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Title: 'Jesus Himself'

Author: Andrew Murray

Release Date: July 7, 2008 [EBook #26003]

Language: English

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"Jesus Himself."

BY
THE REV. ANDREW MURRAY.
_Author of "Abide in Christ."_

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY.
NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO.
_Publishers of Evangelical Literature._

COPYRIGHT 1893 BY
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY.

PREFACE.

The following brief messages comprise a revision of two addresses, which
originally appeared in the _South African Pioneer_, the organ of the
"Cape General Mission" (Rev. Andrew Murray, Pres.), and are published by
arrangement, the Mission participating in the proceeds.

"Jesus Himself."

"_Their eyes were opened, and they knew Him._"

I

The words, from which I want to present a simple message, will be found
in the Gospel according to St. Luke, the 24th chapter and the 31st
verse: "_And their eyes were opened, and they knew Him._" Some time
since, I preached a sermon with the words "Jesus Himself" as the text;
and as I went home I said to those who were walking with me: "How
possible it is to have Jesus Himself with us and never to know it, and
how possible to preach of, and to listen to, all the truth about Jesus
Himself and yet not to know Him." I cannot say what a deep impression
was made upon me as I thought over it.

Now these disciples had spent a most blessed time with Jesus, but if
they had gone away before He revealed Himself that evening, they would
never have been sure that it was Jesus, for their eyes were holden that
they should not know Him. That is, alas, the condition of a great
multitude in the Church of Christ. They know that Christ has risen from
the dead. They believe, and they very often have blessed experiences
that come from the risen Christ. Very often in a time of Co