The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-05-26

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There u those guspels. W have the detailed
record 80, Of His beautiful. devoted. disintef-
eseed. selfsaczfneine. untiring. benencent SIN
leM txanscendent life, TIE guis3en rae impef-
senate ood tncarnate, lesy1pg n IN example
that ve nay follow In His stepA Yet q pro
phesy had fogefold. He WA despised and r.
jeeAsd Of man. man 81 sorrows ana scquainsed
with szies; hearing our griefs. carrying our sor-
rows. wounded Tor our trausgresascua bruised
Tor on in1Quities. the chastisement Of our peace
spon Hin, the Lord having aid upoa Him the
iniquify Of NJ Ill: He vas broash: - lamb 70
he siaushter. and - sheep before her shearen
u dumb, % He openesh not HE mouth: He
psured out His eoul unto death: He was num-
hezed with the tansressoss: He who knew no
Ein becanee Gin o6erfng for n. His own self
bearing our sins in His own body en- the tree,
that We being dead TO sins nigh. live unto
rtGhteousnesf. And when they who eruci6ed
Him had fulfilled al that uas written of Him
they took Him down from the tree and laid Him
dead and He Was seen. many dsys. Of them
which came up with Him from Gaailee TO Jefu-
sa1en- And after that. Is they beheld Him He
waa taken up In heaven, whc c. - It .
written. He shall come again TO judge
the living and the dead. For. II
r further written. that God hath highly exalted
Him. committed to Him all judgment deliverei
INTO Him al power. and given Him name
which u above every name. that at the name of
Jeaps every knee shoald bow Of things In
heaven and things on earth and things under
the earth and thst every tongue snould confess
that Jesus Christ II Lord to the glory Of God the
Father.
He. q man and for nan, undertook 70 sue
coed where al he'd failed and would fail. Be-
ing made under the law He undertook 70 fuldl
IT. The law lay heavy and dishonored on the
race: heavy became uuder II the race fell dowa
incapable; dishorosed. because though given BY
God 70 men whom He mace, II lacked the proof
Of being feasible ioc man. II commanded sub
missiye. perfect obedience. first-t0 do the works
Of life and live, and second-fafling that to take
the penalty OF death aud die. Neither In the
one regard nor in the other he'd the race, or any
individual Of Il. kept the law. They failed the
life, and they hed the death. Tor Jesus Of Naza-
roth Ii remained to magnify the Law and make
IL honorable. proving IL feasible. living the life
the race. because Of holiness. should live. dying
the death the roce. because Of sin, should die,
demonstrating that death has no sting where
SIN IL not. the grave no victory where the Law 10
sObeyed. He saw no corruption. He laid down
His life and took IL again. Thus He shovel
Himself superior to Law. pow -rful outside and
beyond the range Of law, for The law spoke
nothing Of resurr ction. The law 10 unto death:
arisen.
The Law could kill. and that was al: but
Christ He only can make alive. The law could
not make TO live nor keep alive. nor make
righteous NOR supply will or power for right
eousnes: Il could only leave him to live who
might be able to stand up before its infinite
panctliousness and strength. No flesh could
50 stand. What. therefore. the law could not
do. in that It was weak through the flesh, God.
sending His own Son In the likeness OF sinful
hesh and for sin. condemned sin in the desh
that the righteousness of the law might be full
dlled in a. who walk not after the flesh. but
after the spirit For "by Him all that believe
aro j.stiasd from 81 things. nom which 70
could not Be justified BY the law OF Noses" No
matter what the law Of God may threaten, nor
what Il may do 10 . man. he 10 safe BY . saliva.
don beyond the range OF law II he simply and
honestly put his trust in Christ Jesus. He Is
clean escaped outside the scops Of the law. In
reaching Christ he he's reached the end Of the
Law. For this u what Jesus Himself says: II
am the Resurrection and the Life: he that be-
lieveth in Ne. though he were dead. yet shall
he live; and whosoevef uveeh and belteveth in
Ne shall never die"
The law is mere thing-a cast, die. rigid
and unyislding - Gods purpose must be. and
having I'll the weight OF Gods throne above
upon it-A die. under which every person or
thing that dos not absolutely in every particu-
iar confoSn, must and will be broken down and
crushed; but Christ IL the creating power, the
person pre-umineut, the master workman, &C.
commodating his touch and appliances 70 the
materiai in hand and end In view, having the
power OF GOD ana the wisdom OF Goi. and never
falling in that He undertakes Let the Law de-
scsnd upon ron. ~ It has descended and now
hes upon you, and you are ruined and de-
stroyed: let Christ undertake your case. ~ He
hes offered and IL Offering 70 do, and you begin
70 live and are saved. But the image with
which the law would Impress ron and the
image 10 which Christ will mould you are one
and the same. The Law descended upon Christ
and It fitted Him exactly. aud to crush or bsuise
Him IL had no power. for He and II were precise
counterpaYts OF one another; nevertheless, it
pleased Him, q con Of man and ''by the grace
OF God, TO taste death for every
man, that through death He might destroy
him that hath the power Of death,
that IL. the devil and deliver them that through
the power Of death were ill their lifetime sub
ject TO bondaGc-for. In that He Himself hath
suffered. being tempted. He 10 able to succor
them that are tempted"
Again, say, that between the law and the be-
lever Christ IL interposed. By no manner Of
means can the law get as thcse who have COM
mitted themselves 10 the recreating. keeping
and transforming power Of Christ, the resurrec-
ton and the life. He lis the end Of the law for
righteousness to everyone that believeth"
Every such one WAS under the law, but 10 now
under Christ Christ for him has displaced the
law, The authority of the law has ended the
authority Of the Christ has tegun. Such Q one
has not escaped from authority. for Christ IL
Lord He hiss not escaped from discipline, for
whom the Lord loveth He chasseneth and
scourgeth every son whom He roceiveth. He
has not escaped 20 different standard Of right
and wrong, for Chris, came not 70 destroy the
law but 20 fulfil, and the love which the Law
never could induce. but which He implants
and cherishes and viii never let die In the
hearts OF those who believe on Him, fu,fiIs the
~ and 10 the ful filing Of the Law. Nor II He
escaped to . region or condition where sde-
ouste penalty viii not Be visited upon unrizhs.
eousness. for the wrath Of God Is revealed
from heaven against all ungoiliness
and unfighteousnes OF men who
hold the truth in indebtedness.
ceived the knowledge Of the truth. there re-
maineth no more sacrifice for sins. but certain
fearful looking for OF judgment and OF ne.y
indignation winch shall dsvour the adv srsaries
and - he that despised Moses Law died without
mercy under two or three Witnesses of how
much sorer punishment shall he be thought
worthy. who hath srodden under foot the Son of
God aud hath counted the blood of the covenant
an unhoiy thing and hath done despite unto the
spirit OF grace, for the living Lord Christ is
mora TO be dreaded than the inanimate law
from whose terrors He sAyes us. for God hath
committed oil Judgment and death itself. into