![]() ![]() Thus with a soul tranquil to its profoundest depths, realizing the unseen and eternal world, resigning his spirit to the Divine Father, he bowed his head in death. As a Son of man, Jesus felt still subject to the Divine Father of all and as he came to do and bear his will, and had done and had borne it perfectly in every hour and act of life, so now in this last volition he yielded himself to God. Here was fullest confidence in God and in immortality.ģ. Jesus was resigning his spirit to God's gracious charge, knowing that in his holy and mighty keeping it would be safe and blessed. ![]() And the words that follow are in a strain of entire spiritual composure.Ģ. They begin with that word, "Father," which all along had been a name of strength and peace he was evidently resting in the assurance of parental love. They show nothing of agitation or anxiety they breathe a calm stillness of soul they are fragrant of peace and tranquillity. The words he uttered just as his end drew near indicate:ġ. THE DYING OF OUR LORD IN THE LIGHT OF THESE WORDS. It is therefore of no small value to us that our great Exemplar underwent not only death, but the conscious act of dying, and that in this respect also he "left us an example that we should follow his steps." We look at. It is probable that we shall have to face the fact that we are passing away from life, that when a few more hours have come and gone we shall have entered the unseen world. Those who are killed instantaneously in war or by accident, those who are attacked by fatal apoplexy, those who die in their sleep, have no such experience. All men die, but all men have not a dying experience. We may distinguish between death and dying. ![]() Clarkson Our text treats of the dying of our Lord. ![]()
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