Christ Jesus, the consummate Teacher

Ann Kenrick

Why do Christ Jesus' teachings still have such a powerful effect on people even today? Because what he taught is recognizable to thoughtful people as universal truth.

Perhaps the next question is, How did one man manage to incorporate so much truth and wisdom in his teaching? Isn't the answer that the Master was living on a unique basis—on the basis of his oneness with his Father, God? It was the innate conviction of his spiritual sonship that gave Jesus the ability to listen to God, the source of all true wisdom. This in turn enabled him to speak with authority and to prove his teachings practical by healing sickness and sin. He said, "The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me."

At the very heart of the Master's instruction is his explanation to all his followers that they have the same divine Father, whose creation—which includes man in His image and likeness—expresses the very nature of its creator and is spiritual. Jesus' teaching opens up for us wholly new vistas of man's infinite capacities as God's reflection. In the light of Christ, Truth, which Jesus embodied and which is still present today, we can begin to see ourselves in this entirely new way, not as finite mortals vulnerable to sickness and sin but as children of God, whole and free.

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