nemy of your soul deceive you.

In John v. 21 we read: "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and
quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will. For the
Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He
that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father which hath sent
Him."

Now notice: by the Jewish law if a man were a blasphemer he was to be
put to death; and supposing Christ to be merely human if this be not
blasphemy I do not know where you will find it. "He that honoureth
not the Son, honoureth not the Father." That is downright blasphemy
if Christ be not divine. If Moses, or Elijah, or Elisha, or any other
mortal had said, "You must honour me as you honor God;" and had put
himself on a level with God, it would have been downright blasphemy.

The Jews put Christ to death because they said that He was not what
He claimed to be. It was on that testimony He was put under oath. The
high priest said: "I adjure Thee by the living God, that Thou tell us
whether Thou be the Christ, the Son of God" (Matt. xxvi. 63). And
when the Jews came round Him and said, "How long dost Thou make us to
doubt? If Thou be the Christ tell us plainly." Jesus said, "I and My
Father are one." Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
(John x. 24-33.) They said they did not want to hear more, for that
was blasphemy. It was for declaring Himself to be the Son of God that
He was condemned and put to death. (Matt. xxvi. 63-66).

Now if Jesus Christ were mere man the Jews did right, according to
their law, in putting Him to death. In Leviticus xxiv. 16, we read:
"And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put
to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well
the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the
name of the Lord, shall be put to death."

This law obliged them to put to death every one who blasphemed. It
was making the statement that He was divine that cost Him His life;
and by the Mosaic law He ought to have suffered the death penalty. In
John xvi. 15, Christ says, "All things that the Father hath are Mine:
therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto
you." How could He be merely a good man and use language as that?

No doubt has ever entered my mind on the point since I was converted.

A notorious sinner was once asked how he could prov