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Eld. Lemuel Potter’s debate with Mr. H. Clay Yates on "Foreign Missions," ch.14 (Owensville, Indiana; Dec. 14-19, 1885)
I WOULD AS SOON A BROTHER would say he could impart eternal life as to say he could teach men to know the Lord. John xvii. 3, Jesus says, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” Then that is “life eternal, that they might know thee,” or else Jesus Christ has made a mistake. Show me a man who is destitute of eternal life, and I will show you a man who does not know the Lord here, without going to heathen lands to find him. I John iv. 7-8, refers to the same point: “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.” Have we not that kind of people in Owensville? Have you not people in Owensville who do not love God? If you have, John says they do not know him. If they do love him, they are born of him. Hence it is equivalent to saying, if they know him they are born of him. There are just as many people born of God as there are that love him; there are just as many that love him as there are that know him, in the sense of that text. Hence I would just as soon a man would say he was going about regenerating men as to say he was teaching them to know God. And that is giving the doctrine of the New Testament and the new covenant, when it says: “Thou shalt not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord.” |
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