9. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation. The purest morality and the highest holiness were preached by Jesus.
Righteousness divine was his theme. Our Lord’s whole life was a sermon,
eloquent beyond compare, and it is heard each day by myriads. Moreover, he
never shunned in his ministry to declare the whole counsel of God; God’s great
plan of righteousness he plainly set forth. He taught openly in the temple, and
was not ashamed to be a faithful and a true witness. He was the great
evangelist; the master of itinerant preachers; the head of the clan of open-air
missionaries. Hide not your lights, but reveal to others what your God has
revealed to you, and especially by your lives testify for holiness, be
champions for the right, both in word and deed. Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
Never either from love of ease, or fear of men, did the Great Teacher’s lips
become closed. The poor listened to him, and princes heard his rebuke; to
publicans and Pharisees he proclaimed the truth from heaven. If we are not
ashamed to confess our God, he will never be ashamed to own us. Yet what a
wonder is here, that the Son of God should plead just as we plead, and urge
just arguments as would befit the mouths of his diligent ministers!
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