Notes of a sermon preached by the Rev. C. E. Darwent in Union Church on Sunday morning, December 10.
Text: St, Jobo vi 26-27. "Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, esy unto you, Ye seek me not because but because ye ste of were filled. Work not for the meat that perishetb, bat for the meat which abide th unto eternal life which the son of man shall give unto you."
Jeans in here acting with a splendid courage. For He is here confronted with the temptation that assails every speaker and every sdvocste of any cause whatever, the temptation of saying or doing the thing that the people want rather than the thing they need. He would not have been haman at all if He bad not been subject to this temptation like the rest of a8.
Whit then is the position? He bad jost fed 5,000 people who bad gone into the wilderness to heat Him. The people wore charmed. They said, " This is of trath the prophet that cometh into was becoming popular. tighten His bold on ti Here was a chance of rising tos dizzier height of popularity. would have taken it, if He bad been mere popularity bunter, one of those who keep their ear to the ground to hear what people want. And no doubt the people were as needy and angry as they were yesterday. What He bad done once He could easily do again. Bat He does not. He refuses to give them another meal, How surprised they meet have been, He saya in effect No: hangry as yon may be, you are in danger of misunderstanding me and My work, You take me for " usefal to do sometbi want to use me; "ye seek me because yo did eat and were filled." Theo He ways, the meal you had yesterday was more than jost " meal, it was a sign of deeper meal I came to give the sv.
says, there is a mest that abidetb. "The life is more than mest." to do a deeper work than feeding you, My secular work as a philsnthropiet has blinded you to My power to eatisly the crying need of your souls, I can feed you no more How grand He is in His courage He risks the issffection rather than bare the meaning of his we-k misander-'We once had " party la Eng-lend called Trimmers. Jesus never trims, never bates the majesty of His message to catch men with bait. Let as do justice to His heroic courage.
Bo we see that Jesus takes His stand on the spirituality of His work. Daily bread He may give, eternal bread He
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