Glorious Christianity

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“I can sum up their position like this: These highly religious people had never really given the Gospel a fair hearing, a fair chance; they were blinded by prejudice. And they were blinded by prejudice because they had a completely false idea as to what constitutes true religion. That was what blinded them, as it had blinded all the Pharisees who had so constantly contended with our Lord about His wonderful message.” (Page 7)

“Thirdly—and, remember, these are all ways in which the religious leaders had completely misunderstood the true meaning of the very thing in which they gloried—they had completely misunderstood Moses and his teaching, the teaching of the law. The charge that was brought against Stephen was this: ‘We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.… This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law’ (Acts 6:11, 13).” (Page 12)

“But why did the Pharisees and the doctors of the law resent our Lord and deal with Him as they did? He was the essence, the incarnation, of God’s love, and yet they argued with Him, they tried to trap Him in His conversation, they conspired against Him and eventually got rid of Him by the cruel death of crucifixion. What made them do it? And the answer is that His preaching condemned them. They saw the implication of it. They who were self-satisfied and thought themselves to be perfect were convicted that there was something wrong about them. So they constantly turned on Him and said things like this: ‘We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?’ (John 8:33).” (Page 9)