Milford chronicle., 1895-08-16

with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly
places IN Chylst, according as He hath
chosen US in Him before the foundations of
the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love" Eph-
Ram I-3
This is the christians promised land {;
a land flowing with the milk and honey of
Gods spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus
1t is out of Egypt-the Woodland ''in
Christ where He now is : in the heaven
lies This is real to faith now, and will
be to sense when the Lord comes again
and we are caught up to meet Him in the
air. See Ist Thes. iv.I5
''Ye are not of the world, even as am
moi" said Jesus to His Apostles. All the
world, out of Christ, rests now under the
judgment of God for the rejection and muir
der of His Son; and this judgment will
also be infallibly executed when the Lord
returns; but all His own will be suddenly
taken out of It before the days of ven
geance of our Lord set in. His own now
In the earth are removed out from under
this judgment, and to faith are already
heavenly men and women. They are in
the promised land already. to faith.
Israel entered the promised land in e1ace
by the favor of God-just as christians
now enter their promised land. 1t was not
because of their obedience or faithfulness,
that they entered, but in spite of their DISC
bedience and unfaithfulness. 1t was Gods
faithfulness that brought them in, as we see
in our next chapter. Deut. vii, So sit is
Gods goodness that leads US to repent |
anee." Rom ia, and ''by grace are We 1
saved, through faith, and that not of your
selves, it is the gift of God" Ep. lis. So
salvation under this christian dispensation (
is all of grace,a was lsraers entrance into |
their promised land under the old dispensa-
ton.
Now 1t was when they were come into
the land that they were to Glove the Lord i
thy God with all thine heart and with all
thy soul and with all thy might and to
be true and faithful to that gracious One
who had brought them out of Egypt,
where they were slaves, through the Red
Sea and through that great and terrible
wilderness into a land flowing with milk
and honey. Our lesson from this is, that
until man is born again, It is impossible
for him to please God The mind of the
lesh is enmity to God. It is not subject
o the law of God neither indeed can it be.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot
please God Rom, viii-7; but when we
IRE come into the land our land-the heav.
niles in Christ Jesus, then through grace,
We do love Him, because he first Eo0ed
IS " BY the Holy Spirit, through the
word of God, we are enabled to apprehend
he things of God and to rejoice with Joy
nspeakable and full of glory in ''the love of
sod shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
ipirit which is given unto us God is
I'VE and they that dwell in God dwell in
I'VE; for God is love Then and then
lone can christians love the Lord with !
Il their hearts; a thing quite impossible :
nth the natural man. This law, like all :
Israel, was given to man to try Him, to q
rove that in Him was no good, that his
allure was evil and that continually and
ence was "our schoolmaster, until Christ a
anne" to teach US that we needed a Saviour y
iod provided the Saviour before the foun- i
atoms of the world were laid, and tried
IAN for four thousand years, from Adam to =
.hrist, to prove to all intelligent creation e
lat He, the Saviour, was an absolute ne 9
'sslty to salvation In the fullness of
me God sent Him into the world to re. c
sem the race out of death brought in by y
dam, into eternal life and eternal blessed 6
sssin ChristJesus the Lord This He has IL
me too, in so gracious a way that moth
g is required of man, only to receive the 81
vadon provided of God and freely, gra- III
ously, gladly given to him without money
ID. without price. WAat mar0eloas lOoe ~
"a gyaoe la
Having brought Israel into the land and
rrounded them with all earthly blessings, RI
is word to them is, "6ea0a,e lest thou pl
rget the Lord who brought thee forth out a
the land of Egypt from the house of
ndage Verse r.. The spirit of this W
hortation and warning is to christians an
so, They have been brought out of ST.
ndage in the world, placed in the heav-
lies in Christ, and blessed with all spir- les
al blessings in Him-now let them be- lol
ire lest they fail to live up to their privi- lul
.es as heavenly men and womenl in the ga
rid but not of it, waiting for their Lord ue
10 has promised to come again and take S5
IN to Himself thatwhere He is there they
" be also John xiv an
Yours for the Truth. tn'
J. S. PRETTYMAN. =
LFORD, DEL, Aug. II, 1905. ror