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Chapter 5 |
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Two facts are unanswerable. One was the effect of Christ upon His friends. They were “unlearned and ignorant men,” men who had not had the teaching and training of rabbis and scholars, and yet they were evidently men of great power. “They took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” The marks of Jesus were in their lives. They had been impressed by His influence. They saw it in their very faces. There was something in them which recalled the bearing of Jesus that morning when He was on His trial, and then they remembered that they had seen them with Him at that time. It is a great thing when we make people think of Christ by the way we bear ourselves. No one can be with Jesus as a companion, a teacher, a friend, and not show it in his life. It was said of Dr. Babcock that “the secret of his wondrous influence among men was that he made God so attractive. He helped men to fall in love with Jesus Christ.”
The other fact which they could not answer was the man himself. There he stood, healed — how? “Seeing that man that was healed standing with them, they could not say nothing against it.” They could not say the man had not been lame — everybody had known him as the beggar of the Beautiful Gate. They could not deny that he had been healed. There was a man who said he had been able to refute every proof offered by the Christian religion, save one — his mother’s life. There is no argument in proof of the power of the gospel equal to what the gospel itself has done in the lands into which it has gone. Regenerated men and women were unanswerable proofs of the regenerating power of Jesus Christ.
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