impact

There is nothing more dangerous than to concentrate only only on certain parts or portions or aspects of his life. Now the New Testament doesn't want us to do that. It gives a whole picture, it gives us a total picture, and it does that of course because everything that he did was part and parle of one great purpose. [00:01:26]

The world takes this peculiar interest in the birth of our Lord. It would like to keep him in the manger. It likes that, that's interesting, that's wonderful, that's romantic. They can handle him as it were while he's there. But of course they don't like him so much when he goes on and when he teaches and preaches and when he dies upon the cross. [00:03:06]

There has never been a greater divisive force in the world than this blessed person, the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, the result of his coming is this: he's divided the whole of humanity into two groups, the world and these. Here he is in the middle, and the effect of this coming is that there are those who are the world and these others. [00:06:07]

The world and the way of the world is that which leads people to live only for pleasure. So many are living to eat, so many are living to drink, so many are just living to gratify their passions and their lusts and their desires. That's all they're living for. That's the world, you know. [00:19:12]

The world is full of unhappiness. Look at all its divisions, national, within the nation, groups within the Nations, the divisions even in the groups, even a circle like the Family Circle divided, torn, separations, divorces. Oh, this day in which we think so much of the little children, think of many little children who are breaking their hearts. [00:20:18]

The world is as it is because literally it has never had any of this knowledge of God which satisfies the profoundest needs and desires of human nature. But you see, because it doesn't know God, it doesn't know the truth about itself either, and that's why the world is as it is. [00:24:05]

The world is under the curse of God at the present time. God has said that he will curse the world if he doesn't honor him and Obey him and glorify his name. He's punishing the world at the moment in spite of all our efforts, in spite of all our advances and discoveries. [00:27:20]

He separates certain people out of that world, the world that doesn't know God and that's not interested in him. He separates certain people out of that and he calls them these. These, they don't belong to the world. These have known that thou H has sent me. [00:29:50]

We are forgiven and are reconciled to God. You know, he said this, didn't he? He said here, for their sakes I sanctify myself that they also might be Sanctified through the truth. What do he mean by sanctifying himself? He means I'm going to set myself apart. He was referring to his death, his death upon the cross. [00:33:59]

Not only forgiveness, eternal life as thou has given power him Power Over All Flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou H has given him. What does it mean? Well, it means a new life, it means a Divine Life, it means you become partaker of the divine nature. [00:36:31]

We are no longer governed by its mind and by its Outlook. We are no longer controlled by its thinking and by its Vain and futile hopes, but still more important, we are no longer involved in its Doom. My friends, this world is a doomed world. It's a world that's under judgment, and the Judgment may come at any moment. [00:39:59]

The world doesn't know God, doesn't know Jesus Christ, doesn't know anything of these things. But these have known that thou has sent me. There's nothing comparable to this, to know God and Jesus Christ whom he as sent, to know Jesus Christ as My Savior, My Lord, my all and in all and to rejoice in Hope of that Glory which is coming. [00:46:08]