Christ: the Revealer of the Father by Robert Eyton

Robert Eyton, in 1889, taught a view of God's loving character that needs to be emphasized today. In his sermon, "Christ the Revealer of the Father," Eyton points out the truth that looking at the life of Christ does away with some of the cruel depictions of God often propagated by men:

"Christ's Life, then, was a Revelation of what men most wanted to know, of the Character of God. God was in Christ not only 'reconciling the world,' but making Himself known to men: "He that hath seen Him hath seen the Father." As we gaze on Him going about with that calm, steadfast mien, doing good, healing the sick, sitting with the despised, at home with little children, counting none too sinful for His help, as we see Him in the Gospels, we gaze on the face of God; we catch in Christ the expression of pity and tenderness that is on the Father's face; we see that " He willeth not the death of a sinner," for it is Christ's unchanging purpose to draw sinners to Himself. His sharpest reproof is, 'Ye will not come to Me that ye might have life ;' 'The Father Himself loveth you.' There is the revelation that is balm to every doubting and troubled soul. And when once this is taken in, that Christ reveals the Father, that this is the God Whom we serve; when all dark and cruel conceptions of an Almighty, evil-working tyrant melt away;—then a new life begins: 'old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.' It is as though the sun had come out; the world is tolerable; death is bearable; we can wait through disappointment, for the sun changes all things."
Robert Eyton from his sermon "Christ the Revealer of the Father" in "The True Life: And Other Sermons" (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889), pp. 155-156