The Need for the Authoritative Messenger

The Need for the Authoritative Messenger 

"And they were astonished at His doctrine: for He taught them as One that had authority, and not as the scribes" (Mk. 1:21-22). 'Let me say that if ever the truth is told in our modern synagogues—those steeple-houses that men speak of as churches—the people who hear will be astonished. They will either accept the message as wonderful and life-giving or else they will brand the messenger as an heretic, a false prophet, or a nut, and cast him out. What Jesus taught He taught with authority, and authority in teaching is something the people are not accustomed to. "What a watered-down gospel the poor people have been compelled to hear decade after tiresome decade, and century after weary century! The wicked thought now prevalent in the minds of preachers is to give the people what they want. They do not give them what they need, as shepherds should do, but they 'prophesy falsely, and the people 'love to have it so' (Jer. 5:31)."

“And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that Prophet (Jesus Christ), shall be destroyed from among the people” (Acts 3:23; cf. Deut. 18:19).

“Though He (Christ)  were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered; And being made perfect, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him; called of God an High Priest after the order of Melchisedec” (Heb. 5:8-10).