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“What think ye of Christ?”—this is the all-important question. Do you receive Him as a personal Saviour? To all who receive Him He gives power to become sons of God.

Accepting Christ as a personal Saviour confers spiritual power and sonship. This is a theological assertion regarding spiritual status and divine agency without empirical or testable parameters.

Christ revealed God to His disciples in a way that performed in their hearts a special work, such as He desires to do in our hearts. There are many who, in dwelling too largely upon theory, have lost sight of the living power of the Saviour's example. They have lost sight of Him as the humble, self-denying worker. What they need is to behold Jesus. Daily we need the fresh revealing of His presence. We need to follow more closely His example of self-renunciation and self-sacrifice.

Believers need a daily experience of Christ's presence and to follow His example of self-sacrifice. The text describes devotional practices and spiritual emulation rather than physical or psychological measurements.

We need the experience that Paul had when he wrote: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 .

The Christian life is characterized by spiritual union with Christ through faith. This paragraph quotes a biblical passage from Galatians expressing the Apostle Paul's spiritual experience.

The knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ expressed in character is an exaltation above everything else that is esteemed on earth or in heaven. It is the very highest education. It is the key that opens the portals of the heavenly city. This knowledge it is God's purpose that all who put on Christ shall possess.

Experiential knowledge of God expressed in character represents the highest form of education. The focus is on moral character, spiritual education, and heavenly attainment, which are non-empirical concepts.