The
Best of Men Are Only Men at Their Very Best
While
he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice
from the cloud said, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am
well pleased; hear ye Him" (Matthew 17:5).
Let us see in these words a striking lesson to the whole Church of Christ. There is a constant tendency in human nature to "hear man"...bishops, priests, deacons, popes, cardinals, councils, preachers, and ministers, are continually exalted to a place which God never intended them to fill, and made practically to usurp the honor of Christ.
Against this tendency let us all watch, and be on our guard. Let these solemn words of the vision ever ring in our ears, Listen to Christ!
The best of men are only men at their very best ...patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, church fathers, reformers, puritans; all, all are sinners, who need a Savior.
They may be holy, useful, honorable in their place; but they are sinners after all. They must never be allowed to stand between us and Christ. He alone is the Son, in Whom the Father is well pleased. He alone is sealed and appointed to give the bread of life. He alone holds the keys of death and the grave in His hands. Let us take heed that we hear His voice, and follow Him. Let us value all religious teaching just in proportion as it leads us to Jesus. The sum and substance of saving religion is to listen to Christ!
Let us see in these words a striking lesson to the whole Church of Christ. There is a constant tendency in human nature to "hear man"...bishops, priests, deacons, popes, cardinals, councils, preachers, and ministers, are continually exalted to a place which God never intended them to fill, and made practically to usurp the honor of Christ.
Against this tendency let us all watch, and be on our guard. Let these solemn words of the vision ever ring in our ears, Listen to Christ!
The best of men are only men at their very best ...patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, church fathers, reformers, puritans; all, all are sinners, who need a Savior.
They may be holy, useful, honorable in their place; but they are sinners after all. They must never be allowed to stand between us and Christ. He alone is the Son, in Whom the Father is well pleased. He alone is sealed and appointed to give the bread of life. He alone holds the keys of death and the grave in His hands. Let us take heed that we hear His voice, and follow Him. Let us value all religious teaching just in proportion as it leads us to Jesus. The sum and substance of saving religion is to listen to Christ!
-Gospel
report by unknown writer
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