Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
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two articles since we wrote last, it is
not because we have nothing to write;
but We have been patiently waiting
for him to vent his enmity against the
law of God; although he would have
us think that his opposition was all
against the s.Law of Moses,' as he is
always pleased to term it. Paul un-
1erstood this matter thoroughly; and
he says, The carnal mind is enmlty
against God; for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be. :"
Rom. 81. Mr.. w. understands, or
claims he understands, that my quo
tations from Wesley and others were
to prove the Sabbath. Not so. The
Lord has said, The seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God" To in
troduce human and uninspired testi-
mony to prove that He who cannot lie
told the truth would be folly, No
such proof is needed. 1t is true, that
LII
sometimes refers to one form of law,
and sometimes to another; but the
text or context is always SO plain that
none need err in this matter, and my
, citations of other authors proved that
they understood these distinctions, and
that they considered the ten command
ments to be the moral and Interchangeable
law of God. Mr.. Wagner's assertion
that the fourth commandment, that Is
implanted in the midst of this law, is
ceremonial. is all vain, and the very
| fact that he goes back to reassert it so
often shows that in his own mind he
feels that it is but lifting the puny
arm of flesh against God.
But Bro. Wagner says, we preach
the law ten times more than we preach
Christ. How does he know this? l
am willing to leave this to those who
have heard US most. But we ask,
What is it to believe on Christ? 1t is
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said; to reject one sentence is to deny
Christ and to be disbeliever. Again
we ask, What is it to preach Christ?
Is it not to preach what He has said ?
| Is not the Intentional leaving out,
or the refusing to preach anything
that he has said, denying to Christ
and leading others to deny Him? The
| Jews made sad mistake in claiming
to believe God the Father and at the
same time rejecting His son; or claim
ed to follow the law, but rejected the
gospel, the only means of obeying that
law. Some modern professors make
equally sad mistake in claiming
Christ but rejecting the Father, and
by claiming the gospel but rejecting
the law. Christ shows us that to re-
| ject one is to reject all, or that we can
believe one without believing all.
Jno. 5:43-47. Let us look for a mo-
ment at what we must believe to be-
to preach Christ.
By reference to Jno. 12:49-50 and
Jno. 14:1O-24, it will be seen that
Jesus spake by the authority of the
Father. or really the words that He
spoke were the Fathers words. In
Heb. 11:24-27 Paul tells US that when
Moses turned from the treasures of
Egypt he became follower of the
Lord. In Cor. 1919 he says the people
tempted Christ when they murmured
and were destroyed of serpents. In the
fourth verse he says that the Spiritual
rock of which they drank and that
''Went with them," margin, was
Christ. Please turn and read these
texts, entire.
From these texts, and others that
might be cited we see that Jesus has
people in all ages. John 5:22 tells us
that 1.-The Father judgeth no man.
but hath committed all judgment unto
the Son." Now read Isa. 1922. ..For
the Lord is our Judge. the Lord is our
lawglver, the Lord is our king; he will
save u.s." Here we see that the same
one who is our Savior is our Judge,
King and Lawgiver. Therefore, the
one who spoke the ten commandments
from Sinai was none other than Jesus,
and the preaching of the command
ments is preaching Jesus and is includ-
ed in the great commission. ..Teach-
ing them to observe all things whatso-
ever I have commanded you." Matt.
1920. This we find in harmony with
Jesus teaching while here in person,
as we have shown before. This we
desire to do. Matt. 5:19.
Bro. Wagner wants US to know that
he and many others who believe as he
does are very good people and are not
corrupters of the morals of society. |
We shall very gladly believe that they
are better than their profession, but
this is not the case generally. We
would lift a danger signal before
the man who pleads for the outward /
violation of the eighth commandment. I