“And
He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the
sins of the whole world.” 1 John 2:2
The key to
the missionary message is the propitiation of Christ Jesus. Take any phase of
Christ's work – the healing phase, the saving and sanctifying phase; there is
nothing limitless about those. “The Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of
the world! ” – that is limitless. The missionary message is the limitless
significance of Jesus Christ as the propitiation for our sins, and a missionary
is one who is soaked in that revelation.
The key to
the missionary message is the remissionary aspect of Christ's life, not His
kindness and His goodness, and His revealing of the Fatherhood of God; the
great limitless significance is that He is the propitiation for our sins. The
missionary message is not patriotic, it is irrespective of nations and of
individuals, it is for the whole world. When the Holy Ghost comes in He does
not consider my predilections, He brings me into union with the Lord Jesus.
A missionary
is one who is wedded to the charter of his Lord and Master, he has not to
proclaim his own point of view, but to proclaim the Lamb of God. It is easier
to belong to a coterie which tells what Jesus Christ has done for me, easier to
become a devotee to Divine healing, or to a special type of sanctification, or
to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Paul did not say – “Woe is unto me, if I do
not preach what Christ has done for me,” but – “Woe is unto me, if I preach not
the gospel.” This is the Gospel – “The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin
of the world!”
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