...obedience, first due to God, the •• Lord our Governor." As Christ Jesus asks of the perverse Jews, •' How can ye believe. which receive honor one of another. and seek not the honor which cometh from God only ?" If, then, He who was, in His Godhead, •' Lord of all," submitted to become...

...distorts the mental vision. Christ never expected wicked men, remaining such, to receive his word. How can ye believe which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor which cometh from God only ? The testimony of devils in his favor he peremptorily rejected, and bade them...

...the flesh cannot please God." " No man can serve two masters." " Ye cannot serve God and mammon." " How can ye believe which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only 1 " " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for...

...should be cordially received ; or that such doctrines as his were, could be readily believed by them. " How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comcth from God only ?"" " Honor" here, is approbation — good opinion ; and our Lord's statement...

...he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Cor. ii. 14.) Christ says to the Jews, " How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only ! " (John v. 44.) And again, " If any man will do his will, (that is, has...

...synagogue : for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of Gcd ;" — compared with John v. 44, " How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only ?" 2. Accepting Christ as a priest and king, cannot be separated. They not...

...should be cordially received ; or that such doctrines as his were, could be readily believed by them. " How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only ?"78 " Honor" here, is approbation — good opinion ; and our Lord's statement...

...or the opinion of others : remembering the words of Christ to the Jews upon this very subject — " How can ye believe " which receive honor one of another, and seek not the " honor which cometh from God only ?" and the case of the chief rulers mentioned John, xii. 43, many of whom believed...

...unto righteousness. Neither is such an one commanded to believe, but rather to awake and repent. " How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God Only." But the man who turns to God with a penitent heart, confessing and forsaking...

...glory of God will not be our main object, and we shall lie under the weight of that cutting reproof, " How can ye believe which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only?" Readers, friends, brother ministers, may we all with one mind and heart...