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Jesus Christ Is True God.
"This is the true God and eternal Life." 1 John 5:20.

“ What think ye of Christ ? Whose Son is He ?” Is He truly the Son of God? This question is vastly important. The answer to this question decides the destiny o f every individual soul. According as the Gospel of Jesus Christ is accepted or rejected, will men stand or fall. And how is this vital question to be decided? There are many conclusive and incontrovertible proofs that Jesus Christ is true God.

We look at Christ’s spotless character and His immaculate life. We listen to His heavenly teachings. Merely human mind and merely human lips never conceived and spoke as He did. He taught as one having authority and not as the scribes. He was the Teacher come from God; He Himself is true God.

And how clearly did He manifest His divine glory through innumerable miracles which He performed in His own power! His disciples testify: “We beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father.” God calls from heaven and says: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Jesus Himself testifies time and again that He is Christ, the Son of the Blessed.

Numerous passages of the New Testament bear witness to the fact that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Holy Writ ascribes divine honor to Him, saying: “All should honor the Son even as they honor the Father.” All men should believe in Him and be baptized in His name in order to be saved. And how can man be saved? “No man can by any means redeem his brother nor give God a ransom for him.” It required One who was and is more than mere man to do that — the Son of God, who be­ came man. There is no proof so powerful that Christ is God as the sacrifice on Calvary. Who can look upon that scene without exclaiming with the centurion under the cross, ” ? If Christ were not God, no man could be saved.

Prayer.

O Lord Jesus Christ, Thou art the Second Person in the Holy Trinity; Thou art begotten of the divine substance of the Father from all eternity, God of God, very God of very God, Light of Light; Thou art the express image of Thy heavenly Father and the brightness of His glory, the true God and eternal Life, who in the fulness of time didst assume our flesh and blood and be­ come man. Thou art the Dayspring from on high that hath visited us; the Sun of Righteousness, which has risen unto us with healing in His wings. O come, Thou Light of the world, whose origin and coming are divine, and shine into our hearts. Thou art very God of very God, begotten, not made; being of one sub­ stance with the Father and for us men and for our salvation Thou earnest down from heaven and wast incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary. Glory be to Thee forever and ever! Amen.

True Son of the Father, 

He comes from the skies; 

To be born of a virgin 

He does not despise.

 PRESIDENTIAL QUOTE - U.S. GRANT

 

WILL ROGERS QUOTE

 THE FAMILY ALTAR

May 8.

"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine

enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."

Psalms 23:5

The Good Shepherd, who guides and protects His sheep so

faithfully, is also their loving Host. He prepares a table before

them in the very presence of their enemies. We know these cun-

ning and malevolent enemies. They are the old Evil Foe, the

alluring world, our own sin-corrupted flesh. Against them we

must daily fight and pray, for they daily seek to seduce us into

misbelief, despair, and other great shame and vice. But in our

conflict with them our Good Shepherd is with us, and for us

prepares a table in His precious Gospel and His blessed Sacrament

of the Altar, where we can eat of the rich viands of His grace

and gain new strength and courage for the conflict, while our

enemies look on and gnash their teeth in impotent rage, because

they cannot prevent it nor get us into their power. The Good

Shepherd is too mighty for them. He will not suffer them to

touch a single hair of His trusting sheep. His love for His blood-

bought sheep is so great and bountiful that He not only feeds

them at the table of His grace, but He also anoints them with

oil, that is, fills them with His Holy Spirit, who leads them into

all truth and glorifies the matchless love of their Savior before

their eyes to such a degree that their cup of joy runneth over

and their adoring souls break out in the rapturous song : 

The King of Love my Shepherd is,

Whose goodness faileth never;

I nothing lack if I am His

And He is mine forever.

Where streams of living water flow

My ransomed soul He leadeth,

And, where the verdant pastures grow.

With food celestial feedeth.

Perverse and foolish oft I strayed.

But yet in love He sought me,

And on His shoulder gently laid,

And home, rejoicing, brought me.

In death's dark vale I fear no ill

With Thee, dear Lord, beside me;

Thy rod and staff my comfort still,

Thy cross before to guide me.

And so through all the length of days,

Thy goodness faileth never:

Good Shepherd, may I sing Thy praise

Within Thy house forever!