The New Testament Doctrines of Man Sin And Salvation
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V. 44, 45). Sonship includes the imitation of God, our Father. It is not only a privilege, but a responsibility. And since God is love, love is the law of sonship (Luke vi. 36). The climax of the better righteousness of the members of the kingdom is found, therefore, in the law of universal love, which we call the golden rule (Matt. Vii. 12). RIGHTEOUSNESS 53 The active exercise of righteousness is, then, with Jesus the condition of entrance into the kingdom ; and, since all moral action is a p...rogress towards an ideal (Matt. V. 48), or a seeking (Matt. Vi. 32), or even a strife (Luke xiii. 24), it involves sacrifice and self-denial, upon the neces- sity of which, accordingly, great stress is laid by Jesus. Compare especially Mark ix. 43-47 for the sacrifices Jesus requires, and Mark viii. 34 for the central place given to self-denial. Along with the glad evangel of God's Fatherhood which Jesus preaches, there is to be found in His moral teaching a stern asceticism, in the true and high- est sense of the word, which is the necessary complement of the joyous message, and of which even such a require- ment as that made of the young ruler (Mark x.
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